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the pause she had begun to be sorry for having
spoken so roughly to her little darling,

“Does everybody work 2”

“Everybody that’s worth anything, and is old
enough,” she added. ;

“Does God work?” he asked, after another
pause, in a low voice.

“No, child. What should He work for?”

“Tf everybody works that is good and old
enough, then I think God must work,” answered
Willie “But I will ask my papa. Am I old
enough ?”

“Well, you’re not old enough to do much, but
you might do something.”

“What could Ido? CouldI spin, Mrs Wilson ?”

“No, child ; that’s not an easy thing to do; but
you could knit.”

“Could 1? What good would it do?”

“Why, you could knit your mother a pair of
stockings.”

“Could I though? Will you teach me, Mrs
Wilson ?”

Mrs Wilson very readily promised, foreseeing
that so she might have a good deal more of the
little man’s company, if indeed he was in earnest ;
for she was very lonely, and was never so happy
as when he was with her. She said she would get
him some knitting-needles—wires she called them
—that very evening; she had some wool, and if