A008  It Is Always Better to Tell the Truth

     It is always better to tell the truth. When I was a child, approximately eight years old, there was a question about whether I had told the truth about an incident in our house. My mother set me down and told me a story about when she was a young girl. It was very hard back in the early 1930s, 1940s. And groceries were expensive, food was expensive, and she decided one day when her mother was at work, to make the bread. But, she didn�ft know all of the ingredients. She could not get the bread to rise. Afraid that her mother would be angry because she wasted the flour and the ingredients that she had used, she took the dough and buried it in the yard, and did not tell anyone what she had done. The very next day, when the sun came out, and warmed the ground, the bread began to rise. And all of the chickens from the yard came and started picking at the dough. Granny came in and wanted to know why the chickens were picking at the ground in that spot and what were they picking at. 
     So my mother at that point had to say that granny had wasted the flour...or mother had wasted the flour, made some bread, and didn�ft rise and �gI buried it.�h But in granny, her mother, which was my granny, was not angry but she said, �gIt�fs always better to tell the truth.�h Thank you.