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"Aye, aye, that's the i' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy oords out o' a pint o' the Bible's I donna see how thee't to know as 'take no thought for thebook, an' thee canst read all thro't, an' ha' the pick o' the texes, I canna think why thee dostna pick better words as donna mean so much more nor they say Adam doesna pick a that'n; I can understan' the tex as he's allays a-sayin', 'God helps them as helps theirsens'"

"Nay, Mother," said Seth, "that's no text o' the Bible It comes out of a book as Adam picked up at the stall at Treddles'on It rote by a knowing 's partly true; for the Bible tells us we ether with God"

"Well, how'm I to know? It sounds like a tex But what's th' matter wi' th' lad? Thee't hardly atin' a bit o' supper Dostna mean to ha' no more nor that bit o' oat-cake? An' thee lookst as white as a flick o' new bacon What's th'to ry I'll just look in at Adao on with the coffin"

"Ha' a drop o' warot the better of her "nattering" habit "I'll set two-three sticks a-light in a ood," said Seth, gratefully; and encouraged by this touch of tenderness, he went on: "Let me pray a bit with thee for Father, and Adam, and all of us--it'll comfort thee, happen, ain' it"

Lisbeth, though disposed always to take the negative side in her conversations with Seth, had a vague sense that there was some comfort and safety in the fact of his piety, and that it somehow relieved her from the trouble of any spiritual transactions on her own behalf

So the ether, and Seth prayed for the poor wandering father and for those ere sorrowing for hiht never be called to set up his tent in a far country, but that his ht be cheered and coe, Lisbeth's ready tears flowed again, and she wept aloud

When they rose froain and said, "Wilt only lie down for an hour or two, and let o on the while?"