“THE BEWITCHED TONGUE.”

spoke), “ will lead you into trouble. Your dis-
position, though generous, is naturally hasty
and impulsive, and till by a long course of
self-restraint you have acquired complete mas-
tery over yourself, you will find that I was
right in my experiment of obliging your tongue
to utter the exact opposite of what you, in your
first haste, would have expressed.”

«« And before Elizabetha could reply she had
disappeared.

«“<«But Elizabetha kept her promise; and to
thus following her fairy friend’s advice she owes
it that she is now the object of universal es-
teem and affection, instead of being hated,
despised, and feared as the owner of “a hasty
tongue.” ’”’

Cecil stopped.

«Js that all?” said Carrots.

“Yes, that’s all. Did you like it?”

“TI did understand better about the fairy,”
Carrots replied. “I think she was a werry
good fairy ; don’t you, Floss?”

“ Very,” said Floss, “I think,” she went on,

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