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 152 REPENTANCE. because he had hurt his foot, when he remembered that somebody might hear him and come to his assistance, and then he would be caught. After recovering a little from his fall, he began to think of his good mother, who had dressed him that morning so neat and clean, who twice had heard him say over his geogra- phy lesson, in order that he might be fully prepared at his class, and had charged him not to stop on the way lest he should be late at school. Now he was a miser- able, dirty boy, afraid to see his mother, and ashamed to go to school. He however resolved, notwithstanding Google Digitized by