I was over in Michigan the other day. There was a boy over there at
Grand Rapids about five or six years old, a nice, smart boy, as you will
see from the remark he made--what you might call a nineteenth century
boy. His father and mother had promised to take him out riding for about
three weeks, and they would slip off and go without him. Well, after
a while that got kind of played out with the little boy, and the day
before I was there they played the trick on him again. They went out and
got the carriage, and went away, and as they rode away from the front of
the house, he happened to be standing there with his nurse, and he
saw them. The whole thing flashed on him in a moment. He took in the
situation, and turned to his nurse and said, pointing to his father and
mother: "There go the two biggest liars in the State of Michigan!" When
you go home fill the house with joy, so that the light of it will stream
out the windows and doors, and illuminate even the darkness. It is just
as easy that way as any in the world.