One day Watt said to his cousin, "What have you done to Fred? He is so different here!"
"Perhaps more will come of your sacrifice than you expected," replied May quietly.
"What do you know about a sacrifice?" asked Watt quickly.
A smile was her only reply.
More did grow out of it all than anyone would have suspected. May Vinton's seed-sowing was on good ground. By her love and sympathy she had softened the soil, and the heart of the friendless boy opened to the refining and elevating influences she threw around him, and a month later Watt wrote, "Fred is just as different as you can think. The boys all like him now."
Faye Huntington.
SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
So will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
GRANDMA BURTON looked steadily at the first verse, and laughed. "I wish I could show you children the picture I see whenever I read this verse," she said. "Though I don't know as you would think I ought to feel much like laughing."