ain, which you are so unwilling
to have descend, is going down into the ground all over the country, and
into the roots of all the plants growing in the fields, carrying in the
nourishment which will swell out all the corn and grain, and apples and
pears. In a few days there will be thousands and thousands of dollars'
worth of fruit and food more than there would have been without this
rain; and yet you are very unwilling to have it come, because you want
to go and get a few blueberries!"

Rollo was confounded, and had not a word to say.

"Now, Rollo," continued his father, "all the rest of us are disposed to
be good-humored, and to acquiesce in God's decision, and try to have a
happy day at home; and we cannot have it spoiled by your wicked
repinings. So you must go away by yourself, until you feel willing to
submit pleasantly and with good humor. Then you may come back, but be
sure not to come back before."

REPENTANCE.

Now there was in Rollo's house a small back garret, over a part of the
kitchen chamber, which had one small window in it, looking out into the
garden. This garret was not used, and Rollo's father had put a little
rocking-chair there, and a small table with a Bible on it, and hung some
old maps about it, so as to make it as pleasant a little place as he
could; and there he used to send Rollo when he had done any thing very
wrong, or when he was sullen and ill natured, that he might reflect in
solitude, and either return a good boy, or else stay where his bad
feelings would not trouble or injure others. His father had put in
marks, too, at several places in the Bible, where he thought it would be
well for him to read at such times; as he said that reading suitable
passages in the Bible would be more likely to bring him to repentance,
than any other book.

Rollo knew that when his father told him to go away by himself, he meant
for him to go into this back garret. So he turned round and walked out
of the room. As he passed up the back stairs, the kitten came frisking
around him, but he had no heart to play with her, and walked on. He then
turned and went up the narrow, steep stairs that led to the garret; they
were rather more like a ladder than like stairs. Rollo ascended them,
and then sat down in the little rocking-chair. The rain was beating
against the windows, and pattering on the roof which was just over his
head.

It is sometimes but a little thing which turns the whole current of the