CHAPTER XXI--MASTER THINK-WELL, THE LATE AND ONLY SON OF OLD MR.
MEDITATION 'As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.'-- _A Proverb_.
It was a truly delightful sight to see old Mr.Meditation and his only son, our little Think-well, out among the woods and hedgerows of a summer afternoon.

Little Think-well was the son of his father's old age.

That dry tree used to say to himself that if ever he was intrusted with a son of his own, he would make his son his most constant and his most confidential companion all his days.

And so he did.

The eleventh of Deuteronomy had become a greater and greater text to that childless man as he passed the mid-time of his days.