What shall we do ?" "Come here, children," said their Grandfather, from his chair by the fireside.

"I will tell you a little story to while away the time." The old man had been sitting with his eyes closed, and the children thought he was asleep.

But he had heard Bob's anecdote.
Grandfather's stories were always interesting, and the children were glad to forget the weather in listening to one of them.
"I was thinking just now," said their Grandfather presently, "of a great and good man, who is now one of the greatest officers in the army.

I want to tell you a little incident that happened when we were schoolboys together.

We were three years together, then he left, and I have never seen him again, for his life has been spent in foreign lands.