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Show A KIND-HEARED BISHOP. Mgr.. Miollis. a French bishop of the First Empire, was famed for kind-heartedness. kind-heartedness. He was always doing kind acts. On one of his pastoral journeys jour-neys through an Alpine district he met with a little swineherd who was crying as if to break his heart because be-cause all his little pigs, quitting their fat mother, had run away, he didn't know where. "Dont cry," said the bishop. "Let me have your knife for a moment." The boy obeyed; but seeing the prelate pre-late approaching the sow with the knife opened, he cried: "O Father, don't kill the mother please don't, I beg you! That would finish me altogether." "Don't be afraid. You'll see what I do, and another time you can act in the same way." With that the bishop gave the sow a little jab in the lobe of the ear with the knife. The animal forthwith made so tremendous an outcry that the little pigs, hearing their mother, came running run-ning from all their hiding places, much to the wonder and joy of their youthful guardian, who couldn't better express his gratitude to the bishop than by saying: "My, Father! but you're a sight better bet-ter at tending pigs than, I am." |
