230 8©6 ‘“Fohuny tries to be Useful.

 

the hour together ; and sometimes, as
she sat on the garden steps learn-
ing to mend his socks, she used to
give a little sigh, and almost wish
that the time would come back again
when he was only a baby child and
could not do without her.

‘Yet,’ she would think to herself,
‘I wanted Johnny to grow big and
clever, so I mustn’t grumble. He
can’t be big and little at the same
time.’

And for some things it was nice
to have him getting big.

For instance, he could walk now
quite 2 long way without being
tired, and without helping himself
by nearly dragging her arm off.