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‘Why,’ said Johnny, ‘ of course,
I knew he meant me; but he needn’t
have said it so loud.’

‘Oh! I see,’ she answered then.
‘You heard the minister say, “ Thou
shalt not siecle:

‘Yes cadeeoimny; ‘but he
need t ewieiemmedileds if: out . so
loud.’

Now, the minister did not know
anything about Johnny’s fault; for
his mother did not tell any one that
she could help. She was too much
ashamed of her little son.

But, you see, it was that voice in-
side him, that we have been calling
Mr. Ought and Oughtn’t, that was
making him so wide awake and