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ANOTHER BAD TRAIT. 
Daisy. “ 4 Evil speaking, lying and slander¬ 
ing,’—and in the Bible, too. Annie copied 
out all the texts about it, and it does not 
say wrong story once.” 
“ Did you ever see such a little old-fash¬ 
ioned thing as she is?” said Matilda, aside, 
to her sister. 
“I don’t know hut she is right,” replied 
Antoinette, who had seemed to be rather 
struck with her little cousin’s remarks. “If 
it really is lying, it is well enough to call it 
so.” 
“ You needn’t set up to he virtuous, at 
any rate,” retorted Matilda. “You are no 
better than I am about that, or any thing 
else.” 
Antoinette was perfectly aware of that 
fact, but it was a fact that might reasonably 
make her rather uneasy. She saw a great 
difference between her cousins and herself, 
and she had lately felt an uneasy conscious¬ 
ness that the superiority was not, as she had 
formerly imagined, entirely upon her side. 
But she was not inclined to confess this 
feeling to her sister, of all the people in the 
'world: so she made her a sharp answer, and 
went away, feeling vexed with her cousin, 
