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 many times he was on the point of call- ing to his mother and confessing the whole. After a time he heard his father and mother locking the doors. "Now," said he, "they are going to bed, and if I do not tell mother now, I shall not sleep any to-night." So he sat up in his bed and called "mother." "What, my son," she answered. "Will you come up here one moment; please mother?" His mother came directly, and he asked her for a drink of water. She gave it to him, and said, "is that all you want, Har- ry?" "No, mamma," he said, "I cannot sleep till I tell you what a wicked thing I