Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-05-22

niittee, and everybody looked up to him as a
man of honor. His mother, too, was intimate
in the family of the minister, and had the
best company in town. Therefore they were
good people, and their example worthy OF
imitation. Full of this pleasing JUNCTION to
his outraged conscience, and possessing with
al, hereditary transmission, similar tenden-
cy to shrewdness and money-loving as that
of his parents lie began to mediate meth
cd of proiting 10y his first lesson in keen
business management "Why can't l sell that
soft, worthless new knife bought of the ras.
cally pedlar the other day in the same man
ner that father sold the COW? Let me see,
have the plan, aud will have the money,
aud ! wOn'ttell lie either. | can steer clear
of that"
lie carefully whets his knife, and as care
| fully pockets n soft stick, and then with n
veil of honest looks proceeds to school. AT
recess, he very carelessly draws forth his
knife and stick, and begins to whiitle. IL
cuts finely. The boys flock around, eager
to zee it, aud to learn what he paid for it,
Igot i cheap-only twenty-five cents see
il cut"
am give you twenty-five" says one.
~ guess you will, ;" says John, safer have
run the risk of getting u bad one, and proved
il. See il cut"
"Pll give you thirty"
"l'll give you forty" says another; "nnd
here's the money" Forty, being golden
number in the ear of John, he quietly pock
cts the money Just as the school bell rings,
aud they all go into their books-John TO
rejoice in the success of his experiment;
and Charley, to anticipate the pleasure his
excellent cutting knife will afford him.
A. a,l,arI = ,I,gn,.gguI ,stb,la
Charley is hunting for a good hard stick to
show the other boys how gloriously it will
cut - John makes all haste for home, TO
announce his success, and TO bank his
money. Almost out of breath he enters
the house excaming, "Father, have sold
that pewter-faced knife which bought of
the pedlur at twenty-five cents, for forty
cents" "Ah! have you? But how did
you manage? You didn't tell lie, did
you, Johnny? You must never lie, you
know" "Oh, no. sir, | sharpened il very
nicely-took a soft stick in my pocket, and
kept whitting-sad nothing, aud let them
bid"
But who bought? and have you got your
money!"
"Charley Sumnerwho always has money,
bought it, and here ure the forty cents"
"Thars right; you should never lie, and
always get your pay down TO prevent after
trouble. ! say, mother johnny is pretty
smart. We mist make merchant Of him.
eh-what think you ?
swell, he has done well with the knife,
surely, aud always thought he would be
somebody, and get rich; besides, Charley is
better able to pay high price for n poor knife
than johnny. Bring the money to me, my
son, aud will save it for you"
This is lesson, number two, and the boy, |
from this propitions beginning kept practice |
until he was old enough to enter n store as
clerk. His ihther kept him short of change
for his new situation, and desiring to appear |
well with his associates, he began by bor-
rowing small sums from the money-drawer, |
designing TO pay it out of the first remittance. |
But the economical father, desiring TO keep |
him Short TO teach him economy, neglected |
the penurious remittance until the boy had |
secretly borrowed the full amount of what |
he received from his father, aud he cannot |
pay it then; and finally after some struggles
with his defaced Conscieniiousness, and urg- |
ed by his necessities, decided not to pay it at
all.
lie went on in this way. borrowing, and
never paying, until he robbed his master of
n large amount, aud ended his life vii
lnin.
His parents pocketed few extra dollars
for n COW, by means OF circuitous ialsehood
their son imbibed the education, and that
education shaped his future.
Who will say, "Gn thou and do likewise ~