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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, By the Roadside, by Katherine M. Yates
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+Title: By the Roadside
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+Author: Katherine M. Yates
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+Release Date: May 17, 2006  [eBook #18409]
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BY THE ROADSIDE***
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+BY THE ROADSIDE
+
+by
+
+KATHERINE M. YATES
+
+Author of
+"Up The Sunbeams"
+"On The Way There"
+"What The Pine Tree Heard"
+"Through The Woods"
+"Along The Trail"
+"On The Hill Top"
+"At The Door"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+The Harmony Shop
+Publishers of Good Books
+Boston Mass.
+Copyright, 1908
+by
+Katherine M. Yates
+
+
+
+
+BY THE ROADSIDE
+
+
+"It's time to go to work," said the little brown Dream.
+
+"I'm not ready to go to work," said Marjorie, crossly, turning over and
+snuggling her head more comfortably into her pillow.
+
+The Dream said nothing. He only sat on the foot-board and swung his
+feet.
+
+By and by Marjorie turned over again,--and then again,--and then at last
+she sat up, exclaiming angrily: "I wish you wouldn't bother me! I want
+to go to sleep."
+
+"Well," said the Dream, "how am I preventing you from sleeping?"
+
+"You said it was time to go to work."
+
+"That was half an hour ago," said the Dream. "I haven't spoken since."
+
+"That doesn't make any difference," said Marjorie. "When you once say a
+thing that I know is true, it stays with me, and you might as well keep
+shouting it all the time as to have said it once;--I can't get away from
+it."
+
+"If it is true, why do you want to get away from it?" asked the Dream.
+
+"Because--" Marjorie hesitated, "--because I'm sleepy," she said
+petulantly.
+
+"There are ever so many sleepy folks in this world," observed the Dream.
+
+"Then one more can't make much difference," said Marjorie.
+
+"That's what the others think,--and that's why there are so many.
+Suppose every one thought that!"
+
+Marjorie pondered for a moment,--then she laughed. "Just think what a
+great big alarm-clock it would take to wake them all up!" she said.
+
+The Dream rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "An alarm-clock is a pretty
+noisy article," he observed, "and it never says anything; and besides, I
+don't like its name. But one good, wide-awake person--" he looked
+directly at Marjorie, "--one good, wide-awake person could waken a very
+great many people--if he wanted to. But go on to sleep if you choose. I
+won't bother you."
+
+"I'm not sleepy any more," said Marjorie; "and anyway, I slept only a
+little while after you spoke."
+
+The Dream nodded. "Only a little while,--just long enough to let your
+work pass you by."
+
+"_My_ work?" exclaimed Marjorie. "Why, I hadn't anything in particular
+to do!"
+
+"Every one has something in particular to do," said the Dream, "if he
+has his hand ready;--but yours wasn't,--it was under your cheek."
+
+"What was the work?" asked Marjorie.
+
+The Dream pointed up the long hill in front of them; and away, almost at
+the top, she saw a little girl lifting a basket from the roadside, where
+she had set it while she was resting. It was a large, heavy basket with
+a handle at each end, and so it was awkward for one to carry alone.
+Marjorie started forward impulsively; but the Dream did not stir.
+"Wait," he said, "you cannot catch up with her now, before she reaches
+the top of the hill; it is only a little way farther."
+
+"But," cried Marjorie, "I can help her then! That basket must be hard to
+carry, even on level ground."
+
+"She lives at the top of the hill," said the Dream, quietly. "She has no
+farther to carry it."
+
+Marjorie bit her lip. "And she was right here when you first spoke?"
+
+"Yes," said the Dream, "she was right here."
+
+"But I didn't see her," protested Marjorie.
+
+"You weren't looking for her," said the Dream.
+
+"I'm sorry," said Marjorie, "but--but--" searching vainly for an excuse;
+and then a little virtuous tone coming into her voice; "--as likely as
+not she is better off for having carried it alone,--stronger, you
+know,--more experienced,--" this last rather lamely, for the Dream was
+looking at her fixedly. "Don't you think so?" she asked presently, as
+the Dream made no reply.
+
+"I think," he said at last, "that there was Some One, a long time ago,
+who spent His entire life helping others, wisely."
+
+"And I suppose you think that I ought to have taken the whole basket and
+lugged it up the hill for her, and let her walk along and carry her
+hands!" exclaimed Marjorie, angrily.
+
+"No," said the Dream, "not unless, for some reason, you thought that you
+ought to. You are not arguing honestly. You are not called upon to do
+one thing more than you think, _honestly_, that you ought to. No more
+than that is your work."
+
+"But I could _make_ myself think--" began Marjorie.
+
+"I said _honestly_," said the Dream. "It isn't honest to _make_ yourself
+think anything."
+
+"But mustn't I study about it, and try--"
+
+"Cer-tain-ly! Study about it carefully; but do it fairly. Don't take
+what some one else says that you 'ought' to do, and try to shave
+yourself down to fit it. Study it out and think it out for yourself; and
+then if the other fellow's opinion seems wise, follow it;--and if it
+doesn't, follow a better one of your own."
+
+"But suppose that some one has a right to tell me what to do?"
+
+"That's different. If you have given some one the right to tell you what
+to do, it must be because you believe that person understands better
+than you do. If you believe that, be obedient; if you don't, say so and
+go your own way. Be honest, that's all,--be honest with you."
+
+"With _me_?"
+
+"Yes, with you. If you are honest with yourself, you are square with the
+world."
+
+"I see," said Marjorie. "Oh, dear, that is the third stone I've stumbled
+over in two minutes! I wonder why some one doesn't roll them out of the
+road,--they are not so very large."
+
+"I wonder why," echoed the Dream, and there was a queer little note in
+his voice that made Marjorie glance toward him; and then her face
+flushed and she gave a little laugh.
+
+"Why, of course it's my work!" she exclaimed, stooping and beginning to
+roll one toward the side of the way. It was rather heavy and awkward to
+handle; but she kept bravely on, and soon returned for another. As she
+bent toward it, she happened to glance back down the road, and then she
+suddenly straightened up. "Oh, look!" she cried. "See all the people
+dragging that wagon up the hill,--and just hear them shout! Something
+must have happened to the horse! I'm going to help!" and she started to
+run down the hill.
+
+"I thought you were busy," called the Dream, after her.
+
+"Yes," she called back, "I know; but I can do that after a while,--I
+want to help with the wagon now;" and she ran on down the hill, and
+squeezing in among the others, she managed to get hold of one of the
+ropes, although there was scarcely room for her hand to grasp it. Up
+the hill she came, struggling and panting with the rest, and as she
+reached the spot where the Dream had remained, she waved her free hand
+proudly; but just then her foot struck a stone, and she tripped and fell
+against the person next to her, who let go of the rope in a wild effort
+to regain his balance; while the man behind her stumbled upon her feet
+and let go his hold; others stumbled, the rope was jerked from their
+hands, and in another moment the wagon began to roll slowly backward.
+Every one made a dash for it; but it was too late, and in an instant it
+was careening madly down the hill,--then a wheel struck another stone,
+the tongue turned, and with a great lurch the whole thing went over,
+scattering potatoes, turnips, and other vegetables in every direction,
+and sending barrels and boxes rolling and tumbling down the hill with a
+tremendous clatter.
+
+Marjorie had picked herself up and stood watching it all with great,
+frightened eyes. "Oh, look, look!" she cried. "It's all my fault, and I
+was only trying to help! Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to trip,--I
+truly didn't!"
+
+"Never mind, never mind," said a man near her, "you weren't to blame. It
+was all because of those stones in the road,--any one would trip on
+things like that;--some one else would have stumbled if you hadn't, so
+don't worry," and he began pitching the stones out of the way.
+
+"Oh," cried Marjorie, in dismay, "then it really was my fault more than
+I thought! Why didn't I keep on with what I was doing, when it needed to
+be done, and I was doing it right! Oh, dear, what shall I do now?"
+
+But the man did not understand. "You can't do anything," said he,
+sending the last stone flying into the ditch. "It isn't your fault; it
+is the fault of the people who go by here every day and leave these
+stones lying in the road, when it would take only a few moments to clear
+them away. Now run along and don't worry,--you couldn't help it."
+
+So Marjorie turned and walked sorrowfully away beside the Dream.
+
+"I don't see why it didn't come out right," she said at last. "I really
+wanted to help,--I was honest."
+
+"Were you, truly?" asked the Dream.
+
+"Why, yes," said Marjorie, "I--" then she hesitated.
+
+"You saw the need of moving the stones, didn't you?"
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie.
+
+"And you were able to do it?"
+
+"Oh, yes."
+
+"And the people were really bringing the wagon up the hill quite easily,
+there were so many of them?"
+
+"Yes," admitted Marjorie.
+
+"Then, honestly, why did you leave the stones in order to go and pull on
+the rope?"
+
+Marjorie stood still and thought, very soberly. "Well," she said at
+last, "I guess it was because it looked more interesting."
+
+"It wasn't because you actually thought that they needed your help?"
+
+"No-o," admitted Marjorie. "But then, I didn't stop to think of it that
+way,--I just wanted to do it."
+
+"But you didn't ask yourself why you wanted to do it,--or if it were
+wise?"
+
+"No-o. It just looked like helping, and I--I wanted to be in with the
+shouting."
+
+"Yes," said the Dream, "you are not the only one who wants to 'be in
+with the shouting.' But just let me tell you something:--if you want to
+be honest with yourself, carry a great big WHY around with you all the
+time,--and when you have an impulse to do anything, look at that first.
+Don't just glance at it,--look at it squarely, if for only a moment.
+When you have answered that honestly, you will know what to do."
+
+The two walked on in silence for quite a distance. By and by Marjorie
+heaved a little sigh. "I wish that I could find a big work," she said.
+"I wish that it would be very, very big,--very, very big and very
+wonderful."
+
+"Why?" asked the Dream.
+
+"Oh!" cried Marjorie, clasping her hands, "so that years and years from
+now, people would look at it and say that _I_ did it,--and would
+remember me for it."
+
+"'M-hm," said the Dream.
+
+"Wouldn't that be grand?" went on Marjorie, enthusiastically.
+
+"'M-hm," said the Dream.
+
+Marjorie looked hard at him. "Isn't it right to want to do great and
+wonderful things?" she asked.
+
+"Yes," said the Dream.
+
+"Then what--" Marjorie stopped.
+
+"When you look at it fairly and squarely," said the Dream, "what do you
+think of your reason for wanting to do something great?"
+
+Marjorie bit her lip.
+
+"Be honest," said the Dream.
+
+"Well," said Marjorie, at last, "I suppose the reason is just about as
+small and selfish and useless as a reason could possibly be."
+
+"It is," said the Dream. "Now I'll tell you something. Those who have
+come to be known for their work are those who have worked for the love
+that was in them,--not for the name. To really work, is only to help;
+and those who are helped will see to it that the work and the worker are
+never separated; for while the work lives, the worker is in and of it.
+Do you see?"
+
+"Yes, I see," said Marjorie, softly. "I am not honest enough, nor
+unselfish enough for a great work yet; but the little things will get me
+into practice, so I must love to do them, and perhaps the other will
+come when I am ready for it."
+
+They had reached the top of the hill and passed a little school-house
+before either of them spoke again, and then the Dream broke the
+silence. "Why did you do that?" he asked; for Marjorie had jumped across
+the little ditch and was walking in the grass and weeds along the
+roadside. "The road isn't dusty," he added, "so it is no pleasanter
+walking there."
+
+"Well, you see," explained Marjorie, "I noticed that some people had
+walked along here and made a little path, and it will be much better to
+walk on a path by and by when the road _is_ dusty."
+
+"But your walking there this once can't help much."
+
+"It will help some," said Marjorie, "and it is only a little hard for
+me; and walking in the dust will be very hard for ever so many after a
+while, and the weeds and grass would be grown quite high by that time.
+You see, my walking here presses the grass down and makes it look
+easier, so that some one else will do the same and help to wear the way.
+There," pointing backward, "do you see? All of those schoolchildren have
+come over on to the path because they saw me, and that will help ever so
+much."
+
+"I guess you're right," said the Dream. "It is a good thing to make
+every step that you take, do work that will help some one some time."
+
+Presently they came to a cross-roads, and Marjorie hesitated for a
+moment to see which way to turn; and then she noticed that the wind had
+blown one of the sign-boards from off its post, and that it lay,
+face-downward, in the road, covered with mud. Taking it up, she went to
+the little brook by the wayside and washed it carefully; and then,
+holding it as high as she could reach, she fastened it to the post, by
+pounding in the loosened nails with a stone. This had all taken some
+time, and when she had finished, she stepped back to view her work,
+wearing an expression of extreme complacence, which quickly changed to
+one of vexation, as she discovered that she had nailed the sign up side
+down, so that not only were the words inverted; but it pointed in the
+wrong direction.
+
+"Oh, dear, see what I've done!" she cried.
+
+"How did you happen to do that?" asked the Dream, looking interested.
+
+"It was just because that little girl over there kept calling and
+calling to me. I tried not to hear, at first, but she worried me until I
+didn't know what I was about."
+
+"What was the matter with her?" asked the Dream.
+
+"Oh, she had got her dress caught on the fence when she was climbing
+over, and spilled some apples or something out of a basket. There, see
+how she's torn her dress! It's her own fault! I told her to wait until I
+got through, and I would help her;--but I was too busy then."
+
+"You told her to wait where? On the fence?"
+
+"Oh, well, _I_ couldn't help it,--it wasn't my fault that she caught her
+dress, she ought to have been more careful,--and, anyway, I had to nail
+the sign-board,--that was much more important, wasn't it?"
+
+The Dream turned and looked at the sign-board critically. "Yes," he
+said, "I suppose it did have to be done in a hurry,--sign-boards don't
+'keep' very well."
+
+Marjorie flushed. "But some one might have come along who wanted to know
+the way."
+
+"Yes," assented the Dream, dryly, "it would have been too bad if some
+one had come along before you got it put up--_that_ way."
+
+Marjorie's head drooped.
+
+"As far as I can see," went on the Dream, "the only way to read that
+sign is to turn it 'tother end to,' in your mind."
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie, in a very low voice.
+
+"And how do you like to go on record as standing for a sign that
+reads:--'If you want to go right, _don't_ follow me?'"
+
+Marjorie's lip was quivering. "I'll take it down," she said, and began
+to pull upon the board, but it was of no use; for she had driven in the
+nails so tightly that she could not start them. Her eyes filled with
+tears. "Oh, what shall I do?" she sobbed. "I can't bear to go away and
+leave it like that!"
+
+"I suppose that you see your mistake," said the Dream.
+
+"Yes, yes, I know," sobbed Marjorie. "I ought to have stopped and helped
+the little girl,--I could have set up the sign at the foot of the post
+while I did it;--but I was interested in what I was doing, and didn't
+want to be bothered."
+
+Just then the little girl came across the road, carrying the basket of
+apples which she had picked up, the long rent in her frock gathered
+together in her hand. "What is the matter?" she asked, looking at
+Marjorie's wet cheeks.
+
+Marjorie pointed miserably to the sign.
+
+"Oh," said the little girl, "you've made a mistake, haven't you! Let's
+fix it right."
+
+"We can't," said Marjorie. "I can't get the board off."
+
+"Perhaps both of us, together, can," said the little girl. "Come, let's
+both pull at once," and setting down her basket, she took a firm hold of
+the sign. And so Marjorie took hold again, and with much pulling and
+tugging, together, they soon had it off; and then, together, they nailed
+it back in place,--right.
+
+When it was done, they stepped back to look at it, breathless and proud.
+Marjorie's hand crept into that of the little girl. "How good you are to
+help me," she said softly, "when I had been so unkind to you."
+
+"It was my work, too," said the little girl, "and I was glad to do
+it;--and you were busy when I called to you."
+
+"I was selfish," said Marjorie; "but I am sorry. Mayn't I help you to
+fix your dress? I have pins, and it is hard for you to walk with it that
+way; for you tread on it at every step, unless you carry the torn part."
+
+And so, together, they pinned up the torn skirt; and then, with a loving
+hand-clasp, the little girl went away up one road, and Marjorie and the
+Dream turned to follow the other.
+
+"I wish that she was going my way," said Marjorie, at last. "She is so
+kind, and she didn't keep complaining and talking about how hard it was
+to do her work, and how much she would rather do something else; and how
+much pleasanter this road looks than the one she had to take; but she
+was just loving and sunshiny and helpful."
+
+And now they came to a place where there was a clump of wild roses
+growing by the wayside, and Marjorie stopped and began to gather some.
+
+"The thorns are troublesome, aren't they?" asked the Dream, presently.
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie, "but these are only little scratches, and I don't
+mind."
+
+"But why are you gathering the roses?"
+
+"Because there is nothing else to do just here, and I shall soon find
+some one who will love to have them; and, besides, they will make me
+happier, as I go along," and she buried her face in the pink petals.
+
+After a time they came to where a little brook wandered across the road.
+There had been stepping-stones, but some thoughtless youngsters had
+taken them to one side and built a dam, which caused the water to back
+up until the way was impassable, if one would cross dry-shod.
+
+Marjorie stood and looked for a moment, and then turned toward the fence
+where she saw that others had crossed by clinging to the boards. Then
+she stopped, and laying her roses in the shadow of a clump of bushes,
+she went to the little dam and began to loosen the stones. They proved
+to be heavy and slippery, and well embedded in the mud; but she managed,
+at the expense of wet feet and clothing, to dislodge them at last;--and
+then came the task of carrying them to where the other stepping-stones
+were. One she carried, and dropped it into exactly the right place, and
+then another, and was just returning for a third, when she saw a boy
+coming along the road. When she saw him, she hurried more eagerly, and
+was just lifting a very large stone when he came forward, timidly, but
+with outstretched hands. "Let me help you," he said.
+
+But Marjorie half turned her back, with the heavy stone. "No, no!" she
+said. "I can do it myself."
+
+"I would like to help you," the boy persisted. "I could make it much
+easier for you."
+
+"No," said Marjorie, "I don't need you. Please let me pass."
+
+The boy stepped aside with a little sigh. "No one wants me to help," he
+said, "and I don't seem to find any work of my own. I am not very
+clever," and he went on, crossing upon the stones which were already
+laid, and then jumping to the farther side, where he stood, watching.
+
+Marjorie followed with her load, stepping carefully from one stone to
+another, and then, just as she bent to lower her burden into the stream,
+it slipped from her hands and dropped with a great splash that deluged
+the boy on the other side, with muddy water.
+
+"There!" exclaimed Marjorie, impatiently, "I've got you all muddy! I'm
+sorry, but you shouldn't have waited. I told you that I didn't want
+help."
+
+"Never mind," said the boy, wiping the mud from his face; and turning
+away, he walked quietly up the road.
+
+Marjorie looked after him ruefully.
+
+"What is the matter?" asked the Dream.
+
+"I don't exactly know," said Marjorie; "but there is a mistake
+somewhere."
+
+"Why didn't you let him help you?" asked the Dream.
+
+"I didn't need his help. I could do it alone."
+
+"But perhaps he needed to help you."
+
+Marjorie bit her lip. "I wanted to do it alone," she said. "I thought it
+was my work. I wanted to work, and I was glad that it was hard, and that
+the stones were all that I could lift,--it made it seem more like doing
+something."
+
+The Dream was silent for a moment, and Marjorie stood dabbling the toe
+of her shoe in the water. At last, "Were you selfish?" asked the Dream.
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie, in a low voice, "I was." Then she went back and
+gathered up her roses, and she and the Dream walked slowly on, soon
+finding themselves on the outskirts of a town.
+
+Presently the streets grew dingy and the houses high and narrow. "I
+don't see anything to do here," said Marjorie. "Couldn't we go back into
+the country again?"
+
+"Don't you see anything to do?" asked the Dream, and just then Marjorie
+noticed a little child standing on the curbing, it's hands clasped and
+it's eyes fixed upon the bunch of roses.
+
+Selecting the largest and most beautiful one, she placed it in the
+child's hands,--and a little farther on she gave two to a weary-looking
+woman,--and then a bud to an old man whose eyes moistened, and whose
+fingers trembled as he placed it in his button-hole,--and then a flower
+to a ragged, hard-featured boy, who held it awkwardly for a moment, his
+face transfigured, and then dived into the door of a dismal tenement.
+And all the way up the squalid street Marjorie distributed her bright
+blossoms, and always with a cheery word and smile.
+
+At last the houses began to be farther and farther apart, and the yards
+larger, and presently they found themselves back in the open country
+once more. The road was very much like the one by which they had
+approached the town, pleasant and shady, and with a tiny brook running
+along the side. Marjorie bent over the little stream to wash the grime
+of the city from her hands, and then stopped for a moment to splash the
+bright drops upon some thirsty flowers growing on the bank and leaning
+as far over as they could. While she was doing this, she heard the sound
+of a hammer close by, and, glancing around, she saw that she was near a
+farm-house with a large barn and sheds, and that a boy was busily
+nailing the pickets on to a fence, the frame of which stood a little way
+back from the road. Marjorie watched him for a few moments, admiring the
+evenness with which he placed the pickets, and the sure, firm blows of
+the hammer; at last, however, she began to grow uneasy. "Look," she said
+to the Dream, "see how close together he is nailing them. That isn't the
+right way. Why do you suppose he does it so? He's just spoiling the
+looks of his fence."
+
+"Probably he does it that way because he wants it that way," said the
+Dream carelessly.
+
+"But they don't look well that way, and it takes more pickets and more
+nails and a longer time."
+
+The Dream looked at the boy and the fence, critically. "It's not such a
+bad fence," he said, dryly; "and the boy looks fairly smart, doesn't
+he?--and he handles his tools as if he had built fences before. Perhaps
+he knows what he is about."
+
+"Y-e-s, he looks smart enough," agreed Marjorie; "but he is certainly
+making a mistake now, and I think I ought to tell him about it."
+
+"All right," said the Dream. "Go ahead."
+
+So Marjorie approached the boy, who stopped hammering and looked up at
+her pleasantly. "I thought that I would better tell you--" began
+Marjorie, somewhat embarrassed, "that--that--" she found it more
+difficult than she had expected, "--well, you see, you are making a
+mistake."
+
+"What do you mean?" asked the boy glancing along the trim row of
+palings.
+
+"Why, you are putting the pickets too close together," said Marjorie.
+"They don't look well that way, and they are too near the ground,
+besides. I was just speaking to my friend about it, and I thought that I
+ought to tell you, as well."
+
+"Thank you," said the boy, gravely; and then:--"Do you know what I am
+building this fence for?"
+
+"No-o," said Marjorie. "I supposed it was just--just a fence."
+
+"Well," said the boy, "a fence usually has some particular purpose; and,
+as a general thing, the person building it knows that purpose better
+than any one else, and just what sort of a fence is best in that
+especial case."
+
+Marjorie said nothing, and the boy went on.
+
+"I am fencing in a place for some white rabbits. Some of them are very
+small, and so I had to put the pickets near together and close to the
+ground. Do you see?"
+
+"Oh," said Marjorie, "I didn't know what you were going to keep inside!
+Of course you would have to build it this way for the little rabbits. If
+I had known what it was for, I wouldn't have said anything."
+
+"Was it necessary for you to know?" asked the boy. "It is _my_ fence."
+
+Marjorie flushed, "I don't think that you are very grateful," she said;
+"and, anyway, the pickets don't look well so close together, even if you
+do have to have it that way," and she turned and went back to the road.
+
+"Well?" said the Dream, as she approached.
+
+"He was disagreeable," said Marjorie, "and acted as if I had no right to
+tell him of his mistake."
+
+"But is he going to change the pickets?"
+
+"No," said Marjorie, "he has to have them that way to keep some rabbits
+inside. I told him it didn't look well, anyway."
+
+"Of course that helped some," said the Dream, "since he must have them
+so, whether they look well or not."
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie. "See, he has come out into the road to look at
+them. I guess what I said sort of worried him. I don't think those
+pickets are a good shape, either. I like them better where they are cut
+sort of curly on top, instead of just plain points."
+
+"Yes," said the Dream. "And did you tell him about that too?"
+
+"No," said Marjorie, "I didn't think about it then; but--say--where do
+you suppose those rabbits are now? You don't think that they are shut up
+in that little dark shed over there, do you? Wouldn't that be dreadful?
+There, those people heard what I said, and they are wondering too. See
+them look,--and I suppose that they will tell others about it. Isn't it
+too bad? And he's such a nice appearing boy too. I'm sure he doesn't
+mean to be cruel. I think that some one ought to speak to him. Poor
+little things, shut up in the dark on a beautiful day like this! It
+ought not to be allowed. I'm going to talk to him!" and Marjorie ran
+across the road again.
+
+The boy glanced up as she approached; but waited for her to speak.
+Marjorie looked him straight in the eye. "Where are your rabbits?" she
+asked, severely.
+
+"In the shed," he replied, motioning with his head in the direction of
+the building she had noticed.
+
+"What!" she exclaimed. "A lot of lovely white rabbits shut up in that
+little dark shed! Oh, how can you be so unkind?"
+
+"They have been there only about two hours," said the boy, "and I shall
+let them out as soon as I have nailed on these last few pickets. It will
+be only a little while; and besides, the shed is not dark, there is a
+big window on the other side, and they have cabbage and things to eat,
+and a great armful of clover."
+
+"But they are shut up!" cried Marjorie. "How would you like to be shut
+up in jail, even if you did have a lot of cabbage and clover? You ought
+to let them out right away. Don't you love them at all?"
+
+"Of course I love them," said the boy; "but can't you see that if I let
+them out now I will lose them? And, besides, they are tame rabbits and
+don't know how to take care of themselves, and would get into all sorts
+of trouble, and probably spoil all of the gardens in the neighborhood."
+
+Marjorie looked unconvinced. "Your arguments sound all right," she said;
+"but I am sure that they must be wrong somewhere, because it certainly
+isn't right for those poor, dear little rabbits to be shut up that way.
+They ought to be let out right now. The fence is nearly done and they
+wouldn't try to go through the opening while you are working on it; they
+would be afraid. If you don't let them out, every one will be talking
+about how cruel you are. I suppose that is what those people are talking
+about now," and Marjorie pointed to the persons who had overheard her
+comments a few moments before.
+
+The boy glanced toward them anxiously, and then toward the shed. "Well,"
+he said at last, doubtfully, "perhaps I can manage it;--if only they
+won't go through the gap before I can get back to it after opening the
+door," and he turned and walked unwilling toward the shed.
+
+"I'll watch the gap," called Marjorie after him.
+
+When he reached the building, he hesitated for an instant, and then he
+drew the bolt and threw open the door; but before he had time to turn
+and head them off, out scrambled a white wave of rabbits; big and
+little, fat and thin; and with one accord made straight for the opening
+in the fence. The boy ran after them, calling excitedly to Marjorie to
+stand firm and not let them through; and for a moment Marjorie did stand
+firm before the oncoming army of waving ears and flying feet; but when
+she felt the first scrambling of paws about her ankles, she lost her
+nerve, and in a sudden panic she fled wildly across the road and on to
+the top rail of the fence on the other side; and by the time that the
+boy reached the opening, the rabbits were scattered in every direction
+up and down the road and over the fields. For a few moments he stood,
+looking after them, and then, without glancing toward Marjorie, he took
+up in his arms one trembling little white fellow who had failed to find
+the opening, and turned toward the shed with it.
+
+Marjorie climbed slowly down from the fence and walked along the road,
+silently and with her head down.
+
+Presently the Dream spoke. "Was it your work that the boy was doing?" he
+asked.
+
+"No," said Marjorie.
+
+"Was he worried and uncertain when you came along? Did he ask for your
+opinion or advice?"
+
+"No," said Marjorie.
+
+"And what did you do?"
+
+Marjorie spoke in a very low voice, but very steadily. "I criticised him
+unjustly; I talked about him in the hearing of other people, and some of
+them will never know that he was right and I was wrong; and I
+interfered, and now--" Marjorie stopped and swallowed hard.
+
+"And now--what?" asked the Dream.
+
+"I am sorry," said Marjorie humbly.
+
+"So is the boy," said the Dream.
+
+Marjorie said nothing.
+
+"Aren't you afraid you'll get the habit?" asked the Dream, presently.
+
+"What habit?"
+
+"You've said 'I'm sorry,'--how many times to-day?"
+
+Marjorie shook her head. "It seems as if I have said it oftener than
+anything else. But I ought to be sorry when I make mistakes, oughtn't
+I?"
+
+"Yes. Only don't hold on to it after you have learned your lesson,
+that's all. The lesson is the only good thing about being sorry;--and
+you and the boy, each, had a lesson this time."
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie, "and mine is that other people's work--"
+
+"Make it short," said the Dream. "Call it 'mind your own business.'"
+
+Marjorie nodded gravely. "And the boy's lesson is--"
+
+    "'Be sure you're right, then go ahead,
+    'Don't mind what people say.'"
+
+hummed the Dream.
+
+Marjorie nodded again. "But it is so hard to 'be sure you're right,'
+when other people think that you are wrong."
+
+"Not if you keep an honest WHY in sight," said the Dream.
+
+"Listen," said Marjorie, "I hear singing," and she looked all about her
+eagerly, but could see no one. "How sweet it sounds," she said; "there
+must be quite a number singing together. Oh, there they are!" and she
+pointed to where a group of five or six children were just emerging from
+a shady lane and turning into the road, all singing gaily to a tune
+which Marjorie knew very well. "Come," she cried, "let's catch up. I'd
+love to sing with them," and she hurried her steps.
+
+As she came up behind the children, several turned and saw her. "Come
+and sing with us," called one of them.
+
+"Thank you," said Marjorie. "I was just wishing you'd ask me," and she
+eagerly joined the group. However, as they took up the song again,
+Marjorie did not take part in it; but, instead, a little wrinkle came
+between her eyebrows, and she glanced anxiously at the Dream, who did
+not seem to be looking in her direction at all.
+
+Presently, one of the children who was walking beside her, stopped
+singing and turned toward her. "Why don't you sing?" he asked.
+
+"I--I don't know those words," said Marjorie.
+
+"Do you know the tune?" asked the boy.
+
+"Oh, yes," said Marjorie; "but I always sang different words to it."
+
+"Well, you can learn these easily," said the boy. "I'll teach them to
+you."
+
+Marjorie hesitated. "You are very kind," she said; "but--but--"
+
+"But--what?" said the boy.
+
+"Well--" Marjorie was thinking hard, "--I am not sure but that I ought
+to be going on--"
+
+"You said that you wanted to sing," said the boy.
+
+Suddenly Marjorie's face brightened. "Oh, I know!" she exclaimed. "Did
+you ever try singing the multiplication table to that tune? It's lots of
+fun. Let's try it."
+
+"All right," said the boy, "only I don't know it all."
+
+"This will help you to learn it," said Marjorie. "I remember it, so you
+just follow me. We'll begin with the fives, because they're easy;" and
+they dropped a little way behind the others and began to sing, softly,
+putting their own words to the tune. The boy was delighted to find how
+easily the words fitted, and presently they went on to the "Sixes," and
+began to sing a little louder; and then another of the children dropped
+back to find what they were doing, and joined in, with gusto. This
+attracted the attention of others, who gradually joined them, until soon
+the words of the multiplication table rose high above the silly and
+senseless words of the song which they had been singing;--and Marjorie's
+voice led them, singing true to note and to the facts of the table.
+
+"Good!" said the boy who was walking beside Marjorie, as they stopped
+for breath. "I always thought the 'Sixes' were hard; but they are easy
+this way; for the tune makes me think of the right words to put in. Now
+let's try the 'Sevens.'"
+
+And so they tried the "Sevens" and the "Eights," some of the children
+stumbling badly at first; but soon getting into the swing of the tune
+and the words, until their voices all blended smoothly and sweetly. By
+and by the children began dropping out of the group, as they came to
+their homes on the road; each one calling a cheery good-by to Marjorie,
+and going away singing by himself.
+
+"I'm going to teach it to my brother and sister," called one, as he
+turned in at his gate, "so that we can sing it together at home."
+
+"And so am I," "And so am I," called the others; "and we'll sing it
+coming from school every night until we know it all."
+
+When Marjorie and the Dream were again alone, Marjorie continued humming
+the little tune, happily.
+
+"The world is more beautiful than it was. Don't you think so?" said the
+Dream, presently.
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie.
+
+"I suppose you know what was the best thing that you did there?" said
+the Dream.
+
+"Yes," said Marjorie. "It was putting something true into their song, in
+place of what was silly and meaningless and untrue."
+
+"And you did it without making one of them feel cross or contrary. You
+only showed them something better than they had, and did it without
+being obtrusive. Every one wants what is better than he has;--if he is
+allowed to take it of his own accord, and doesn't have it thrust upon
+him."
+
+After this they walked along in silence for quite a long way, until they
+came to the top of a hill, and sat down to rest for a few moments.
+Marjorie heaved a sigh as she looked away over the low, green hills, the
+shady woods, and the winding stream. "I've come a long way," she said,
+"and I haven't done much;--but I wanted to,--you don't know how I wanted
+to."
+
+"And what are you going to do now?" asked the Dream.
+
+"Keep on," said Marjorie, bravely.
+
+"In just the same way?"
+
+"No. I've learned some things,--and I shall learn some more. I've made
+ever so many mistakes--"
+
+"But you've seen them," said the Dream.
+
+"Yes. I don't think I'll make the same ones again;--and I'll try to
+watch and think, so that I will not make so many as I have,--and--but I
+wanted, so much, to find some real work to do!"
+
+"Do you remember what I told you, a while ago, that real work is?"
+
+"Yes. Just helping, wisely."
+
+"And how can you help best?"
+
+Marjorie mused for a moment. "By loving, and living love," she said;
+"and having your hand ready." And then, after a moment, "Do you suppose
+that I will ever find something big to do, instead of just the little
+bits by the wayside?"
+
+"It is all 'by the wayside,'" said the Dream; "and the big things will
+come,--when you are big enough for them."
+
+
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