"
"Enough said--good morning," the teacher answered as he went away.
One morning a few days later the teacher opened his school with
more remarks.
"The other day," said he, "I spoke of a thing it was very necessary
for us to learn. What was it?"
"To obey," said a youngster.
"Obey what?" the teacher inquired.
"Law," somebody ventured.
"Correct; we're studying law--every one of us--the laws of grammar,
of arithmetic, of reading, and so on. We are learning to obey
them. Now I am going to ask you what is the greatest law in the
world?"
There was a moment of silence. Then the teacher wrote these words
in large letters on the blackboard; "Thou shalt not lie."
"There is the law of laws," said the teacher, solemnly. "Better
never have been born than not learn to obey it. If you always tell
the truth, you needn't worry about any other law. Words are like
money--some are genuine, some are counterfeit. If a man had a bag
of counterfeit money and kept passing it, in a little while nobody
would take his money. I knew a man who said he killed four bears
at one shot. There's some that see too much when they're looking
over their own gun-barrels. Don't be one of that kind.
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