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it goodnaturedly and try again to win. If you play the game honestly 

 and are a good loser you will be taking a step in the right direction to 

 do some greater things well. If your comrade in play should be dis- 

 honest it is no excuse for you to be the same. It will help him much 

 to see your honesty. 



Be honest in all your school work. It is hard somet mes to do this. 

 It is so easy to copy an example that someone else has worked out. 

 Everytime you are honest about your lessons you have gained something 

 in character. If you know a boy or girl in the school who is not honest, 

 do not criticise him but try to help him. No one in the world can speak 

 unkindly of another without injuring himself. Every time you take 

 a sneaking and underhand way to do your work you will lose something 

 that perhaps you never can find. If you cannot get your owti work 

 say so. Many a boy w^ho has been called stupid in the schoolroom 

 because he could not work out his examples in arithmetic or learn his 

 geography lesson, has shown himself much more capable than other 

 boys in some different way. 



This month we hope every boy and girl will make efifort to be abso- 

 lutely honest in work and play; to be honest with his teachers and 

 with his parents. 



"All are needed by each one; 

 Nothing is fair or good alone. 

 I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, 

 Singing at dawn on the alder bough; 

 I brought him home, in his nest, at even; 

 He sings the song, but it cheers not now, 

 For I did not bring home the river and sky; 

 He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye." 



— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



