The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-11
old process. She loved to watch grand.

making all those funny-looking long sits in your work?" ''rm knitting what we call railroad stitch, dear-don't you see? When 1 reach the last row, 1 drop some stitches. drop two, then knit five, drop two more, then knit five, and so on. Seep Then, when the dropped stitches have all run down." as we call it, it leaves those long loose stitches you think so | funny"
 Tessa gazed intently. Presently, she heard Bobby's whistle in the hall. Bobby was Tessa's ''big brother" though but twelve years old, because Tessa was only six. She was devoted to him, and always wanted him to know all she knew. So now she called: ''Come here, Bobby, and see grandma drop stitches, and let lem run down." Bobby, too, watched the process with great interest for few moments.
 Grandma" said Tessa, directly, '1 thought it spoiled work to drop stitchesf' .-. r
 .'So it does, dear, ordinarily. I'll show you how to take them up when you drop them accidentally" .s
 "Wel1," said Bobby, ''I guess I'll go on and get my boat Boys don t drop stitches, so they don't have to know how to pick lem up;' and he prepared to turn away to take up bis whistling where he had left off.
 Are you right sure, Bobby?" asked | Grandma Grayson, in a tone that made Bobby pause When Grandma spoke in that way, Bobby was quite sure she !. meant something"
 Right sure of what, grandma?" "Right sure that boys don't drop stitches, and try to pick them up oc- |. casiOnally"
 s"Why-yes," in a hesitating way. ''At least, think am. 1 don't know . just what you mean. Boys don't knit -leastwise, most boys don't-but you kind O look as if you meant something else" ff s s | Grandma smiled at the disjointed, uncertain way in which Bobby spoke; but as she knew what he meant, it was | all right. f
 s.l do mean something else. There are more ways of dropping stitches than one, Bobby; and let me tell you when any one drops a stitch accident- ally it is one of the hardest matters in the world to take it up SD that it does not show. We may go back and try over, and repair the wrong;s but the long fine line that shows the path where we have been wrong always remains where we can see it, if no one else knows it." A light began to dawn-ori Bobby's face. z ...ts
 '.For instance, grandma?' he ques- toned
 Well, for instance | know of a boy who spoke hastily and disresPect- fully to his mother this morning, be- cause she wanted him to do per - fectly proper thing when he wanted to do another. To be sure, that boy very seldom does such thing, but he did it. An! Bobby, that boy dropped a big stitch then. To be sure, he stopped it, and took It up, and re- pented and apologized, and his moth CT forgave him; and no one would ever know he had done the wrong but his mother and himself; but they will al- ways be able to tell where the stitch was dropped and taken up again.
 Bobby flushed crimson, and his lip trembled.
 And I know a little boy who thoughtlessly left litter of chips on the front doorstep at four o'clock in the afternoon, after promising he ~ would clear it away. To be sure, he did clear it away at five; but it was after his mother had been grieved at his thoughtless disobedience, and after his mothers visitors had received the impression that the mother must be an exceedingly careless housekeeper- when if was all the little boys fault, after all That stitch ran way down, | and clearing the dirt up at five did not clear away the impression that the strangers got of the little boys mother.
 Bobby's lip trembled more and more, while Tessas eyes grew big and black with sympathy.
 And I know little girl" said grandma. apparently determined to teach thorough lesson while she was about it. ''who does not always mind when she is spoken to, and every time she does it she drops a stitch"
 It was Tessa's turn to grow red
 ''One of the most dreadful ways to drop stitch is to tell lie or steal something. One little lie told, one lit- tie stitch dropped-it is so easy for the stitch to run all the way down, as one little lie follows another. Do you know, Bobby, how many, many cases we hear of young men in banks, and other places of trust, taking thou sands of dollars? We'll, they don't take it all at once. They take little first, and then the stitch runs down clear to the bottom, because they have not the courage to take it up and be- gin over again. Now, I'm not going to preach any more, but let me tell you one thing: If you do drop a stitch, confess it all to mamma. and she will show you the best way to take it up and make your life whole again.
 'I know what she'd say,h answered Bobby. as
 ''What, dear?"
 "She'd say: Tell your Father in Heaven all about it, Bobby dear, then : mamma will do all she can to help you to do right. My mammals trump. she is.
 Grandma smiled at the boyish way of putting his appreciation of his mothers goodness, but she knew 1t O. was honest, so she closed her little sermon with kiss, and went upstairs for her afternoon nap, feeling that she had dropped not stitch, but seed in the hearts of her little hearers; and she inwardlv prayed that it might flourish and bear fruit in after years.-Mrs. Emma C. HeU0itt, i1a s. s. Times.
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