To my surprise, he put his hands behind his back, and said, "Oh, no, thank you."
"Don't you want it?" I asked.
He shook his head, though he eyed it lovingly.
"I assure you, your mother will like you to have it," I said.
But nothing would induce him to take it, and he went away without it.
I fancy he was trying to be extra good. He thought it was not good manners to take a present away.
"What a silly boy!" you say.
But we often act like that with God. And it is such a pity, for we lose so much by not stretching out our hands to take what He offers us.
We may have a present offered us, but if we won't put out our hands to take it, what is the good of it to us? And how ungrateful to the kind giver!
Sometimes people get unsuitable presents. I heard of a little girl who bought a tiny doll's tea-set, and gave it to her mother as a birthday present.