“ CARROTS.”

I'll change them to easy ones, so that Carrots.
may understand. Now, be quiet all of you, I’m
going to begin. ‘The Bewitched Tongue, etc.’
I’m not going to read all the title again. ‘In

a beautiful mansion’ (that just means a fine

house, Carrots) “surrounded by pleasure grounds.

of great extent, there lived, many years ago,
a young girl named Elizabetha. She was of
charming appearance and pleasing manners ;
her parents loved her devotedly, her brothers
and sisters looked upon her with amiable affec-
tion, her teachers found her docile and intelli-
gent. Yet Elizabetha constantly found herself,
despite their affection, shunned and feared by
her best and nearest friends, and absolutely
disliked by those who did not know her well
enough to feel assured of the real goodness of
her heart.

««This sad state of things was all owing to
one unfortunate habit. She had a hasty tongue.
Whatever thought was uppermost in her mind
at the moment, she expressed without reflec-

tion; she never remembered the wholesome