"Wherefor?"
"You must occasionally, my boy, just as a matter of safeguarding future ventures, start in and scatter a few truths."
"Pooh!" said Stover, with the memory of cheers. "Any fool can tell the truth."
"Yes, but——"
"It's such a lazy way!"
"Still——"
"Enervating!"
"But——"
"Besides, now they expect something more from me."
"True," said the Tennessee Shad, "but don't you see, Dink, if you do tell the truth no one will believe you."