A little newsboy, to sell his paper, told a lie. The matter came up before the Sabbath-school. • Would you tell a lie for three cents V asked a teacher of one of her boys. 'No, ma'am,' answered Dick, very decidedly. * Not for ten cents?' No ma'am. ' For a thousand dollars ?' Dick was staggered. A thousand dollars looked big. Oh, would it not buy lots of things \ While he was thinking another boy roared out, 4 No ma'am,' behind, him. ' Why not,* asked the teacher. Because, when the thousand dollars is all gone, and all the things they've got with them too, the lie is there all the same/ answered the boy. It is so. A lie sticks. Everything else may be gone, but that is left, and you will have to carry it around with you, whether you will or not j a hard, heavy load it is. —Child's Paper. A young lady, who was a passenger on board a packet ship, it is said, sprang out of her berth and jumped overboard on hearing the captain, during a storm, order the mate to haul down the sheets.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 30, 6 February 1869, Page 2
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188Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 30, 6 February 1869, Page 2
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