he building, with an opening into all the chapels.

"A capital hide-and-seek place," exclaimed Harry. "Why, Fred, I would
undertake to dodge round here all my life, and you should not catch me
till I had grown into an old grey-headed man."

"You might find a more profitable way of spending your earthly
existence," said Cousin Giles; "yet I fear many people come in and go
out of the world, and yet are of very little more use than you would
thus be in their generation."

"Oh, I know that, Cousin Giles; I am only joking. I want to try how
useful I can be when I grow up, and how much good I can do."

"You can be useful in many ways, even now," observed their friend. "You
are useful if you set a good example to those with whom you associate.
You are doing God service if you show others that you are guided by His
laws, if you act in obedience to Him, if you confess Him openly before
men. All this can be done at every period of life. The old and young
can and must do it, if they hope for a happy hereafter, if they love the
Saviour who died for them; but more especially the young can do it,
while health and strength and clear unworn intellects are theirs."

Just after they left the cathedral, the bell of Ivan Veleki tolled forth
the hour of evening, and numbers of shopkeepers, long-coated and
long-bearded, rushed forth from their booths, and commenced a series of
bowings and crossings, looking towards the Holy Gate of the Kremlin,
which was directly in front of them. Having performed this ceremony for
some time, they faced about towards another shrine at the north end of
the square, and went through the same ceremony. By advancing a little
into the open space, they could get a glance at another picture of some
saint, when they bowed and crossed themselves as before. When their
evening's devotions were thus concluded, they went back to close their
shops. Having put up the shutters, or closed the folding-doors which
enclosed the front, one man held a candle, while another, with seal and
sealing-wax, put his signet, with the likeness of his patron saint, to
the door. No padlock or other means of securing it were used. Some
Jews and Tartars, not possessing the same confidence in the protecting
power of the saints, put padlocks on their doors. Very curious affairs
these padlocks are. They have been copied from the Tartars, or rather
from the Chinese. The key is a screw: by taking the screw out, the
padlock shuts; b