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82 ed. We build our houses in the mountains, as to assure our safety from ravenous beasts, you see we are so high they can’t climb up there to catch us, you children should have as much sense as we and hide yourselves in the rocks also. Your rock is obedience to your parents and teachers.

God gave us the rocks for our home, but if we come down into the plains the beasts of prey will devour us; we must obey God if we want to live. I read a story once, where a chicken would not obey his mother, she told him to keep away from the edge of the river, one day he fell over board and before help could come to him he was drowned. This is what happens to all disobedient things or persons who do not stay in places of safety.

The land is the place for chickens not the water, as the rocks is the place for conies, not the fields; home is the place for boys and girls and not the street corners and bad places. Of course many bad people who pretend to love you as much or more, than your papa and mama, will tell you to do things which your parents forbid you to do. When one tells you boys to go anywhere to buy beer and whiskey or anything indecent, say No, you