VANILY A BAD GUIDE. 11t

interrupted her by saying, “My teacher taught
me some pretty lines to show that, if I was hum-
ble, I would not be afraid of what people might
say of me.”

Clara then repeated :

“ He that is down needs fear no fall,
fle that is low no pride ;
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide.”

Mary became thoughtful; for she said to her-
self, “If all this be so, then I, who have always
blamed Cousin Lucy’s vanity so much, may be
vain myself.” On Lucy the conversation had
made less impression, and she said to Clara, ‘T
should not think you often saw any strangers
here to be afraid of?”

“Oh yes, we do; in the summer time we have
almost always some strange folks at our house;
and Mr. Smith over there,” pointing to the wood
below them, “takes boarders, and Mr. Stevens on
the other side too, and their boarders sometimes
come over to see ours.”

“They have not had any boarders this summer,

pd?

have they?