A PATHETIC STORY

New Zealand Tablet, 31 December 1908, Page 37

A PATHETIC STORY

A pathetic story of a child's heroism is told by a Dublin gentleman (remarks the London Daily Telegraph) Recently he proposed to drive with his wife v to the beautifui Grlasnevm cemetery. Calling his son, a bright little boy some four years old, he told him to get ready to accompany them. The child's countenance fell, and the father said • ' Don't you want to go, Willie ?' The little lip quivered, but the child answered : ,' Yes papa, if you wish.' ' Tlie child was strangely silent during the drive, and when the carriage drove up to the entrance he clung to his mother's side and looked up in her face with pathetic wistfulness. The party alighted and walked among the graves and along the tree shadowed avenues, looking at the inscriptions on the last resting places of the dwellers .in the » beautiful city of the dead. After an hour or so thus spent they returned to the carriage, and the father lifted his '. little son to his seat. The child looked surprised, drew a breath of relief, and asked: ' Why, am I going back with you?' 'Of course you are; why not?' * ' I thought when they took little boys to the cemetery they left them there,' said the child. Many a man does not show the heroism in the face of ■ death that this child evinced in what, to him,., had evidently been a summons to leave the"' world.