now he was obliged to sell it, though it was so fond of him, and was his little Bessy's pet, and she had no mother, or brother, or sister, poor lonely little lass.

"I put off bringing it away till she was asleep," said the shepherd; "and now I feel as if I could hardly drag my feet along. Seems as if I was cheating both the little lambs."

! "Take Bessy back her little lamb," said the beautiful grand lady. "Here is some money for to-night, and come over to Bountiful Hall to-morrow. I will make inquiries about you, and if I find you are as honest as you look, you shall be my shepherd. I've hundreds of sheep, you know."

So that was the little game Hoity Toity had been playing with the beautiful grand lady who went out sketching and lost her way.

Besides what I saw, Hoity Toity did scores of kind things that I didn't see that afternoon; and he went on doing them when the sun went down, and the moon and the stars came up, and the larks began to sing, and the sun looked out from the east once more, as fresh as if he had been sound asleep

all night instead of shining thousands of miles away. Hoity Toity is like the sun; he never goes to sleep, and he never gets tired.

"But how can he do so much, if he is so little?" -Oh, he makes himself little that he may get close to the little things he has to look after.

CHAPTER II.

THE TESTYS.

HOITY TOITY is always at work-morning,

noon, and night, spring, summer, autumn, winter-in his quiet way; taking as much pains with little things as with great things, because he wishes everything to be done well, and can do the greatest thing just as easily as he can do the least thing. Indeed, I am inclined to think that things do not seem big or little to Hoity Toity as they do to us. His greatest thing, I fancy, is the thing, whatever it is, that is best done.

I am going to tell you a story about a few more of Hoity Toity's "little" doings. Sometimes, when I think of Hoity Toity, and feel as if I would give anything if I could do anything, how