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there’s a kind of work that goes yet nearer to the
people it helps than any of those. But, of course,
if you’ve made up your mind”

“Oh no, grannie! I don’t mean it so much as
that—if there’s a better way, you know. Tell me
what it is.”

“T want you to think and find out.”

Willie thought, looked puzzled, and said he.
couldn’t tell what it was.

“Then you must think a little longer,” said his
grandmother. ‘And now go and wash your
hands.”