UNCLE PHILIP'S LETTER. 



MY DEAR NEPHEWS, 



I was very much pleased to receive the numbers 

 of your Library for Boys and Girls which you sent 

 to me. You know I am now an old man, and have 

 travelled a great deal, and seen a great many strange 

 things in the course of my life. I am too old to travel 

 any more, and so I am quietly living in the cottage I 

 built by the side of that pleasant and shady little 

 stream where I played when I was a boy. I read 

 my books, and especially that best of all of them, 

 my Bible ; and so am patiently waiting till my 

 Heavenly Father shall call me to take my last jour- 

 ney ; when I hope, for the sake of the blessed 

 Saviour, to go to Him. Sometimes I walk out 

 into the village, and meet the children and have a 

 long talk with them. They all know me ; and very 

 often, some of them will come to my house, and 

 ask me to tell them about things which I have seen 

 in my travels or read of in books : and so I spend 

 many happy hours with the little creatures ; for you 



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