Once, a boy named John and his father shifted in a new town. Their new house was big and well-furnished. There were book shelves in the living room as John's father loved to read. They also had a dog named Toffee with which John used to play for a long period of time everyday.

He was very excited to go in his new school. He had to pass an entrance exam to get admission in his new school. He studied hard but the exam turned out to be easy. So he passed his exam and got admission. Now, he had to go to the school on the next day.

John was excited and scared on his first day of school. This was because everyone was new to him there. So, he thought that he should talk to some children and make friends with them.

He met some boys in his class and talked to them. They also talked to him and invited him to sit with them. He sat with them during the classes and made friends with them.

But what he had not noticed was that the boys had some bad manners like not being helpful and mocking other children. They passed some of their bad etiquette and manners to John, making him ill-mannered as well.

One day, a guest came to John's house. John did not greet the guest and answered his questions rudely. John's father noticed the change in John's behaviour and got worried. He later figured out that the change in John's behaviour was because of John's friends. He decided that he had to make John leave his bad company.

He tried to explain John to leave his friends as they had bad effect on his behaviour, but John completely ignored his father.

Then John's father realised that he had to explain John by an example.