Show carelessness ilow felix that no uno coil do n avrone without some oae t lff felix my boy cin you cany tah book over to mr gays for nio course I 1 cin grandfather 1 I wish you would do it at then I 1 borrowed it and have kept it longer I 1 intended wait though until J wrap it up it h a handsome binding you see and 1 should bo very sorry if it acro to any injury felix took alio book and went out bis grandfather thinking it not siry to civo him any further caution two hours later the old gentleman on afternoon walk As lie strolled along a pleasant shaded path ho observed a little group of boys stooping over something on the ground and going near saw that they were intently interested in the motions of two beetles sec them bugl said bouc what do they do it tor any way akad another why they aie that ball of earth to lay their eggs in 1 I dont believe it mid felix its fro for my father told me said the other res its so said grandfather a touching felixs chieck the end of his cane tim boys sprang up in surprise at biering him bending over them eliy grandfather is that you asked 1 alix yes did you sec mr gay well not yet sir I 1 just waited a few minutes to run a race the boys and then we saw and rut chero is the book oh all safe sir I 1 hid it right behind this tree ho ran towards it anil his grandfather following lini saw rover his little dog very busy at something get out of the way hove cried fillix gerotis He rotis oh his face fell in blank dismay as ho raised alic look the dog had toni oil alio wrapping and had gnawed off a corner of the costly volume of course entirely ruining ita ppe aranco aliat a muan mischievous dog exclaimed felix ready to cry with regret and contusion what a careless boy wo might say said grandfather how could you bo so negligent felix when I 1 trusted you with it and told you to be careful im sorry faltered frlix but your sorrow will never help tho matter aou bec eec nothing which you can do will help it all tho loss must fall on others grandfather took a newspaper from hid pocket and again wrapped up the book now tako it to mr gay ho said tell him exactly aliat has happened and say to him that tho cosm shall bo made good as far as I 1 can make it so felix hung back grandfather I 1 cannot beair to tell him lie mid 1 I know it is hard my boy I 1 send you not to punish you but to try to give you a lesson which you may remember felix thought it tho hardest lesson which could havo been set him but cowardice was nut ono of his faults and iu i few ho stood mr gay bravely told his arror and and alio llio sad result adding very earnestly 1 I onla wih it biad been something of mino that biad been spoiled sir 1 grandfathers alien ho no one can ever ilo n wrung tiling without its hurting some ono alc yes aarl tho gentleman looking ragn nt tho mischief your grandfather is right cant I 1 pay for it sir asked felix eagerly s up every cent of money and after ill have enough mr gay laid hii hand kindly on the buya head never mind that it b a loss which no one could up to me for the book was a gift of a dear friend who is now dead but my boy it you arc given to and ways in conr boyhood you will bo sure to work far greater mischief to your solf and others than tho spoiling of n book let mo tell you of something that happened to me when I 1 was a boy lie sat down and motioned felix to a chair waca I 1 was not many years older than you arc my father lied and I 1 had to top going to school for awhile and go to work I 1 got a situation in a large botie and often had valuable parcels placed in my 1 care it Is a pity that I bad not a sense of the anerd nerd of faithful in the performance of all antics whether great or emall to the very letter I 1 WM cardim to an which ial my mother often to warn me that I 1 should cohao to serious harm it 1 did not mend my wayt I 1 paid little to her caution feeling satisfied with in view of the fact that no one could bring a reproach against iny honesty or my one day I 1 was n parcel to carry to the bank be careful they said it contain seven hundred dollars 1 I had a secure inside pocket and had little fear of any loas As I 1 took my way towards the bank I 1 saw an excited crowd gathered about one of th principal newspaper it wax during tho darkest days of the war and I 1 soon learned that some stirring new was being received ot course I 1 had no business to atop the nowa would have been aa well reported without looked admy watch aud saw thata I 1 had nearly an hou threw myself into and joined J iny with the enthusiastic chacra 6 which rose higher and wilder particular of ono of grants earliest victories wax given out time and prudence were lost sight of until tb last item was learned then I 1 rushed to tho bank to be faced bv the forbidding looking card bank closed I 1 had not been specially told to do posit that day but of course it WAS understood der stood that I 1 should it would have been the right thing for me to camit back and have it placed in the safe but I 1 was ashamed of having it known that I 1 had loitered so I 1 a second unfaithful act to conceal tho erst al ways 1 dangerous thine to do tho way to make amends for A fault is to confess it at once 1 I carried ciomo tho amonoy and hid it in the safest knew of you may bo it was a heavy weight on my igind and as night settled down it prow heavier and heavier 1 resolved not to sleep but lay adako listening and starting in alarm it every sound at length I 1 was sure I 1 heard mysto rious noises but something seemed to hold inn down so that I 1 could not move the sounds increased surely acro in alio house I 1 could hear them moving hear them in tb room in which I 1 biad hidden tha mono finally with a desperate effort I 1 sprang up to find myself in tha grasp of a hrc iuan my room was full of smoke the fire I 1 had fallen into an uneasy sleep and would have been strangled by tha smoke if I 1 had not been found just in lime and the money asked in great e 1 I fought against my rescuers with all my might declaring I 1 would get it if I 1 died for it hut tho stout fellow dragged me downstairs downs lairs and out just before the root fell in what did you do then sir what could I 1 do but go to my employers and tell them what mischief my criminal carelessness had worked for them felix drew a boig breath and chook hu hand soberly it was BS dreadful as my having to tell you about the book it A little worse I 1 think said th gentleman with a smile 1 I hope you will never leavo such a burthen to carry as that one I 1 bound upon myself my own folly it weighed mo down nil through tho young years of my life for it took bolong molong to pay tha debt it h not for mo to say the lesson was too severe a one it was chosen for me in infinito wisdom but I 1 hava alwaes felt a strong disiro that others should profit by it 1 I will try to sir said felix very earnestly ns ho got up to take his leave do so felix and try to benr in mind tho promise to those who aro faithful in a few things 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