. 4 BE TRUE.

certain tact, which her mother con-
sidered indispensable to trade, sub-
jected her to continual censure.

“T only tell the truth,” said the
poor child, one evening, to her friend,
Mrs. Page. ‘This good lady had en-
tered the store and found Laura
weeping, alone; she insisted on know-
ing the cause of her tears. “ Why,
that calico,” sobbed the girl; “mother
said that it had been injured, and
would scarcely hold together to mea-
sure. Widow Jenkins was going to
buy nearly the whole piece for her
children’s dresses—but, dear Mrs.
Page, she is poor, she has no money
to throw away, and when she asked
me if I knew anything of the colors,
what could I say? Amelia had an
apron from it, and the colors all
faded at the first washing, and in less