Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 168
uder still if he could think that hehad done something to make his father proudof him. The Boy was taught, from the earliestawakening of his reasoning powers, thattruth was to be told and to be respected, and that nothing was more wicked or moreungentlemanly than a broken promise. Helearned very… … THE BOY S FATHER. Aunt Margaret, always devoted to plants and toflowers, had, on the back stoop of his grand-fathers house, a little grove of orange andlemon trees in pots. Some one of these wasusually in fruit or in flower, and the fruit to TheBoy was a great temptation. He was very fondof…
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