Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-08
The Gallon Measure. Convsr.lon.


There they stood in glittering rows, just as
the tnsmith had finished them. The quart
measures felt themselves to be twice as i'm
portant as the pints the half gallons snubbed
the quarts and the gallons despised all the
rest.
"We are the largest, said the gallons to one
another. And each was pleased with himself,
for he thought there could be nothing bigger
than gallon.
Pretty soon came young grocer to look at
the tinvare. He had little new shop, lit
tie new wife, the very littlest new baby, and
now he wanted new gallon measure. BE
cause, said he, everything ought TO match. 3"
While he looked at the measures the sun
light streamed in upon them and made one
shine like silver.
THAT looks the newest" said the grocer
so he bought it, and carried it home to the
other new things.
In the little shop stood an oil tank with
spigot in it, and the measure was placed un-
der the spigot.
Good gracious =" thought the gallon,
what a very responsible position :"
Look out down there" exclaimed the
spgot, "here is a drop"
Have the goodness to remember that am
a whole gallon" said the measure angrily. "I
measure ALL contain all, and know all
Good" answered the spigot. Look out
for the drop And he let one fall into the
measure, tink
"There how much is that 2" asked the
spigot.
''It is less than a gallon" returned the
measure.
''rhis is great fun" said the grocer, and he
went on measuring the time which must pass
before he could build little new cottage. The
new wife measured the hours while the grocer
had TO be in his shop, and the new baby meas
ured new inches.
Indeed, so much measuring was done that
the newness flew away somewhere.
"Now l am getting dull, " thought the gal.
Ion, "and what is the use of ii all ? What
know | know, and knew it at first There
is just gallon Of everything and no more"
The grocer became dull, too, for he agreed
with the gallon.
The baby was old enough now to play in
the shop. He watched his father closely,
and dealt out bits of straw and thimblefuls of
sand TO imaginary customers. He liked best,
however, to see the oil measured.
II can do that myself" he thought, and he
waited until his father went out of the shop.
The spigot turned very hard and the oil
| flowed slowly.
"That takes too long, said the baby. Then
he got chair and climbed up TO the top of
| the tank with the gallon measure in his hand
| down, and the measure fell into the tank.
"Umph! :" thought the measure sit doesn't
matter. There is nothing more to be learned.
/ know all, and contain ALL"
The oil, however, kept running in at one
side, and in a moment the measure sank to
the bottom.
That was a surprise There was oil upon
every side he was lost in oil.
"Hallo!" said the spigot which came
through here also, what do you think of
this 7"
at is wonderful" exclaimed the measure.
There is something more than a gallon :"
He could not understand it, but sometimes
| one has TO believe.
just then the grocer came back He boxed
| the baby and fished out the measure, which
he wiped with cloth and set under the spigot
! again.
"You are wrong" said a friend who had
come in with the grocer, "there is more in
the world than you believe"
"Humbug!" growled the grocer. "What
there is, there is, and that is the whole of it.
l know what l can see, and 1 see all l can
| know"
''Now that" thought the gallon, sis just
| what begin to doubt"