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HE COULD SAY NO

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Sep 28, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 38.

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HE COULD SAY NO.

By Rev. Charles Garret

A little fellow who had been brought up a staunch teetotaler was about to be apprenticed. The foreman offered him a glass of beer. The little fellow said: “I never touch that stuff.”
“Hallo, youngster,” replied the foreman, “we have no teetotalers here.”
“If you have me, you’ll have one,” returned the boy.
The foreman was irritated, and, holding up the glass of beer, he said: “Now my boy there is only one master here; you’ll either have this inside or outside.”
The little fellow said: “Well, you can please yourself. I brought my clean jacket with me and a good character. You may spoil my jacket, but you can’t spoil my character.”—Rev. Charles Garret.