| Show THE BOER AT HOME me H does not hate all engleh en only some of them bryant lindley met a boer and asked the way he received a surly answer which amounted to go to the tha devill devil 1 upon this ha be protested angrily and tho the boer rejoined in equal bad humor at length the boer shouted your same name anyway and when n he heard beard it his bin manner altered at once an and d he be exclaimed what and are you the son of the be great american miss missionary conary daniel lindley my friend gladly pleaded guilty to this charge and the surly boer became at once the most bosel hospitable table friend and begged forgiveness for his big rudeness As they rode together toward the road which my friend was seeking the boer recounted with grateful satisfaction the many good deeds performed fay by the elder lindley but of them all the best beat to him was wag that represented by a sound round thrashing he had bad once received at the hands handa of this venerable missionary for it appeared that this particular boer in his youth had been sent to a school taught by lindley that the tha dutchman was noted for his bis size and strength and had bragged of his hia capacity to down the teacher and had actually ally sought tho the opportunity by refusing obedience but be soon learned that he be had bad made a gross mistake for this particular missionary was also a noted athlete and gave him such a hiding biding with a bullock whip that the young giant roared for mercy before the whole school and for this and similar deeds the boers loved the elder lindley and this particular boer venerated his hia memory on the evening in question when the two men were about to part the boer who had bad been so uncivil at first begged lindley with tears in hi his eyes to grant him a great favor for the sake of bis big C conscience ou science your father said he be did me a service so eo great that I 1 can never repay it ho be gave me the worst thrashing I 1 ever had he saved my cb character ar and I 1 am a better man today thanks to him my friend cheerfully promised to gr grant the request puzzling his big head bead as aa to what was going to be required of him the boer was mounted upon an excellent horse which he prized beyond anything he be owned he dismounted put the reins in Lind leys hand band and then ran away into the black forest as aa though the devil were after him here was no indian giving this boer had put it out of the power of the american to discover the name or whereabouts of the strange giver it is a story etory typical of the boer and lo 10 gerves to illustrate many apparent contradictions tra dictions in his hia nature he does not hate bate englishmen in general he hates wily only those who seem to threaten his big pecullar peculiar quality of independence the dutch feeling toward england by poultney bigelow in harpers maga side |
