I knew I was 'a naughty child,'never entertained any doubts on the subject; in fact I almost enjoyed my naughtiness in a savage desperate kind of way because I utterly despaired of getting any better, except by being 'made a Christian,' which as months passed on, leaving me rather worse than better, was a less and less hoped-for, though more and more longed-for change.

She saw the red marks across the little hand, but refrained from making much of it; and then, after putting his curly head in order, she drew it to her shoulder, and putting her arms round him, she said, 'My sonny, mother is so glad her little son feels his naughtiness.

She talked constantly of the Six Teachers, and a word about them was enough to quell any rising naughtiness.

All regretted that the punishment had to be inflicted and the children made to realize their naughtiness in thus running away, and all were looking forward to the hour of six o'clock with pleasant anticipation.

The author, indeed, had not the settled purpose of the facetious writers we have just dispraised, of making game of the subject of his book, no more than he has the wit and cleverness which half redeem their naughtinesses.

O forgive and wash away All my naughtiness this day, And both when I sleep and wake Bless me for my Savior's sake.