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Show HE MEHELY DIDN'T THINK. Used to let his poor .old mother go and carry in the wood. She was just a packhorse for him, but he never understood; Never thought of bringin' water from the spring down by the lane Or of helpin' her to gather in the clos" before- the rain; Let her keep a waitin' on him, though her back was achin' so 'Twasn't 'cause he didn't love her he just didn't think, you know. Then he went away and married left her Iivin' there aione 'Course his wife she didn't want her she had people of her own And he carried in the kindlin' and he built the lire.?, too. And, to tell th3 truth. I dunno what there was he didn't do Had to hustle now. I tell you! Got to thinkin'. too. at last That ho mis,'ht have been a little mite , more thoughtful in the past. After while the weory mother put her burdens all away And he went and heard the Treacher praise'the poor old soul one day. And I stood and looked down at hr when they pi-ed the lid aside " . Poor old ha! j didn't wonder that her ooy set there and cried Just as if he. couldn't bear it-just as if his heart d break-He break-He had kind of got to seein' what she'd suffered for his sake. . 1 There's a lot of kinds of sinnin' that the good book tells about- . Sins concernin' which a body needn't ever be in doubt, v But there's one sin that I reckon many a nT.. Parl who doesn't think Will be held to strict account fer when he - goes acmst the brink Fer the wrong that's done a person by an other's lack of thought Hurts as much as though the injured was the victim of a plot! .... - . Chicago Times-Herald. |