WILLIE’S HAPPY DAY.

the day would go fast if I kept busy, and I did. First, there
was our nice ride home from the station. Then Minnie and I
went and posted the letters you gave as, and then we went to
see Johnny Sheldon—you know he has been sick and is not
well enough yet to go out—and we carried him some oranges
and apples papa gave us this morning. You would have liked
to see him, mamma, he was so pleased. "When we came home
it was almost dinner-time, and, after we had ours, I fed puss
and Royer, and the doves and chickens. Minnie hemmed the
new sails for my ship, and I mended her doll’s table—one leaf
was off. Then we played out-doors till it was time to go for
you, and we had another nice ride.”

“Tt has been a well-spent day, Willie dear; that is the
reason it has been a happy one. Was there any hard place in
it—any time, I mean, when you found it hard to do right?”

Willie thought a moment:

“Yes, mamma; when Minnie asked me to put on her table-
leaf, I wanted to play menagerie—I didn’t know she was going
to hem my sails—but I thought I ought to please her, and I
am glad I did.”

“ And I am glad, too, my boy.”

“There was another time, mamma—when I felt very angry
because I couldn’t find my top, and I thought Sarah had swept
it out. But I didn’t say a word, only to whisper, Help me!
and the bad feelings went away, and after-awhile I found my
top just where I had left it myself, in your room.”

Willie’s mother kissed him tenderly as she said,—

“My dear. boy, you have won two victories to-day—one over
selfishness and one over anger. No wonder it has been a happy
day. But you must be watchful, Willie, or to-morrow may be
very unlike it. And remember that the will and power to do
right are from the Lord alone, and in oo) temptation look to

nan for strength. He will never fail you.”
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