CHAPTER XIII
PROMPT OBEDIENCE.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for
this is right.—Eph. vi, 1.
I watch’d thee silently, and now
Thou art before mine eye.
It was a moment worthy years.
Bernard Barton.
“Come, Alfred, it is time to go to bed,” said Mrs. Penrose to her little son, one evening.
Alfred was busy making pictures on a slate, and did not want to go to bed yet. He begged that he might finish off his horse. His mamma said he might finish his horse, although his hour for going to bed had come.