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Judith well knew the fault was hers,
  And greatly did she fear
To take the threatened punishment
  Which she deserved to bear.

So, on her little sister she
  Contrived the blame to lay,
And said she heard her tell the tale
  At home that very day.

The little, frightened, trembling child
  With truth the charge denied;
But Judith said, before the school,
  That little Sallie lied.

And so she bore what would have been
  The wicked Judith's due,—
The punishment for telling tales,
  And speaking falsely, too.

Weeping and sobbing she went home,
  Her little heart was full;
And Sallie was a child of truth,
  So they believed the whole.

Papa made Judith go to school,
  And there, before them all,
Own how deceitful she had been;
  Then on her knees to fall