Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-11-02
SOWING AND REAPING.

Come 10 the barn with me, sir! III
learn you n lie to ne! HI taa your jacket
tar on I'll ~
These words were spoken in my hearing
by al angry father to ms Ony, jim fhorne,
ua5 lad told him lie.
lie followed his father, who stopped on
h., way and ca5 i whip :ho size OF an OK
goa6. and socn the sound Of stinging blows
we're heard. mingled with shrieks aad cries
vi len pierced me Ike arrow, which the
r.aLcs Of the child did not heed, nor in
IL. J. seemed 70 hear.
-Gooj Heaven!'' l cried, Nancy Thorne
b., can yon hear such blows, and such
cri.s and not stop them or 60 mad ~
He must learn not to lie to his father"
She r-pIiel lie has got to be such ! liar
t.a. we can place no dependence on word
h. says. /, has got to be whipped out o!
L'u."
Now. reader, don't hold up yonr hands
al say, Horrible! what cruel, unnatural
srents they were ~
They we're no such thing; they were
pleasant, agreeable people enough, homes,
art up i-ht u; the world goes, aud meant
to bring up their children right, and would
have been angry indeed, had auy enc said
taey were harsh or unkind in the treatment
st their children, or thut they taught them
TO .ie
When tue beating was finished, when
Deacon Tnorue had demonstrated his pow
es when he rs an earthly father, had done
toward DIS child as he imagined his hcay
ea.y Father would DO toward him, the law
Of revenge was satisfied, and he threw down
the roI aui yeut his steps homeward.
j f,Is that il met him, there must surely
t- 81 collision, and lied to my chamber and
threw myself into chair at the winiow
taa. overlooked the porch, where Jimmy
Ll.a-r was at work
watched the fa;her 4. he walked rapidly
5.vr the Ia-h. There was no sign Of pity
crsosgow oa his face, but instead, an ez
preston OF satisfaction OF having done a
god thing. yindicated his authority, pun
i,h.i the o1y for q sin and set his feet in
rue Ts'h Of rectitude.
As Le came near to his wife. he said
Il guess I've given him trouncing that
he Ell remember one spsII. What ia the
w9ri make. that boy lie 50? am sure /
don't know.
listened with strained ears for some
words Of condemnation from the mother,
but listened vainly. She only worked over
her butter the more busiy
!, too, wonder what made the boy tell
i-- he came of good honest stock as far
tack as can be remembered, none OF his
ra-. had been imprisoned, OF hanged; none
Cd. .h-m Lad been remarkable as lia1s. Jim
w.r. lie: there was no question Of that,
a.- resolved 10 know why
deacon Tho7us shaved, washed and comb
Il himself, and heard him ask his wife for
e.ar shirt. Il was not Sunday, and |
.erei where he was going, and Yankee
--a guessed it out He belonged to the
Baptist church and today was covenant
meet DAY. Pretty soon I heard him come
orr Hl1n the steps and say to his wife:
Nancy. it seems to me you might get
Our work done up. so as to go to covenant
meeting sometimes. 1t don't look well for
YIN aaiit plaques me to have the brothers
and sisters ask where sister Thorne is. What
--a. lsIi'm, Naucy?"
lou can tell en- replied Nancy, in
rather a tart tone, THAT I've no help about
ny work and it Is as much as can do to
gv; ready for Sunday"
Deacon Thorue got flea in his ear. He
lad told his wife that he thought she could
s.t along without girl, now that the sum
her work was done and the weather cool.
she mad reluctantly consented to try it, for
she, TOO, was-as Peggotty observed Of Bar
SIS petty near, and had an eye to the
main chances"
" hen saw the old piebald horse hitched
D. The old green wagon, and the deacon
ed therein, and altogether moving thro'
cate, l hurried down stairs and through
roodshed, and took my way to the barn.
a'ng open the door, and following the
IS Of suppressed sobs, found Jimmy
e.1-hlng in the corner, with his head hal