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in an open cask of powder. When
asked what he was at, he replied, coolly,
that he was trying to see how near he
could get the blaze to the powder with-
out touching it. I have sometimes
thought, when I have seen people
dodging about between a lie and the
truth, that they were trying an experi-
ment quite as foolish and almost as dan-
gerous as the one which this dunce tried
over the powder barrel.

Now the way in which my friend
Amanda got her character for truth-
telling, was by showing a regard for
truth at all times—by telling the truth in
her actions, as well as in her words.

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