At Elm Cottage. Al

 

said he had eaten his share then,
and that he was as glad as could
be to have just two slices left for his
boy’s young ones when they came to
look after him. .

It sounded very funny to May and
Johnny to hear their father and
mother, who were such big, grown-up
people, called ‘ my gal and my boy ;’
but when Johnny made a funny face,
and looked as if he were going to
laugh, his grandfather said :—

‘Do you know, my little lad, that
your daddy used to sit on my knee
when he was a little one like you,
ay, and a deal smaller too; and
that’s why, when I think of him now
that I am old, and sit in my big