“CHILDREN CAN BE TAUGHT LIFE”
When I was ten, my father showed me a cucumber in a bottle. The neck of the bottle w T as small and the cucumber was so large that it was impossible for it to pass through. I asked my Dad how it got inside. For answer, he got a bottle, and led me to the garden. With great curiosity, I watched him slip the bottle over a little cucumber still on the vine. Then I understood. It had grown in the bottle!
My father turned to me and said: “Son, I often seen men with habits that I wonder any sensible person could form; and I think that probably they grew into the habits like the cucumber in the bottle when they were young and can’t get out of them now. Look out for such habits, son.”
To this day I have never forgotten his words.—(Copied Readers Digest).
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 8, 21 March 1947, Page 6
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154“CHILDREN CAN BE TAUGHT LIFE” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 8, 21 March 1947, Page 6
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