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53 151 9 ‘ Confound you, James ! didn’t I tell you to shut the door after you ’ 10 I called in behalf of a sad case that has come under my own notioa 11 Left it on the doorstep, knocked, and ran away 12 Sat cowering over his fire, more miserable than ever 13 ‘He’s gone clean out of his mind’ announced James to the assembled kitchen 14 Mr Redfern was being whirled away towards Yorkshire 15 ‘ Just call a cab, will you, my man?’ he said to one of the porters 16 ‘ Why, it’ll be the death of me; my feet are damp already 17 He soon came upon a toddling, wee thing shivering in the snow 18 ‘ Is you one of the wise man’s ? and is you looking for Jesus, too ?’ 19 And he looked in the little face that was sleeping so peacefully upon his breast 20 An earnest band set out to scour the moor for the lost one 21 ‘ Oh, mother, darling, don’t grieve so,’ she said, kneeling down beside her 22 Her mother was prostrate on the floor 23 ‘ Father—pity—have mercy—yet Thou knowest best. Let not my trust fail me now 24 ‘ Here she is, mother! here’s your darling ! not a bit the worse 25 Wherever he looked, eyes were beaming with admiration upon him 26 Then they all drew up to the well-spread board, and didn’t they eat ? 27 ‘ Whatever’s the matter, brother Robert?’ cried the doctor 28 Began shaking his flst at his own face in the looking-glass 29 ‘ The saddest story, my dear brother ; one to make your heart bleed ’ 30 By a conversation he overheard between the doctor and his wife 31 She seized her hand and kissed it fervently 32 ‘ See, you just move the cream aside, so, and dip your spoon down into the milk ’ 33 Poor Jack! Just for a little while he quite staggered under the blow 34 ‘ It will be poor Robert’s belongings, I suppose. All he has left, poor fellow ’ 34a ‘ A parcel for mother,’ went on the doctor, handing it out 35 And as he had no more hands to be seized, the children took his legs 36 ‘lam here on my knees, praying your forgiveness 37 The cosy old room, and the beaming, happy faces of the family circle Reading, ‘Bells Across the Snow,’ Horner’s Penny Stories for the People.—No. 46. Id. “LITTLE JAMIE;" A Service of Sacred Song, compiled by Thomas E. Hallsworth (Editor of “ Onward Reciter”), from the POPULAR STORY, “ THE LITTLE CAPTAIN,” by Lyndb Palmeb. 1 The wind and the rain made determined onslaught upon the little cottage 2 Jamie cried ‘‘ Oh, father 1 father ! ” with such agony in his voice that James Grey partly came to his senses 3 “ You may clear the table, Maggie,” said James Grey, ** I*ve just come from the best dinner 1 ever had iu my life