Tony's Lie

One day Tony old a lie to his mother. That night felt very unhappy. He did not want to play with the children. He sat on the doorstep alone. He looked up in the sky and saw the big round moon. He thought that it was looking down upon him, because it knew about the lie. He ran down the street to get away from it, but it kept following him.

Then he crept into the house and went to bed, but the moon looked at him through the window. He pulled the sheet over his head, but he could not sleep. Then he crawled under the bed and lay there in the dark. He thought and thought about the lie.

At last he decided to tell his mother all about it. He told her the truth and she forgave him. He promised never to tell a lie again. He went back to bed and was soon fast asleep. He dreamed that the moon smiled down upon him.