Honesty is the Best Policy
The proverb just means it is better to
be honest than any thing else. We must be honesty in words and deeds. I am
going to tell you a sort story to show you what this means.
One day
whlle outing wood a wood cutter's axe sllpped
from his hand and fell into a nearby river. The wood cutter was full of grief
at his loss. He sat down beslde the river and lamented bliterty. Mercury the
God of water, heard the wood uctter the him. He came out of the water and asked
the wood cutter told the God the alory of his bad luck, Mercury at once dived
to the bottom of the river and held before him an axe of gold asking the man if
than was his. But the wood cutter refused to take it saying that was not his
axe and that his was an old blunt one made of steel, The Mercury dived the
second time and held before him an axe of allver, then again the poor wood
cutter refused.
The God
was very pleased with the honesty of the poor wood cutter and so gave him not
only his lost axe but also the gold and sllver.
