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    A little boy from the slums bad been taken for the first time out into the country, and was discovered sitting apart on a high bank and looking toward the hills, to which he was a stranger. One of the friends who had made the trip possible for him approached, and quietly seated himself at the boy's side. The boy turned a radiant face upon him and said': "Teacher, is this purty thing ours? Is this all in the United States?"