An old school master said one day to a minister who had come
to examine the school:
“I believe the children know the Catechism word for word.”
“But do they understand it?
That is the question,” said the minister.
The school master only bowed respectively and the
examination began.
A little boy had repeated the fifth commandment, “Honor they
father and they mother,” and he was desired to explain it.
Instead of trying to do so, the little boy, with his face
covered with blushes, said almost in a whisper:
“Yesterday I showed some strange gentlemen over the
hill. The sharp stones cut my feet, and
the gentlemen saw that they were bleeding and they gave me money to buy me
shoes. I gave the money to my mother,
for she had no shoes either, and I thought I could go barefoot better than she
could.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 1
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