Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — The Fanner and the Small Boy. [ARTICLE]

The Fanner and the Small Boy.

A Farmer once put his dinner on the fire to cook and started for the field, having first hired a Small Boy to stay in the house and announce when the dinner was cooked by calling through the window; but the Boy deceived the Farmer three times by calling him too soon. Finally the Farmer said to himself: “This Boy is such an awful liar that I will not come when he calls again.” Pretty soon the dinner was really ready, and the Boy called. The Farmer did not come, and the Boy devoured the dinner. Moral: This fable teaches that it pays to believe even a liar when he tells the truth.— Life.