# Honesty the best policy

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76013

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Honesty+the+best+policy+Anonymous&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_Roger_ was born of honest parents in _Yorkshire_, and very well to pass, who gave him a good education; and tho’ he had no liking to any of the _professions_, yet was not without his share of the _greek_ and _latin_; from which he got this advantage, that he could _spell_ better than most _farmers_ in the parish, and knew the _signification of words_, as well as if he had been bred at _Cambridge_, and turn’d out _master of arts_. He seemed to have no design of pushing his fortune in the wide world; but sat down early on his own farm, followed husbandry, and improving a _headland_ or two he had near him, which were quite run out of heart by the slovenly management of his ancestors, who ha...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/honesty-the-best-policy-76013/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/honesty-the-best-policy-76013/chapters/2/index.md)