COULDN’T TELL A LIE.
Senator Elkins, deploring at a dinner in Washington the dishonest methods of one type of business man, said with a smile: “It all brings back to me a dialogue I once heard in a southern school. “ ‘Children,’ said the teacher, ‘be diligent and steadfast, and you will succeed. Take the case of George Washington, whose birthday we are soon to celebrate. Do you remember me telling you of the great difficulty George Washington had to contend against?” “ ‘Yes, ma’am,’ said a little boy. ’He couldn’t tell a lie.’ ” —Los Angeles Times.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1057, 9 June 1910, Page 23
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95COULDN’T TELL A LIE. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1057, 9 June 1910, Page 23
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