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missed the moral of my story. I was somewhat fearful that it might be lost but your ready recognition of it encourages me to believe that it will not be too subtle for the average thinking reader. Had I not been limited to a certain number of words I might then have closed the story with a hundred words or more pointing out the moral but I had already exceeded the limit and could not do so. But I am of the opinion that the simple story itself will impress the moral upon the reader much more subtly than had I spelled it all out for him. There are many ways of pointing the moral and I believe that a simple "simple" crossed out story simply told is one of the most effective. It