"The story of Hadleyburg teaches a moral lesson to both characters and readers alike. The town’s secrets raise a series of moral questions. For instance, would the Richardses have been right to keep the gold since it would not have “hurt” anybody? Was it ethical for Edward to conceal the evidence that could have cleared Burgess? Mary justifies her husband’s actions by reasoning that they could ill-afford to bring public disapproval upon them. Furthermore, she claims that as long as Burgess did not “know that could have saved him. . . that makes [withholding the information] a great deal better.” Edward soothes his guilty conscience by warning Burgess of impending trouble, but only when he ensures that “no one was going to suspect me.” Such decisions demonstrate the self-serving interests of human nature, which tends to make unethical choices when confronted by difficult situations, and as Edward’s character illustrates, cowardice further complicates a lack of ethical conviction. Besides Edward and Mary, other townsfolk succumb to the same temptation offered by the sack of gold, including the Coxes, the Wilsons, and the Billsons. In this way, the story represents an honest, universal response of human nature to the temptation of “easy” money. Although the residents of Hadleyburg are not consciously predisposed to sin, their collective response suggests the innate weakness of human nature."
Well, you take a piece of string... this will probably work better if you have a friend there with you,
and you make a hole in each of the tins, baked beans, tomatoes, whatever you've got handy
Oh and I forgot, you need 2 matches as well...
anyway, make a whole in the bottom of the 2 tins, they should of course be empty... Put the string through the holes, and fasten it with the matches, one match in each tin...
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Good one!!!