with his donkey. Jacob used to work in the woods, making charcoal,
which he carried away in sacks on his donkey's back, and sold. He was
not a Christian man, and was accustomed to work with his donkey as
hard on Sunday as on week-days.

When he came by where Mary was sitting, he stopped a moment, and
said, in a good-natured way:

"What book is that you are reading, my little maid?"

"It is God's book--the Bible," said Mary.

"Let me hear you read a little in it, if you please," said he,
stopping his donkey.

Mary began at the place where the book was open, and read:--"Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do
all thy work."

"There, that's enough," said Jacob, "and now tell me what it means."

"It means," said Mary, "that you mustn't carry charcoal, on Sunday,
nor let your donkey carry it."

"Does it?" said Jacob, musing a little. "I tell you what then, I must
think over what you have said."

And he _did_ think over it. And the result of his thinking was, that
instead of going with his donkey to the woods on the next Sunday, he
went with his two little girls to the Sunday-school. And the end of