g our things, we'll go up to 'em and
say, "'Ere, watcher doin' of? Just you put it down, will yer?" And if
they don't put it down at once, it'll be the worse for 'em, I can tell
you.'

All the toys being collected, Frankie picked up the box and placed it
noisily in its accustomed corner of the room.

'I should think the workers will be jolly glad when they see me coming
to tell them what to do, shouldn't you, Mum?'

'I don't know dear; you see so many people have tried to tell them, but
they won't listen, they don't want to hear. They think it's quite
right that they should work very hard all their lives, and quite right
that most of the things they help to make should be taken away from
them by the people who do nothing. The workers think that their
children are not as good as the children of the idlers, and they teach
their children that as soon as ever they are old enough they must be
satisfied to work very hard and to have only very bad good and clothes
and homes.'

'Then I should think the workers ought to be jolly ashamed of
themselves, Mum, don't you?'

'Well, in one sense they ought, but you must remember that that's what
they've always been taught themselves. First, their mothers and
fathers told them so; then, their schoolteachers told them so; and
then, when they went to church, the vicar and the Sunday School teacher
told them the same thing. So you can't be surprised that they now
really believe that God made them and their children to make things for
the use of the people who do nothing.'

'But you'd think their own sense would tell them! How can it be right
for the people who do nothing to have the very best and most of
everything thats made, and the very ones who make everything to have
hardly any. Why even I know better than that, and I'm only six and a
half years old.'

'But then you're different, dearie, you've been taught to think about
it, and Dad and I have explained it to you, often.'

'Yes, I know,' replied Frankie confidently. 'But even if you'd never
taught me, I'm sure I should have tumbled to it all right by myself;
I'm not such a juggins as you think I am.'

'So you might, but you wouldn't if you'd been brought up in the same
way as most of the workers. They've been taught that it's very wicked
to use their own judgement, or to think. And their children are being
taught so now. Do you remember what you told me the other day, when
you came home from school, about the