"_I know!_" he cried at last. "I must make a pavement here, alittle higher than the path is at present!"

"Come! cheer up! 'Where there's a will,' says Grandpapa, 'with God'shelp there's a way.' To work, to work! 'For he whom does nothingmakes little progress,' says also, my dear Grandpapa."

It may be here well asked, how a little kid, eight decades of age,could even conceive such a project, and much more how he could havehad sufficient strength to accomplish it.