LESSON LXI I. såme turn weeds truth Eǎth' o lie lie found teach'er eōat pun'ish TELLING THE TRUTH. Will and John were two boys who lived near each other, and went to the same school. There was a little garden back of the school, and the boys had to take turns in watering the plants and pulling up the weeds. "It is my turn to do the work in the garden, to-day," said John. " But I shall say I am sick, so that I shall not have to do it." "That will not be the truth," said Will," and you know it is a sin to tell what is not the truth. If you wish to be a good Catholic you must not tell a lie." "I do not wish to be a good Catholic if I must always tell the truth. I should then often have to do something that I do not like to do,” said John. When it was John's turn to look after the garden again, he came into the school and said that all the plants had been torn up by the roots. The teacher asked the boys if any of them had pulled up the plants. But no one would own that he had done it. "I think I know who did it," said the teacher, holding up John's coat. "The boy who owns this coat, come and get it. It was found in the garden." 66 When John went up to get his coat, the teacher said, If you had told the truth, I should not have pun ished you. But I wish you to learn that it is a sin to tell a lie, and that you will be punished for every sin." LANGUAGE LESSON. (To the Teacher: Let the pupils read these sentences with the blanks filled with the proper form of do.) Have you to-day? your work in the garden, he like to pull up the weeds now? what you told him? He Has he it yesterday. Li'on wōke caught rẻ pay' kind'ness tied rōar gnawed saved life THE LION AND THE MOUSE. As a Lion lay asleep one day, a Mouse ran over his face and woke |