THE NEW SUIT OF CLOTHES. 69

I placed it on my mother’s knee, saying triumphantly,

“There, mother! there is the money to get my
clothes. I earned it with my own hands. Yes; there
is the bill, and there is the shining silver!” .

“Oh!” exclaimed Jane.

“Oh!” echoed Mary, peeping over Jane’s shoulder.

My father looked up from the book he was reading,

“Here is the money Robert has been earning for a
new suit!” said my mother, handing it to him with
evident delight.

Ah! that was a glad hour to me.

“T am glad to see you accomplishing something, my
son; working out wise and useful purposes, and then
executing them with your own hands. And when you
begin, resolve never to give up, if it is good and right
to succeed. Put your hand to the plough, and look not
back. If you make up your mind to do anything, do
zt, Oftentimes it is only through much suffering that
we can achieve a noble work; and the very conflict
and trial give us new strength and new courage for the

next duty.” -