Mother's Bill

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Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 1/24/2014 at 21:14:00

MOTHER'S BILL

A ten year old boy overheard a conversation about certain bills for services rendered which had to be paid, and concieved the idea of making out a bill for what work he had done. So the next morning he laid his statements of account on his mother's breakfast plate: "Mother owes Willie for carrying coal six times, twenty cents; for brining of water lots of times, thirty cents; for going ten errands, fifteen cents; for being good twice, ten cents; total, seventy-five cents."

His mother read the bill but said nothing about it. That evening Willie found on his plate seventy-five cents, and alos another bill, which read as follows: "Willie owes mother for his happy home for ten years, nothing; for his food and clothes, nothing; for nursing him in a long illness, nothing; total, nothing.:

When Willie saw the 75 cents he was pleased, but when he read his mother's bill his eyes grew dim and his lips quivered. Then he took his money to his mother, threw his arms around her neck and begged that she would let him do lots of things for her. Mother's bill is rarely presented, but it will pay each child to think it out and over for himself and then to pay in loving obedience-Selected

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