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don't care for you now; but this I will say, I will never forget how good a friend one of you has been to me, and I will rob none of your nests again." Now, every person, man, woman, and child, that have ever lived or are now living, have again and again yielded to temptation, like little Harry. Sometimes, like little Jem, conscience has called loud and frightened us, and thus we have been prevented from doing that which we should have been sorry for all our lives afterwards. From this, then, we learn that we have done those things which we ought not to