FATHER’S ADVICE
FATHER’S ADVICE My dad and I, long years ago, were walking down the street, when suddenly a little dog came yelping around our feet. He snapped and snarled so viciously - that angry little pup appeared to me, as though he thought, he could eat us up; I turned and threw some stones at him which I always missed the mark. But when I tried to drive him off, the louder he would bark. “Now son”, my father said to me, “just plod along your way don’t turn your head for yelping dogs, remember what I say, you’ll notice if you pay no heed to him and hold your place that little dog will soon grow tired and all his noise will cease; but every time you stamp your foot and shout to him “BEGONE”, you show that he’s annoying you and keep his following on. It takes dog to fight a dog, post that above yourself; when canines come and snarl at you, don’t be a dog yourself, and later, when you’re older grown, and petty men attack, don’t stoop to pick up stones to throw, don’t try to answer back; just
