CHILDREN. 7tears fast rolling down his cheek, he added, ‘ I hope, I hope, He has forgiven me, and now I am happy!’ I never had again occasion to look at him with a shade of disapprobation.” PH E B E B AH T L E T T . Phebe Bartlett, a very little girl, went with some other children to gather plumbs in a neighboring orchard. On bringing some of the fruit home, her mother mildly reproved her, and said she ought not to have gathered the plumbs without leave, because it was sin: God had commanded her not to steal. The child, not being sensible of the evil before, seemed greatly surprised, and bursting into tears, cried out, “ I won’t have these plumbs!” and turning to her sister Eunice, very earnestly said to her, “Why did you ask me to go to that plumb tree ? I should not have gone, if you had not asked me.” The other children did not seem much concerned ; but Phebe was not easily pacified. Her mother mentioned the circumstance to the owner of the tree, and requested of him that she might have the plumbs; but still she was deeply affected: and being asked what it was that troubled her now; she said that she wept because
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