"Well, Nellie?"
"Could you illuminate me a text on mine, do you think, Walter—just a very simple one?"
"To be sure. Both sides?"
"Oh, yes; that would be nice!"
"Very well; tell me what text, and I am your humble servant." He went up to get his colour box, and soon he had joined the "working party" too, as Netta said.
"But these take a jolly long time!" exclaimed Arthur. "Did you mean, mamma, that we were to make for other children?"
"Oh, no! But I expect we shall have to make a couple to lend as patterns; they will all want to make their own."
"I am to have one," said Tom to Walter; "Christina is going to make it for me."
"That is very kind indeed," said Walter, who was busily sketching in the letters in pencil of the text Nellie had pointed out to him. On one side it was to be, "He shall gather the lambs with His arm;" and on the other, "And carry them in His bosom."
On Monday, just before the service, Christina appeared, and placed in Tom's hand a really beautiful portfolio. She had painted in water-colours a very good representation of the storm, with the life-boat in the middle, and just to be seen between two great waves, the sinking wreck in the distance. On the other side were the words—"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."