Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-17
PECKs BAD BOY AND HIS Pa.
He is smOte on One Cheek and Turns
the other Also.

/ He is SmOte on One Cheek and Turns
the other Also.
/ Aill0aukes Sun.
'ESay, what you got in your mouth. a
I base-ball?r asked the grOceryman Of the
/ bad boy, as he come in the store with both
| cheeks sticking out, and looking red. ssI'II
| bet YOU have got your mouth full Of hem
! zine, or something, and you are going to
I play some joke on me, by squirting it on
I the stove"
NO, l amt got nothing in my mOut b, ."
| said the boy, in voice that sounded as
/ though he was trying to talk with a hot
] potato in his mouth. ''This is my Sunday
school lesson. l was smOte on one cheek
and turned the other, and nearly had my
neck broke. Not any more turning the
I other cheek for Hennery.''
80, 90 way" said the grOceryman.
You wasn't such a blamedfOOl as to turn
| the other cheek, when you got hit, was
/ yOuE And then, examining the boys
| cheeks and finding them swelled up he
/ added 'by lingo, ! believe you did. How
4 was it. anyway
.'WeH. it was in the Sunday school les
son." said the boy, "and my teacher said
it was the greatest triumph in the world
for a person to be able to turn the other
cheek when smOte on one cheek. 1 asked
him if people ever did that, and he said
our best citizens did. He said it required
Il great uCdA vi pdliCLCes DUL 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. / want to be good, and |
Just l0nged for somebody to smite me on
one cheek so l could turn the other also.
but II seemed as though the smiters were
not on the war path, and for two days |
mad TO 20 around without being smOte
But Wednesday afternoon / was down bv
the theatre, where they We're having
matinee, and there was a lot Of
boys sliding on a smooth piece of
ice in the gutter and | rushed on
to slide, and run against boy, and he
hauled of and damned me on this cheek.
o, gosh, but did see stars. I'm But
didR't he smite. l was going to pick up
frOze cat that was in the street and hit
him, when | happened to think of turning
the other cheek, and | turned my face to-
wards him, and be gave me another, right
here. q! o. But it was ten times bigger
than the other smOte, and | guess it made
me crazy. Anyway, l shall plead lnsan-
ity to get out OF it,
Get out of what ?" asked the grocery
man. "GOu don't have to get out Of any
thing. If he hit you a couple Of times.
and YOU stood it. YOU don't have to get
out Of anything
Yes, but didn't stand it," said the boy.
as he felt Of his swelled cheek. when he
hit me that last rap, il knocked all the
meekness and piOus out Cf me and | went
at him and we had q lawful fight. He
wouldn't turn his other cheek. cause |
guess he was a heather that never went
to sunday school, so l turned his other
cheek for him, aud [ warmed him 50 lie
hollered enough. But / was sorry after
wards. and felt as though | would be
ashamed to meet pa or my teacher. Sol
thought / would see how those GOOD men
would stand being sm0te, and | found a
felleT VINO wanted TO earn two shillings.
and hired HIM TO smOte pa and the
teacher just TO see how they would turn
tie other cheek. The teacher keeps books
in store, and goes to lunch in a restau-
rant, and when he came along the fellow
l had hired went up to him and slapped
him on the cheek, not very hard. but lust
hard enough to make him feel as though
he was hit. l looked for the teacher to
turn the other cheek, but gosh. he turned
pale andrun down the alley back Of the
store. and his coat tails stuck out so Won
could play marbles on them. l yelled to
him to turn the other cheek, but he run
faster, and the next morning the DaDpr
told about a dastardly attempt at highway
robbery and assassination on the
street, in broad daylight, one of
our most respected citizens being the vic
tim, and only for his presence Of mind the
attempt would have been successful.
Wen, | thought / should die when I read
that. Then had my hired man try it on
pa. knew that 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
re G"I' ana then yelled for a policeman.
IN m my hlfed man rot ont Of the way
I InaG nI$ht pa said he had anarrOw escape
II he turned the other cheek also. and he
said not if he knOwed it. l don't think
tins Is the right kind of a climate for turn
ING the other cheek when you are smote.
do you?'
Well said the groceryman, as he
looked at the boys SWelled cheeks. sit is
hard to make a rule that viii apply in all
Kinds OF cases. The idea is a good one,
TO turn the other cheek. but we are ant TO
forget, especially II on Il casual inspection
OF the smiter we think we can whip him.
or II he is so small that his shifting does
not hurt. But when a man deliberately
belts me IN the Jaw, and dislOcates it, l
Immediately think that one Jaw
Is enough to have fractured at once.
1 guess when that shifting business be-
came the custom, and people turned the
other cheek, they didn't strike from the
shoulder the way they do now days.
THINK the best way is to put up your arms
and ward off the blow, and try to reason
with the smiter, and if he insists on smit- /
ting sort Of accidentally cuff him i'm the /
nose. That brings i smiter to his senses (
about as quick as anything. And so your /
pa didn't practice what he preached, eh -
Not much. He got hot in a minute.
and acted Ike a prize fighter I asked /
him more about il this morning. and he
said it was all right enough for boys to
turn the other cheek, where they had
plenty, but when a man got his growth.
it was dangerous for anybody to try to
smote him. Queer, amt it," and the boy
went out as though he was trying to think .
Of something real hard