A STORY FOR COMPOSITION. THE HONEST WOODCUTTER. PART I. In a wild and lonely part of Russia there lived in a little hut a woodcutter and his son. Very few travelers ever came that way; but it so happened that a rich merchant had to pass the hut on his way to St. Petersburg. Night came on as he reached the hut, and the wood cutter, seeing him, begged him to come in and pass the night.with them. This the merchant was thankful enough to do. In the morning he offered to pay for his night's lodging, but the woodcutter refused to accept anything whatever. "We are too glad to see a stranger in this wild place," he said; "we ought to pay you for spending the night with us." PART II. The merchant thanked him for his kindness, and went away, highly pleased to have found a man so hospitable and so simple-minded. But at the end of the day's journey, he happened to feel for his purse. It was gone! "Alas," said he, "I am afraid my good woodcutter was not quite so sim ple-minded as I thought." Years afterwards, the merchant was traveling through the same country, and stopped at the same hut. The woodcutter and his son were still there, but neither of them recognized the stranger until he happened to mention his lost purse. "Ah," said the woodcutter, "then you are the same gentleman that stayed with us long ago! Come with me and I will show you your purse. My son found it after you went away, about two hundred yards from the hut. Neither of us liked to touch it, so we covered it up, and it lies there yet." Sure enough, there it was, with the money in it untouched, and the merchant was very sorry he had ever suspected the honest woodcutter. PART I. Outline.-I. A woodcutter in his hut in Russia. 2. A rich man passes the hut. 3. Night comes on; and the woodcutter begs the merchant to stay over night. 4. The merchant does SO. 5. In the morning he offers to pay; the offer is declined. 6. The courteous speech of the woodcutter. PART II. 2. "Not so Outline. 1. 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