But it is." Willis climbed upon the wharf again.

He saw when the men who had been eating crabs came back to work.

He noticed they did not work very heartily.
"My father doesn't work that way," thought the boy.
"An honest day's work." The words followed Willis as he went away from the wharf.

The next week Willis was going to begin work for a large dry-goods store.
"I'll do honest day's work, too," resolved Willis.
He did not put it into words, but he thought that the One who saw whether a man under the wharves did an honest day's work would see whether a boy working for a store did the same.

Willis was trying to be a Christian.
Busy days Willis had after that.