HOW JAMIE LOST THE PRIZE.
This true incident from an English school-teacher's lips shows how a boy can be both high-minded and unselfish for the sake of another. Jamie Pettigrew and Willie Hunter were the clever boys in Mr. Howatt's school class, and used to "run neck and neck for the prizes." Examination day came again, Jamie and Willie were left last in the field. Jamie missed question after question, which Willie answered and got the prize. Says Mr. Howatt, "I went home with Jamie that night, and instead of being cast down at losing the prize he seemed rather to be glad. I couldn't understand it. "Why, Jamie,' I said, 'you could have answered some of those questions. I know you could.' " 'Of course I could!' he said with a laugh. " 'Then why didn't you?' I asked. "He wouldn't answer for a while; but I kept pressing and pressing him till at last he turned round with such a strange, kind look in his bonnie brown eyes. " 'Look here,' he said; 'how could I help it? There's poor Willie—his mother died last week, and if it hadn't been examination day, he wouldn't have been at school. Do you think I was going to be so mean as to take a prize from a poor fellow who had just lost his mother?' " Bravo, my lad! a good speech that; and second was a good place, if not the noblest of any, in all the school that day.—Sunday-school Advocate.