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"Who, sir--my uncle Frederick?"

"Yes"

"No, sir, he only said that I must wait"

"Like I have to wait for the sun to ripen my fruit, eh? Ah, but I don't

like that If the sun don't come I pick it, and store it under cover to

ripen as well as it will"

I looked at hi," he went on, "puts et out, cats!--he waited till he found that the proper

thing to do was to get his sons to work and cut the corn the; "and then the lark thought it was tiht!" he cried "That fable contains the finest lesson a

boy can learn Don't you wait for others to help you: help yourself"

"I'll try, sir"

"That's right Ah! I wish I had always been as wise as that lark"

"Then you would not wait if you were ly

"Not a week,to do Fact is, I've been

looking into it, and your relations are all waiting for each other to

take you in hand There isn't one of thehed, and said: "I'reat deal of trouble to them, sir, and an

enor down and lifting up first

one cat and then another, stroking theently the while Then one of

them, as usual, leaped upon his back "Well, look here, htfully, "that's all nonsense about expense! I--"

He stopped short and went on stroking one cat's back, as it rubbed