He was
just reading in that place about Samson's riddle, when his mamma called
him to breakfast.
He was afraid to say anything about it at the table for fear of being
laughed at. But he was full of what the walking-stick said. And at family
worship his father read the twentieth chapter of Acts. When he came to
the part about its being more blessed to give than to receive, Willie
said, "That's what the cane said."
"What did you say?" asked his father.
"I was only thinking out loud," said Willie.
"Don't think out loud while I am reading," said Mr. Blake.
Willie did not find time to look any further for the other verses. He
wished his father had happened on them instead of the first text which
the cane quoted.
In church he kept thinking all the time about the cane. "Now what could
it mean by the twelfth and thirteenth verses of the fourteenth chapter?
There isn't anything in the Bible against giving away presents to one's
friends. It was only a dream anyhow, and maybe there's nothing in it."
But he forgot the services, I am sorry to say, in his thoughts. At last
Mr. Blake arose to read his text. Willie looked at him, but thought of
what the cane said. But what was it that attracted his attention so
quickly?
"The twelfth and thirteenth verses----"
"Twelfth and thirteenth!" said Willie to himself.
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