A Talk with Mr Shepherd. 167

 

and has come to life again. It must have had the
doctor to it.” -

“Eh? What doctor, Willie?”

“Well, you know, there is but One that could be
doctor to this big world,”

“Yes, surely,” returned Mr Shepherd. “And
that brings me to what I wanted to talk to you
about. I hear your father means to make a doctor _
of you,”

“Yes, Isn’t it good of him?” said Willie.

“Then you would like it?”

“Ves; that I should!”

“Why would you like it?”

“Because I must have a hand in the general
business.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Willie set forth Hector Macallaster’s way of
thinking about such matters,

“Very good—very good indeed!” remarked Mr
Shepherd. “But why, then, should you prefer
being a doctor to being a shoemaker? Is it be-
cause you will get better paid for it ?”

“JT never thought of that,’ returned Willie.
“Of course I should be better paid—for Hector
couldn’t keep a horse, and a horse I must have,
else some of my patients would be dead before
I could get tothem, But that’s not why I want
to be a doctor. It’s because I want to help
people.”