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DEAN’s

Illustrated Farthing Books.

EYE SERVICE
AND LOVE SERVICE.

LONDON: DEAN & SON,
11, Ludgate Hill.

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EYE SERVICE AND LOVE SERVICE.

When we serve those with whom we happen to be in a careless kind of{3}way, and only because we are looked after, it is called eye service:but when we do so willingly and from a motive to please, it is thentermed a service of love and affection.

I will tell you a story about the two sorts of service, and then youshall say which it is you ought to practise.

Two little girls, who had been carefully brought up by wise but poorparents, were one day left, in the time of harvest, to take care of acottage, and to tend their little baby brother, who slept in the cradle.The mother was gone out to glean. She gave them their food and set themtheir tasks for the day, and carrying her own and her husband’s dinnerin a basin, she bade them good-bye. The children were pleased with thenew idea of being mistresses of the little cottage for so many hours.And as they were really good girls, it never entered their heads to doin their mother’s absence what they would have feared to do in herpresence. Meggie therefore cleaned the door-step, as she had been told,{4}and washed some socks for the baby; and Bessie, who was older and

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stronger, carried out the basket of butter to several houses whichtheir mother supplied. At noon they sat down to dinner. They were rathertempted to give little Dick, the baby, the things he cried for, in orderto keep him quiet; but the words, “eye service,” came into their mindsseveral times, and they resisted the temptation. After dinner was over,the children cleared away and went into the garden to play. They werevery merry at bo-peep with baby, when a girl, called Jenny Bryant,popped her head over the hedge and said, “We have had fine sport to-day,come to our house, and we will show you what it is.” Now Jenny, althougha near neighbour, was a girl with whom their mother did not like herlittle daughters to be intimate, for although a good-tempered child, shewas not well brought up, and cared very little for her father andmother.

On this day, her mother, as well as Bessie’s and Meggie’s, was outgleaning, and Jenny, and a few companions as idle as herself, had been{6

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