Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — The Moral of the Moral. [ARTICLE]

The Moral of the Moral.

The persistency with which children see some other moral in a fable than the one which it Is Intended that they shall see is often distressing, and sometimes really instructive, to their elders. A mother had recited to her little boy the story of the wolf and the lamb, and followed it up with the remark: “And now you see, Willy, that the lamb would not have been eaten by the wolf if he had been good and sensible.** “Yes, I understand, mamma,” said Willy; “If the lamb had been good and sensible, we should have had him to eat!”