Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — Retribution. [ARTICLE]

Retribution.

A young Englishman at school at Harrow one day went to the assistance of a stout farmer on horseback, who was struggling with a gate-lock. He opened the gate and held it back for the rider to pass. “Thank you, my boy!” said tbe farmer, who happened to be a very wealthy man. “What may your name be?” “My name is Green,” returned the youth, with an ill-timed burst of imagination. “And what is your father?” “Oh, my father’s a cheese-monger,” said the smart scholar, chuckling internally at his ready wit, “and he lives in London in Theobald’s road—rather a small shop, with two steps down out of the street." “I’m very much obliged to you,” said the farmer. “You’re a cajutal young chap. I shan’t forget you.” “Don’t!” was the scholar’s final thrust. “Bemember Green and a cheese-monger in Theobald’s road.” And up the hill he went, vastly pleased with his own brilliancy-. — What his feelings may have been when, ten years later, a young gentleman by the name of Green was.advertised for whose father kept a cheesemonger’s shop in Theobald’s road, and who, in return for politely opening a gate at Harrow, in the year 183—, was left a large legacy by the wealthy farmer, recently deceased—what his feelings were then none of his relatives cared to inquire too closely, but it was generally observed that from that hour tbe unhappy young man neverTbst aq opportunity of insisting on a rigid ad--herence to tho truth. For neither was his name Green, nor anything approaching it, nor had his father ever, even in the remotest manner, been interested in cheese. Indeed, as his son has been heard pathetically to remark, in the smallest amounts it invariably disagreed with him. — C&rnhill Magazine.