Good night, my child, sleep well--that is if you can." "Mamma, do not go away, I will tell you everything; only stay with me." Her mother gladly turned back.
"We were shooting with the bow, though papa told us not to touch it, and we hit something and it cried out; and we were so frightened that we could not be happy any more at all." Lili's voice was hurried, and full of distress.
"I don't wonder that you could not feel happy, and you cannot yet.

Because of your disobedience, a poor little child is lying suffering in the next house, perhaps without its mother to comfort it, for it is a stranger here.

Think of it there in a strange house, away from home, crying in pain all night long." "I will go right over there and stay with it," said Lili dolefully, and she began to cry again.

"I cannot sleep either mamma; I am so worried." "We are always worried, my dear child, when we have done wrong.

I will go now and find out whether the child is in need of help; and you will pray to God to give you an obedient spirit, and to turn aside the evil that your naughtiness may have caused an innocent child to suffer." Lili followed her mother's advice.