Dooley and Cousin Billy Clyde were ready to hang their hand painted sign on Pete's store porch.

It read...... "Dooley and Clyde’s services.. Sin paintin... watch repair... black smith work.... dog

trainin... custom dug graves... cars fixed... private detective work.. gardens plowed... animal removal and toilet holes dug. all our services are flatt rate priced at four dollers each...

Pete walked out on the porch just as they were preparing to hang their sign. He observed how the paint had run down from the edges of the letters and the misspelled words. "You boys might as well cross off the part about sign painting because I can tell you right now.. You aren't going to get any business at all doing that."

After a short consultation they decided he was probably right, and struck a line through the part about sin paintin.

They argued for a while about whose name should come first on the top of the sign.. Most of the morning passed without any customers at all requesting services. Finally, around noon, Aunt Dellar Mayberry said she would give them four dollars to dig a new toilet hole at her house, because it looked like Uncle Artford never was going to get around to it, he was so busy and all.

She even offered to give them a dollar more if they would move the old outhouse over the new hole.

They rushed over to her house to get started on the easy money they would be making. But, before they could get started another call came in. This one was from Aunt Sadie Crabtree concerning animal removal.

It seemed that she had a dog she wanted removed from her place. Dooley left Billy Clyde to start digging the outhouse hole while he rushed over to Aunt Sadie's place. When he arrived he found that his own possum dog, red, was digging in the middle of her flower bed, and she was yelling about wanting him removed at once or she would remove him herself...something about kicking him all the way into the next county.. Dooley hurriedly tied a piece of string around red's neck and led him away from the flower bed. He held his hand out to Aunt Sadie and said, "That will be four dollars please."

Aunt Sadie responded.. "You owe me five dollars for all the flowers he dug up.."

After a short discussion in which she threatened to call his mama, they decided to call it even if he would replant the flowers..

Dooley rushed back to Aunt Dellar’s house to help Billy Clyde with the toilet hole.. Only to find him sitting under the big oak tree in the shade..

"It is way too hot this afternoon to dig that hole," he explained. They knocked on the door and told Aunt Dellar that they were going to need to double the price because the sun had come out so hot.. She promptly fired them on the spot, and refused to pay them for the six inches deep he had already dug on the hole.

They trudged back to the store porch only to find that Pete had taken their sign down and pitched it out in the yard. "I ain't going to allow you lazy boys to scam my customers no such way as that.. The only things on that list you might know how to do is plow gardens and dig holes and you refuse to do those things in this hot weather.. Get your sign and head back home before I call your dads.."

Lots of people are not to be believed and trusted in this world.

They promise one thing but deliver something else... God holds us accountable for all we say and do. How many of our readers have promised God more that they have lived up too. It is better to never make a vow than to break the vow we make.. If you told God you would serve him.. You better be busy doing what you said.

"When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee." (Deuteronomy 23:21)