““Christie,” said Mr. Keith, “come here and tell us what you would do if you were told to choose one book out of all there were in the world, because the rest were to be burned.” “Why!” said Christie. “How dreadful! Oh, I would take the Bible, of course.” “Why ‘of course?’” “Oh, because it is the only book that shows us the way to Heaven; and we could get along without knowing anything else, if we knew what was in the Bible; and if we knew all that there was in all the other books, and had no Bible, in a little bit of a while what good would it do us?” “Sure enough; but do you believe these boys don’t think so!” Christie turned on them two troubled eyes. Wells laughed, but Karl said stoutly, “Why, we didn’t say any such thing!””
