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times to keep me out of ihe fire. I can see fau a in liis nei ^bbfjilioorl. 
him yet poundlri^ the fire with that old At th ^ ai;e of six'een Piof. DycVe ix i^nn 
blanket, llefinnlly conquered the fla-^es earnestly ?nd steadfastly to acq\ ire that 
but the fire burnt up to the very edge of the bro d and thorough cnirse of learning which 
stnck. Father (who is a large man, over is so bi illiant'y reflected in his earnest words 
six feet tall and who never had a sick da^ , and manner, together \^\ h those endurirg 
and never knew hij real stjengtli) was sonk- monuments to his skill in the hundreds of 
ing wet with perspiration and so completely mounted specirr.ens of birds and animals in 
exhausted by the heat of the fire and that the University jNIuseum 
of over exertion that he cnnld noc stand up. Like the lives of many of our successful 
It was >a dreadful hour for me. I have beeix men, the developing of this Anatomist and 
in a cyclone. l)ut its phenomena could not Taxiderm'st was largely due to his mentor 
Old Male Goat. {Mazama, Montana.) 
begin to compare with those of that occa- 
sion." 
Under the then existing conditions no facili 
ties for acquiring even the rudiments of an edu 
cation were at hand, and at the age of thir- 
teen the future Naturalist had studied only 
from the book of nature and was wholly ig 
norant of the alphabet, but that his mind ob- 
served every passing event, is shown by his 
accurate knowledge of the habits of the 
who in this case was Mrs. A. P. Morse 
who saw in the rough untutored country bov, 
the germs of the coming Scientist, and by ju- 
dicious praise she inspired 1 er pupil to push 
forward and predict( d the success which has 
so signally crowned his work. This accom- 
plished lady's efforts were afterwards second- 
ed by Prof, Snow, Chancellor of the Uni. 
versity. 
Prof. ])yche completed both the classical 
