One day a man went to his son's bedroom and found him sitting on his bed with a whole stack of comic books around him. The father said to his son, "Matthew, where did you get the comic books?"

Matthew responded, "I took them out of the library."

"You took them out of the library? You mean you stole them from the library?"

The boy responded, "Yes."

The father called the library and said he was going to march his son immediately down with the comic books to apologize and to restore all he had stolen. After returning from the library he gave Matthew a stern lecture about stealing.

The following summer, the family took its vacation in a small community in Vermont where there was a general store. When they returned home after the summer, the father went into Matthew’s room and again found …