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Yates</h1> +<pre> +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: By the Roadside</p> +<p>Author: Katherine M. Yates</p> +<p>Release Date: May 17, 2006 [eBook #18409]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BY THE ROADSIDE***</p> +<p> </p> +<h3>E-text prepared by Roger Frank<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (http://www.pgdp.net/)</h3> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> + +<div class='figcenter'> +<a name="illus-cvr" id="illus-cvr"></a> +<img src='images/illus-cvr.jpg' alt='book cover' title='book cover' /> +</div> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<table width="450" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Title Page" border="1"> + <col style="width:80%;" /> + <tr> + <td align="center"> + <p style="margin-top: 4em; margin-bottom: 2em;"></p> + <span style="font-size: 230%">By The Roadside</span><br /><br /> + <br /><br /> + <span style="font-style: italic">By</span><br /> + <span style="font-size: 140%;">Katherine M. Yates</span> + <br /><br /> + <span style="font-size: 60%">AUTHOR OF</span><br /> + <span style="font-size: 90%">"UP THE SUNBEAMS"<br />"ON THE WAY THERE"<br/>"WHAT THE PINE TREE HEARD"<br/>"THROUGH THE WOODS"<br/>"ALONG THE TRAIL"<br/>"ON THE HILL TOP"<br/>"AT THE DOOR"</span> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <span style="font-size: 110%">THE</span><br /> + <span style="font-size: 110%">HARMONY SHOP</span><br /> + <span style="font-size: 80%">PUBLISHERS OF GOOD BOOKS</span><br /> + <span style="font-size: 90%">BOSTON – MASS.</span> + <br/><br/> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<p style="text-align: center; font-variant:small-caps; font-size:90%" > +Copyright, 1908<br />by<br/> +KATHERINE M. YATES +</p> + +<div class='figcenter'> +<a name="illus-cpy" id="illus-cpy"></a> +<img src='images/illus-cpy.png' alt='' title='' /> +</div> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +<h2>By the Roadside</h2> +</div> + +<p>"It's time to go to work," said the little brown Dream.</p> + +<p>"I'm not ready to go to work," said Marjorie, crossly, turning over and +snuggling her head more comfortably into her pillow.</p> + +<p>The Dream said nothing. He only sat on the foot-board and swung his +feet.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"Well," said the Dream, "how am I preventing you from sleeping?"</p> + +<p>"You said it was time to go to work."</p> + +<p>"That was half an hour ago," said the Dream. "I haven't spoken since."</p> + +<p>"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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<p>"If it is true, why do you want to get away from it?" asked the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Because—" Marjorie hesitated, "—because I'm sleepy," she said +petulantly.</p> + +<p>"There are ever so many sleepy folks in this world," observed the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Then one more can't make much difference," said Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"That's what the others think,—and that's why there are so many. +Suppose every one thought that!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"I'm not sleepy any more," said Marjorie; "and anyway, I slept only a +little while after you spoke."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Dream nodded. "Only a little while,—just long enough to let your +work pass you by."</p> + +<p>"<i>My</i> work?" exclaimed Marjorie. "Why, I hadn't anything in particular +to do!"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"What was the work?" asked Marjorie.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"But," cried Marjorie, "I can help her then! That basket must be hard to +carry, even on level ground."</p> + +<p>"She lives at the top of the hill," said the Dream, quietly. "She has no +farther to carry it."</p> + +<p>Marjorie bit her lip. "And she was right here when you first spoke?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Yes," said the Dream, "she was right here."</p> + +<p>"But I didn't see her," protested Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"You weren't looking for her," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"I think," he said at last, "that there was Some One, a long time ago, +who spent His entire life helping others, wisely."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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, <i>honestly</i>, that you ought to. No more +than that is your work."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<p>"But I could <i>make</i> myself think—" began Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"I said <i>honestly</i>," said the Dream. "It isn't honest to <i>make</i> yourself +think anything."</p> + +<p>"But mustn't I study about it, and try—"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"But suppose that some one has a right to tell me what to do?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"With <i>me</i>?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, with you. If you are honest with yourself, you are square with the +world."</p> + +<p>"I see," said Marjorie. "Oh, dear, that is the third stone I've stumbled +over in two minutes!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> I wonder why some one doesn't roll them out of the +road,—they are not so very large."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"I thought you were busy," called the Dream, after her.</p> + +<p>"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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>So Marjorie turned and walked sorrowfully away beside the Dream.</p> + +<p>"I don't see why it didn't come out right," she said at last. "I really +wanted to help,—I was honest."</p> + +<p>"Were you, truly?" asked the Dream.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Why, yes," said Marjorie, "I—" then she hesitated.</p> + +<p>"You saw the need of moving the stones, didn't you?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"And you were able to do it?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, yes."</p> + +<p>"And the people were really bringing the wagon up the hill quite easily, +there were so many of them?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," admitted Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"Then, honestly, why did you leave the stones in order to go and pull on +the rope?"</p> + +<p>Marjorie stood still and thought, very soberly. "Well," she said at +last, "I guess it was because it looked more interesting."</p> + +<p>"It wasn't because you actually thought that they needed your help?"</p> + +<p>"No-o," admitted Marjorie. "But then, I didn't stop to think of it that +way,—I just wanted to do it."</p> + +<p>"But you didn't ask yourself why you wanted to do it,—or if it were +wise?"</p> + +<p>"No-o. It just looked like helping, and I—I wanted to be in with the +shouting."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said the Dream, "you are not the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> 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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"Why?" asked the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Oh!" cried Marjorie, clasping her hands, "so that years and years from +now, people would look at it and say that <i>I</i> did it,—and would +remember me for it."</p> + +<p>"'M-hm," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Wouldn't that be grand?" went on Marjorie, enthusiastically.</p> + +<p>"'M-hm," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>Marjorie looked hard at him. "Isn't it right to want to do great and +wonderful things?" she asked.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Yes," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Then what—" Marjorie stopped.</p> + +<p>"When you look at it fairly and squarely," said the Dream, "what do you +think of your reason for wanting to do something great?"</p> + +<p>Marjorie bit her lip.</p> + +<p>"Be honest," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Marjorie, at last, "I suppose the reason is just about as +small and selfish and useless as a reason could possibly be."</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>They had reached the top of the hill and passed a little school-house +before either of them<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> 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."</p> + +<p>"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 <i>is</i> dusty."</p> + +<p>"But your walking there this once can't help much."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Oh, dear, see what I've done!" she cried.</p> + +<p>"How did you happen to do that?" asked the Dream, looking interested.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"What was the matter with her?" asked the Dream.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"You told her to wait where? On the fence?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, well, <i>I</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?"</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>Marjorie flushed. "But some one might have come along who wanted to know +the way."</p> + +<p>"Yes," assented the Dream, dryly, "it would have been too bad if some +one had come along before you got it put up—<i>that</i> way."</p> + +<p>Marjorie's head drooped.</p> + +<p>"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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Yes," said Marjorie, in a very low voice.</p> + +<p>"And how do you like to go on record as standing for a sign that +reads:—'If you want to go right, <i>don't</i> follow me?'"</p> + +<p>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!"</p> + +<p>"I suppose that you see your mistake," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Marjorie pointed miserably to the sign.</p> + +<p>"Oh," said the little girl, "you've made a mistake, haven't you! Let's +fix it right."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + +<p>"We can't," said Marjorie. "I can't get the board off."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"The thorns are troublesome, aren't they?" asked the Dream, presently.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Marjorie, "but these are only little scratches, and I don't +mind."</p> + +<p>"But why are you gathering the roses?"</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> dam, which caused the water to back +up until the way was impassable, if one would cross dry-shod.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>But Marjorie half turned her back, with the heavy stone. "No, no!" she +said. "I can do it myself."</p> + +<p>"I would like to help you," the boy persisted. "I could make it much +easier for you."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<p>"No," said Marjorie, "I don't need you. Please let me pass."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Never mind," said the boy, wiping the mud from his face; and turning +away, he walked quietly up the road.</p> + +<p>Marjorie looked after him ruefully.</p> + +<p>"What is the matter?" asked the Dream.</p> + +<p>"I don't exactly know," said Marjorie; "but there is a mistake +somewhere."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Why didn't you let him help you?" asked the Dream.</p> + +<p>"I didn't need his help. I could do it alone."</p> + +<p>"But perhaps he needed to help you."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>"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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +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."</p> + +<p>"Probably he does it that way because he wants it that way," said the +Dream carelessly.</p> + +<p>"But they don't look well that way, and it takes more pickets and more +nails and a longer time."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<p>"All right," said the Dream. "Go ahead."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"What do you mean?" asked the boy glancing along the trim row of +palings.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Thank you," said the boy, gravely; and then:—"Do you know what I am +building this fence for?"</p> + +<p>"No-o," said Marjorie. "I supposed it was just—just a fence."</p> + +<p>"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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p>Marjorie said nothing, and the boy went on.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Was it necessary for you to know?" asked the boy. "It is <i>my</i> fence."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Well?" said the Dream, as she approached.</p> + +<p>"He was disagreeable," said Marjorie, "and acted as if I had no right to +tell him of his mistake."</p> + +<p>"But is he going to change the pickets?"</p> + +<p>"No," said Marjorie, "he has to have them that way to keep some rabbits +inside. I told him it didn't look well, anyway."</p> + +<p>"Of course that helped some," said the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> Dream, "since he must have them +so, whether they look well or not."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said the Dream. "And did you tell him about that too?"</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>The boy glanced up as she approached; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> waited for her to speak. +Marjorie looked him straight in the eye. "Where are your rabbits?" she +asked, severely.</p> + +<p>"In the shed," he replied, motioning with his head in the direction of +the building she had noticed.</p> + +<p>"What!" she exclaimed. "A lot of lovely white rabbits shut up in that +little dark shed! Oh, how can you be so unkind?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> spoil all of the gardens in the neighborhood."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"I'll watch the gap," called Marjorie after him.</p> + +<p>When he reached the building, he hesitated for an instant, and then he +drew the bolt and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>Marjorie climbed slowly down from the fence and walked along the road, +silently and with her head down.</p> + +<p>Presently the Dream spoke. "Was it your work that the boy was doing?" he +asked.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>"No," said Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"Was he worried and uncertain when you came along? Did he ask for your +opinion or advice?"</p> + +<p>"No," said Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"And what did you do?"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"And now—what?" asked the Dream.</p> + +<p>"I am sorry," said Marjorie humbly.</p> + +<p>"So is the boy," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>Marjorie said nothing.</p> + +<p>"Aren't you afraid you'll get the habit?" asked the Dream, presently.</p> + +<p>"What habit?"</p> + +<p>"You've said 'I'm sorry,'—how many times to-day?"</p> + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. Only don't hold on to it after you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> 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."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Marjorie, "and mine is that other people's work—"</p> + +<p>"Make it short," said the Dream. "Call it 'mind your own business.'"</p> + +<p>Marjorie nodded gravely. "And the boy's lesson is—"</p> + +<p> +"'Be sure you're right, then go ahead,<br /> +'Don't mind what people say.'"<br /> +</p> + +<p>hummed the Dream.</p> + +<p>Marjorie nodded again. "But it is so hard to 'be sure you're right,' +when other people think that you are wrong."</p> + +<p>"Not if you keep an honest WHY in sight," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> I'd +love to sing with them," and she hurried her steps.</p> + +<p>As she came up behind the children, several turned and saw her. "Come +and sing with us," called one of them.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>Presently, one of the children who was walking beside her, stopped +singing and turned toward her. "Why don't you sing?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"I—I don't know those words," said Marjorie.</p> + +<p>"Do you know the tune?" asked the boy.</p> + +<p>"Oh, yes," said Marjorie; "but I always sang different words to it."</p> + +<p>"Well, you can learn these easily," said the boy. "I'll teach them to +you."</p> + +<p>Marjorie hesitated. "You are very kind," she said; "but—but—"</p> + +<p>"But—what?" said the boy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Well—" Marjorie was thinking hard, "—I am not sure but that I ought +to be going on—"</p> + +<p>"You said that you wanted to sing," said the boy.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"All right," said the boy, "only I don't know it all."</p> + +<p>"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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<p>"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.'"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>When Marjorie and the Dream were again alone, Marjorie continued humming +the little tune, happily.</p> + +<p>"The world is more beautiful than it was. Don't you think so?" said the +Dream, presently.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Marjorie.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I suppose you know what was the best thing that you did there?" said +the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Marjorie. "It was putting something true into their song, in +place of what was silly and meaningless and untrue."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"And what are you going to do now?" asked the Dream.</p> + +<p>"Keep on," said Marjorie, bravely.</p> + +<p>"In just the same way?"</p> + +<p>"No. I've learned some things,—and I shall learn some more. I've made +ever so many mistakes—"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<p>"But you've seen them," said the Dream.</p> + +<p>"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!"</p> + +<p>"Do you remember what I told you, a while ago, that real work is?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. Just helping, wisely."</p> + +<p>"And how can you help best?"</p> + +<p>Marjorie mused for a moment. "By loving, and living love," she said; +"and having your hand ready." 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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." + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BY THE ROADSIDE*** + + +******* This file should be named 18409.txt or 18409.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/4/0/18409 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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