Her mother then told her that she should be rewarded for not telling a lie by giving her a new book and a new Bible.
ANECDOTES.
A poor Arabian of the desert was one day asked, how he came to be assured that there was a God.
"In the same way," he replied, "that I am enabled to tell by a print impressed on the sand, whether it was a man or beast that passed that way."
THANKFULNESS.
—Walking along Bishopgate street one morning, I saw two men standing as if amazed at something that had happened.
"Pray, gentlemen," said I, "what is the matter?" One of them informed me that a genteelly dressed man had hastily come up to him, and tapping him on the shoulder, had said: