"Willie," said the teacher sternly, "what did I whip you for yesterday?"
"Fer lyin'," promptly answered Willie; "an' I was jest wonderin' who was goin' to whip you."
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one.—Pope.
A Boston minister once noticed a crowd of urchins clustered around a dog of doubtful pedigree.
"What are you doing, my little men?" he asked, with fatherly interest.
"Swappin' lies," volunteered one of the boys. "The feller that tells the biggest one gets the purp."
"Shocking!" exclaimed the minister. "Why, when I was your age I never thought of telling an untruth."
"Youse win," chorused the urchins. "The dog's yours, mister."