Zom hears about the Martyrs. 103

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“Tom,” said she, “you love your hen.
Don’t you want her to be happy ?” |

“Very, very happy, of course,” cried
Tom.

“ And you love me,” said she. ‘‘ Wouldn’t
you be glad to do anything I asked you ?”

“Oh,” said Tom, “you couldn't ask me for
anything! Grown-up people have everything
they want. But Archie—lI’ve had to think
what he liked, instead of what I liked, all the
afternoon; and it was dreadful, and I'll never
do it again—never !”

His mamma did not answer. She seemed
to be thinking.

“Tom,” she said at last, “have you never
heard stories of men and women who not
only gave up what they liked, but what they
liked best? And not one thing, but every-
thing. Some lived a great many years ago,
but they are still remembered, and some are
living now.”

She stopped. Tom did not know who
they were. He wondered how they could do
it, He thought how nice things were, and