The next week Willis was going to begin work for a
large dry-goods store.
"I'll do honest day's work, too," resolved Willis.
He did not put it into words, but he thought that the One who saw
whether a man under the wharves did an honest day's work would see
whether a boy working for a store did the same. Willis was trying to
be a Christian.
Busy days Willis had after that. The large dry-goods store had many
customers who often did not wish to carry bundles home. The store
had two pretty, white-covered, small carts for the delivering of
packages. Willis drove one cart and a boy named August drove the
other.
One afternoon Willis, out delivering dry-goods, drove by the house
where August lived, and saw the store's other cart standing there.
"August is home," thought Willis. Just then, August came out.
"Don't tell," called August, laughing.
Willis, hardly comprehending, drove on about his business.
That evening at store-closing time, both boys were back with their
receipt books, signed by customers who had received their packages.
The boys went out of the store together.
"Saw me coming out of our house today, didn't you?" said August to
Willis.
"Don't you ever stop off half an hour or so, when you're on your
rounds?"
"Why, no!" answered Willis. "What would they say at the store, if
they knew?"
"They can't know," asserted August.
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