. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . x, und den Icatches dot old hen, und snubs her dis vayund dot vay, to let her know vot I means,Lindsays. Nowset! Butsosoonaslturns mine pack, avay goes dot hen : undden 1 catch her von, two, free, levendimes, und knocks her dis vay und dot,efery dime, und say, Now sit dere!But I vinds I could do not-ting mit her. So I gets aleetle lid to dot pox, undsays •• Now i dinks 1 *vecot you : and 1 puts doseeggs in dot box, und chamsdot hen town, und I say.; Hurrah ! A leetle vile after-vords I goes to see how sheQ^^i*1- gets on, und] lifts up v
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . x, und den Icatches dot old hen, und snubs her dis vayund dot vay, to let her know vot I means,Lindsays. Nowset! Butsosoonaslturns mine pack, avay goes dot hen : undden 1 catch her von, two, free, levendimes, und knocks her dis vay und dot,efery dime, und say, Now sit dere!But I vinds I could do not-ting mit her. So I gets aleetle lid to dot pox, undsays •• Now i dinks 1 *vecot you : and 1 puts doseeggs in dot box, und chamsdot hen town, und I say.; Hurrah ! A leetle vile after-vords I goes to see how sheQ^^i*1- gets on, und] lifts up von cor- lW5-_-- ner of dot lid. and I shust looks in. Oh, my goodness ! dere vas dot old hen shust a- setting standing up! Well, I didnt gei a smile from him, but he said this much: ] think I ve got a good deal of the old hen in me. Now there are some men we cannot move. If we movethose to help us who are not themselves injured and ruinedby the drink, we must ask them to abstain for the sake ofothers. And as 1 have said before (and I am not going to. oh, my goodness! A NOBLE WOMAN. 201 repeat the words, but the sentiment) all heroism lies inself-sacrifice ; and if you would be a hero, it must be bydoing and suffering for others. For a man to be a hero it isnot requisite that he should be scientific, literary, intellectual,logical, oratorical, or eloquent; not at all. How many heroesare there in humble life, who are doing their work in thespirit of self-sacrifice! Let me relate to you the case of onein our own country. During the last year of the war, three gentlemen, one ofthem an Englishman, were riding through some of the out-lying towns of New England. The Englishman said, Thepainful feature to me in New England country life is theimmense amount of human vegetation one sees. What doyou mean? Well, in these isolated country towns withoutrailroad communication, what do the people do? What dothey see? Where have they been? What do they know?You, who are working in the busy
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