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lution; and ag if abashed, slunk away and was
seen nomore! The lastincident of this story
is. not quite s0 likely as the first, but it exem-
plifies my meaning.

Bo ys and Girls.

“ Ah, James, that is not fair, to tempt your
sister upon the thin ice, so that she may get
a ducking ! « This teasing of sisters, my boy,
is poor sport,—you, of the stronger sex,
should always be the defenders of the
weaker ones.” ‘ '

A man who in any way imsults a woman
is held in universal contempts he is justly
deemed a coward, for heinsults one weaker
than himself, and he does it because he feels
that he is safe from punishment. Now a
boy who teases, insults, or injures a girl, has
the ‘spirit of cowardice in him, for he does
injury upon,the mean calculation that he
has nothing to fear from retaliation.