James thanked the good woman, and, closing his eyes again, soon fell asleep. The sun was right over his head, when old Katy awoke him, and said,--"Now, honey, Aunty's ready now. She'll tote you off ter de plantation, and hab you all well in less nur no time, she will; fur massa's 'way, and dar haint no 'un dar now ter say she sha'n't." "You can't carry me; I'm too heavy, Aunty," said James, making a faint effort to smile. "Carry you! Why, honey chile, ole Katy could tote a big man, forty times so heaby as you is, ef dey was only a hurted so bad as you." Taking him up, then, as if he had been a bag of feathers, she laid his head over her shoulder, and, cuddling him close to her bosom, carried him off to the large mansion he had seen in the distance. What befell him there I shall tell "our young folks" in the next number of this, their own Magazine. _Edmund Kirke._ THOMAS HUGHES. The portrait given with the present number of "Our Young Folks" is that of one of England's cleverest writers and best men,--Thomas Hughes. Mr. Hughes is well known throughout all America as the author of those most spirited and truthful books, "School Days at Rugby," and "Tom Brown at Oxford,"--books which all young people, girls as well as boys, ought to read, and which their elders cannot fail to find delightful and profitable. Another volume, "The Scouring of the White Horse," has also been republished in this country, but as its interest is quite local,--the scene being laid in the county of Kent, England, and the principal incidents relating to a festival which took place there,--it has not been so extensively circulated. Mr. Hughes is the second son of John Hughes, Esq., of Donington Priory, near Newbury, Berks Co., England. He was born October 20, 1823, and received his early education at Rugby under the instruction of the noble Dr. Arnold, who is depicted so beautifully in "School Days at Rugby." In 1841 he entered Oriel College, Oxford, and received his degree of B. A. in 1845. He immediately registered himself as a student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in January, 1848. Mr. Hughes still pursues the profession of a barrister, in which he stands prominent, and devotes much of his time to the writing and doing of good things. He has been a strong helper in plans for the education and assistance of workmen in his own country, and has always advocated the principles of liberty and justice everywhere. He is one of the truest friends that the United States has in England, and his voice and his pen have never failed to support her cause against that of Rebeldom. [Illustration] PHYSICAL HEALTH. TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF AMERICA. The great war will end. Then what magnificent expansion! But what immense responsibilities! Soon they must rest upon you,--your manhood and womanhood. God and the nations will watch you. A great and good nation is made up of great and good men and women. A strong building cannot be made of weak timbers.