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The Thief and His Mother.

A Schoolboy stole a horn-book from one of his schoolfellows, and broughtit home to his mother. Instead of chastising him, she rather encouragedhim in the deed. In course of time the boy, now grown into a man, beganto steal things of greater value, until, at last, being caught in thevery act, he was brought to the Judge and sentenced to be hung. As hewas being led to the scaffold, the mother bowed herself to the groundwith grief. A neighbor seeing her thus, said to her: "It is too late foryou to moan and sob now. If you had been as much grieved when hecommitted his first theft, you would have corrected him in time, andthus have saved yourself this sorrowful day."

Nip evil in the bud.

From Aesop's Fables