Show THE BOER AT HOME ne he does not kot hate all only some of thena them bryant lindley met a boer baer and asked the way he received a surly sarly answer which amounted to go to the devill devil upon this he protested angrily and the boer rejoined in equal bad humor at length the boer shouted lt your name anyway 7 and when he be heard it his manner altered at once and he exclaimed 11 what and aro are you yon the son of the great american missionary daniel lindley my friend gladly pleaded guilty to this charge and the surly boer boer became at once the most hospitable friend and begged forgiveness for his rudeness As they rode together toward tho the road which my friend was seeking the boer recounted with grateful satisfaction the many good deeds performed by the elder lindley but of them all the best to him was that represented by a sound thrashing he had once received at the hands of this venerable missionary for it appear a that this particular boer beer in his youth had bad been sent to a school taught by lindley that the dutchman was noted for his size and strength and had bragged of his capacity to down the teacher and had n nan 1 11 ally sought the opportunity by ri reusing using obedience but he soon learned that he bad made a gross mistake for this particular missionary was also a noted athlete and gave him such a hiding with a bullock whip that the young giant roared foa to mercy before the whole school and for this and similar deeds the doers boers loved the elder lindley and this particular boer venerated his memory on tt tl 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 indis in his eyes to grant him bim a great favor for the sake of his conscience your father said he be did me a service so great that I 1 can never repay it he be gave me the worst thrashing I 1 ever had he saved my character and I 1 arn am a better man today thanks to him my friend cheerfully promised to at giant ant the request puzzling his head bead as aa to what was going to be required of him the boer was wag mounted upon an excellent horse which he prized beyond anything he owned he dismounted put the reins in Lind leys hand and then ran away into the black forest as though the devil were after him hero here was no indian giving this boer had bad put it out of the power of the american to discover the name or whereabouts of the strange giver it is a story typical of tho the boer and serves to illustrato illusto ato many apparent contradictions tra in Us lis nature ho he does not hate bate englishmen in general he hates only those who seem to threaten his peculiar quality of independence the dutch feeling toward england by poultney bigelow in harpers magaline |