The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-11-22
The Bushel Of Corn.
By I. :. ARTHCg.

when every man on the farm was as busy as
bee this man came over to Farmer Grays and
said IN rather "A petulent tone of voice
Mr. Gray, wish You would send over and
drive your geese home.
why so, Nlr Barton. Whist have my geese
been Joingf said the farmer in a mild quiet
tone.
They pick my pigs ears when they are eat
Ing and so into my garden, and wall not have
itf the nelghbor replied IN "A still more petulant
voice
4 am really sorry for it, neighbor Barton, but
what can dol
Why, yoke them, and thus keep them on yonr
premises It's no kind Of way to let your
geese run all over every farm and garden III the
neighborhood.
But cannot see to it now 1t is harvest time
friend Barton, and every man, woman aud child
on the farm has as much as he or she can do. Try
and bear it for n week or SO, and then | will see
# | can possibly remedy the evil
i cant bear it, and won't bear it any longer
said the shoemaker So ii Won DO not take care
OF them, friend Gray, ! shall have to take care
Of them for YOU
Wei, nc.hhur Barton, you can do as you
please, farmer Gray replied IN his usual quiet
tone 4 am sorry that they trouble you, but
cannot attend to them now
III attend to them for you, see if don't said
the shoemaker, still more angrily than when he
first called upon farmer Gray, and then turned
upon his heel and strobe oil hastily towards his
own house, which was quite near to the old farm
er's.
what upon earth can be the matter with them
: geese SAID Mrs Gray, about fifteen minutes
afterwards
4 realy cannot tell, unless uci2Lbor Barton is
tnis Z ia
dlln't yoke them right OF
Taking care Of them. How taking care Of
them
/ 'Astn tha., am quite in the dark. Killing
them, perhaps. He said they picked at lis pig,
ears, and drove them away when they were eat
ing, and that he wouldn't have it. lie wanted
me to yoke them night off but that could not
do now, rs all the hands are busy So suppose
be s engaged in the neIshboriy business Of tax
mg care ol our geese
John William run over and see what Mr.
Barton is doing with my geese, sad Mrs. Gray,
IN a quick and anxious tone, to two little boys
who were playing near
The urchiu- .rtupercL or well pleased to per
form any ryraGd.
/ oh, If he has dared to do anything to my
geese will ue'er forgive lin the good wife
SAID nngUly.
'H.u.s h, Sally make no rash speeches. 1t j.,
more than probable that he has killed some two
or three If them. But never mind if he has
lie will get over his pet and be sorry for it,
Yes, bat what good viii bis being sorry DO
me. VIII it bring my geese 70 life!
i All, well, sally, never mind. Let Us wait uG.
til We learn what all this disturbance i, about
Innbout ten minutes the children came home
bearing the bodies OF three geese, each without a
head.
Oh, that is too much FOR human endurance -
cried Mrs Gray. Where did you find thcmf
We found them lying out in the road enid
the oldest Of the two children and when we
picked them up, Mr.. Barton sail--'lc,l your ia
th,r that have yokod Is geese Tor him. to save
hm the trouble, as us hands are all too busy TO
90 it,
I'd sue him forit! said Mrs. Gray in an ulis
uaut tone.
And what good would hat DO, Sallyf
Why It would do a great deal OF good. il
would teach him better manners. Ii would pun.
ish him; and he deserves punishment
And punish u, into the balgaiu.-We have
lost three geese now. but We still have their
good lat bodies to eat 4 law suit would cost
Us many geese, and not leave Us even so much
h,r and v,yatou. No, 80. sally Just let il rest
aud he wall he sorry for it, know.
Sorry for it, indeed And what good will
his being sorry for it do Us, should Ike 20 knowI
Next he will kill a COW, and then Ne mus, be
satisfied with bis being sorry for i,'--Now,
can tell YOU that don't believe in that doctrine
Nor DO believe anything about his being sorry,
the Grabbed, i'll uatured wretch
Don't call hard names, Sally said farmer
| Gray, in mild, soothing tone, 'Ncighbur Bar
/ ton was not himself when be killed the geese.
Like every other angry person, he was little in
sane, and did what he would not have done, had
he been perfectly in his righ. mind When YOU
are litde excited you know, Sally, that even
/ You do aud say unreasonable things'
Me do and say unreasonable things eyclaim-
ed Mrs. Gray, with n look aud tone Of Indignant
astqnishmeut; me do and say unreasonable
things when am angry | don't understand
! YOU Mr. Gray
May be | can help you a little Don't you
remember how angry you were when Mr. Mel
Ions old brindle got into our garden, and tramp
led over your lcltucs bed, and how You struck
her with the oven pole and knocked oil one OF
her lornsf
But ldlbn't mean to do that, though
/ No, but then You were angry, and struck old
brnde with a right good will And if Mr.. Mel.
lon had felt disposed lie might have prosecuted
for damages
| but she had no business there.
'Of course not Neither had our geese any bu-
siness in neighbor Barton's yard. But, perhaps,
! can help you to another instance, that will be
more conclusive iuIcgurd to your doing and say.
! ing unreasonable things when YOU arc angry.
! Iuu remember the patent churn
| Yes, but never mind about that
so You have not forgotten how unreasonable
you was about the churn-lt wasn't good for
anytliug-you knew il wasn't and you'd never
put jar of cream into it as long as YOU lived
that you wouldn't And vet, on trial, YOU found
/ that churn the best you had ever used and you
wouldn't part with il on any consideration. So
you see sally, that even You can say and do un.
reasonable things when you are angry just rs
well as Mr.. Barton can Let US then consider
him little, aud give him time to get over his
angry fit. twill be much better to do So.
Mrs. Gray saw that her husband was night.
but still she felt indignant at the outrage commit.
ted on her geese She did not, however. sov
anything about suring the shormaker--fur old
bnndles head from which the horn had been
knocked oft was not yet entirely well, aud one
prosecution very naturally suggested the idea ol
another. So she took her three fat geese, and af
ter stripping of their feathers had them prcpar.
I'D for the table,
On the next morning, os farmer Gray was 90
ing along the road, he met the shoemaker aud
as they had TO pass very near 80 each other the
farmer smiled, bowed, and spoke kindly. Mr..
Barton looked aud felt very uneasy, hut frmrr
| Gray dad not seem TO remember the unpleasant
incident of the day before
| II was about II o'clock or tho same day, that
one of farmer GrHv's ifttlp bUNs pnmp ruuufnr IA