Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1914 — No, Not as a Rule. [ARTICLE]

No, Not as a Rule.

George P. Angell, Boston’s brilliant and powerful defender of animals from cruelty, was talking about nature faking. “My friend, Will Long is no nature faker,” he said, “but I admit that many of our myriad nature writers are. These men’s Idea of a lie seems too closely to resemble that of a little boy I know. “The boy’s teacher said from her desk one afternoon: "‘I want every pupil who has never told a lie to hold up his hand.* “There was a doubtful pause. Two or three hands were raised. Then my little friend piped out: “ ‘Teacher, Is it a Be If nobody finds it outF "