"'The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle,'" read Billy, just where he opened the Book. Then he asked, "Wouldn't they fight?"
"Able but not willing to do what a body ought to do. I don't remember about the fighting. Perhaps it was only to endure something. Now I will go to bed," said granny, forgetting that Billy had read but one verse.
When he was left alone, he sat and pondered on those children of Ephraim until Peter tumbled into the house in his usual state. Then he let Ben sleep on, and he himself helped the tailor to bed, doing it with much less ceremony than the latter approved of.
[to be continued.]
MORNING AND EVENING.—Drawn by Mary A. Lathbury.