“Martin!  Martin! dost thou not know me?”

“Who art thou!” cried Avdyeeich.

“’Tis I,” cried the voice, “lo, ’tis I!” And forth from the dark corner stepped Stepanuich.  He smiled, and it was as though a little cloud were breaking, and he was gone.

“It is I!” cried the voice, and forth from the corner stepped a woman with a little child; and the woman smiled and the child laughed, and they also disappeared.

“And it is I!” cried the voice, and the old woman and the lad with the apple stepped forth, and both of them smiled, and they also disappeared.

And the heart of Avdyeeich was glad.  He crossed himself, put on his glasses, and began to read the Gospels at the place where he had opened them.  And at the top of the page He read these words:  “And I was an hungered and thirsty, and ye gave Me to drink.  I was a stranger and ye took Me in.”

And at the bottom of the page he read this:  “Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”

And Avdyeeich understood that his dream had not deceived him, and that the Saviour had really come to him that day, and he had really received Him.

THE END.

BOOKS

Edited by ELVA S. SMITH

Cataloguer of Children’s Books, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Illustrated Cloth

GOOD OLD STORIES for Boys and Girls

MYSTERY TALES for Boys and Girls

PEACE AND PATRIOTISM

HEROINES OF HISTORY AND LEGEND

MORE MYSTERY TALES for Boys and Girls

A BOOK OF LULLABIES

Edited by ELVA S. SMITH and

ALICE I. HAZELTINE

St. Louis Public Library

CHRISTMAS IN LEGEND AND STORY