32
TEMPTATION.
his kind friend that there was no reason why he should have any desire to touch what was forbidden. So the gentleman left him, but waited at the door to see and hear. Soon he saw the old man get up and look under this cover, and then that, until all but the centre one had been examined. He paused and said, "I wonder what's under that cover; but no, I must not touch it." So he helped himself freely. Yet he could not avoid thinking about that centre dish.
At last he said, "I do not see any harm in just looking, I won't touch;" and so he kept worrying about what was there. At
