wrong, and you must not do it; when again they tell you there is danger
in going to a certain place, or in chumming with a particular boy or
girl, they are again doing the same thing for you. And when they punish
you, as that mother caribou did her calf, it is because they know the
danger far better than you, and they know that your safety depends upon
keeping away from such things.

Then, bye and bye, perhaps, as you grow older, you will begin to see
for yourself what the danger meant, just as the little caribou might
some day see a hunter for itself. And then you will no longer think your
parents cruel or strict; you will be thankful that they were so wise and
kind.




THE REPENTANCE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON


When you begin to study English literature you will hear a great deal
about Samuel Johnson, who wrote one of the first English dictionaries,
and was a great scholar. Johnson's father was a bookseller, who used to
have a little shop in the market-place, where he sold books on
market-days. One day, when Johnson was a boy, his father took sick and
asked Samuel to go to the market-place and sell books for him. Johnson
was ashamed of such work, and refused to go.

But many years afterward, when he had become an old man and was back on
a visit to his native village, he was missed from breakfast one morning
by the friends with whom he was staying. On his return at supper-time he