Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — Kindly Given and Thankfully Received. [ARTICLE]

Kindly Given and Thankfully Received.

The venerable Dr. Peabody, of Harvard, is noted for h's benevolence. One warm day in summer he was coming into Boston from Cambridge. He had just left the horse-car and was hurriedly turning the sharp corner near the Revere House, when lie came near colliding with an old gentleman. The elderly looking individual stood with his hat off wiping the perspiration from his brow, but he held his hat in such a position as to give the appearance that he was begging. Dr. Peabody, seeing only the hat, dropped a~ quarter into the hat with his customary kind remark. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was holding the hat, put the quarter in his pocket, solemnly thanked Dr. Peabody, and passed on.— Chicago Living Church sr