Never tell tales of one another,

Except of some too favoured brother;

But there it seems a rule confest

To heap the faults of all the rest:

I quite agree with Mister Gray,

To get all favourites 'turn'd away.'

Bribe little masters and young misses

With sugar-plums and slobb'ring kisses.

Thus they will say, "How good you are!"

And tell no tales to Pa or Mar.