It'sthe truest thing that ever was. If you don't believe
it, you just go ask Jerry Muskrat. He'll tell you it's true, and
Jerry knows. You see, it's this way: Words are more than just
sounds. Oh, my, yes! They are little messengers, and once they have
been sent out, you can't call them back. No, Sir, you can't call
them back, and sometimes that is a very sad thing, because -- well,
you see these little messengers always carry something to some one
else, and that something may be anger or hate or fear or an untruth,
and it is these things which make most of the trouble in this world.
Or that something may be love or sympathy or helpfulness or kindness,
and it is these things which put an end to most of the troubles
in this world.
Just take the ease of Jerry Muskrat. There he sat on the new dam,
which had made the strange pond in the Green Forest, shaking with
fear until his teeth chattered, as he watched a stranger very, very
much bigger than he climb up on the dam. Jerry was afraid, because
he had seen that the stranger could swim as well as he could, and as
Jerry had no secret burrows there, he knew that he couldn't get away
from the stranger if he wanted to.
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