Now, suppose you try to forget the harmful part, and remember only the good, while learning to be more like our boys, who go to school and church, and fit themselves to become industrious, honest men." Ben had been looking straight up in Miss Celia's face as she spoke, feeling that every word was true, though he could not have expressed it if he had tried; and, when she paused, with her bright eyes inquiringly fixed on his, he answered heartily,-- "I'd like to stay here and be respectable; for, since I came, I've found out that folks don't think much of circus riders, though they like to go and see 'em.

I didn't use to care about school and such things, but I do now; and I guess he'd like it better than to have me knockin' round that way without him to look after me." "I know he would; so we will try, Benny.

I dare say it will seem dull and hard at first, after the gay sort of life you have led, and you will miss the excitement.

But it was not good for you, and we will do our best to find something safer.

Don't be discouraged; and, when things trouble you, come to me as Thorny does, and I'll try to straighten them out for you.