Show GOOD A SKETCH FOR PARENTS the journal in an article on indirect lying and unfairness in business thus clust a ates altes the K 1 da danger or of being too sharp in a trade yo go out into the country for example to purchase a superior cow and call on one of the tha honest sons of tha soil and it would not bs be very difficult to find a rain nun who would show himself as cunning canning and selfish as any trader or man abac aurer let latus us illustrate tuch such an interview by a colloquy between a citizen and a fann farinda far indr r and we wa beg bag of 0 ir reader to watch the workings of secretiveness to gratify acquisitiveness CITIZEN 1 11 I am in pursuit of a fine fide cow and understanding der at tile the hoel ho el that th at you you kept a large flock of very excellent ones I 1 have caged to took look at them and to sac if I 1 could miko make m iko a purchase to please me I 1 am not very particular as to prices so ao I 1 but obtain 10 one ne of th very best FARMER well yes I 1 have a largo large flock and they have the reputation of being excellent they have cost me ma much ciuch care care and pains in their s le lec w ion but I 1 cant say as I 1 wish to sell a any n y of them when a man has a good article which he wants to use h L ia is not w ddll 11 to dispose of it C true but I 1 would like to look at them F oh certainly I 1 will show thin tham with pla pleasure asure but understand I 1 dont promise to sell one at any price prica I 1 faey go to the farmyard farm yard and a little son odthe of the farmer farmar follows to see sea and heir hear and in doing so tak ps liis As first lesson in the tricks of trade for be il i remain rn m jred rad that every evary act of tha parent stamps its I 1 impress upon the young mind which ineffaceable I 1 C Sc scanning aaning a loan I 1 common coalition looking animal which by the way was one of the best nril kars rs in I 1 the flock and low in flesh from her milking I 1 ti s yet it was in early winter whiter when thoss those q lali ties I 1 would not be apparent whit what is that cow worth F 1 11 I suppose about twenty five dollars on an elevated elava tad place stands a fleshy noble looking cow the poorest of the whole and fat because ht her pod food went to flesh flash rather thou thaulo to milk ilk it catches the tha adail admiring ring eye of lh he e inexperienced citizen wid a id hs he eagerly e inquires what will you sell that one tor for F oil dont say anything to me about that cow slie she is a very pecci lur ir one and more than that she belongs to pay my wife n ife I 1 told you I 1 did not care to sell any and this thi ona anol I 1 should hardly expect to sell 11 ai af af ah b basics bas sides ids I 1 should not like to hava ny my kiwo wife ff by selling a favorite of hers john turning to his hoy boy who wao is to see his father hesitate a mo iu in ut nt abo about U t se selling iff ug this rai miserable vicious unruly beast whose smal mess of milk is as thin as that sold by groton pump aco in new york john mother will bo ba in m our oui lair hair if we sell sel t fitt fill fl tile tiia name nama s rikes tha th buyers ear j just ast as I 1 i was intended to do auche and he presses an ases tile the farmer far ner for a price F 1 I will not say I 1 willnell will sell her at aa any y puce price unless my wife will consent I 1 dont behave in family quarrels the rna boy johnis johni is surprised at his fathers once anee to sail aud and entertains not the slightest ehg idest doubt but his mot will joyo sly isly consent toi th the sale the stra strang r is is to and finally anally the obliging farmr says s now mind I 1 dalt agree to s astl 11 at any price without my bif s cons consent nit and I 1 wib wi 1 s sal t such a as will doubty ss cool ybur ardor without th tha ne essiy essiw of caling my wife niec forty do lars is la he arico anse C wo we corsat cons ailt the good 1 bady ad abid ai d see wha she wiil siy say s iy if sh vill will cons nt jit I 1 will uke t iks tha aminah F 1 I know kaow what wn at slie sie will say and if you isit upon it we will rater it tu to ht hu r tny brocad to tho the housa hous the farmer taking th the 13 load lead to gat adt lh first word and the boy following follow ng anxious to have hava ins his moL mothers hers assent to tho the sas and arora urge tua barga bargain i n i 11 wea 4 mother this gentleman gont leman is very vary anxious to buy old iiii ill pan pall and nd I 1 told him yes yi s 1 the wits wife in in apparent angor anger laud and you TOLD HIM lie hs might have hr her I 1 war warrant i raut it is is aist j hed alta h ed yo i to sell sail tile the b U st cow wa va have well do us as yaa s i fika wo we might as well give up trying to rn ike butter and chaess ch osa a tog ther with a red rad flea t aca and an angry air she leaves the room slamming slain m ig the door after her there says sas the tha farral x 1 11 I a it would be john tha honest boy was astonished he had heard taa cow inadi tn ane a subject of censures for years b by all the family aly and now whon anon a double puce price is is 0 ared tai far her his father holds back and his mother gets angry hd hc dont and it but you are in in a fair way of doing so wait a little and you will be wise and know more of the world trie ine stra ngar takes the bait counts cants out the forty dollars dim 4 laz farrier apparently draws back from it saying saving 1 I dout dont think I 1 0 ight to take the money you had bettor batter not take the tha cow all true though j not intended to be so regarded he takes take s th the e mone mousy ey and the stranger sti anger departs with ith his purchase pur chass ss the mother ret returns arns smiling like a rs and father chuc chucking kUng over his money says with an arch wink to his hin wife 1 I think when tie he hus had that cow half as as we have he will vv in be glad giad to take less than half what he majd p id for her I 1 this un riddles to the boys unsophisticated mind the hypocrisy of the whole transaction and he shrinks back from his parents as sa scheming herning liars to him it looks aitio robbery to take twenty five dollars more for I 1 the tow than she was wad worl aud and like lying thus to deceive the stranger by such backhanded back handed means H hd has been wid ped for lying and taught that he must be honest and he can see sae no difference between taking a lie lia and acting it under the influence of filial love ho he begins to re reason t and he is widing un to condemn his parents to the degre dalion of liars and robbers he reviews ahe guarded modes of 01 expression by the father and mother his father did not say it WAS the best cow in the flock and told the mau man 11 ne ae had better not take the animal that he would not sell her unless his bis moth would consent to it it IL was not exactly lying after all besides Bs his father stood high in so society city lie was called colonel and esq had been u representative was a trustee of tile the Keli giol lis society school committee and every every body loor looked ed up to liim as a man of honor his mother loo was intimate in the family of the and had the bes company in town therefore they were good people and their example worthy of imitation full ot of this pleasing unc uniti n to his outraged conscience and poss possessing sahig withal through throng hereditary transmission a similar tendency to shrewdness and money loving as that of his parents he began to meditate a method of profiting by his first lesson in keen business management why cant I 1 sell tuat soft worthless new knife I 1 bouget of the rascally the other day iu in the same manner that father sold the cow let me see I 1 have the 1 plan and I 1 will have the money and I 1 wont tell a lie I either I 1 can steer clear of that he carefully car fully whets his knife and as carefully pockets a soft stick and then with a veil of honest looks proceeds to school at recess he very capeless y draws forth his bis knife and begins to whittle it cuts cats finely the boys flock around gager eager to see it and to learn what he paid for it 1 I got it cheap only awen ty five cents bea ea it cut I 1 ill give you twenty five 5 says one 1 I guess you will hays john after I 1 have run ran the tha risk of getting a bad ad one and proved it see it cut I 1 ill give you thirty ill give 1 you forty says another and heres the I 1 I 1 money F arty being a golden number in the ear of john he quietly pockets we tae mon money moneys as soon as the school ball rings and therall they all go into their heir books jolin john to re boico in in the sut his ex experiment pe and charley to anticipate the pleasure his excellent cutting knife will affo aal 0 d him I 1 9 As soon as tho the school is sed while charley is hunting a good hard stick slick to show the other boys how gloriously it will cut john makes mabesa ah haste I 1 lor or home to bounce his success and to bank his money almost oot of breath he enters the house exclaiming exclaim exclaiming in I 1 father I 1 have sold that pewter faced knife which ai I 1 bought of the peddler at twenty five cents for forty I 1 I 1 I 1 entis cents A AWL I 1 ah have you yon but hoy how dilyou manage you I 1 d I 1 ant tell a lie did you johnny you yon must inest never lie you know oh no sir I 1 sharpened it very nicely took ook a soft tick stick in my pocket and kept wh illing said nothing and let them bid but who bought and have you got your money charley sumner who always has money bought it and here are the forty cents right you should never lie and always get your pay down to prevent after trouble I 1 say mother johnny is pretty smart we must make a merchant of him eh what think you well he HAS done well with the knife knifa surely I 1 always thought he would he be somebody aud alid get rich besides charles is better able to pay a high price for a poor I 1 knife than johnny bring the money to me m my y 8 son on and I 1 will save it for you I 1 this was lesson number two and the boy from kropi propitious ious beginning aind ng kept ep practicing practising i ng until he was old enough enoca to enter a sora s ora us cler clerk I 1 his i ss afa father a or kept ept him short of change for his new situation all and desiring to appear welt well with his associates he began by borrowing small sums from the money drawer design b jug to pay it out of the first remittance mit tance buethe but the economic I 1 lather father desiring to keep hire him short to 0 teach him economy econome neglected the penurious remia remittance tt uce until the boy had secretly borrowed the tha nuu full 11 amount amant of what he received from his father i and lie ha could not pay it then and finally after some 1 s ruggles wih his defaced conscientiousness and urged bais by y his necessities he decided not to pay it at all i i ho ha went on in thi s way borrowing and never pay I 1 I 1 ing until lie he robbed his master of a large amoul amount lt and ended his life ti a villain villainy his parents pocketed a few extra dollars for a cow by means of a circuitous falsehood their son imbibed j the and that education shaped his future who will say go thou and do likewise 1 Copy copyright rigi it secured j |