16 LEA VES HOME. 



mother was a thing that he must bear ; and he bore it 

 uncomplainingly, looking forward to better times. 



There are compensations in all things. He was 

 happy to leave home. It was a pleasure to him to find 

 that there was some other roof under which he could 

 live in comparative comfort. 



But he never forgot the circumstances under which 

 he had left home. When he afterwards heard of a neigh- 

 bour losing his wife, he said, "Ah! a sad thing for 

 the bairns ! Had my own mother been alive I would 

 never have been a baker ! " 



