Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-03-27

mean for Mr.. Bslnap to treat me so !
Don't you mother
/ think you have net told things
exactly as they were
why mother?
Not Intentionally, my son; l
should bs very sorry to believe such
thing Of you as that. But there are
various ways by which people form
the habit Of speaking untruthfu!ly,
and one OF these is by exaggerating.-
Don't you remember my showing you
an instrument, looking through one
end of VIII h made everything seem
txlee as large. and through the other
they looked so small that you could
sea. cely see them at all Now, We
have just such su instrument in our
minds. We look through the large
end at the faults of other people,
making them seem twice as large as
they are, and through the small end
at our own, making them look so
small that verv often we cannot see
them at all. Now, I'm afraid that
this is the way YOU have been doing
by Mr.. Belnap.
I'm almost sure, mother, that /
haven't said the least bit OF anything
that is not tue about him.
Let lis see. In the first place you
said that he Wa. the crosssst and
hatefulest man ,fAt ever lived. Now
even could you have known all the
cro.s, dis.gree.b's peopja that ever
existed, is that true?
Arthur made no reply, and Mrs
Barry continued:
Don't you remember how kind be
was to the widow Connor? How he
let Joe wages 60 on last winter, when
| lie WAS SICK, besilas sending bis own
doctor to attend him? Ani when lit
lie Mary died, who sent us the flow
s:s that made her look SO sweet in her
coffin, and spoke such comforting 2
words to Us I?
Arthur had been tenlerly attached
to bis baby sister, and hi. face look ed
sober rs he sad
/ don t think | meant exactly wha,
I said about his being so cross, Bu'
! All the rest was true.
! Let uH $50 again. You we've lit
tie Late. Now, when you went tt
work for Mr.. Belnap, YOU agreed t'
be at the store at eight o'clock ever,
morning, 1t Was twenty minutes ras
eight when you left here. 1t woul'
not ia ke less than ten minutes t
reach the store 80 YOU must hav'
: been halt 40 hour late.
Half an hour isn't great while
mother.
But, supposing ali the people it
Mr.. Bclnaps employ were half al
uonr late ? 1t would amount to all 0
dav, if not more. And then thi;
half hour WAS not yours it belonged
! to your employer. He paid you 70
it, and it was hia. If you had rise,
when | had called you, you woul,
have got theirs in time, and Mr.. Bel
rap world have no occasion to feel 8,
much out Of patience with YOU
There WAS a pause Of some moments
which Was broken by Arthur
Have got togo back there again
mother ?
Not unless you choose. You an
now old enough to reason and in SOM
: respects to decide for yourself. But
remember, if on go 10 school you vii
have to work for some one, and
don't believe that you will find any
$ body to do better By you than Mr.
= Belnap'
1 hate to: I told Will Guernse.
S and John Dill that | wasn't goin!
} back there any more.
If you think that was a wise thrnl
for you to say, OF course you won t g.
2 back there any more. But if yol
think it hastv and foolish speech, i
t will make you more careful what yol
say another time.
Don't you care, mother
t L care to have my boy do what S
right. | care more for that than any
} thing in the wide world; but don
like to compel him, now that he il
old enough to compel himself
AS we'll as Arthur liked his owr
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