Then Selfish and Shallow went out and found Wise playing
beautifully with his ball in the yard; and he invited them to play
with him. They would toss it up against the wall, and learn to
catch it when it came down; and then they made some bat-sticks, and
knocked it back and forth to one another, about the yard. The more
they played with the ball, the more they liked it, and as Wise was
always very careful not to play near any holes, and to put it away
safe when he, had done with it, he kept it a long time, and gave
them pleasure a great many times all summer long.
And then his inkstand box was a great treasure. He would get it out
in the long winter evenings, and lend Selfish and Shallow, each,
one of his pens; and they would all sit at the table, and make
pictures, and write little letters, and seal them with small bits
of the wafers. In fact, Wise kept his inkstand box safe till he
grew up to be a man.
That is the end of the story.
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