HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.
One day a Kaffir girl in South Africa went to a missionary and dropped four sixpences into his hand, saying, " There is your money." " You don't owe me anything," replied the teacher. " I do," she answered ; " and I will tell you how. At the public examination you promised a sixpence to any one of the class I was in who would write the best specimen on a slate. I gave in my slate and got the sixpence ; but you did not know then that another person wrote that specimen for me. Yesterday you were reading in the church about Zaccheus, who said, ' If 'I have taken anything from any man by falso accusation, I restore him four fold.' I took from you one sixpence and I bring you back four."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4165, 26 August 1881, Page 4
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134HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4165, 26 August 1881, Page 4
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