e say, right
after her, "Mamma, if you tell _me_, I _sant_ do it, too."

Oh! my dear little reader, this was worse than the most
dreadful punishment to Annie, to think that she had been so
naughty, and that her example had caused Lillie to be naughty
too, and her heart sank, as she looked up and saw her kind
mother sitting there, the great tears falling one by one upon
her clasped hands, and her sorrowful eyes fixed upon her
children.

With a grieved cry, Annie rushed to her mother and threw her
arms around her neck, and kissed her, and wiped the tears
away, and said, "Hush! hush! dear mother. Oh! do stop crying!
and I will never, never do so again," and little Lillie, who
was only three years old then, and hardly knew how wrong she
had acted, in her desire to imitate her sister, in everything,
clung to her mother and said, "What for you _ki_, mamma? don't
_ki_," and so it came to pass that Annie never forgot this
terrible lesson, but strove with all her might to set her
sister and brother a good example, and begged her good and
pious mother to make a little prayer for her, that she might
be strengthened from above.

This is the prayer her mother made, which Annie said every
night and morning, with her other prayers, and Aunt Fanny who
is writing this, begs you, dear little readers, to learn this
prayer; if you only say it _from your heart_, I know it will
help you.

"O God, my Heavenly Father, send thy Holy Spirit to help me to
be good myself, and to set a good example to others. Take all
the wicked disobedient thoughts out of my heart. Make me a
comfort and a joy to my dear parents, and prepare me to live
with Thee and my dear little sister now in Heaven. For Jesus,
my Saviour's sake, Amen."

You have no idea how good and lovely Annie became after this.
God answered her prayer.

In the summer time Lillie and the rest would go into the country
to see her grandfather, of whom she was very fond, and well she
might be, for he was one of the best and dearest grandfathers in
the whole world. He was a gentleman of the old school, and treated
even children with a stately courtesy; but while, at the same time,
the children nestled to him with the most fearless confidence and
love, they would as soon have thought of cutting their heads off,
as of giving him one disrespectful word or look.

In the very next house to Lillie's grandfather's, lived "little
Alice," about whom you have heard in "Nightcaps."

Alice alwa