For instance, there is in the sixth volume that kindly humorous account of a boyhood in Wisconsin in the early part of the last century, _Reminiscences of a Pioneer_ (Volume V, 340). Every man will be interested in it, and he cannot read it aloud to a boy of seven without catching the attention of the child. Even a lad of sixteen will get into the spirit of the thing, although it may not be the same incidents that will attract him. Think of the contrast between that humble log cabin with its visiting Indians and the luxurious steam-heated flat of your son, or the farm house with all modern conveniences that a friend of yours may have in the very region where our little friend was frightened more by the strange Dutch immigrants than he was by the red men whom he saw every day. Think of a six or seven year old boy that had never seen an apple and who could enjoy chokecherries and crab apples, even though he couldn't get his face back into line on the same day in which he ate them fresh from the tree. Think of offering raw turnips to the guests and of people coming twenty miles to get a small piece of salt pork, because they were so tired of fresh meat and fish. Think that these things happened less than a hundred years ago and within forty miles of the now big and flourishing city of Milwaukee. What lessons there are in courage, skill, self-reliance and contentment in the lives of these early pioneers, especially the devoted mother who kept her yeast alive so many years, and stood off the Indians with one hand while she tended to her increasing family with the other. Can you imagine a boy who wouldn't be interested in the sturdy youngster who earned and refused his first quarter of a dollar for paddling a man across the river in a heavy dugout? Don't you think your son will have a host of questions to ask about it all and that you will be glad to talk to him about the Indians he likes to imitate when he plays? Can't you see that reading such as this is worth while and that every moment spent in this way is an investment for yourself in the boy's confidence and good graces? Other selections of a somewhat similar nature, all of which will appeal to boys at the time when Indians and adventure are of more interest than anything else, are the following: _The Arickara Indians_, Volume IV, page 472. _The Buccaneers_, Volume V, page 359. _Captain Morgan at Maracaibo_, Volume V, page 365. _Ringrose and His Buccaneers_, Volume VIII, page 1. _David Crockett in the Creek War_, Volume VIII, page 37. _Braddock's Defeat_, Volume V, page 379. _The Capture of Vincennes_, Volume VI, page 428. _The Black Hawk Tragedy_, Volume VII, page 58. _Père Marquette_, Volume VIII, page 121. _George Rogers Clark_, Volume VI, page 422.