THE SILVER LAKE STORIES. 91

“¢How much, then, is a man better
than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful
to do well on the Sabbath days.’”

“Yes, you see that they were not
condemned by the Saviour for assisting
even a suffering animal on the Sab®™
bath day, and of course it is right to
assist a suffering human being.” |

“[T remember,” saidMrs. Playford,
“when I was quite a: little girl, living
in the large city of A——, that one
Sunday morning a notice was read in
all the churches, informing the congre-
gations that a man, supposed to be
crazy, had wandered off, taking with
him his three little children. They had