140 WORK AND PLAY.

replied, “Not so much as some—Mr. Barry, for
instance—but more than I did. But why do you
ask?” | :

“Because I have been thinking myselt of trying to
teach.”

“You, Carl! I thought you were going to college.”

“Ah!” replied Carl, “I should like to do so, indeed,
but—”

“Ah! my good fellow, I see how it is. You want
to make an honourable support. es angusta domi,*
and so forth. I know how to feel fcr you.”

4 Then,” said Carl, brightly, “you have had the
same experience.”

“Yes, indeed, like many other boys, of whom hun-
dreds, if not thousands, have begun life in this way.
And I am not ashamed to say my father was a poor
man, who brought up a family of five sons and a
daughter, on a farm of thirty-five acres. Three of
us have been to college, and have all made our way
by teaching. Perhaps we may comfort the old age of
our parents, and keep our sister from hard work. I
only wish I had the same liking for the work which I
observe in Mr, Barry.”

“T know I shall like it,” said Carl, warmly. “1
always loved to tend and rear plants and flowers, and ~
these are living, thinking, immortal plants and flowers!”

“You grow poetical, Carl.”

* Straitened circumstances.