Perhaps the children who read this book would like to know how far the hand that printed had to travel to do it. To be sure, it was not all done by a single hand; but one of the printers has been kind enough to find out how many miles the hand moved when they set up the types, and behold it was nearly 230! Add to this the journeys my hand has had to make back and forth, to and fro, over the paper, off to the inkstand and back again, and you will see that even our little book costs a good deal of labor, and keeps a good many hands from being idle and so getting into mischief.
While Susy and her mamma were talking together, they heard a little knock at the door, and on opening it, they saw Robbie standing outside with a long piece of twine in his hand.
"What does Robbie want?" asked his mamma.
"I want you to mezzer how many miles long my foots are," said Robbie.
Susy and mamma laughed, and Robbie climbed up on the bed where his mamma still lay, though she was now getting well.
"Instead of that I will teach you a verse to say to papa at breakfast:
'Thou hast delivered my eyes from tears, my feet from falling and my soul from death.'"
Robbie learned his verse very quickly, and Susy wanted now to learn hers. Her mamma gave her an easy one:
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path;"
and Susy learned it so easily that she asked for another.