"I must think before I can do that," said Willie. "It's not so easy to put things in words!—You very often go to help the same people: that's something to start with."
"But not to give them the same help."
"No, not quite. And yet"—
"At least, I cannot write prescriptions or compound medicines for them, seeing I know nothing about such things," said Mr Shepherd. "But, on the other hand, though I can't give them medicine out of your papa's basket, your papa very often gives them medicine out of mine."
"That's a riddle, I suppose," said Willie.
"No, it's not. How is it your papa can come so near people to help them?"
"He gives them things that make them well again."
"What do they do with the things he gives them?"
"They take them."
"How?"