I could not understand all he said, but it was about coming to live with him, and going to Mexico, to see the sights there.

When he came to the rows you left for seed, I told him we must come to the house, and asked him to come in; but he would not, and offered us all some money, and said we must not tell a soul we had seen him, for he happened to see us through the fence, and just came in to speak to us, and you and father might think he ought not to come into our garden.

But oh, mother, would you believe it! he told Erasmo, as he went off, that he must ask you to let him go to bathe to-morrow; and instead of going to the river, he must come to the church: he wanted to give him something.

He told him in Spanish, but I understood what he said.

Now, wasn't that teaching him to tell a lie?
and he a Padre too! Mother, don't you think he ought to be ashamed ?" "Elliot, if you would gladden the hearts of your father and mother, be ever truthful.