"It would make me very happy if I thought you would remember it all your life, darling.

Do you think you understand it ?" "Mother says it means, 'Be careful to say only what is true and good,'" replied Prudy, in a low voice.
"That is right," said Miss Carlisle; "but do you understand what is called the 'figure of speech' in the verse?
Do you know what a watch is ?" "A little thing that ticks." "There is another kind, my dear.

We have in cities _watchmen_, to guard us and see that all goes right while we sleep." "O, I know," replied Prudy, quickly; "the verse asks God to give us a _conscience_ to walk back and forth before our lips while we talk!" Miss Carlisle went on to say more about the watch, while Dotty fixed her bright eyes on her face, thinking, "What booful flowers those is in her bonnet! Where did she pick 'em ?" The next verse was Sadie Bicknell's:-- "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Dotty listened to this, and Miss Carlisle's remarks upon it, with the most solemn earnestness, hoping to learn why it was that people should sit with a lamp shining on their feet.

She thought she could now see why Prudy loved to go to "Sabber school;" it was because she heard so many funny things.
Soon all the little girls had repeated their texts; but, to her great surprise, Dotty had not been called upon to say or do a single thing.

It was a marked slight.