Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-23
10 kindness to the one that injured

do kindness to the one that injured
+ you
Yes | know, mamma. I've not for
gotten. But you just let a great big
boy, nearly twice as big as you, come
/ up and smash your sled, and see if that
is the way you'd do!"
" Perhaps 1t Is not, if | should act
under the impulse of the moment.
/ But Freddie, we must always be on
our guard, and hold our passions in
control. Suppose now, III your anger,
+ You had struck VIII Jones severe
+ blow with the nearest stone you could
find, which if it had not broken his
head, might have inflicted some severe
injury upon him which would have
chung to him through life, do you think
that the days that are to come would
seem very bright to you when you
thought OF the miserable ones that
another was passing through, and knew
you had caused them z"
"No, mamma; | knew they would
not, and will try and be careful of my
temper but it was so mean to break
my nice, new sled, that | felt at the
moment as | could have killed him -
g once knew a man, Freddie, whose
whole life was made embittered' and
made wretched by one rash act, COM
mitted in moment of intense passion.
He had been out searching for berries
with his little sister, when hidden
among the bushes they came upon
birds nest The color OF the eggs was
so beautiful, that both agreed to resist
the temptation to take them home
would be impossible.
SO the nest was torn from its place,
and then ensued a despute as to which
should cary it. HIS sister was deter
mined that she should, and, intent
upon her purpose, seized the nest, and
III doing SO crushed the eggs into frag
ments. He, in his anger seized a
stick from the ground and struck her
in the face. flom that blow she never
recovered, for, when days Of sickness
and pain had passed, it was found that
she was biiad
Fred and VIII listened most intently
until their mother had finished, and
then told her that they would never,
never strike any one, no matter what
they did. They then went out to their
play, and their mother resumed her
work, with an earnest prayer that her
dear boys would always be able to
keep the resolve that had so earnestly
made.
One morning some few weeks after
| the accident had happened to the sled.
Fred had been out sailing his boat in
the cutters which had become flooded
with the h>avy rain of the night pre-
yious, when he met "Prissy Jones"
Priscilla was her name but every one
called her " Prissy,' for short-com.
ing down the street and holding her
apron to her eyes. Now, Fred had a
great liking for Prissy, and he had
Just faintest idea that she was crying,
and he could never stand that. So he
walked up to her and asked what was
the matter.
" On, the rain done t'n was her
answer, amid sobs almost as violent as
the ones Fred had given utterance
to upon the occasion of the broken
sled.
Ozone WHAT" said Fred.
"Kil'ed all Willies little Guinea pigs
-droaad-ded them, and VIII says he's
just good mind to go and dround
himself too. If he don't get some more
Guinea pigs I'm afraid he'll do it,
Now, here was a chance for Fred and
his 'Coals of Fire" He had Guinea
pigs, most twenty, and he conld just as
well spare some of them as not-but
then VIII Jones broke his slead If it
wasn't for Prissy, he wouldn't do it,
and yet if he did it for her it would
not be reyenging the "broken sled, "
and Fred was a little sore about that
/ yet. At last he resolved to ask his
mother, and she told him that it was
he very thing for him to do. So he
selected two of the incest ones he had,
and placing them in basket, set out
with them on his way to VIII Jones. "
He found VIII buried in grief, but
when Fred's errand was known the
tears was quickly displaced with smiles,
and ne could not thank Fred enough,
who did not wait any longer than he
could help to listen to him.
a few weeks later, just at evening,
an express wagon drew up in front Of
I Treddie's house, and man took from
among its numerous packages bright
new sled, which was addressed to
"Master Freddie McNamee, from his
friend VIII Jones'" 1t was a perfect
beauty; and many good ride did Fred
have upon it,
! The Guinea pigs at last accounts
were thriving finally, and Fred thinks
that the best act of his life was when
he heaped "Coals Of Fire" upon the
head of VIII Jones, rather than have
done him an injury. -Bardl NcW
YORKER.
The Lake Champlain Bridge.