nd Harry refreshed themselves after their labour, wandered
disconsolately about the garden, surprised and vexed to find himself in
a place where nobody felt any concern whether he was pleased or not.
Meanwhile, Harry, after a few words of advice from Mr. Barlow, read
aloud the story of "The Ants and the Flies," in which it is related how
the flies perished for lack of laying up provisions for the winter,
whereas the industrious ants, by working during the summer, provided for
their maintenance when the bad weather came.

Mr. Barlow and Harry then rambled into the fields, where Mr. Barlow
pointed out the several kinds of plants to be seen, and told his little
companion the name and nature of each. When they returned to dinner
Tommy, who had been skulking about all day, came in, and being very
hungry, was going to sit down to the table, when Mr. Barlow said, "No,
sir; though you are too much of a gentleman to work, we, who are not so
proud, do not choose to work for the idle!"

Upon this Tommy retired into a corner, crying as if his heart would
break; when Harry, who could not bear to see his friend so unhappy,
looked up, half-crying, into Mr. Barlow's face, and said, "Pray, sir,
may I do as I please with my dinner?"

"Yes, to be sure, my boy," was the reply.

"Why, then," said Harry, "I will give it to poor Tommy, who wants it
more than I do."

Tommy took it and thanked Harry; but without turning his eyes from the
ground.

"I see," said Mr. Barlow, "that though certain gentlemen are too proud
to be of any use to themselves, they are not above taking the bread that
other people have been working hard for."

At this Tommy cried more bitterly than before.

The next day, when they went into the garden, Tommy begged that he might
have a hoe, too, and, having been shown how to use it, soon worked with
the greatest pleasure, which was much increased when he was asked to
share the fruit provided after the work was done. It seemed to him the
most delicious fruit that he had ever tasted.

Harry read as before, the story this time being about the gentleman and
the basket-maker. It described how a rich man, jealous of the happiness
of a poor basket-maker, destroyed the latter's means of livelihood, and
was sent by a magistrate with his humble victim to an island, where the
two were made to serve the natives. On this island the rich man, because
he possessed neither talents to please nor strength to labour, was
condemned t