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 REPENTANOE. 153 the pain in his foot, to go on to school, and never again be guilty of attempting to take a red plum, or anything else that did not belong to him. But just as he was going he looked at the sleeve of his jacket, and beheld a large rent in it, so that he was not fit to be seen at school. "Oh that fence," thought he; "if I had never got over that fence, I should not have got my clean clothes all torn and dirty; what shall I do? What shall I tell mother?" James hesitated a moment, and then, like a wise boy, and a manly one, he de- termined to go home and confess the Digitized by Google