'If I had been a little later,' said the doctor in a low tone, 'I could
have done nothing for her at all.'

"When Jake heard that, he went into the kitchen, sank down on a chair,
and leaning his head on the table, he sobbed like a child. Jenny found
him there a little later.

"She stood there beside him, gently stroking his hair. 'Jake,' she said
at last, very softly, 'don't cry any more, because God was very kind to
us and didn't let it happen. But just think what might have been, if I
hadn't been able to catch Fanny this morning. Don't you think it would
pay to always be kind to the animals?'

"Jake nodded; he could not trust himself to speak.

"The sting of little Bee Gentle went very deep. Never again was Jake
cruel to animals. He tried hard to make friends with Fanny; but she would
have nothing to do with him. She remembered how roughly he had treated
her in the past; and being only a horse, she did not understand that he
never would do so again."

"How glad Jenny must have been," said Joyce, "that she had treated Fanny
kindly! Because Fanny brought the doctor, the doctor saved her mother's
life."

"And besides," added Grandma softly, "people are always glad when they
know they have done right."