CHAPTER IX.
THE YOUNG TRUTH-TELLER.

I LEARNED many a lesson in truth-
telling, when I was a boy, from Amanda
Redmond. Amanda was a sweet girl.
I loved her, as if she were my own sister.
She was a little my senior in age. But
she never put on any airs on that ac-
count, as some of the older girls did.
She did not assume any superior wisdom.
She did not try to dazzle me with the