"O, the smiles," said they all together.

"I wish you might learn a lesson from this, to remember all through your
lives. Overlook the bad and seek for what is good in everybody; and so
you will help to make both yourselves and others happier and better.
What is the lesson, girls?"

And each voice responded, "We will overlook the bad, and seek only for
what is good in those around us."

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WHAT ONE LIE DID


It was winter twilight. Shadows played about the room, while the ruddy
light flickered pleasantly between the ancient andirons.

A venerable old lady, whose hair time had silvered, but whose heart he
had left fresh and young, sat musing in an armchair, drawn up closely by
the fireside. Suddenly the door opened, and a little girl hurried to her
side.

"Well, Bessie," said the old lady, laying her hand lovingly on the
child's sunny ringlets, "have you had a good slide?"