LESSON XVI.

full load heav'y mid'dle heav'i er

slip wrong han'dle broth'er de ceived'

[Illustration: Two boys carrying a basket on a pole between them.]

A KIND BROTHER.

1. A boy was once sent from home to take a basket of things to his
grandmother.

2. The basket was so full that it was very heavy. So his little brother
went with him, to help carry the load.

3. They put a pole under the handle of the basket, and each then took hold
of an end of the pole. In this way they could carry the basket very
nicely.

4. Now the older boy thought, "My brother Tom does not know about this
pole.

5. "If I slip the basket near him, his side will be heavy, and mine light;
but if the basket is in the middle of the pole, it will be as heavy for me
as it is for him.

6. "Tom does not know this as I do. But I will not do it. It would be
wrong, and I will not do what is wrong."