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From: Nelta Brock <nib@hal-pc.org>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 11:35 AM
Subject: Gossip


>Submitted by Mike Sublett
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>                        The Gossiper
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>       A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor.
>  Within a few days the whole community knew the story.  The
>  person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended.  Later the
>  woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it
>  was completely untrue.  She was very sorry and went to a
>  wise old sage to find out what she could do to repair the
>  damage.
>       "Go to the marketplace," he said, "and purchase a
>  chicken, and have it killed.  Then on your way home, pluck
>  its feathers and drop them one by one along the road."
>  Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she
>  was told.
>       The next day the wise man said, "Now go and collect all
>  those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to
>  me."
>       The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay,
>  the wind had blown the feathers all away.  After searching
>  for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.  "You
>  see," said the old sage, "it's easy to drop them, but it's
>  impossible to get them back.  So it is with gossip.  It
>  doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you
>  can never completely undo the wrong."
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>                      Author Unknown
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>nib
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>Nelta Brock
>nib@hal-pc.org
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