The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-02-23
GOT WHIPPED FOR HIS PAINS.
Peck's Bid Boy, Smitten On one Check,
Turns the Other.

Turns the Other
say, what you got in your mouth,
base ball? p asked the groceryman of the
bad boy, as he came in the store with
both cheeks sticking out and looking red.
Il il bet you have got your mouth full Of
benziac or something, and you are going
to play some joke On me by squirting 1t
on the stove
mo, amt got nothing in my mouth"
said the boy, in a voice that sounded as
though lie was trying to talk with hot
potato Ill his mouth. "This is my Sur.
dayschool lesson. | was smote on one
cheek and l turned the other, and nearly
had my neck broke. Not any more turn
ing the other cheek for Hennery."
80, s. way" said the sroceryman.
~ GU wasn't such blamed fool as to
turn the other cheek, when you got hit,
was you?' And then, examining the
boys cheeks and finding them swelled
mp, he added: "By lingo, believe you
did. How was it anyway?'
Wen, it was in the Sunday school
lcsson," said tie boy, land my teacher
said it was tie greatest triumph in the
world for IA person TO be able to turn the
other cheek when smote on one cheek. ]
asked him il people ever did that, and he
SAID our best citizens did. He said it re-
quireG great deal of patience, but
person should always turn the other
cheek also. asked pa about it, and pa
said the teacher was right, and that it
was the duty OF every citizen to turn the
other cheek when smote on one cheek.
and he should always do so. Well, sir,
wan. to be good, and just longed for
somebody to smte me on one cheek so |
could turn the other also, but it seemed
as though the smiters were not on the
war-patb and for two days had to go
around without being smote. But We'd
ncsday afternoon Was down by the thea
ter, where they were having matinee,
and there was lot of boys sliding on a
smooth piece of ice in the gutter and
rushed on to slide, and l run against
boy, and he hauled off ard damned me
on this cheek. Q, gosh, but ] did see
stars. I'm. But didn't lie smite. Twas
going TO pick up a froze cat that was in
the street and hit him, when happened
to think OF turning the other cheek, and
turned my face towards him, and he
gave me another right here. o! o! But
it was 10 times bigger than the other
smote, and | guess it made me crazy
Anyway, l shall plead insanity to get out
of it,
Get out of what - asked the grocery
man. You don't have to get out Of any
thing. If he hit You couple of times,
and You stood it, you don't have to get
out Of anything"
Yes, but | didn't stand it, said the
bog, rs lie felt Of his swellsd cheek.
when he hit me that last ra- it knocked
ali the neekness and pious out of n,a,
and went at him an We had an awful
| tight. lie wouldn't turn his other cheek
| cause guess he was a heather, that
never Went to Sunday school, so | turned
his other check for him, and l warmed
him 50 he hollorcd enough But was
| sorry afterwards, and felt as though
! would be ashamed to meet pa or my
teacher. 80 l thought would see how
these good men would stand being smote,
and found Teller who wanted to earn
ewo shillings, and hired him to ste
| IN and the teacher, Just to see how they
woald turn the other cheek. The teacher
keeps books in a store, and goes to lunch
| il Il restaurant, and when he came along
the teiler | had hired went up to him and
slapped him On the cheek. not very hard,
| but just hard enough to make him feel
rs though he was hit. | looked for the
! teacher to turn the other cheek, but
! gosh, he turned pale and run down the
alley back of the store and his coat.tails
stuck out so yon could play marbles on
them. yelled to him to turn the other
! cheek, but he run faster and the next
morning the papers told about bastard
~ attempt at highway robbery aud as
sassination on the street, in broad day
| light, one Of our most respected citizens
being the victim, and only for his pres
encc of mind the attempt would have
been successful. Well, thought should
die when read that. Then | had my
hired man try it pa. knew pa would
! turn his other cheek, because he said
that was the right thing to do. But when
the fellow hit pa pa turned and damned
the fellow right in the ear, and then yell
led for a policeman, but my hired man
got out Of the way. That night pa said
he had narrow escape from being sand
5agged, and asked him if he turned the
other check also, and he said not if he
i;nowed it. don't think this is the right
kind of a climate for turning the other
cheek. when you are smote, do you?"
well, said the groceryman, as he
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