"Not for your pleasant home?" asked mother.
"It is my papa's house; he lets me live in it."
"Where did the wood come from to build it?" asked mother.
"From trees," answered Helen, "and they growed in big forests."
"Who planted the big forests? Who gave rain to water them? Who gave the sun to warm them? Who did not allow the winter to blast them? Who kept them growing from little trees to trees big enough to build houses with? Not papa, not man; it was God."
Helen looked her mother in the eye, and then said, "Papa bought nails to make it with."
"What are nails made of?" asked mamma.
"Iron," answered Helen; "and men dig iron out of the ground."
"Who put iron in the ground, and kept it there safe till the men wanted it?" asked mother. "It was God."
"We got this carpet from men," said Helen, drawing her small foot across it.