MO VING-DA Y.

from the end of the mop-stick. The kettle kept swinging as the cart
jogged on. Jamie watched it all the time lest it should fall off.
 He stubbed his toe and fell down twice, because he was looking
up at the cart; but he did not cry; he was a man that day! At
last the man who drove saw that the small man was tired. So he
said, "See here, youngster; can't you sit up on this feather-bed,
and see that the oxen keep the road ?"
 There was a soft nest, just big enough for Jamie, between two


















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chairs. The man lifted him up there; it was a nice place. In five
minutes Jamie was sound asleep.
 When they came to the new house the man lifted him down, and
said, "Here's the young man who took care of the load !"
 Jamie had had such a good nap that he was all ready to help put
the new house in order.
 MRS. P. P. SANFORI