Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-17

] In about ten minutes the children came
home bearing the bodies of three geese,
leach without a head.
'oh, is net that too much for human
endnrsn6e p cried MRS Gray Where
did you find them p
'We found them lying out in the road
said the oldest Of the two children, and
when we picked them up, Mr.. Barton said
t-Nteh your father that have yoked his
geese for him, TO save. him the trouble,
as his hands are all too busy TO do it, !.
I'd sue him for IT, said Mrs Gray. in
an inaignant tone.
And what good would that do. Sal
why ii would do great deal Of
good. It would teach him better man
ners, Il would punish him, and he ds-
serves punishment-'
And punish us into the bargain. We
have lost but three geese now, but we
stin have their good fat bodies TO eat
A lawsuit would cost tus many geese, and
not leave us even as mueh as Che feath-
ers, besides giving os world Of trouble
and vexatica. No, No, Sally Just let
it rest. and he win be sorry for it
know
'Sarry for it, indeedl' And what good
win his being sorry for it do US, should
like 10 know? Next he viii kin a cow,
and then we must be satiAed with his be-
ing sorry for it Now can tell you that
don't believe in that doctrine, Nor do
believe anything about his being sorry,
the Grabbed, il-natured wretch
Don't call him hard names, Sally
said farmer Gray, IN mild, soothing tone.
9 Reighbor Barton was not himself when
he killed the geese. Like every other an
cry person, he was little insane, and did
what he would not have done, had he
been perfectly in his right mind. When
you are little excited, you know, Sally,
that even you do and say unreasonable
things.
Ne do and say unreasonable thingsp
exclaimed Mrs. Gray, with a look and
tone Of indignant astOnishment me do
and say unreasonable things when am
angry. 1. don't understand you, Mr..
Gray
May be I can help you little. Don't
you remember how angry you were when
Mr.. Melons old brindle got into our
garden, and trampled over your lettuce
bed, and how you struck her with the
oven pole, and knocked off one of her
horns?
But I didn't mean to do that though
No, but then you were angry, and
struck old brindle with a right good will.
And if Mr.. Mellon had felt disposed, he
might have prosecuted for damages
But she had no business there
j 'Of course not. Neither had our
geese any business in neighbor Barton's
yard. But perhaps l can help you to
another instance that will be more con-
elusive in regard to your doing and say
ing unreasonable things when you are
angry. You remember the patent
ohurn p
'Yes, but never mind about that
So you have not forgotten how un-
reasonable you was about the churn. 1t
wasn't good for anything-you knew it
wasn't and you'd never put jar of
cream into it as long as you lived-that
you wouldn't. And yet on trial, you
found that churn the best you had ever
used; and you wouldn't part with it on
any consideration. So you see, Sally that
leyen you can say and do unreasonable
things when you are angry just as well
as Mr.. Barton can. Let us then consider
him little, and give him time to get
over his angry fit. 1t will be much better
to do so.
Mr.. Gray saw that her husband was
right, but still she felt indignant at the
outrage committed on her geese. She
did not, however, say anything about su-
ing the shoemaker-for old brindle's head
from which the horn had been knocked
off, was not yet entirely well, and one
prosecution very naturally suggested the
idea of another. So she took her three
fat geese, and after stripping off their
feathers, had them prepared for the ta-
BILE.
On the next morning, as farmer Gray
was going along the road, he met the
shoemaker, and as they had to pass very
near to each other, the farmer smiled and
bowed, and spoke kindly. Mr.. Barton
looked and felt very uneasy, but farmer
Gray did not seem to remember the un-
pleasant incident of the day before.
1t was about eleven o'clock the same
day, that one of farmer Gray's little boys
came running home to him, and crying
'oh father father Mr.. BartOn's hogs
are in our corn field
Then must go and drive them out,
said Mr.. Gray in a quiet tone.
Drive them out + calculated Mrs
Gray, drive them out, indeedl I'd shoot
them, that's what I'd do I'dserve them
-as he served my geese yesterday
But that wouldn't bring the geese to
life again, Sally
i don't care il it wouldn't. 1t would
be paying HMM his own corn, and that's
all he deserves
You know what the Bible says, Sally,
about grieyous words, when they apply
with stronger force to grievous actions