THE LAME BOY. 49

“TI should prefer missing several questions,” answered
Maurice, “and have the character of an indolent scholar,
than do what I thought was dishonest: but I have
only missed one to-day, and I have answered many in
various classes correctly, and I do not think that either
Mr. Harding or the visitors will be so unreasonable as
to think I am usually indolent or careless about my
lessons.”

‘Well, you are a strange fellow,” said Bob N ewton,
“and all I can say is, there is not another boy in school
that has such notions.”

 

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