THE LITTLE SCOTCH BOY AND HIS FATHER

Two gentlemen were travelling in Scotland. One day they went out on a botanical expedition, taking as their guide a little boy named Johnnie. In the course of their ramble they came to some cliffs, and looking over perceived some very rare plants growing at a great depth below. There was no way of getting at these plants, which they particularly desired to have, but by being lowered over the cliff with a rope. They asked the little boy if he would go down and get the specimens, offering him a large reward. At first Johnnie utterly refused to go, but afterwards, when he thought of the great poverty of his parents, and pictured to himself what the offered reward would do for them, he consented to go down and get the plants on one condition. ‘Well, my lad,’ said the gentlemen, ‘and what is your one condition?’ That my father holds the end of the rope.’ replied Johnnie. To this they readily assented. A rope was brought; the boy went for his father, who held the end of the rope while his son was lowered over the cliff to gather the plants. Johnnie secured the plants, was drawn up again in safety, and duly received the promised reward.

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