WAS IT ANY WONDER?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 17.

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WAS IT ANY WONDER?

“I AM so distressed,” said a mother to her boy’s teacher, “that Freddie could deceive you so. I can’t imagine why he is so untruthful; his father is truth itself, and I am sure no one ever heard me tell a lie. Call him in,” she added, turning to her little daughter.
“He won’t come if he knows Miss — is here,” said the child.
“Say it’s grandma wants him,” suggested her mother; “that will fetch him.”
And yet she wondered at her boy’s untruthfulness. —Anon.