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destinies of the future, as the eloquence
of Otis, and Amos, and Henry, helped to
shape the age in which we live. Up, all
of you, and let us have no more mischief,
and no more idling, for the happiness of

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“ Ezzelino The Cruel."

AM going to tell you a story
of a very wicked man.
About six hundred years
ago there lived, in Italy,
a Chieftain Ezzemxo.
Now you would suppose that the
balmy air of that charming
country would have made him

 

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gentle and peacoable man—but it was i

far otherwise.

I dare say you have read of Nero, who
murdered his own mother, and burned
Rome; and of Caligula, who used to put
to death a. great many old and feeble per-
sons, to feed his wild beasts with their
bodies; but neither of these tyrants was
worse than “Ezzelino the cruel.” ,

I shall not venture to draw a full length
portrait of my hero, lost his bloody form
should haunt your dreams for a week;
but I will tell you a few of his horrible
deeds, that you may be very thankful
that the days of such monsters have
passed away.

If you will take your maps, my little
friends, and turn to Italy, you will find
in the northern part, such hard names as
these: Mantua, Verona, Brescia, l’adua &c.
Well, these were large cities at the time
of which I write, and being such 110M
neighbors we should expect them to be
on very good terms; but, on the contrary,

 

 

a world is resting upon your actions.
Thus, and thus only can we show our grati-
tude for the self-denying faithfulness of
such men, as Franklin, and Adams, and
last yet greatest of all, WAsmxerox.

 

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they were like some young folks
that I have seen under the same
roof, always snarling and quar-
reling at each other. If they
had a fire, or the plague, in one
city. the others were delighted
at their misfortune, and would

a very l perhaps ridicule instead of help them.

‘1)o'yeu See l’adua, a little way from
There Ezzelino the
cruel lived for a. long time, and ruled
that rich and beautiful city so severely
that his name was a terror to all the

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people.

Here he had a great many strong
dungeons made, into whose gloomy and
loathsome depths he threw every body
If he barely
suspected a man of being an enemy—

who dared to Oppose him.

and who would not hate him P—he would
perhaps put him to death at once, or cut
off his limbs and throw him into a prison
to die by degrees. Sometimes bestow _
chop ott' limb after limb, and throw  i

into the file, before the bleeding “first. 
After taking a new city. Ezzelino would:
frequently order his soldiers to dirt ofl‘ all i "

the cars, or hands, or noses of the inhab-
itants, and this monster would stand and
enjoy the spectacle. On one occasion,
having heard that some blind and lame
people, who went about begging, declared

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