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174 SEE-SAW. "Have you anything to say at last inquired the oak, who had had long experience of Sir Helix's wisdom. "I have," answered the snail. "You don't know your own value, that's all." Ask the see-sawers my value exclaimed the prostrate tree, bitterly. "One up at the stars, another beyond the world! What am I doing meanwhile ? " Holding them both up, which is more than they can do for themselves," muttered the snail turning round to go back to the grass. But-but-stop a moment, dear Sir Helix; the see-sawers don't think that," argued the tree. "They're all light-minded together, and don't think," sneered the snail. Up in the sky one minute, down in the dust the next. Never you mind that. Everybody can't play at high jinks with comfort, luckily for the rest of the world. Sit fast, do your duty, and have faith. While they are going flightily up and down, your steady balance is the saving of both."