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A Handsome Apology

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 15.

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A Handsome Apology

NED and his grandmother are the best of friends, but sometimes the little boy’s tongue is too quick to please the old lady. Then Ned apologizes after a fashion of his own, which his grandmother approves.
“I got tired lugging that wheelbarrow for grandmother while she was changing her plants,” Ned said to his mother, recounting the day’s events at bedtime, “and I said, ‘I wish there wasn’t another speck of this hateful dirt in all the world!’ But then, afterward, I ’pologized.”
“I am glad of that,” said his mother.
“Did you tell her you were sorry?”
“No, that is not the kind grandmother likes best,” said Ned. “I got another wheelbarrowful, and just said: ‘Don’t you want some more of this nice dirt, grandmother?’ And then we were all right again.”—Youth’s Companion.