The boy chewed his brown bread and drank his coffee; but in truth he saw only his machine finished--that last something found out and added.

He saw it as it worked with beautiful smoothness; and over and above, as he chewed his bread and drank his coffee, there was that delightful consciousness of something bending over him and loving him.
It would not have been better in one of the courts of heaven, where the walls are set with rows of the King of Glory's amethysts and milk-white pearls, than there, eating his supper in that little room.
As they sat in silence there was a knock at the door.

When it was opened the small woolly head of a little nigger showed itself.

She was a messenger from Tant Sannie: the German was wanted at once at the homestead.

Putting on his hat with both hands, he hurried off.