nt; but whoever it was, you allow
that by stealing these apples he broke the eighth commandment?

_Boy._ Yes, master.

_Master._ On what day were these apples stolen?

_Boy._ On Sunday.

_Master._ What is the fourth commandment?

_Boy._ Thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath-day.

_Master._ Does that person keep holy the Sabbath-day who loiters in
an orchard on Sunday, when he should be at church, and steals apples
when he ought to be saying his prayers?

_Boy._ No, master.

_Master._ What command does he break?

_Boy._ The fourth.

_Master._ Suppose this boy had parents who had sent him to church,
and that he had disobeyed them by not going, would that be keeping
the fifth commandment?

_Boy._ No, master; for the fifth commandment says, _Thou shalt honor
thy father and thy mother._

This was the only part of the case in which poor Dick Giles's heart
did not smite him; he knew he had disobeyed no father; for his
father, alas! was still wickeder than himself, and had brought him
up to commit the sin. But what a wretched comfort was this! The
master went on.

_Master._ Suppose this boy earnestly coveted this fruit, though it
belonged to another person, would that be right?

_Boy._ No, master; for the tenth commandment says, _thou shalt not
covet_.

_Master._ Very well. Here are four of God's positive commands
already broken. Now do you think thieves ever scruple to use wicked
words?

_Boy._ I am afraid, not, master.

Here Dick Giles was not so hardened but that he remembered how many
curses had passed between him and his father while they were filling
the bags, and he was afraid to look up. The master went on.

I will now go one step further. If the thief, to all his other sins,
has added that of accusing the innocent to save himself, if he
should break the ninth commandment, by _bearing false witness
against a harmless neighbor_, then six commandments are broken for
an _apple_. But if it be otherwise, if Tom Price should be found
guilty, it is not his good character shall save him. I shall shed
tears over him, but punish him I must, and that severely. "No, that
you sha'n't," roared out Dick Giles, who sprung from his hiding
place, fell on his knees, and burst out a crying; "Tom Price is as
good a boy as ever lived; it was father and I who stole the apples!"

It would have done your heart good to have seen the joy of the
master, the modest blushes of Tom Price, and the satisfaction of
every honest bo