The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-04-08

you can say and do unreasonable things
when you are angry just as well as Mr..
Barton"
Mrs. Gray saw that her husband was
rght-but still she felt indignant at the
outrage committed on her geese. So she
took her three fat geese, and after strip
ping off the feathers, had them prepared
for the table.
On the next morning, as Mr.. Gray was
passing along the road, he met the shoe
maker, and as they had to pass very near
to each other, the farmer smiled, and spoke
kindly. Mr.. Barton looked and felt very
uneasy, but farmer Gray did not seem to
remember the unpleasant incident Of the
day before
1t was about eleven o'clock on the same
day, that one of farmer Gray's little boys
came running to him and crying
"Oh father father Mr.. Bartons hogs
are in our comfeld."
Then must go and drive them out"
said Mr.. Gray in a quiet tone.
"Drive them out" calculated Mrs. Gray.
DllNO Cll Oul, luuccu u blOOO bnOuJ
that's what I'd do I'd serve him as he SER
we'd my geese yesterday!
"!,But that wouldn't bring the geese to
life again, Sally"
81 don't care if it wouldn't. 1t would
be paying him in his own coin, and that's
what he deserves"
"You know what the Bible says, Sally,
about grievous words, and they apply with
stronger force to grievous actions. No
no--I will return neighbor Barton good for
evil. That is the best way. He has done
wrong, and am sure he is sorry for it.
And as l wish him to remain sorry for so
unkind and unneighborly an action, in
tend making use of the best means for
keeping him sorry"
"Then you will be revenged on him,
anyhow?"
"No, Sally-not revenged. am not an
CRY with neighbor Barton. But while
am talking here, his hogs are destroying
my corn"
And so saying, farmer Gray hurried off
towards his cornfield. When he arrived
there, he found four large hogs tearing
down the stalks, and pulling off and eating
the ripe ears of corn. They had already
destroyed good deal. But he drove them
out very calmly, and put up the bars
through which they had entered, and then
commenced gathering up the halfeaten
ears of corn, throwing them out into the
lane, for the hogs that had been so sud-
denly disturbed in the process of obtaining
liberal meal
AS he was thus engaged, Barton, who
had from his own house seen the farmer
tarn the hogs out of his cornfeld, came
hurriedly up, and said:
81 am very sorry, Mr.. Gray, indeed
am, that my hogs have done this will
most eheerfully pay you for what they
have destroyed"
"Oh, never mind, friend Barton-never
mind Such things will happen OCCASION
ally. My geese, you know, annoy you
very much sometimes"
"Don't speak of it, Mr.. Gray. They
didn't annoy me so much as imagined
they did. But how much corn do you
think my hogs have destroyed? One bush
ell or two bushels? Or how muchP Let
it be estimated, and l will pay you most
cheerfully.
"No, no. Not for the world, friend Bar
ton. Such things will happen sometimes.
And, besides, some of my men must have
left the bars down, or your hogs never could
have got in. So don't think any more
about it. 1t would be dreadful if one
neighbor could not bear little with
another
All this cut poor Mr.. Barton to the heart.
His own ill-natured language and conduct,
at a smaller trespass on his rights, presen-
ted itself to his mind, and deeply mortified
him. After few moments silence, he
said
"The fact is, Mr.. Gray, shall feel bet
| ter il you will let me pay for this corn. My
| hogs should not be fattened at your ex-
pense, and / will not consent to its being
done. So shall insist on paying you for at
least one bushel of corn; for am sure they
I have destroyed that much, if not more"
But Mr.. Gray shook his head, smiling
pleasantly, as he replied:
r "Don't think anything more about it,
neighbor Barton. 1t is matter deserving
( of no consideration. No doubt my cattle
have often trespassed on you, and will tres
pass on you again. Let us, then, bear and
forbear."