"When the man looked around on the flowers and lovely trees and brooks, he said, 'This is a beautiful land.'
"And Purity answered: 'I'm glad that you see it is. You remember I told you it was.'
"'It was the Valley of Vain Regret we were talking about then,' said the man. 'If you had known more about it, you wouldn't have called that beautiful.'
"Then the little girl smiled because she knew something nice that the man didn't know yet; but he was going to.
"So they journeyed along and journeyed along through pleasant places, and while they walked, Purity told the man about the great King—how loving He was and everything like that, and the man had hold of her hand and listened just as hard as he could, for he felt sure she was telling the truth; and it made him glad, and his heart that had been wizzled up just like a fig, had grown to be as big as—oh, as big as a watermelon, and it was full of nice feelings.
"'I'm happy, Purity,' he said to the little girl.
"I'm glad,' she answered, and she squeezed his hand back again, because she loved him now as much as if he was her grandpa.
"Well, they went along, and along, and at last they came to some woods and a narrow path through them. The man was beginning to think they might need the squirrels again, when suddenly"—Jewel paused and looked around on her auditors whose faces she could barely see in the gathering dusk,—"suddenly the man thought he saw the dragon he had heard so much about; and he shivered and hung back, but Purity walked along and wondered what was the matter with him.