If you have disobeyed her never delay a moment to go and confess it." "Yes, papa: but if it's you ?" "Then come to me in the same way.

If you want to be a happy child have no concealment from father or mother." "Shall I tell you about it now, papa ?" "You may do as you like about that since your mother knows it all." "Papa, I'm afraid you wouldn't love such a naughty girl any more." "Mamma loves you quite as well, and so shall I; because you are our own, own little daughter.

There were tears in mamma's eyes when she told me that she had had to punish our little Vi." "Oh I'm so sorry to have made mamma cry," sobbed the child.
"Sin always brings sorrow and suffering sooner or later, my little girl; remember that; and that it is because Jesus loves us that he would save us from our sins." After a little more talk, in which Violet repeated to him the same story of her wrong doing that she had already told her mother, her papa left her and she was again alone till mammy came with her supper--a bowl of rich sweet milk and bread from the unbolted flour, that might have tempted the appetite of an epicure.
"Come, honey, dry dose wet eyes an' eat yo' supper," said mammy, setting it out daintily on a little table which she placed before the child and covered with a fine damask cloth fresh from the iron.

"De milk's mos' all cream, an' de bread good as kin be: an' you kin hab much as eber you want ob both ob dem." "Did mamma say so, mammy ?" "Yes, chile; an' don't shed no mo' dose tears now; ole mammy lubs you like her life." "But I've been very naughty, mammy," sobbed the little girl.
"Yes, Miss Wi'let, honey: an' we's all been naughty, but de good Lord forgib us for Jesus' sake if we's sorry an' don't 'tend neber to do so no mo'." "Yes, mammy, Oh I wish you could stay with me I but you musn't: for mamma said I must be all alone." "Yes, darlin'; an' if you wants mo' supper, jes ring dis, an' mammy'll come." She placed a small silver bell on the table beside Vi, and with a tender, compassionate look at the tear-swollen face, went away.
The young Travillas were sometimes denied dainties because of misconduct, but always allowed to satisfy their youthful appetites with an abundance of wholesome, nourishing food.
Vi ate her supper with a keen relish, and found herself greatly comforted by it.

How much one's views of life are brightened by a good comfortable meal that does not overtax the digestive organs.