The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-02-03
Exaggernting.

TIM almost dead! II is as hot as
fire. and I've been more than dozen
miles after that colt =
Andrew threw himself ut full length
on the lounge and vii red the perspra-
ton from his forehead
Where did yol goP" asked his
father.
II went over to Briggs corner and
back by the br dye
That is less than u m lie and half
II is so very warm, Andyp 1t seems
quite cool here.
NO. not so dreadful. don't sup
pose, ii Ed t,ken IL no torate, but | ran
/ Ike lightning and got heated up xss
You started about tive o'clock, my
son, and now it lacks a quarter of six"
said his father, consulting his watch.
: Yes, sir, just three-quarters Of an
hour" answered Andrew, innocently.
Docs il take lightning forty-fve
minutes to go a mile and a halfp'
= didn't mean exactly that, father,
but ran all the way, because ] expect
ed the whole town would be here to-
night to see my new yeloc 'pcde," ex-
planned Andrew, reluctantly.
Whom did you expect, AndyP /
WASH { aware $ eh a crowd was to be
herep What will yon do with them alp"
"Jim, Eddy and Tim told me they'd
be round after school, and | wouldn't
wonder ii Ike anne, too; that's all"
"The population of the town is five
thousand. and you expect three of them;
we'll. MS you are very sick, I'm glad no
more are coming. You couldn't play
with them at all"
'Sickn' cried Andrew, springing to
his feet; 'who says I'm sickP''
why, Andrew, you said YOU were
almost dead. doesn't that mean very
sickP"
you are so particular, father, about
my talking! don't exactly mean what
| say, of course. | wasn't nearly dead,
to be sure, but did some tall running.
YOU betl There was m ore than fifty
dogs after me, and don't go much on
dogs v
..Quite band of them Where did
they all come fromP"
There was Mr.. Wheeler sheep dog.
and Rush's store dog, and two or three
more. and they made for me. and SO
ran as fast rs | could"
Five at the most are not fifty, Andy"
mere lODhett W ne my, ally Whys
replied Andrew, somewhat impatiently,
Carriers ten acre lot was full of dogs
Just making for me, and | guess you'd
thought there were fifty if it had been
you.
Ten acres of dogs would be great
many thousand; have you any idea how
manyP'
Andrew did not like TO calculate, for
il occurred TO him what small space
ten or fifteen thousand sheep would oc-
cupy when camping and ten acres of
dogs would be past calculation.
But" his father continued, Il
know no better way to break you of the
foolish habit OF exaggcration than TO
tell the children the trouble you had in
going after the colt. You ran like
lightning, encountered ten acres of dogs,
which would be hundreds of thousands.
travelled more than dozen miles TO get
one and half miles in u straight line,
expected to find five thousand people
here to examine your new velocipede,
and when you reached home was near
ly dead"
"Please don't, father, the boys and
girls will all laugh themselves to death.
and | won't cxaggerate again If | live
to be rs old az Methusalah!"
Laugh themselves to death at
simple st Try like this? hope not. But
that il will rather set them to watching
their own manner of telling stories, 10
to be sure they do n t greatly overstate
things. Habit, my son, grows with
years, and becomes. in time, so deeply
rooted that it will be impossible for you,
when you become man, to relate plain.
unvarnished facts, unless you check the
foolish habit YOU indulge in every day
of stretching simple incidents into the
most maryeldu; tales Christian
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