OBSERVE PUNCTUALITY.
A little girl, whose mother was dead, was often absent from school.
She was never at a loss for excuses, but from their frequency I was at last induced to suspect their truth.

None of the children knew where she resided; so I was obliged to send the eldest boy in the school home with her, to ascertain whether or not her stories were true.

I gave the boy positive directions to make haste back; but, much to my surprise, I saw no more of him for six hours.

When he returned, he told me that the little girl refused to shew him where she lived; and had taken him so far, that he at last determined to leave her, but could not find his way back sooner.

In the evening I went myself, according to the direction I had entered in the admission-book, but found that the family were removed, and the persons in the house could not tell me where they had gone to reside.