In concluding, the teacher remarked, that it was not very pleasant to feel that we had been wronged and cheated; but there was another feeling, a thousand-fold more to be dreaded--the feeling that we have wronged and cheated others.

And so ended the moral lesson for that morning.
The particular bearing of this lesson upon Oscar, and the pertinency of the "case" he was called to decide upon, were not generally known to the class, though their suspicions might have been somewhat excited by his confusion, and his reluctance to answer the questions put to him.
The teacher had been informed of Oscar's dishonest bargain by the boy who suffered from it, and he chose this way to impress upon him the immorality of the transaction.

He concluded, however, to give him an opportunity to make a voluntary restitution, and so no further reference was made to the matter.
Oscar was wise enough to heed the warning.

Before night, the brass dog-collar and the ivory pocket-comb were returned to their rightful owner..