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one on the shore should hail your vessel with
signals that should lure her on to the most
dangerous rocks that were hidden beneath
the waters. Should you call that person
your friend, even though the signal should
be dazzling lights, or swiftly mounting
rockets, or gayly colored flags? No, you
know you would not. Why then do you
give your confidence to those who would
tempt you on to far greater danger even than
- — -— see ~—: of ene an immortal
a you to do wrong , distenet that per-
son, and avoid his society ever after as nauch
as possible. | .

~All the boys that I have been telling
about in this brief story attended the same
school, so that it would not have been very
easy to Keep. them | ape, if” they had all

| agreed i in wishing it.