84 THE FIRST GLASS OF WINE;

 

66 Why dou’t: you give: Clare a beatin ,

  

and have done with it, if you are 80 :
with him? ” said Ben. "
«Because I know it would a his
mother a great deal more, if I could make
him do anything bad,” said Dick. «* Be-
sides, Clare Mortimer always -has more
money than any of the other boys, and he is :
generally pretty free with it, I cannot afford —
to lose him.”
So these boys ngroed upon hea sti of

ae we Be “~%’.

pretended kindness: and real: ame to.
Clare. 5 2 .

Those companions who would lead you
into vice, boys, are not your friends,, how-
ever pleasing and amiable they may appear 5
_ they are in truth your worst enemies, for they
would tempt you to destruction.

Suppose _ you were out at sea, and some