It nearly broke the heart of Silas, only in hunting for it he found the golden curls of a little child who helped to save him and make a good man of him.
Near by was an old pit, full of water, and some years later in draining off the water, they found a skeleton with a bag of gold beside him. It was the bones of the young fellow who stole it, and who had fallen in, years before, and been drowned.
But there at last, it was all seen, and his dishonesty was published to the whole district.
And dishonesty does come out, and even if the dishonest act is never known in itself, it comes out in the life that has lost its truth and beauty and grown mean and unworthy, so that nobody believes in it.
It leaves a bad black stain wherever any one is dishonest.
Therefore, dear girls and boys, be honest.
"Be true, little laddie, be true,
From your cap to the toe of your shoe."
XVIII
"LIMPY LATE"
There are some people who are like a cow's tail—they are always behind.