Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD"

Will you please to give me two cents "
said Frank to his mother.
"For what, my dear!" she asked.
"To buy a piece of chalk with"
"And two for me mother" said Harry
90 for ! want a piece as well as Frank"
"What are you going to do with chalk"
asked their mother.
They were silent. She asked again and
again, but they made no reply.
~ c%annot,'' she said, 'igive you the mo-
ney till you tell me what you want of the
chalk. Why are you not willing that |
should know what you mean to do with itl "
The boys continued silent for a short time,
and then Frank said. al am afraid if you
know what we are going TO do with the chalk,
you would not let us have it,"
"rhen,' replied his mother, "you think
it is something wrong. | perhaps ought to
insist on your telling me what you want of
the chalk, or else give up having it. | love
TO procure you every innocent pleasure, and
what is right for you TO do ! think | may
know about. But if you will assure me il
is nothing wrong, | will ask no more ques-
lions, and give you the money"
"We don't mean to do any harm with it,"
said Harry, but still | am afraid you will
not quite like TO have US do it, mothers are
so much more particular than boys you
know
"Try and see if we disagree about this
matter" said their mother.
"Shall tell Z" said Harry to Frank.
eyes," he replied, "it's no such dread
full affair; let's tell mother all about il; you
know how she said the other day that 'she
remembered when she was a boy and it is
not so very bad either"
The boys laughed at this often-quoted
blunder Of their mother, and Harry began:
You see, mother, that Yesterday John
Green contrived while we were in school and
engaged in doing our lessons, TO make a great
b on Franks and my back with a piece of
chalk. He is a good hand at such things,
and he did it so that the master did not see
him, and neither of US observed the other
When We went out to play, he and all the
boys cried out, b for blockhead, B for blum
derbuss, b for BOBBY, and so on ever SO many
other names beginning with b, and kept
pointing at us. At last saw Franks mark
and he mine, and can tell you we were both
mad enough. Now we want to be revenged
on John Green, and we have got a nice plan.
You see he will be on his guard, and we
must be very cunning. Tomorrow is exhi-
bition day, and he will have on his bestdark-
green jacket, and Frank and | are to sit one
on each side of him. You see he is really a
Ounce about every thing but playing tricks,
and when he is asked a question he will be
half-scared out of his wits and not know
what to say. Now Frank is going to pre-
tend TO help him while | write Ounce in
large letters on his broad back. He will not
know what | am doing | am sure, and as he
is a real Ounce it will make a good laugh,
and every one will think he is well named,
and the whole school will laugh at him.
$50" said his mother, "you acknowledge
that it is a piece Of revengel"
"Why yes" replied Frank, but no great
harm in such revenge, I'm sure"
"You think" said his mother, " that he
will be so troubled about the answers he is
to make when he is questioned, that he will
not know what he is about, and then one of
you means to pretend to be his friend and to
make believe TO help him, while the other
makes him appear like a fool to the rest of the
school by writing Ounce on his back :"
The boys looked a little troubled and were
silent awhile, and then Harry said, at is no
more than he deserves, and it's true enough
he is a dunce.'
81 will tell you a better way of being re-
venged, Harry" replied his mother.
What is it he asked.
"Sit by him as you intended, and when
he is troubled with the questions that are put
to him, help him as well as you can, and be
particularly kind to him."
And so reward him for making fools Of
u.s." said Frank, pettishly ; " no, | don't wan,
to do such "A thing as that
Ar so prevent his ever wishing to dc
such a hing again." she replied. "Do YOU
believe he would ever treat you unkindly
again if you were to do as | propose, if YOU
were thus to return good for evil to hint"
The boys were silent, but it was evident
they did not quite relish their mothers ad-
vice, nor feel in the mood of helping John
Green answer his questions.
81 will tell you a story said the mother
TO them-"a true story of a man who over
came evil with good, and perhaps saved him
self from great harm by so doing"
"A gentleman was travelling through {
very unfrequented road the latter part of on,
day alone in a gig; he was observing its un
usual solltarlness; there was no house, n
sign OF human existence there, and it was S.
still that the sound Of the horses hoofs seem
ed almost to make an echo against the sur
rounding hills and rocks and deep woods
Inc song oil a bird or the chipping of a crick
~ d graz spaces anu Tell o.
the ear with a new and strange power. Pre-
sently, at a sudden turn in the road, he cam
upon a man who advanced in the middle q
l the road directly towards his horses head
he had a bad expression in his face and ixe,
his eye upon the traveller in such a way tina
+ he was convinced he intended to stop and 70
him; he Immediately stopped his horse an
very kindly invited the evil looking perso
TO get into his gig and let him carry him o
his road. The man hesitated a moment, an
: then stepped in. The gentleman. who wa
a clergyman, began Immediately to talk ear
!, nestly about many interesting things an
kept up a lively conversation with him. A
last he spoke to his companion of the IN
common loneliness of The road, and observe
that II would be an admirable place for a roh
berry. He then went on to speak of robbor
and criminals in general, and Of what h