Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Good and Bad. [ARTICLE]

Good and Bad.

One dgy little Robert's father saw him pi lying with some boys who were rude and unmannerly. He had observed for aoese time a change for the worse in his aaa, and now Jm knew the ca—e. He was verson* but he said nothing to Robert " In the evening he brought from the garden six beautiful rosy-checked apples, put them on a plate ana presented them to Robert. - He was much plaaaed .at hia father’s kindness, and thanked him. “You must lay them aside a few days, that they may become mellow,” said the father; end Robert chesrfully placed the plate with the apples in hia mother’s storeroom. i ' . | .• Z t Just aa he was putting them aside hia lather laid on the plate a seventh apple, which was quite rotten, and desired hfaa to allow it to remain there, “But, father,” said Robert, “the rotten apple will ipofl the others.” “Do you think sos Why should not tbs fresh apples rather make the rotten one fresh r* said his father And with these words he shat the door Of the room. Borne days afterward he asked his son to open the store-room door and take out the apples. Bat what a sight presented itself! The six apples which had been so round and rosy-checked were now quite rotten, and spread a bad smell through the room. “O papal” cried he, “did I not tell you that the rotten apples would spoil the good ones t yet yea did not listen to me.” “My boy,” said his lather, “have I not told you often that the company of bad children will make you bads yet you do not listen to me. Bee in the condition of the apples that which will happen to you it you keep company with bad boys.” Robert aid not forget the lesson. When any of hia former play-fellows asked him to join in their sports, he thought ot the rotten apples and kept himself apart from them.— Children't Record. "