PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS. 137

‘‘Suppose sister Julia should ask me
this evening if Frank had been over here
to-day, and I should shake my head, and
Julia should believe that you had not
been here; wouldn’t that be telling a
lie 2” |

‘*T don’t know but it would.”

‘* Are you not sure that it would 2”

“Yes, Iam; but I didn’t do anything
like that.’’

‘* You meant to deceive me.”’

‘** But I didn’t shake my head, when
you asked me about the watermelons.’

‘True, but you tried to cheat me by
a quibble, which I think was quite as
near a falsehood as you would have got