The other boys and girls of Break o’ Day are also finishing their education, for they believe in acquiring such knowledge as they can to help them in after life. I do not know what their plans are, but I do know that Rob intends to begin the study of medicine with Dr. Menter, and when next I go to Basinburg I expect to find him the regular physician there. Deacon Cornhill has fully recovered his old-time spirits, and happy in the good work that he was instrumental in bringing about. He is honored and respected in Basinburg, and everywhere he is known, while he never tires of telling the story of his visit to “the big, wicked city, where houses are built edgewise, and men live under the streets.” I do not think I have left anything unsaid which cannot be readily understood. Of course the strange sounds heard at the old house were not of a supernatural origin, unless the branch of a tree moved by the wind so as to scrape on the roof of the dwelling could be called such. It has been nearly twenty years since I last visited Break o’ Day, but I remember distinctly the old red house where I stopped overnight, listening that evening to the thrilling story of the murder and mystery of “Old Tim Bayne.” I remember with equal vividness the dreary camps of the coal burners, then falling into decay, and but one of them occupied. I also remember the picture of utter loneliness the dismal scene presented, as the setting sun sank behind the distant forest. But all this has changed, and where then existed darkness and desolation are now to be found life and activity, comfort and happiness, peace and prosperity, for here, on the site of that thriving village known by the happier title of Mount Delight, was founded, under such adverse circumstances as must have discouraged a less courageous heart, Ragged Rob’s young republic. THE END. * * * * * FRANK MERRIWELL’S _Book of_ Physical Development _By BURT L. STANDISH_ This book, written by the author of the famous Tip-Top Weekly, is the most complete work of its kind. It contains directions for a thorough and systematic course of athletic training, which, if followed faithfully, cannot fail but aid all young men of the present day to acquire what they are striving for--physical perfection. It is printed on good paper and is illustrated with full-page half-tone cuts. _FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS_ If sent by mail, add FOUR CENTS for postage STREET & SMITH, NEW YORK * * * * * THE BOYS’ FAVORITE _THE WORKS OF Horatio Alger, Jr._ This author’s books are perhaps better known than those of any other author of his class. He had the happy faculty of depicting boy-life as it really is, and his stories are full of incident, adventure and interest. Buy one and you will want them all. Published in the MEDAL LIBRARY.