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rally true, but which is not true in the sense
in which I mean it to be understood, then I
am ‘guilty of falsehood, because I intend to
deceive. The following story will illustrate
this :

Two boys, who had been studying geo-
graphy, were walking together one evening,
when one of them exclaimed, “How brightly
the sun shines!” The other boy immedi-
ately replied that, as it was evening, the sun
did not shine. The first boy insisted that it
did shine; whereupon a dispute arose, one of
the boys insisting that the sun did shine; the
other that it did not. At last, they agreed
to leave the point to their father, and ac-
cordingly they went to him and stated the
case. They both agreed that it was nine
o'clock at night; that the stars were glitter-

ing in the sky; that the sun had been down |

for nearly two hours; and yet John, the
elder of the boys, maintained that, at that
moment, the sun was shining as brightly as at
noon-day.

When the father demanded :an_ explana-
tion, John said that the geography he had
just been studying, stated that when it was

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