LE LONG DU SENTIER 



country and its folk, rather than to the 

 more sophisticated town-dweller. 



There occurred a trifling incident not 

 long ago, which showed a cure in the re- 

 lation of a true father to his flock. A 

 lad committed an offence of so grave a 

 nature that it could not be overlooked. 

 Were the secular arm invoked, he must 

 have been punished by imprisonment. 

 Those concerned feared for the future 

 of a boy that the law had set its mark 

 upon, and thought it well to lay the 

 whole affair before the priest. What 

 passed between the shepherd and the 

 small black sheep is not known to them, 

 but the next day they were called upon 

 to receive a broken-hearted little crea- 

 ture, in his Sunday best, whose apolo- 

 gies were scarcely intelligible through 

 the manifestations of his grief. A true, 

 and let us hope a godly, sorrow gave ex- 

 cellent promise of amendment. 



Do you envy simple faith, condemn it 

 as superstitious, or merely smile at it 



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