Could it be possible that _that_ boy had ever been his only companion?
Ellis was round by the ball-ground, and he went thither.
"Ellis, won't you go down to-night with the boys?
it's almost the last meeting, you know." Ellis wheeled around, and spoke in his coldest tone: "Tip Lewis, you seem to take a wonderful interest in me, and I'm sure I'm much obliged to you; but I'll be a great deal more so if you'll attend to your own affairs after this, and let mine alone." Poor Tip! how discouraged he felt! Yet that very evening, going home from school, he met Mr.Holbrook; the minister turned and walked up town with him.
"Edward," he said, "are you praying for my boy ?" "Yes, sir." "Will you never stop praying for him while you live, until he comes to Christ ?" "I never _will_, sir," answered Tip, with energy..