That is very true, as I think I can show you by a story.

Not long ago I was riding on a train up through Vermont. A boy came into
the car selling papers, books, candy, fruit, and other things. There
was a boy opposite me in the smoking-car who wanted to appear very smart
and manly. He was smoking a cigar and looking very much traveled. The
trainboy offered him a book which had a bad title and worse pictures in
it. But in front of this young chap sat two bright-faced,
innocent-looking boys who did not pretend to be anything but what they
were. The trainboy offered them salted peanuts. In front of those boys
sat a fine, clean-looking, well-bred man. The trainboy offered him a
good, wholesome book.

Now, three fates were in that car in the form of that trainboy, and each
person invited his own kind of fate by what he was in himself. That is
true all through life. Be true, and you attract truth. Be evil, and you
attract evil. Your fate is what you are.




THE INCH-WORM AND THE MOUNTAIN


Out in the state of California there is a great valley known as the
Yosemite Valley, and here once lived a tribe of Indians who tried to
explain how the wonderful streams and trees and rocks came to be.

The story of one of the highest peaks, El Capitan, is very interesting.
One day some Indian boys went fishing in a beautiful lake in the