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TEMPTATION.
he used to talk to himself. One day the gentleman was sitting at his window, which was open, looking into the garden, when he saw the old man, who was digging, stop every now and then and lean upon his spade and groan out, "Oh Adam, Adam, what did you do it for?" Quite at a loss as to what it all meant, he went down the garden and asked him why he called on Adam so often.
"Oh, sir," he said, "if Adam had not been so thoughtless, I should not have been working so hard here." "Oh, but," he said, "you would have done the same if you had been in his place, I suspect." "No, no,
