blunder, and he was chiding with even more than
his usual severity; I turned and looked at him
with a steady gaze. 'What are you staring at?'
he asked, 'did you never see me before?''Yes,'
I answered, 'I have seen you many times before.'
He had never before heard a disrespectful word
from my lips. He turned and moved away, and
never reproved me again in that manner, but never
afterward seemed to interest himself so much as
before in any matter that concerned me." It is
harder to forgive a person we have wronged than
one who has wronged us. That is probably the
explanation of the change in the grandfather's
manner and deportment towards his refractory
grandchild. The heavy armor of puritanical Phil-
istinism was no proof against the sling and peb-
bles of this stripling, conscious of deserving and
brave enough to insist upon better treatment.

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