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     boy’s mother asked him if he had fed the puppy, he said he     had.”            All of the children agreed that it was a very bad thing     to do.  “So,” I asked, “what should he have done?”            Every hand went up, and I was glad to be back to the     lesson.  I called on the first child.            “He should have put the puppy outside so his mother     wouldn’t have heard it.”            “Well,” I said, “I suppose he could have done that,     but it wouldn’t have solved the problem.”  I called on     another child.            “He could have made his little sister feed it.”            Not daring to let anyone else answer, I mentioned     that the honest thing to do would have been to tell his     mother that he had not fed the puppy, and then get up and     feed it.            “But what if it was dark and he stepped in something     the puppy left on the floor?”            I didn’t even want to try and answer that question, so     I just told some more stories about honesty, with similar     results from the children.  Finally, as we were getting                                        3
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