30 THE BANTAM.

his eyes, and rolled over his cheeks. He looked at the
dead bantam, he looked up in his mother's face, and then
he said, I should think, mother, he ought to give me the
chicken; and, mother, I will do as I would be done by.
George shall have the live bantam. But, mother," he
added, sobbing, "it is just as you said-it is not always
very easy to do as we would be done by."
 No, my child," replied his mother, kissing him; but,
now, which would you rather have, the remembrance
that, when it seemed very hard, you did as you would be
done by, or the bantam ?"
 The remembrance, mother, a thousand times; for that
will last always, you know, and the live bantam must die
some time or other."
 The bantam was sent to George; and which, think
you, was the happiest, Willie in sending, or George in
receiving it ?