--(Knitting his brow.)--"Yes, as Andrew and Julia did!
would it not?"
_Josephine_.--(surprised.)--"Of whom do you speak, Mark? Is it
of "The Happy Family," in which an Andrew and a Julia are mentioned.
Have you ever read that beautiful story?"
"Here it is," said Mark, drawing the tract from his pocket, and
giving it to his sister.
_Josephine_.--"Yes, this is it, exactly! But brother, where did
you get it, for it is quite new; did you buy it of a _Scripture
Reader_."
"Did I _buy_ it?" said Mark, sullenly. "Do you suppose I should
spend my money in such nonsense as _that?_"
_Josephine_.--"Then how did you get it? Did any one give it you?"
_Mark_.--(Slyly.)--"Ah! they have often tried to give me some,
but I tore them to pieces, and threw them away, before their faces!"
_Josephine_.--"So much the worse, Mark! for the truth of God is
written in them, and it is very sinful to tear the truth of God in
pieces."
_Mark_.--(Rudely.)--"But you see I have not torn this, for it
is quite whole! And as you are so anxious to know how I came by it, I
found it on the ground, near the road, and just beyond the brushwood.
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