A Farmer slandered his neighbor.
Realizing his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask forgiveness. The
preacher told him to take a bag of feathers and drop them in the center
of the town. The farmer did as he was told and returned back to the
priest. Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers and
put them back in he bag.
The farmer tried but couldn't as the feathers
had all blown away. When he returned with the empty bag, the preacher
said, " The same thing is true about your words. You dropped them rather
easily but you cannot retrieve them, so be very careful in choosing
your words."
