CHAPTER III.
"Grant to us, Thy humble servants, that by Thy holy inspiration we
may think those things that be good, and by Thy merciful guiding may
perform the same," spelt out David with some trouble and difficulty,
as he stood by Miss Fosbrook on Sunday morning.
"Miss Fosbrook?"
"Well, my dear."
"Miss Fosbrook?"
Another "Well."
"Is wanting to buy a pig one of the 'things that be good'?'
"Anything kind and right is good, my dear," said Miss Fosbrook, a
little vexed at a sort of snorting she heard from the other end of
the room.
"Davy thinks the pig is in his Collect," said Sam.
He was one of those who were especially proud of being downright, and
in him it often amounted to utter regardlessness of people's
feelings, yet not out of ill-nature; and when Susan responded, "Don't
teaze Davy--he can't bear it," he was silent; but the mischief was
done; and when Miss Fosbrook went on saying that the wish to help the
poor woman was assuredly a good thought, which the little boy might
well ask to be aided in fulfilling, David had grown ashamed, and
would not listen.
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