The Sea-Shell Speaks. 25

“ That is right,” said the clock, heartily.

“You will always be glad if you are thoughtful of others,”
said the sea-shell.

“ Grandfather is a good man; he gives me tender morsels,”
said the Angora cat gratefully.

The old clock had finished its story, and for a few minutes
nothing was heard in the room but the slow, steady ticking of
the long pendulum as it swung back and forth, and the quiet
purring of the Angora cat. Job was thinking of what the
clock had told him, when the silence was again broken by the
sea-shell.