The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-07-06
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sI SEE THE POINT"

Two worthy farmers once fell ou.,
never knew Just what about,
Although in every neighbors view,
The cause was small for such ado.
Ones sheep, perhaps has passed their
bounds,
And pastured on the others grounds
Or one had seen the others colt
Across his patch Of melons bolt;
Or one of eggs had spoiled nest,
Because he deemed his right the best,
While yet the others right seemed clear,
Because his hens had cackled near,
Or maybe in some breach Of laws
The quarrel had a grayer cause.
One may have failed, on some pretensei
To build his share of border fence:
Or may, with sly and stealthy hand,
Had turned brooket on his land,
Which else to natures course had kept
And through his neighbor's meadows
crept,
Marked where it had been won't TO pass
BY tortuous streaks Of greener grass.
Whatever had begun their feud,
A word might soon have changed their
mood;
But either would have judged it weak
That kind and generous word to speak.
Their hatred therefore gathered strength
With every day, until at length
Their wisest friends would try no more
Their old relations to restore.
Then each the other blamed aloud,
And told his faults in every crowd;
Then each to SANDER turned his tongue,
And angeris vulgar missiles flung;
As if the cleaner one appears.
The more his neighbor he besmears.
When now, from passsons burning
height,
Jones thought he saw just what was
right
Although he could have found when
cooled,
That he had been deceived, befooled-
Old bubbles Office straight he sought,
And all his wrongs before him brought,
And vowed ifjustice could be won
On earth it should be surely done,
"Your cause is good" the lawyer cried,
Il dare for you at once decide"
The winds with speed dispersed the
news
Nor could John Virgins well refuse
To stand defense. He thought, besides
Since law for just awards provides,
That when the facts were known and
barred,
For him must judgment be declared;
While Jones should find that in her
school
Dame Justice scourges every fool,
With hopes like these, he spread his case
Before lawyers gracious face.
at grieves me, sir" the man replied,
"Tlat must take the other side;
Had Jones not been before you here,
would of course for you appear.
Yet, let me say, who am free to recon-
mend;
In practice skilled, in law profound
As any man that walks the ground.
A note from me will guide you right,
And place this chance in proper light
And Virgins rose and left the place
His thanks were radiant in his face.
Well from the Office well away,
He wondered what the note might say
Ard chose to know; for Quibble's haste
The paper in his hand had placed
Without a seal. Perhaps he thought
One who at school was never taught
Could read no written lines at all,
Or such, at least, as lawyers scrawl.
Il seize the chance" the farmer said,
And, as he spoke, he stood and read:
These geese are fat and heavy, brother;
If you pick one Will the other"
81 see the point" the man exclaimed,
With waving fist and face in1amed;
The gain, it seems, in this affair,
Will be to those who make us bare.
Fac geese, forsooth! In vain the net
In sight of even geese is set.
Since Quibble and his learned frind
Would each his side with warmth de-
fend,
With less regard to right and law
Then to the fees they hope to draw,
Their sordid wishes will foil,
And with my neighbor end the broil.'
If men heed not the lesson taught
Their wisdom may be dearly bought
j N McCord, in Rter's American
Monthly.