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Brother Dallas relates the following experience: One day my little sister and I were playing in the yard. Mother had some little ducks and I would put one of them in a tub of water to see him swim. Also, I would put him under the water and hold him there. One time I held him too long. He was a drowned duck. When I saw that I had drowned him I was horrified, for I knew that sister would tell Mother. But, as I was thus perplexed, my little sister said, "I will tell you what I will do; if you will do everything I ask you to do I will not tell Mother." This was a happy solution and I said, "Anything you want in this world let me know and I will do it." We had a little wagon and soon sister appeared, seated herself in the wagon and said, "Pull me." Well I did till I was tired. Then she looked at me, with a kind of a tyrannical look, and said, "Pull me some more." Well days went by and I woke up to the fact that I was a slave. I could not endure it and made up my mind to go to Mother and have it fixed up regardless. So I went into the room crying pitifully and Mother took me in her arms and said, "Son, what is the matter?" And finally I sobbed out, "Mother I've drowned one of your ducks." "Well," she said, "you did not mean to do it and you are so sorry, I will forgive you this time, go on and play." I never felt so light and good in all my life. Finally, little sister appeared and made some drastic demands on me, and I looked in her face and said, "I will not do it." Then she said, with her finger in my face, "Do you remember that duck?" Then I looked her in the eyes and said, "Duck? I want to tell you that duck business is all fixed up." It may be expensive to get matters fixed up but surely pays in many ways.
By William Moses Tidwell, "Effective Illustrations."
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