I don't think Mr. Holbrook knew that the few kind words which he spoke to
Kitty Lewis, on her way home from prayer-meeting, were seeds which were
going to spring up and bear fruit unto everlasting life.
CHAPTER XIX.
"And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord."
"Father," said Tip, as, after having carefully measured out and given him
some cough-drops, he sat down for a chat with him before
school,--"father, didn't you and Mr. Bailey go to school together when
you were boys?"
"Yes," said Mr. Lewis. "Our fathers lived side by side, and we used to
walk more than a mile to school together every morning; we were in the
same class, too, and the best scholars in school. My! times are changed
since that day. My father was considerably better off than his was, and
now he's a rich man, and I'm nobody."
"Was he such a boy as Will Bailey is--or, I mean, as Will used to be?"
"I don't know much about Will; but I know his father was a sorry scamp,
and many's the scrape he got me into. He took a notion to me.
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