"Not the eighth--if I had kept the half-sovereign I should havebroken it," exclaimed Fanny, "for that says, thou shalt not steal--whatcommandment did I break, grandmother; for I did not steal?"

"When we desire to have what is not ours Fanny, what do we do? wecovet; do we not?"

"0h! yes--thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods," cried Fanny,"that is the twelveth commandment; and that half-sovereign was myneighbor's goods, and that portly gentleman was my neighbor. But,grandmother, it is somewhat easy to break the twelveth commandment."