Then there are the Ten Commandments, which teach simple duties in the plainest language.

Of course, if a lad is taught to read and write (as that unfortunate boy has been who was here this morning) his duties become complicated, and his temptations much greater, while, at the same time, he has no hereditary principles and honourable training to serve as safeguards.

I might take up my old simile of the race-horse and cart- horse.

I am distressed," continued she, with a break in her ideas, "about that boy.

The whole thing reminds me so much of a story of what happened to a friend of mine--Clement de Crequy.