So brave and noble a boy is incapable of a falsehood.

Besides, I got a letter from my friend Squire Lee by this morning's mail, in which he informed me of my young friend's coming." Mr.Bayard took from his pocket a bundle of letters, and selected the squire's from among them.

Opening it, he read a passage which had a direct bearing upon the case before him.
"'I do not know what Bobby's faults are,'"-- the letter said,--"'but this I do know: that Bobby would rather be whipped than tell a lie.
He is noted through the place for his love of truth.'-- That is pretty strong testimony; and you see, Bobby,--that's what the squire calls you,--your reputation has preceded you." Bobby blushed, as he always did when he was praised, and Mr.Timmins was more abashed than ever.
"Did you hear that, Timmins?
Who is the liar now ?" said Mr.Bayard, turning to the culprit.
"Forgive me, sir, this time.

If you turn me off now, I cannot get another place, and my mother depends upon my wages." "You ought to have thought of this before." "He aggravated me, sir, so that I wanted to pay him off." "As to that, he commenced upon me the moment I came into the store.

But don't turn him off, if you please, sir," said Bobby, who even now wished no harm to his discomfited assailant.