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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

inspection, I judged it but decent to confess these low motives, and I
did so.

If the Model Boy was in either of these Sunday-schools, I did nofc
see him. The Model Boy of my time—we never had but the one-
was perfect • perfect in manners, perfect in dress, perfect in condusfc,

perfect in filial piety, perfect in exterior
godliness; but at bottom he was a
prig; and as for the'- contents of hk
skuii, they could have changed place with the contents of a pie aufl
nobody would have been the worse off for it but the pie. This fellow^
reproachlessness was a standing reproach to every lad in the village,
He was the admiration of all the mothers, and the detestation of aS
their sons. I was told what became of him, but as it was a disappoisfc
to me, I will not enter into details. He succeeded in life,