LEONARD FELL, son of Margaret Fell (who afterwards became the wife of George Fox), returning from meeting one Sunday evening, and passing along a solitary road, was suddenly attacked by a highwayman, who, seizing the bridle rein, demanded, "Your money or your life!" The young Friend immediately took out his purse and handed it to him. As he did so, the robber, seeing seals and watch and chain, became bolder, and presenting his pistol again, demanded, "Your watch or your life!" The watch was given him, and, emboldened still more by this, and thinking he had only a coward to deal with, he presented his pistol again, saying, "Your horse or your life!" The young man dismounted, and the robber mounted the horse, and would have ridden off; but Leonard Fell took hold of the bridle rein, and began to expostulate with him on his sinful course, preaching to him of "righteousness, and temperance, and judgment to come." Again the pistol was presented, with the threat, "If you do not stop, you are a dead man." But without paying any regard to this threat, our young Friend continued his earnest words of rebuke and exhortation, to the great amazement of the robber, who exclaimed:— "I thought you were a coward; you gave me your watch and your horse to save your life, and now you have nothing more to lose, you risk it standing there preaching to me." Leonard Fell's reply is worthy of being written in letters of gold:— "Tho I would not risk my life to save my money, my watch, or my horse, yet I will risk it to save thy soul." The man dropped his pistol, listened to the words of the young preacher, dismounted, confessed his sin, gave a sad detail of his past life and the circumstances that had led him to such a course, how he had taken to drinking, lost his work and his character, and, when going down hill, found every one ready to give him a kick, and so he had gone from bad to worse; until, with a sickly wife and starving children, he had been driven to his present life. Leonard Fell gave him his address, and promised to provide him with work if he would forsake his evil ways and abstain from liquor. He did so, and became a changed character, and henceforth lived industriously and honestly.—Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock.