AH. UNGRATEFUL MAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 650, 14 March 1879, Page 2

AH. UNGRATEFUL MAN.

: The other day, when a man drooped in on Bijah, and wiped the tears from his eyes, and said that his family was in rags, hungry, and sick, the old janitor's heart swelled up, and he replied : , " Go down to my farm and help yourself—take half the crops— take, all of « them." ' ..■■'■■ /'•■ "It's too good —too gobd 1 "sighed ; the weeping man. v»- ' . ■ i. •. "No, it ain,t,". continued ßjjah ; J'J. ;. put in them crop* on purpose for ' the -poor of Detroit, and you hire a waggon and gd down thefe arid draw off enough to last your family all winter." ( - The citizen broke down and sobbed like a child, and ; Bijafi blew his fi<Js4 with great violence; artd said to hitaself;: s r - "What's^he use of; b«ihg bald-headed \ and big-fpotj»d if you can't put. a pry under a fellow human being in distress f •, : The man was gone : about an hour, and he returned Without aay tears in his eyes. On the contrary^ his face was : red, his eyes-ftashed, and he stood before Bijah and yelled': ; • f " I'm a good mind to.rub your ears --, agin yer shoulders," . } ' ? Great cider-mills .! but what has oo- '■ curred now T gasped the pld map. " You sent me down to the farm." "I; did ;and told you draw, off all the crops." " And „ rve *»*•* 'm tl fmi here they are. ' "' *' Thfe man unrolled apa^er and &$• r bited a shrivelled bid be&Vtwo dabbafre ' - leases, three or four faded itringbeinSi add a potato about the size if a buckeye "• " You toldme .to hire a waggon ahd draw em off, he went on, throwing " the old beet on the floor. "I hired one, and this is the load T You have costume fifty cents, .and I'm, a good mind: to h<& *ou ! , You Ure in old , chimpanzee under the fehce— an otd - i ~ garter '-tor 'a f frbgpon^ a hW' { in ! ;) a — " • ..• ;•■ ■.:■;-,,. ■ . : , . 4 A i.^Pqint he gets so mad *hat he V hit Byah on the chm with the beet and rushed out doors. The old man stood .hke one ma trappe, and it was fully three minutes beta* he > ioWfc&po ut : i. As*™'™ 6 * 4fi rirt > e hu ««n» heart, thin I'm willing to W called ft V dodo ! , \