"
"Jake found the doctor just sitting down to breakfast. When he heard the
boy's story, he did not stop to eat. He rode right back with Jake, and
in a short time he was at the mother's bedside. She was indeed very ill.
'If I had been a little later,' said the doctor in a low tone, 'I could
have done nothing for her at all.'
"When Jake heard that, he went into the kitchen, sank down on a chair,
and leaning his head on the table, he sobbed like a child. Jenny found
him there a little later.
"She stood there beside him, gently stroking his hair. 'Jake,' she said
at last, very softly, 'don't cry any more, because God was very kind to
us and didn't let it happen. But just think what might have been, if I
hadn't been able to catch Fanny this morning. Don't you think it would
pay to always be kind to the animals?'
"Jake nodded; he could not trust himself to speak.
"The sting of little Bee Gentle went very deep. Never again was Jake
cruel to animals. He tried hard to make friends with Fanny; but she would
have nothing to do with him. She remembered how roughly he had treated
her in the past; and being only a horse, she did not understand that he
never would do so again.
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