Truth Will Out
Jim was being chastised by his father, and a passer-by stopped to enquire the reason for the punishment. He was informed that Jim had not locked up the chicken house the previous night. “But surely that’s not a very bad offence: the chickens are sure to come home again.” The father replied hurriedly, “That’s just where the trouble is, Mister, they wouldn’t come home; they’d go home.”