Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — A Soft Answer. [ARTICLE]

A Soft Answer.

A small, ragged urchin was observed by a philanthropic gentleman on Howard street, grinding his knuckles into his eyes and howling dolefully. “What is the matter, my boy?” “Feller pasted me in the snoot.” “What did you do to him “Nothing, sir. I am a good little boy, and goes to Sunday school, and the teacher sez, ‘remember, boys, a soft answer tumeth away wrath,’ and when I steps on the fellers corns, and he gets wratby, I jest sez the softest thing 1 •could think of, and calls him a dude, and he np and shagged me!” '“Bless my soul!” exclaimed the old gentleman, aghast, when, suddenly abandoning bis whimper, the urohin ont a caper on the pavement, put bifingers to his nose, gave utterance to an ecstatie “sold again!” and darted swiftly down an alley. —Boston Globe.