I never remember her breaking her word; I never remember her saying No, and meaning Yes.

I can call to mind, in her childhood, more than one occasion when the good little soul took the blame, and suffered the punishment, for some fault committed by a playfellow whom she loved.

Nobody ever knew her to confess to it, when the thing was found out, and she was charged with it afterwards.

But nobody ever knew her to lie about it, either.

She looked you straight in the face, and shook her little saucy head, and said plainly, "I won't tell you!" Punished again for this, she would own to being sorry for saying "won't;" but, bread and water notwithstanding, she never told you.