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THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

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did not do as you would be done by.
You did wrong, and so did he. If you
had let him play ‘bounce’ with you, then
you would have been happy little boys,
and now you have been both wrong
and both angry. I admit that Charley
did wrong, but you did wrong first.”

“Well, mother, I dare say that is all
true; but Charley has got my ball.”

“Charley will not keep it long, my
dear. He only took it to trouble you a
little ; he will give it to you, I dare say,
this afternoon.”

“ But Charley did not do as he would
be done by, mother, when he ran home
with it.”

“No; I suppose he did not think
anything about it, any more than you
did in not letting him play with you.
Don’t you remember how kind Charley
was a little while ago, when he had his
new balloon? Did not you play with
it?”

“Yes, mother; and don’t you know
how I let it blow away into the big tree,
and Patrick could not get it down again,
and how long it was up there ?”

** And did Charley cry about it ?”

“TI guess not; but he was very sorry,
and so was I, and I took the money un-
cle gave me and bought some more
paper, and sister Anne made him a rea]
nice balloon, bigger than his first one
was.”

“ And did you not feel happy, when
you carried it to him? and was not
' Charley very glad to have it ?”

‘Yes, indeed; and he’s got it now,
and we play with it sometimes.”

“That was doing as you would be
done by. You lost his balloon, and
gave him another to replace it, which
was just.”

“‘ Mother, if Charley loses my ball, do
you think he will be just too, and bring
me another ?”’

“Certainly, if he does what is right.
But I think I hear Charley’s voice in the
hall. Go and see if it is he.”

“Yes, mother, ’tis Charley,” said
Georgy, as he ran into the hall to meet
him, and the mother following him.

“I’ve brought home your ball, Geor-
gy,” said Charles. ‘‘ Mother said I was
a naughty boy to run away with it, and’
she told me to come and bring it back.
I’m sorry I plagued you, and I won’t do
sO any more.”

‘“‘ And I’m very sorry I refused to let
you play with the ball,” said George,
“for I know it was that which made
you think of running off with it.”

Thus the two boys were soon recon-
ciled ; and George’s mother was glad to
see how well her son understood his
error, and the way to atone for it. We
have only to add, that if children would
all do as they wish others to do to
them, there never would be any snatch-
ing of one another’s things, no harsh
words, no angry feelings among them.

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Howard’s Opinion of Swearers.

Howarp, the Philanthropist, standing
in the street, heard some dreadful oaths
and curses from a public house opposite.
Having occasion to go across, he first
buttoned up his pocket, saying to a
by-stander, ‘“‘I always do this, when I
hear men swear, as I think that any one
who can take God’s name in vain, can
also steal, or do anything else that is
bad.”