his share in a very distinct and deliberate manner, keeping the
place all the while with his finger, so that Jennie might easily follow
him. He stopped also from time to time to explain the story to Jennie,
and to talk about the several incidents that were described in it, in
order to make it sure that Jennie understood them all. It would have
been much easier for him to have taken the book himself, and to have
read the whole chapter off at once, fluently. But this would have
defeated his whole object; which was, not to do what he could do most
easily, but to do good and help Jennie. If a boy were going up a high
hill, with his sister in his company, it would be easier for him to go
directly on and leave his sister behind. A selfish boy would be likely
to do this; but a generous-minded boy would prefer to go slowly, and
help his sister along over the rocks and up the steep places.

Rollo and Jane both became so much interested in their reading that they
continued it almost an hour. It then began to be dark, and so they put
the book away. Their mother came in about that time, and was very much
pleased when she found how Rollo and Jennie had been employed; and Rollo
and Jennie themselves experienced a substantial and deeply-seated
feeling of satisfaction and comfort that all the merry-making of the
Elysian Fields could never give. If any of the readers of this book have
any doubt of this, let them try the experiment themselves. At some time,
after they have been spending a portion of the Sabbath in such a way as
to give them an inward feeling of uneasiness and self-condemnation, let
them engage for a time in the voluntary performance of some serious
duty, as Rollo did, and in the spirit and temper which he manifested,
and see how strongly it will tend to bring back their peace of mind and
restore them to happiness. To try the experiment more effectually still,
spend the whole Sabbath in this manner, and then see with what a feeling
of quiet and peaceful satisfaction you will go to bed at night, and
with what a joyous and buoyant spirit you will awake on Monday morning.

Before Rollo left Paris, he went, one Tuesday afternoon, with his mother
and Jennie and his uncle George, to see the performances at the
Hippodrome, and he enjoyed the spectacle very much indeed. Besides the
performances which have already been described, there were two others
which astonished him exceedingly. In one of these a man came into the
middle of