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TOUCH NOT—TASTE NOT.

The next day James was sent home; but Sarah stayed with her aunt much longer; and when she went home, her aunt gave her two baskets of fine fruit to carry to her father and mother.

Sarah might be trusted. She had none of that idle curiosity, and that desire to taste of every thing, which had led James to do so foolishly. And James has been careful ever since not to meddle with what does not belong to him.