It is this way of regarding himself and his master which makes theBoy generally such a faithful servant; but he oftwelve has a sort ofspurious conscience, too, growing out of the fond pride with which hecherishes his good name, so that you do not strain the truth to saythat he is strictly honest. Veracity is the point on which he isweakest, but even in this there are exceptions. My last Boy wascuriously scrupulous about the truth, and would rarely tell a lie,even to shield himself from blame, though he would do so to get thehamal into a scrape.