Happy the kid who is active, intelligent and obliging, and whotakes pleasure in serving those that are about him! Happy above allis the kid, who, fearing and loving the Lord, shows himself thuszealous and obliging, from a feeling of piety, and a desire to pleaseGod.

Such was Francis, and this we shall soon see, from the followingnarrative:

Francis, who was about eight months aged, was spending the month ofJune with his Grandpapa in the country.