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anything or to go anywhere. He wasa
great deal too obliging in this respect.

‘‘But that was a good trait in Bill’s
character. I should think it was a good
trait, Uncle Frank.”’

No, that is a great mistake.

‘Why, is it not right to oblige every-
body, as much as possible ?”’

Certainly, when you can oblige every
one without doing wrong. Boys and
girls, and men and women, are often
asked to do something which would be a
great injury to them; and perhaps, if
they yielded, they would disobey God.
In that case, it would be wrong to yield,
you see. William Scott, because he was