Around the tea-table . es. We all need to studyChristian tact. The boys in the Baskinridge school-house laughed at William L. Daytons impedimentof speech, but that did not hinder him from after-ward making court-room and senate-chamber thrillunder the spell of his words. In our early home there was a vicious cat thatwould invade the milk-pans, and we, the boys,chased her with hoes and rakes, always hittingthe place where she had been just before, till one CATCHING THE BAY MARE. 313 day father came out with a plain stick of oven-wood, and with one little clip back of the ear putan end to all of
Around the tea-table . es. We all need to studyChristian tact. The boys in the Baskinridge school-house laughed at William L. Daytons impedimentof speech, but that did not hinder him from after-ward making court-room and senate-chamber thrillunder the spell of his words. In our early home there was a vicious cat thatwould invade the milk-pans, and we, the boys,chased her with hoes and rakes, always hittingthe place where she had been just before, till one CATCHING THE BAY MARE. 313 day father came out with a plain stick of oven-wood, and with one little clip back of the ear putan end to all of her nine lives. You see every-thing depends upon the style of the stroke, andnot upon the elaborateness of the weapon. Themost valuable things you try to take will behavelike the bay mare; but what you cannot over-come by coarse persuasion, or reach at full run,you can catch with apostolic guile. Learn thefirst-rate art of doing secular or Christian work,and then it matters not whether your weapon be abasin or a CHAPTER LIII. OUR FIRST AXD LAST CIGAR. THE time had come in our boyhood which wethought demanded of us a capacity to old people of the household could abide nei-ther the sight nor the smell of the Virginia ministers came there, not by positive in-junction but by a sort of instinct as to what wouldbe safest, they whiffed their pipe on the back the house could not stand sanctified smoke, youmay know how little chance there was for adoles-cent cigar-puffing. By some rare good fortune which put in ourhands three cents, we found access to a tobaccostore. As the lid of the long, narrow, fragrantbox opened, and for the first time we owned acigar, our feelings of elation, manliness, superior-ity and anticipation can scarcely be imagined, saveby those who have had the same sensation. Ourfirst ride on horseback, though we fell off beforewe got to the barn, and our first pair of new boots(real squeakers) we had thought could never besurpassed
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