“Did he help you?” asked his wife.
“Yes,” said the farmer; “he forwarded the work, I think, a full half hour, and that just saved us.”
Now that is the right kind of interest to take in what your father and mother are doing.
Another incident.
At another time, one night after Georgie and Lawrence had gone to bed, they heard a sort of thumping sound out in the barn.
“Hark!” said Lawrence; “what is that noise?”
Georgie said he thought it could not be any thing of consequence, and so he shut up his eyes, and prepared to go to sleep. But Lawrence, though he was equally sleepy, felt afraid that something might be the matter with one of the horses; so he got up and went to his father’s room, and told his father about the noise. His father immediately rose and dressed himself, and went down to the barn.
“Georgie,” said Lawrence, “let us get up too. Perhaps we can help.”
“Oh no,” said Georgie, sleepily, “there is nothing that we could do.”