Fohnuny tries to be Useful. — 237

 

know that it was a very long way off,
because his father had told him so.

It was bed-time soon after this ;
and May took him up to undress
him after he had kissed his father
and mother; but when he got up-
stairs there seemed nothing for her
to do. It was all, ‘I can, I can;
you needn’t help me, May.’ But, of
course, he was not half washed, as
you may be sure, only as mother was
so poorly, May thought she would
say nothing about it.

‘I wish I had that book about
gardening,’ said Johnny’s father next
morning at breakfast ; ‘but it’s over
at the old people’s, and I don’t know
when I shall find time to fetch it.’