124 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

thing else but tell the truth in all my
life.”’

[T should hope, to be sure; that among
my readers, the number of those who
ever allow themselves to tell a lie, is very
- gmall, indeed. But I am afraid that it is
too common with boys and girls to act
falsehood, when they would not speak it
with their lips for all the world. I have
known some young people dodge about,
for a quarter of an hour, so near a lie, all
the time, that | thought they might al-
most as well have told a round, plump
one, and have done with it.

I have heard of a man who was once

found in a cellar, holding a lighted lamp