TACTFUL.
'.'Talking. about-'tact,''- said: a 1 woman who is just verging on middlo age. "I never saw. .any one', get out of a. difficult situation.' more deftljythan did a man I met at'a blacksmith, .shop. ih;,a NewfEhgland village ! was driving through ;last summer. •. -I 'was alono in the l lanes'.; with:my friend;;the -horse, .When- I noticcd-.that he limped so'when vo reached tlje next village I. stopped at. the' blacksmith's 'shop;' A'man' was holding;up. the doorpost,; and to him I said: .. "Will you please, tell tho' blacksmith to .come, out P Tiyant to. see. him'." . 'tlie ;.maniier;6f..'the\viUage'.loafer, he ;did ;nrt''stir,'rßut. smiled sweetly at': me, and, ; ■lifting up his/ voice, cried : v . . . ; . ■ ■ • "Bill, come out 1. There's a - lady w.rts to see you." A ; : ; . ..... From the: depths. of the blacksmith shop a voice roared: : • "Is she young, John, or old?" In'the'-words, of an old 'poem, I looked at .Johnv:and/:J6hfclopked^ without'moving, ho called : ... .' •:.V "You'll - bo ■ satisfied, Bill,''when 'you get
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11
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157TACTFUL. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11
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