An Apologue by Ambrose Bierce — Read

A traveler observed one day / A loaded fruit-tree by the way.

And reining in his horse exclaimed: / "The man is greatly to be blamed / Who, careless of good morals, leaves / Temptation in the way of thieves.

Now lest some villain pass this way / And by this fruit be led astray / To bag it, I will kindly pack / It snugly in my saddle-sack." / He did so; then that Salt o' the Earth / Rode on, rejoicing in his worth.