A boy is performing some service for you.

He is watering your horse, perhaps, at a well by the road-side as you are traveling.

Say to him, "Hold up the pail high, so that the horse can drink; it is not heavy." [Illustration] He will be discouraged, and will be ready to set the pail down.

Say to him, on the other hand, "I had better dismount myself.

I don't think you can hold the pail up.