January Readings
The Honest Woodman by Emilie Poulsson
Someone Sees You by unknown author
George Washington and the Cherry Tree by Berg Esenwein
Matilda Who Told Lies by Hillary Belloc
Rebecca's Afterthought by Elizabeth Turner
The Indian Cinderella by Cyrus Macmillan
The Character of a Happy Life by Henry Wotton
Honest Abe by Horatio Alger
The Boy Who Went to the Sky by Carolyn Bailey
Truth, Falsehood, Fire, and Water by unknown author
Truth by Ben Johnson
The Good Bishop by Victor Hugo
Nobility by Alice Cary
Truth Never Dies by unknown author
Pinocchio by unknown author
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
by Aesop
There was once a shepherd boy who kept his flock at a little distance
from the village. Once he thought he would play a trick on the villagers
and have some fun at their expense. So he ran toward the village
crying out, with all his might:
"Wolf,Wolf! Come and help! The wolves are
at my lambs!"
The kind villagers left their work and ran to the field to help
him. But when they got there the boy laughed at them for their pains;
there was no wolf there.
Still another day the boy tried the same trick, and the villagers
came running to help and were laughed at again.
Then one day a wolf did break into the fold and began killing
the lambs. In great fright, the boy ran back for help. "Wolf!
Wolf!" he screamed. "There is a wolf in the flock! Help!"
The villagers heard him, but they thought it was another mean
trick; no one paid the least attention, or went near him. And the
shepherd boy lost all his sheep.
That is the kind of thing that happens to people who lie: even
when they do tell the truth they will not be believed.
The Boy Who Never Told a Lie
author unknown
Once there was a little boy,
With curly hair and pleasant eye-
A boy who always told the truth,
And never, never told a lie.
And when he trotted off to school,
The children all about would cry,
"There goes the curly-headed boy-
The boy that never tells a lie."
And everybody loved him so,
Because he always told the truth,
That every day, as he grew up,
'Twas said, "There goes the honest youth."
and when the people that stood near
Would turn to ask the reason why,
The answer would always be this:
"Because he never tells a lie."
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