a THE FIRST GLASS OF WINE;

 

ally, but when you are thrown with them in-
timately, and begin to see into their charac-
ter, you will soon find that they are not to
be trusted, and then you will begin to de-
spise them so much that you cannot take any
pleasure in their society. | ;

dl an very sorry that Clarence Mortimer
was not a boy of good principles, for his
mother’s sake, as well as his own, for such
boys as he manage to inflict many a heart-
ache upon all who love them.

Hal Bennet a Clare’s cousin, and had
come from the country to be educated with ©
him, partly because Mrs. Mortimer had —
taken a notion that her boy would be more
contented if he had a companion about his
own age, and partly that Hal might have
the benefit of going to a good school.

Hal was a pretty good fellow, but he was