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+Title: False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve
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+FALSE FRIENDS
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+THE SAILOR'S RESOLVE
+
+1884
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+[Illustration: LADY GRANGE READING TO HER SON. _Page 19._]
+
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+[Illustration: A TALK ABOUT THE PICTURE. _Page 33._]
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+FALSE FRIENDS
+
+     "Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward."--PROV. xxii. 5.
+
+[Illustration: REFLECTION. _Page 25._]
+
+"Philip, your conduct has distressed me exceedingly," said Lady Grange,
+laying her hand on the arm of her son, as they entered together the
+elegant apartment which had been fitted up as her boudoir. "You could
+not but know my feelings towards those two men--I will not call them
+gentlemen--whose company you have again forced upon me. You must be
+aware that your father has shut the door of this house against them."
+
+"My father has shut the door against better men than they are," said the
+youth carelessly; "witness my own uncles Henry and George."
+
+The lip of the lady quivered, the indignant colour rose even to her
+temples; she attempted to speak, but her voice failed her, and she
+turned aside to hide her emotion.
+
+"Well, mother, I did not mean to vex you," said Philip, who was rather
+weak in purpose than hardened in evil; "it _was_ a shame to bring Jones
+and Wildrake here, but--but you see I couldn't help it." And he played
+uneasily with his gold-headed riding-whip, while his eye avoided meeting
+that of his mother.
+
+"They have acquired some strange influence, some mysterious hold over
+you," answered the lady. "It cannot be," she added anxiously, "that you
+have broken your promise,--that they have drawn you again to the
+gaming-table,--that you are involved in debt to these men?"
+
+Philip whistled an air and sauntered up to the window.
+
+Lady Grange pressed her hand over her eyes, and a sigh, a very heavy
+sigh, burst from her bosom. Philip heard, and turned impatiently round.
+
+"There's no use in making the worst of matters," said he; "what's done
+can't be helped; and my debts, such as they are, won't ruin a rich man
+like my father."
+
+"It is not that which I fear," said the mother faintly, with a terrible
+consciousness that her son,--her hope, her pride, the delight of her
+heart,--had entered on a course which, if persevered in, must end in his
+ruin both of body and soul. "I tremble at the thought of the misery
+which you are bringing on yourself. These men are making you their
+victim: they are blinding your eyes; they are throwing a net around you,
+and you have not the resolution to break from the snare."
+
+"They are very pleasant, jovial fellows!" cried Philip, trying to hide
+under an appearance of careless gaiety the real annoyance which he felt
+at the words of his mother.
+
+"I've asked them to dine here to-day and--"
+
+"I shall not appear at the table," said Lady Grange, drawing herself up
+with dignity; "and if your father should arrive--"
+
+"Oh! he won't arrive to-night; he never travels so late."
+
+"But, Philip," said the lady earnestly again laying her cold hand on his
+arm. She was interrupted by her wayward and undutiful son.
+
+"Mother, there's no use in saying anything more on the subject; it only
+worries you, and puts me out of temper. I can't, and I won't be uncivil
+to my friends;" and turning hastily round, Philip quitted the apartment.
+
+"Friends!" faintly echoed Lady Grange, as she saw the door close behind
+her misguided son. "Oh!" she exclaimed, throwing herself on a sofa, and
+burying her face, "was there ever a mother--ever a woman so unhappy as
+I am!"
+
+Her cup was indeed very bitter; it was one which the luxuries that
+surrounded her had not the least power to sweeten. Her husband was a man
+possessing many noble qualities both of head and heart; but the fatal
+love of gold, like those petrifying springs which change living twigs
+to dead stone, had made him hardened, quarrelsome, and worldly. It had
+drawn him away from the worship of his God; for there is deep truth in
+the declaration of the apostle, that the covetous man is _an idolater_.
+It was this miserable love of gold which had induced Sir Gilbert to
+break with the family of his wife, and separate her from those to whom
+her loving heart still clung with the fondest affection. Lady Grange
+yearned for a sight of her early home; but gold had raised a barrier
+between her and the companions of her childhood. And what had the
+possession of gold done for the man who made it his idol? It had put
+snares in the path of his only son; it had made the weak-minded but
+head-strong youth be entrapped by the wicked for the sake of his wealth,
+as the ermine is hunted down for its rich fur. It had given to himself
+heavy responsibilities, for which he would have to answer at the bar of
+Heaven; for from him unto whom much has been given, much at the last day
+will be required.
+
+Yes, Lady Grange was very miserable. And how did she endeavour
+to lighten the burden of her misery? Was it by counting over her
+jewels,--looking at the costly and beautiful things which adorned her
+dwelling,--thinking of her carriages and horses and glittering plate, or
+the number of her rich and titled friends? No; she sought comfort where
+Widow Green had sought it when her child lay dangerously ill, and there
+was neither a loaf on her shelf nor a penny in her purse. The rich lady
+did what the poor one had done,--she fell on her knees and with tears
+poured out her heart to the merciful Father of all. She told him her
+sorrows, she told him her fears; she asked him for that help which she
+so much required. Her case was a harder one than the widow's. A visit
+from the clergyman, a present from a benevolent friend, God's blessing
+on a simple remedy, had soon changed Mrs. Green's sorrow into joy.
+The anguish of Lady Grange lay deeper; her faith was more sorely tried;
+her fears were not for the bodies but the souls of those whom she
+loved;--and where is the mortal who can give us a cure for the disease
+of sin?
+
+While his mother was weeping and praying, Philip was revelling and
+drinking. Fast were the bottles pushed round, and often were the glasses
+refilled. The stately banqueting-room resounded with laughter and
+merriment; and as the evening advanced, with boisterous song. It was
+late before the young men quitted the table; and then, heated with wine,
+they threw the window wide open, to let the freshness of the night air
+cool their fevered temples.
+
+Beautiful looked the park in the calm moonlight. Not a breath stirred
+the branches of the trees, their dark shadows lay motionless on the
+green sward: perfect silence and stillness reigned around. But the holy
+quietness of nature was rudely disturbed by the voices of the revellers.
+
+With the conversation that passed I shall not soil my pages. The window
+opened into a broad stone balcony, and seating themselves upon its
+parapet, the young men exchanged stories and jests. After many sallies
+of so-called wit, Wildrake rallied Philip on the quantity of wine which
+he had taken, and betted that he could not walk steadily from the one
+end of the balcony to the other. Philip, with that insane pride which
+can plume itself on being _mighty to mingle strong drink_, maintained
+that his head was as clear and his faculties as perfect as though he had
+tasted nothing but water; and declared that he could walk round the edge
+of the parapet with as steady a step as he would tread the gravel-path
+in the morning!
+
+Wildrake laughed, and dared him to do it: Jones betted ten to one that
+he could not.
+
+"Done!" cried Philip, and sprang up on the parapet in a moment.
+
+"Come down again!" called out Wildrake, who had enough of sense left to
+perceive the folly and danger of the wager.
+
+Philip did not appear to hear him. Attempting to balance himself by his
+arms, with a slow and unsteady step he began to make his way along the
+lofty and narrow edge.
+
+The two young men held their breath. To one who with unsteady feet walks
+the slippery margin of temptation, the higher his position, the greater
+his danger; the loftier his elevation, the more perilous a fall!
+
+"He will never get to the end!" said Jones, watching with some anxiety
+the movements of his companion.
+
+The words had scarcely escaped his lips when they received a startling
+fulfilment. Philip had not proceeded half way along the parapet when a
+slight sound in the garden below him attracted his attention. He glanced
+down for a moment; and there, in the cold, clear moonlight, gazing
+sternly upon him, he beheld his father! The sudden start of surprise
+which he gave threw the youth off his balance,--he staggered back, lost
+his footing, stretched out his hands wildly to save himself, and fell
+with a loud cry to the ground!
+
+All was now confusion and terror. There were the rushing of footsteps
+hither and thither, voices calling, bells loudly ringing, and, above
+all, the voice of a mother's anguish, piercing to the soul! Jones and
+Wildrake hurried off to the stables, saddled their horses themselves,
+and dashed off at full speed to summon a surgeon, glad of any excuse
+to make their escape from the place.
+
+The unfortunate Philip was raised from the ground, and carried into the
+house. His groans showed the severity of his sufferings. The slightest
+motion was to him torture, and an hour of intense suspense ensued before
+the arrival of the surgeon. Lady Grange made a painful effort to be
+calm. She thought of everything, did all that she could do for the
+relief of her son, and even strove to speak words of comfort and hope
+to her husband, who appeared almost stupified by his sorrow. Prayer was
+still her support--prayer, silent, but almost unceasing.
+
+The surgeon arrived,--the injuries received by the sufferer were
+examined, though it was long before Philip, unaccustomed to pain and
+incapable of self-control, would permit necessary measures to be taken.
+His resistance greatly added to his sufferings. He had sustained a
+compound fracture of his leg, besides numerous bruises and contusions.
+The broken bone had to be set, and the pale mother stood by, longing, in
+the fervour of her unselfish love, that she could endure the agony in
+the place of her son. The pampered child of luxury shrank sensitively
+from pain, and the thought that he had brought all his misery upon
+himself by his folly and disobedience rendered it yet more intolerable.
+When the surgeon had at length done his work, Lady Grange retired with
+him to another apartment, and, struggling to command her choking voice,
+asked him the question on the reply to which all her earthly happiness
+seemed to hang,--whether he had hope that the life of her boy might be
+spared.
+
+"I have every hope", said the surgeon, cheerfully, "if we can keep down
+the fever." Then, for the first time since she had seen her son lie
+bleeding before her, the mother found the relief of tears.
+
+Through the long night she quitted not the sufferer's pillow, bathing
+his fevered brow, relieving his thirst, whispering comfort to his
+troubled spirit. Soon after daybreak Philip sank into a quiet,
+refreshing sleep; and Lady Grange, feeling as if a mountain's weight had
+been lifted from her heart, hurried to carry the good news to her husband.
+
+She found him in the spacious saloon, pacing restlessly to and fro. His
+brow was knit, his lips compressed; his disordered dress and haggard
+countenance showed that he, too, had watched the live-long night.
+
+"He sleeps at last, Gilbert, thank God!" Her face brightened as she
+spoke; but there was no corresponding look of joy on that of her husband.
+
+"Gilbert, the doctor assures me that there is every prospect of our
+dear boy's restoration!"
+
+"And to what is he to be restored?" said the father gloomily; "to
+poverty--misery--ruin!"
+
+Lady Grange stood mute with surprise scarcely believing the evidence of
+her senses almost deeming that the words must have been uttered in a
+dream. But it was no dream, but one of those strange, stern realities
+which we meet with in life. Her husband indeed stood before her a ruined
+man! A commercial crash, like those which have so often reduced the rich
+to poverty, coming almost as suddenly as the earthquake which shakes the
+natural world, had overthrown all his fortune! The riches in which he
+had trusted had taken to themselves wings and flown away.
+
+Here was another startling shock, but Lady Grange felt it far less than
+the first. It seemed to her that if her son were only spared to her, she
+could bear cheerfully any other trial. When riches had increased, she
+had not set her heart upon them; she had endeavoured to spend them as a
+good steward of God and to lay up treasure in that blessed place where
+there is no danger of its ever being lost. Sir Gilbert was far more
+crushed than his wife was by this misfortune. He saw his idol broken
+before his eyes, and where was he to turn for comfort? Everything upon
+which his eye rested was a source of pain to him; for must he not part
+with all, leave all in which his heart had delighted, all in which his
+soul had taken pride? He forgot that poverty was only forestalling by a
+few years the inevitable work of death!
+
+The day passed wearily away. Philip suffered much pain, was weak and
+low, and bitterly conscious how well he had earned the misery which he
+was called on to endure. It was a mercy that he was experiencing, before
+it was too late, that _thorns and snares are in the way of the froward_.
+He liked his mother to read the Bible to him, just a few verses at a
+time, as he had strength to bear it; and in this occupation she herself
+found the comfort which she needed. Sir Gilbert, full of his own
+troubles, scarcely ever entered the apartment of his son.
+
+Towards evening a servant came softly into the sick-room, bringing
+a sealed letter for her lady. There was no post-mark upon it, and
+the girl informed her mistress that the gentleman who had brought
+it was waiting in the garden for a reply. The first glance at the
+hand-writing, at the well-known seal, brought colour to the cheek of
+the lady. But it was a hand-writing which she had been forbidden to
+read; it was a seal which she must not break! She motioned to the maid
+to take her place beside the invalid who happened at that moment to be
+sleeping and with a quick step and a throbbing heart she hurried away
+to find her husband.
+
+He was in his study, his arms resting on his open desk, and his head
+bowed down upon them. Bills and papers, scattered in profusion on the
+table, showed what had been the nature of the occupation which he had
+not had the courage to finish. He started from his posture of despair
+as his wife laid a gentle touch on his shoulder; and, without uttering
+a word, she placed the unopened letter in his hand.
+
+My reader shall have the privilege of looking over Sir Gilbert's
+shoulder, and perusing the contents of that letter:--
+
+     "Dearest Sister,--We have heard of your trials, and warmly
+     sympathize in your sorrow. Let Sir Gilbert know that we have placed
+     at his banker's, after having settled it upon you, double the sum
+     which caused our unhappy differences. Let the past be forgotten;
+     let us again meet as those should meet who have gathered together
+     round the same hearth, mourned over the same grave, and shared joys
+     and sorrows together, as it is our anxious desire to do now. I
+     shall be my own messenger, and shall wait in person to receive your
+     reply.--Your ever attached brother,
+
+     "HENRY LATOUR."
+
+A few minutes more and Lady Grange was in the arms of her brother; while
+Sir Gilbert was silently grasping the hand of one whom, but for
+misfortune, he would never have known as a friend.
+
+All the neighbourhood pitied the gentle lady, the benefactress of the
+poor, when she dismissed her servants, sold her jewels, and quitted
+her beautiful home to seek a humbler shelter. Amongst the hundreds who
+crowded to the public auction of the magnificent furniture and plate,
+which had been the admiration of all who had seen them, many thought
+with compassion of the late owners, reduced to such sudden poverty,
+though the generosity of the lady's family had saved them from want
+or dependence.
+
+And yet truly, never since her marriage had Lady Grange been less an
+object of compassion.
+
+Her son was slowly but surely recovering, and his preservation from
+meeting sudden death unprepared was to her a source of unutterable
+thankfulness. Her own family appeared to regard her with even more
+tender affection than if no coldness had ever arisen between them; and
+their love was to her beyond price. Even Sir Gilbert's harsh, worldly
+character, was somewhat softened by trials, and by the unmerited
+kindness which he met with from those whom, in his prosperity, he
+had slighted and shunned. Lady Grange felt that her prayers had been
+answered indeed, though in a way very different from what she had hoped
+or expected. The chain by which her son had been gradually drawn down
+towards rum, by those who sought his company for the sake of his money,
+had been suddenly snapped by the loss of his fortune. The weak youth
+was left to the guidance of those to whom his welfare was really dear.
+Philip, obliged to rouse himself from his indolence, and exert himself
+to earn his living, became a far wiser and more estimable man than he
+would ever have been as the heir to a fortune; and he never forgot the
+lesson which pain, weakness, and shame had taught him,--that the way of
+evil is also the way of sorrow. _Thorns and snares are in the way of
+the froward._
+
+    Who Wisdom's path forsakes,
+      Leaves all true joy behind:
+    He who the peace of others breaks,
+      No peace himself shall find.
+    Flowers above and thorns below,
+    Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
+    Such is the fate that sinners know!
+
+    The drunkard gaily sings
+      Above his foaming glass;
+    But shame and pain the revel brings,
+      Ere many hours can pass.
+    Flowers above and thorns below,
+    Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
+    Such is the fate that sinners know!
+
+    The thief may count his gains;--
+      If he the sum could see
+    Of future punishment and pains,
+      Sad would his reckoning be!
+    Flowers above and thorns below,
+    Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
+    Such is the fate that sinners know!
+
+    The Sabbath-breaker spurns
+      What Wisdom did ordain:
+    God's rest to Satan's use he turns,--
+      A blessing to a bane.
+    Flowers above and thorns below,
+    Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
+    Such is the fate which sinners know!
+
+    O Lord, to thee we pray;
+      Do thou our faith increase;
+    Help us to walk in Wisdom's way,--
+      The only way of peace:
+    For flowers above and thorns below,
+    Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
+    Such is the fate which sinners know!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SAILOR'S RESOLVE.
+
+     "An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in
+     transgression."--PROV. xxix. 22.
+
+The old sailor Jonas sat before the fire with his pipe in his mouth,
+looking steadfastly into the glowing coals. Not that, following a
+favourite practice of his little niece, he was making out red-hot
+castles and flaming buildings in the grate, or that his thoughts were in
+any way connected with the embers: he was doing what it would be well if
+we all sometimes did,--looking into himself, and reflecting on what had
+happened in relation to his own conduct.
+
+"So," thought he, "here am I, an honest old fellow,--I may say it, with
+all my faults; and one who shrinks from falsehood more than from fire;
+and I find that I, with my bearish temper, am actually driving those
+about me into it--teaching them to be crafty, tricky, and cowardly! I
+knew well enough that my gruffness plagued others, but I never saw how
+it _tempted_ others until now; tempted them to meanness, I would say,
+for I have found a thousand times that _an angry man stirreth up
+strife_, and that a short word may begin a long quarrel. I am afraid
+that I have not thought enough on this matter. I've looked on bad temper
+as a very little sin, and I begin to suspect that it is a great one,
+both in God's eyes and in the consequences that it brings. Let me see
+if I can reckon up its evils! It makes those miserable whom one would
+wish to make happy; it often, like an adverse gale, forces them to
+back, instead of steering straight for the port. It dishonours one's
+profession, lowers one's flag, makes the world mock at the religion
+which can leave a man as rough and rugged as a heathen savage. It's
+directly contrary to the Word of God,--it's wide as east from west of
+the example set before us! Yes, a furious temper is a very evil thing;
+I'd give my other leg to be rid of mine!" and in the warmth of his
+self-reproach the sailor struck his wooden one against the hearth with
+such violence as to make Alie start in terror that some fierce explosion
+was about to follow.
+
+"Well, I've made up my mind as to its being an evil--a great evil,"
+continued Jonas, in his quiet meditation; "the next question is, how
+is the evil to be got rid of? There's the pinch! It clings to one like
+one's skin. It's one's nature,--how can one fight against nature? And
+yet, I take it, it's the very business of faith to conquer our evil
+nature. As I read somewhere, any dead dog can float with the stream;
+it's the living dog that swims against it. I mind the trouble I had
+about the wicked habit of swearing, when first I took to trying to serve
+God and leave off my evil courses. Bad words came to my mouth as natural
+as the very air that I breathed. What did I do to cure myself of that
+evil? Why, I resolved again and again, and found that my resolutions
+were always snapping like a rotten cable in a storm; and I was driven
+from my anchorage so often, that I almost began to despair. Then I
+prayed hard to be helped; and I said to myself, 'God helps those who
+help themselves, and maybe if I determine to do something that I should
+be sorry to do every time that an oath comes from my mouth, it would
+assist me to remember my duty.' I resolved to break my pipe the first
+time that I swore; and I've never uttered an oath from that day to this,
+not even in my most towering passions! Now I'll try the same cure again;
+not to punish a sin, but to prevent it. If I fly into a fury, I'll break
+my pipe! There Jonas Colter, I give you fair warning!" and the old
+sailor smiled grimly to himself, and stirred the fire with an air of
+satisfaction.
+
+Not one rough word did Jonas utter that evening; indeed he was
+remarkably silent, for the simplest way of saying nothing evil, he
+thought, was to say nothing at all. Jonas looked with much pleasure
+at his pipe when he put it on the mantle-piece for the night. "You've
+weathered this day, old friend," said he; "we'll be on the look out
+against squalls to-morrow."
+
+The next morning Jonas occupied himself in his own room with his phials,
+and his nephew and niece were engaged in the kitchen in preparing for
+the Sunday school, which their mother made, them regularly attend. The
+door was open between the two rooms and as the place was not large,
+Jonas heard every word that passed between Johnny and Alie almost as
+well as if he had been close beside them.
+
+_Johnny_. I say, Alie--
+
+_Alie_. Please, Johnny, let me learn this quietly. If I do not know it
+my teacher will be vexed. My work being behind-hand yesterday has put me
+quite back with my tasks. You know that I cannot learn so fast as you do.
+
+_Johnny_. Oh! you've plenty of time. I want you to do something for me.
+Do you know that I have lost my new ball?
+
+_Alie_. Why, I saw you take it out of your pocket yesterday, just after
+we crossed the stile on our way back from the farm.
+
+_Johnny_. That's it! I took it out of my pocket, and I never put it in
+again. I want you to go directly and look for the ball. That stile is
+only three fields off, you know. You must look carefully along the path
+all the way; and lose no time, or some one else may pick it up.
+
+_Alie_. Pray, Johnny, don't ask me to go into the fields.
+
+_Johnny_. I tell you, you have plenty of time for your lessons.
+
+_Alie_. It is not that, but--
+
+_Johnny_. Speak out, will you?
+
+_Alie_. You know--there are--cows!
+
+Johnny burst into a loud, coarse laugh of derision. "You miserable
+little coward!" he cried; "I'd like to see one chasing you round the
+meadow! How you'd scamper! how you'd scream! rare fun it would be,--ha!
+ha! ha!"
+
+"Rare fun would it be, sir!" exclaimed an indignant voice, as Jonas
+stumped from the next room, and, seizing his nephew by the collar of his
+jacket, gave him a hearty shake; "rare fun would it be,--and what do you
+call this? You dare twit your sister with cowardice!--you who sneaked
+off yesterday like a fox because you had not the spirit to look an old
+man in the face!--you who bully the weak and cringe to the strong!--you
+who have the manners of a bear with the heart of a pigeon!" Every
+sentence was accompanied by a violent shake, which almost took the
+breath from the boy; and Jonas, red with passion, concluded his speech
+by flinging Johnny from him with such force that, but for the wall
+against which he staggered, he must have fallen to the ground.
+
+The next minute Jonas walked up to the mantle-piece, and exclaiming, in
+a tone of vexation, "Run aground again!" took his pipe, snapped it in
+two, and flung the pieces into the fire! He then stumped back to his
+room, slamming the door behind him.
+
+"The old fury!" muttered the panting Johnny between his clenched teeth,
+looking fiercely towards his uncle's room.
+
+"To break his own pipe!" exclaimed Alie. "I never knew him do anything
+like that before, however angry he might be!"
+
+Johnny took down his cap from its peg, and, in as ill humour as can
+well be imagined, went out to search for his ball. He took what revenge
+he could on his formidable uncle, while amusing himself that afternoon
+by looking over his "Robinson Crusoe." Johnny was fond of his pencil,
+though he had never learned to draw; and the margins of his books were
+often adorned with grim heads or odd figures by his hand. There was
+a picture in "Robinson Crusoe" representing a party of cannibals,
+as hideous as fancy could represent them, dancing around their fire.
+Johnny diverted his mind and gratified his malice by doing his best so
+to alter the foremost figure as to make him appear with a wooden leg,
+while he drew on his head a straw hat, unmistakably like that of the old
+sailor, and touched up the features so as to give a dim resemblance to
+his face. To prevent a doubt as to the meaning of the sketch, Johnny
+scribbled on the side of the picture,--
+
+    "In search of fierce savages no one need roam;
+    The fiercest and ugliest, you'll find him at home!"
+
+He secretly showed the picture to Alie.
+
+"O Johnny! how naughty! What would uncle say if he saw it?"
+
+"We might look out for squalls indeed! but uncle never by any chance
+looks at a book of that sort."
+
+"I think that you had better rub out the pencilling as fast as you can,"
+said Alie.
+
+"Catch me rubbing it out!" cried Johnny; "it's the best sketch that ever
+I drew, and as like the old savage as it can stare!"
+
+Late in the evening their mother returned from Brampton, where she had
+been nursing a sick lady. Right glad were Johnny and Alie to see her
+sooner than they had ventured to expect. She brought them a few oranges,
+to show her remembrance of them. Nor was the old sailor forgotten;
+carefully she drew from her bag and presented to him a new pipe.
+
+The children glanced at each other. Jonas took the pipe with a curious
+expression on his face, which his sister was at a loss to understand.
+
+"Thank'ee kindly," he said; "I see it'll be a case of--
+
+    "'If ye try and don't succeed,
+    Try, try, try again.'"
+
+What he meant was a riddle to every one else present, although not to
+the reader.
+
+The "try" was very successful on that evening and the following day.
+Never had Johnny and Alie found their uncle so agreeable. His manner
+almost approached to gentleness,--it was a calm after a storm.
+
+"Uncle is so very good and kind," said Alie to her brother, as they
+walked home from afternoon service, "that I wonder how you can bear to
+have that naughty picture still in your book. He is not in the least
+like a cannibal, and it seems quite wrong to laugh at him so."
+
+"I'll rub it all out one of these days," replied Johnny; "but I must
+show it first to Peter Crane. He says that I never hit on a likeness: if
+he sees that, he'll never say so again!"
+
+The next morning Jonas occupied himself with gathering wild flowers and
+herbs in the fields. He carried them into his little room, where Johnny
+heard him whistling "Old Tom Bowling," like one at peace with himself
+and all the world.
+
+Presently Jonas called to the boy to bring him a knife from the kitchen;
+a request made in an unusually courteous tone of voice, and with which,
+of course, Johnny immediately complied.
+
+He found Jonas busy drying his plants, by laying them neatly between the
+pages of a book, preparatory to pressing them down. What was the terror
+of Johnny when he perceived that the book whose pages Jonas was turning
+over for this purpose was no other than his "Robinson Crusoe"!
+
+"Oh! if I could only get it out of his hands before he comes to that
+horrid picture! Oh! what shall I do? what shall I do?" thought the
+bewildered Johnny. "Uncle, I was reading that book," at last he mustered
+courage to say aloud.
+
+"You may read it again to-morrow," was the quiet reply of Jonas.
+
+"Perhaps he will not look at that picture," reflected Johnny. "I wish
+that I could see exactly which part of the book he is at! He looks too
+quiet a great deal for any mischief to have been done yet! Dear! dear!
+I would give anything to have that 'Robinson Crusoe' at the bottom of
+the sea! I do think that my uncle's face is growing very red!--yes! the
+veins on his forehead are swelling! Depend on't he's turned over to
+those unlucky cannibals, and will be ready to eat me like one of them!
+I'd better make off before the thunder-clap comes!"
+
+"Going to sheer off again, Master Johnny?" said the old sailor, in a
+very peculiar tone of voice, looking up from the open book on which his
+finger now rested.
+
+"I've a little business," stammered out Johnny.
+
+"Yes, a little business with me, which you'd better square before you
+hoist sail. Why, when you made such a good figure of this savage, did
+you not clap jacket and boots on this little cannibal beside him, and
+make a pair of 'em 'at home'? I suspect you and I are both in the same
+boat as far as regards our tempers, my lad!"
+
+Johnny felt it utterly impossible to utter a word in reply.
+
+"I'm afraid," pursued the seaman, closing the book, "that we've both had
+a bit too much of the savage about us,--too much of the dancing round
+the fire. But mark me, Jack,--we learn even in that book that a savage,
+a cannibal _may_ be tamed; and we learn from something far better, that
+principle,--the noblest principle which can govern either the young or
+the old,--_may_, ay, and _must_, put out the fire of fierce anger in our
+hearts, and change us from wild beasts to men! So I've said my say,"
+added Jonas with a smile; "and in token of my first victory over my old
+foe, come here, my boy, and give us your hand!"
+
+"O uncle, I am so sorry!" exclaimed Johnny, with moistened eyes, as he
+felt the kindly grasp of the old man.
+
+"Sorry are you? and what were you on Saturday when I shook you as a cat
+shakes a rat?"
+
+"Why, uncle, I own that I was angry."
+
+"Sorry now, and angry then? So it's clear that the mild way has the best
+effect, to say nothing of the example." And Jonas fell into a fit of
+musing.
+
+All was fair weather and sunshine in the home on that day, and on many
+days after. Jonas had, indeed, a hard struggle to subdue his temper, and
+often felt fierce anger rising in his heart, and ready to boil over in
+words of passion or acts of violence; but Jonas, as he had endeavoured
+faithfully to serve his Queen, while he fought under her flag, brought
+the same earnest and brave sense of duty to bear on the trials of daily
+life. He never again forgot his resolution, and every day that passed
+made the restraint which he laid upon himself less painful and irksome
+to him.
+
+If the conscience of any of my readers should tell him that, by his
+unruly temper, he is marring the peace of his family, oh! let him not
+neglect the evil as a small one, but, like the poor old sailor in my
+story, resolutely struggle against it. For _an angry man stirreth up
+strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression._
+
+    There is sin in commencing strife;
+      Sin in the thoughtless jest
+        Or angry burst,
+        Which awakens first
+      The ire in a brother's breast!
+
+    There is sin in stirring up strife,
+      In fanning the smouldering flame,
+        By scornful eye,
+        Or proud reply,
+      Or anger-stirring name.
+
+    There is sin in keeping up strife,
+      Dark, soul-destroying sin.
+        Who cherishes hate
+        May seek heaven's gate,
+      But never can enter in.
+
+    For peace is the Christian's joy,
+      And love is the Christian's life;
+        He's bound for a home
+        Where hate cannot come,
+      Nor the shadow of sin or strife!
+
+
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