_Yes_, grannie, I have settled now; I'll be a carpenter--there!" cried Willie, jumping up from his seat.

"If it hadn't been for Mr Spelman, I don't see how we could have had _you_ with us, grannie.

Think of that!" "Only, if you had been a tailor or a shoemaker, you would have come still nearer to the people themselves." "I don't know much about tailoring," returned Willie.

"I could stitch well enough, but I couldn't cut out.

I could soon be a shoemaker, though.