THE BAD BOY-HE IS SMOTE ON ONE CHEEK AND TURNS THE OTHER ALSO,

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1719, 25 June 1884, Page 2

THE BAD BOY-HE IS SMOTE ON ONE CHEEK AND TURNS THE OTHER ALSO,

,Js> w . ha y? u got m your mouth, a base ball ? asked the grocery man of the bad l•V 3 V- ? | • cam 6 into store; with both clicoks sticking out, and < 'J I amt,got nothing in my mouth," ; said tto boy;" this is my Sunday School lesson. I to smote on the ono cheek, and I turned ; the other o.heek and nearly had my neck !' i f' t rr° fc nny moro turain S tlle other ! cheek for Hennery," " How was it asked the Groeery man, «Well,'it.was .in my 1 Sunday school lesson," said the boy! "and mytoachor said it was the greatest-triumph in the world for a person to bo able tojtilrn ■ theother cheek when smote on the one cheek, , I asked him if people ever did tliat, and ho ;• said our best citizens did, though it required ?. deal °f patience, I naked pa about l; 1 ® 11 ." P l . Ba 'd t1).9 toaohor was. right, and thaMi was tho duty of every citizen to turn ; the other cheek wheiujnpte on one cheek, . aud he should always do so; Ay ell sir I ! to be good and I longed for somebody to smite mo, but it seemed as thnui ; smteweranot onthowarn^aTfor ; two , tla y 3 l h , ad togo.«TflPd'Without being . smote. But mdnesday afternoon Iwas ; clown by tho theatre, wl t en they were hay, i«g a and there \yas a Jot Q [ w a ! W fin a smooth pioeo of icq, in tho ' gutter, and I mailed on to slide, and I run ; against a hoy, audhe hauled off and lammed ■ mo on this oheok. Oh gosh, but I did sen 1 stars, Um 1 But didn't lie smite • I was ! K tQ & a l T ? l that Win tiie i stieot and hit him, when I happened to think ( of turning the other cheek so I turned my faco towards linn, and lie gave me unnth/r ; «ll». 01.1 Oh l but it ' bigger than the other smote, and I guess 1 made me crazy. Anj'w plead ! <.'G^yt U of - (hat asWiegrocory men, "you don't have to get out of anything. If he hit you a couple of times, and you stood it you don t have to get out of anything,'' 'l'Ym but I didu t stand it," said the boy as ha felt his swelled oheok, "when he hit mo W yap, jt knocked alf the pious out of me, and f went at him, and we had aii^ awful fight. _Ho wouldn't tun, his'other cheek, cause I guess he was a heathen, that never went to Sunday school, so l turned his I Other cheek for him, and I warned him so he hollered enough, But I was sorry afterwards, and felt as though I would be ashamed to meet pa or my teacher, bo I thought I would see lioiy thoso good men would stand being smote,and I douiid ?, feller who wanted to earn two shilling audi hired him to smote pa and the teacher just to 550 how thoy would urn the oilier cheek;, teacher keens books In a store aud goes to'luiich"in a restaurant close by, and when he cane a'ong the fellow I had hired went up to him and slapped him on tho cheek, not very hard but just hard enough to iria^e'him'feel-aa ' though he war hit. I looked for the teacher to turn the other cheek, but, goshljio turned palo and ran down the alloy haok of the store, and his coat tails stuck out as yon could play marbles 011 them. I yel'ed to him to turn tho other chock buthe ran faster and the next morning the paper told about a dastardly attempt at highwasrobboryand assassination on tho street in broad daylight' one of'our most respected citizens boiiig°tho victim, and only for his presence of mind tho attempt would have been successful. I thought I should die ivlien I road tho account. Then I had my hired man try it .011 pa. I knew pa would turn his other cheek because ho said that was the right thfng to do. But when my man • hit pa, pa turned and lammed him right in the car, and then yelled for a policeman, but my hired man got out of tho way. That night pa said ho had had a narrow escape from,, being sand bagged, and I asked him if'he turned tho othor check also and lie said not if ho knowed it. I don't think this is a right kind of climate for turning the other cheek when you aro smete; do :yoi> ?" Wall, said tlio grooory ipi, it is hard tomakoarulo'that ivill flppjy in ajj kinds of caiie's. The idea js a good ono, to turn the othefr_ cheek; but we aro apt to forget j especially if on a casual inspection of the smitor wo thrnk wo can whip him, or if ho is so small that his' smiting does not hurt, But when a man deliberately belts me in the jaw and dislocates it, I immediately think that ouo jaw is enough to have fractured at once. . I guess that when ti.at business w.'s the custom, aiid people turned the other cheek, .thejr didn't stnkolfrom jihpir shoulder like they do nowadays. I tlvnk tho best ig tq put up yqur arms pnd ward o_2 the blow aud try 10, reason with tho smitor, and if he insists' oil smiting sort of accidentally, cuff him on the 110 e. . That brings a smiter to his serisos ins ' quick as anything. And so "your pa. didn't practioe what he preaJhcd, e!i ? " Not'much,' Ho got hot in a minute and acted like a prize nglitor. I ashed him more about it this momjng, and 110 said it was all right enough for boys to turn tlio other cheek, where they' had p'enty, but whena mangot his growth it' was di'iigerous for anybody to try to smote him, Queer; aint it? And tho boy went out as though he was trying to think of something real hard.