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Intern, for proofreading.






SCRAPS

OF

BIOGRAPHY.


TENTH BOOK OF THE

FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES.



Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day
Saints



JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE.

Salt Lake City.

1883



Copyright applied for at the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington, D. C., by A. H. Cannon.



PREFACE.

There is a gradually increasing interest among the young of this people
for reading and study. It is now the ambition of nearly every son and
daughter of the Saints to become well educated. Parents, also, are more
deeply interested in the intellectual growth of the youth. Thus we are
gradually ascending to a higher plane, and our influence is being felt
in a more extended sphere.

The desire, however, to place matter in the hands of the young for
reading and study, should not cause parents to be less