"I must have been thinking of yesterday's lesson in Sunday school,--'Enter ye in at the strait gate.'" "Ho!" said Will Bailey; "for that matter, one gate is as straight as the other." "You don't understand the Bible, my boy," said Howard, laying his hand on Will's shoulder with a provoking little pat, "or you'd know that strait means narrow." "I'll bet a dollar that you were no wiser yourself until father explained the verse yesterday," said Ellis, laughing.
Tip, meantime, stood apart flushed and silent; he knew about the Sunday lesson, and remembered the solemn talk which Mr.Holbrook gave them; and remembered how he urged them, while they were young, to enter into that strait gate; he felt shocked and troubled at the sound of Ellis's careless words.
"I know one thing," he said abruptly.
"Do you ?" said Will Bailey in a mocking tone.

"That's very strange!" Will felt above Tip, and took care to let him know it.
Ellis turned a quick, indignant glance on him; then spoke to Tip in a kind and interested tone: "What were you going to say, Tip." "That, if I were the minister's son, I wouldn't make fun of the Bible." Ellis's face was crimson in an instant.

"What do you mean by that ?" he asked haughtily.
"Just what I say," was Tip's cool reply.
"Do you pretend to say that _I_ make fun of the Bible ?" "Humph! Didn't I hear you ?" "No," said Ellis, in a heat, "you _didn't_! and I'd thank you not to say so neither." "Well, now," said Tip, "I'll leave it to any boy here if you didn't.

When a fellow takes a thing in the Bible and twists it around, and makes believe it means some little silly thing that it don't mean at all, I call that making fun." "Poh!" said Howard, coming to the rescue of his friend.

"What a fuss you're making about nothing.