The better we have learnt the early ones, the more clearly we see those still before us, like climbing up mountains and seeing the peaks still rising in front.

And knowing and remembering the difficulties we had long ago when _we_ first began climbing, we can help and advise the little ones who in their turn are at the outset of the journey.

Only sometimes, as I did with poor Molly this morning, we forget, we old people who have come such a long way, how hard the first climbing is, and how easily tired and discouraged the little tender feet get." Grandmother gave a little sigh.
"Dear grandmother," said Sylvia, "I am sure _you_ don't forget.

But those people who haven't learnt when they were little, they can't teach others, grandmother, when they don't know themselves ?" "Ah, no," said grandmother.

"And it is not many who have the power or the determination to learn to-day the lessons they neglected yesterday.