go 4A DOG OF FLANDERS.

All this while the little panel of
pine wood remained over the chim-
ney in the mill-kitchen, with the
cuckoo clock and the waxen Calvary ;
and sometimes it seemed to Nello a
little hard that whilst his gift was
accepted he himself should be denied.

But he did not complain: it was
his habit to be quiet : old Jehan Daas
had said ever to him; “ We are poor:
we must take what God sends — the
ill- with the good: the poor cannot
choose.”

To which the boy had always
listened in silence, being reverent of
his old grandfather ; but nevertheless
a certain vague, sweet hope, such as
beguiles the children of genius, had
whispered in his heart, “ Yet the poor