KEEPING HIS CHILDREN HONEST.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 131, 7 August 1895, Page 4

KEEPING HIS CHILDREN HONEST.

♦ A seedy-looking individual called at a house one day and thus addressed the mistress: "Madam, I don't ask very much. I only ask a pittance. lam not hungry, and if you were to give me employment at your woodpile, it would only delay me from a scheme I have outlined wheieby lean make an honest living for myself and little ones. 3 simply ask for five shillings to help along my enterprise.'' "And have you a family in destitute circumstances ?" inquired the lady, with sympathy in her face. "I have," was the reply. "I have eight chilhren, and I am trying to bring them up to le-id honest lives. I cannot bear to tbmi that one of them should ever bo driven to do air, - thing that was not honest." "Will this holp you?" asked the lady, with tears in her voice, at the same time handing him live shillings. "It. will indeed," was the reply. "It will help me to carry out my enterprise during these warm, autumn diys." " ind what is this enterprise of yours, my good man ?" inquired the kind lady, with the deepest interest. 'T am going to purchase a boat, madam, with which I shall be able to steal wood enough from II not only to keep my family warm this winter, but also have some to sell. My children, my dear children, shall rot be givon t» act=> of dishonesty through their father's poverfv. Kind madam, may Heaven bless you for thiß contribution."