THESE three are alone in the world now; the father who had supported them is dead, and they must soon be leaving their old home. But the boys had talked it over, and resolved to do what they could to support their mother ; so when she sat by the fire after tea, filled with melancholy thoughts, the lads, coming close to her, did their best to comfort her in her trouble, and telling her their plans, made her for awhile forget her grief. She was touched with their care for her, and called them her comforters ; and the boys, who dearly loved their mother, were glad to be a comfort, and hid their own sorrow for the father just gone from them, that they might the more look after the parent who was left to their charge, and be a comfort to her in her declining years.
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