vine called "peace" which Christ planted.

One more little fox is jealousy. This makes boys and girls dislike
others who get higher marks than they in school, or who have more
friends, or better toys. It is one of the most destructive little foxes
there is, for it kills the best vine of all that Christ planted: that
is, love.

Be careful, then, boys and girls, of these little foxes, for they are
worse than bears and big foxes, because they look so small and harmless,
and slip by when you are not paying attention, but which destroy your
character as readily as the others.




A TRICKY OX


I want to tell you to-day about a tricky ox I once read about. I suppose
you will at once think that this ox was in a circus. But he wasn't. Far
from it! It would have been better for some other cattle if he had been.

This ox is kept in the stockyards at Chicago. In those stockyards they
kill thousands of cattle every year to give us beef to eat. When the
cattle come to these stockyards they are not tame cattle like the cows
we see out in our pastures, but they are cattle that have pastured out
on the great broad prairies, and they have seen very few people. And for
that reason they are very timid and hard to get close to. So it is
difficult to get them near the pens where they want them.