The End of a Happy Day. 69

 

they reached home Mr. Summers hunted up an
old parrot’s cage, and Katie made a soft bed at
the bottom of it and laid the bird on it, and
when she had given it food and drink she left it
in a dark corner of the room so that it might go
to sleep.

“Oh, mamma, I have had such a very happy
day,” said Katie, as her mamma came to give
her her good-night kiss after she was in bed.

“Tam very glad to hear it, my darling,” said
her mamma, “because I’m quite sure you must
have been a good little girl, for only those who
are good are really happy ;” and with another
fond kiss her mother left her, and in a very few
minutes the happy, tired little girl was fast
asleep.

And J will tell you why it was that Katie
was always such a happy child: she was always
trying to please others, and to do what she
knew to be right. Arid she didn’t often fail,
because she didn’t trust to herself; but every