p. 10 | ALWAYS BE COURTEOUS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

ALWAYS BE COURTEOUS.

We little appreciate the effect of a kind word upon those who are used to blows. It seems that one evening a young lady abruptly turned a street corner and ran against a boy, who was small and ragged and freckled. Stopping as soon as she could, she turned to him and said:—

“I beg your pardon. Indeed, I am very sorry.”

The small, ragged, and freckled boy looked up in blank amazement for an instant. Then, taking off about three-fourths of a cap, all he had, he bowed very low, smiled until his face became lost in the smile, and answered:—

“You can hev my parding and welcome, miss, and yer may run ag’in me and knock me clean down, an’ I won’t say a word.”

After the young lady passed on, he turned to a comrade and said, half apologetically:—

“I never had anyone ask my parding before, and it kind o’ took me off my feet.”—Selected.