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TEMPTATION.
The lamb had found her in loneliness, and she loved it and loved to follow it, and would go wherever it should go. So she went on, and the sun-a sum- mer's sun was setting, and her shadow stretched away before her as if she were tall as a tree. She was thinking of home, and wondering if she should ever reach it, when the lamb of a sudden sprang away over a gentle knoll, and as she reached it, her sportive playmate had found the flock from which it had strayed, and they were both within sight of home. The lamb had led Mary home. Now, dear child, do you see the bearing
