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1One day when John and I had been out on some business of our master's, and were returning gently on a long, straight
2road, at some distance we saw a boy trying to leap a pony over a gate; the pony would not take the leap, and the boy cut
3him with the whip, but he only turned off on one side. He whipped him again, but the pony turned off on the other side.
4Then the boy got off and gave him a hard thrashing, and knocked him about the head; then he got up again and tried to
5make him leap the gate, kicking him all the time shamefully, but still the pony refused. When we were nearly at the spot
6the pony put down his head and threw up his heels, and sent the boy neatly over into a broad quickset hedge, and with
7the rein dangling from his head he set off home at a full gallop. John laughed out quite loud. "Served him right," he
8said. "Oh, oh, oh!" cried the boy as he struggled about among the thorns; "I say, come and help me out." "Thank ye,"
9said John, "I think you are quite in the right place, and maybe a little scratching will teach you not to leap a pony
10over a gate that is too high for him," and so with that John rode off. "It may be," said he to himself, "that young
11fellow is a liar as well as a cruel one; we'll just go home by Farmer Bushby's, Beauty, and then if anybody wants to
12know you and I can tell 'em, ye see." So we turned off to the right, and soon came up to the stack-yard, and within
13sight of the house. The farmer was hurrying out into the road, and his wife was standing at the gate, looking very
14frightened. "Have you seen my boy?" said Mr. Bushby as we came up; "he went out an hour ago on my black pony, and the
15creature is just come back without a rider." "I should think, sir," said John, "he had better be without a rider, unless
16he can be ridden properly." "What do you mean?" said the farmer. "Well, sir, I saw your son whipping, and kicking, and
17knocking that good little pony about shamefully because he would not leap a gate that was too high for him. The pony
18behaved well, sir, and showed no vice; but at last he just threw up his heels and tipped the young gentleman into the
19thorn hedge. He wanted me to help him out, but I hope you will excuse me, sir, I did not feel inclined to do so. There's
20no bones broken, sir; he'll only get a few scratches. I love horses, and it riles me to see them badly used; it is a bad
21plan to aggravate an animal till he uses his heels; the first time is not always the last." During this time the mother
22began to cry, "Oh, my poor Bill, I must go and meet him; he must be hurt." "You had better go into the house, wife,"
23said the farmer; "Bill wants a lesson about this, and I must see that he gets it; this is not the first time, nor the
24second, that he has ill-used that pony, and I shall stop it. I am much obliged to you, Manly. Good-evening." So we went
25on, John chuckling all the way home; then he told James about it, who laughed and said, "Serve him right. I knew that
26boy at school; he took great airs on himself because he was a farmer's son; he used to swagger about and bully the
27little boys. Of course, we elder ones would not have any of that nonsense, and let him know that in the school and the
28playground farmers' sons and laborers' sons were all alike. I well remember one day, just before afternoon school, I
29found him at the large window catching flies and pulling off their wings. He did not see me and I gave him a box on the
30ears that laid him sprawling on the floor. Well, angry as I was, I was almost frightened, he roared and bellowed in such
31a style. The boys rushed in from the playground, and the master ran in from the road to see who was being murdered. Of
32course I said fair and square at once what I had done, and why; then I showed the master the flies, some crushed and
33some crawling about helpless, and I showed him the wings on the window sill. I never saw him so angry before; but as
34Bill was still howling and whining, like the coward that he was, he did not give him any more punishment of that kind,
35but set him up on a stool for the rest of the afternoon, and said that he should not go out to play for that week. Then
36he talked to all the boys very seriously about cruelty, and said how hard-hearted and cowardly it was to hurt the weak
37and the helpless; but what stuck in my mind was this, he said that cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw
38any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning,
39and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and
40beast, we might know that was God's mark." "Your master never taught you a truer thing," said John; "there is no
41religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to
42be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham--all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned
43inside out." 14 James Howard Early one morning in December John had just led me into my box after my daily exercise, and
44was strapping my cloth on and James was coming in from the corn chamber with some oats, when the master came into the
45stable. He looked rather serious, and held an open letter in his hand. John fastened the door of my box, touched his
46cap, and waited for orders. "Good-morning, John," said the master. "I want to know if you have any complaint to make of
47James." "Complaint, sir? No, sir." "Is he industrious at his work and respectful to you?" "Yes, sir, always." "You never
48find he slights his work when your back is turned?" "Never, sir." "That's well; but I must put another question. Have
49you no reason to suspect, when he goes out with the horses to exercise them or to take a message, that he stops about
50talking to his acquaintances, or goes into houses where he has no business, leaving the horses outside?" "No, sir,
51certainly not; and if anybody has been saying that about James, I don't believe it, and I don't mean to believe it
52unless I have it fairly proved before witnesses; it's not for me to say who has been trying to take away James'
53character, but I will say this, sir, that a steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this
54stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work; he is gentle and clever with the horses, and I would rather have
55them in charge with him than with half the young fellows I know of in laced hats and liveries; and whoever wants a
56character of James Howard," said John, with a decided jerk of his head, "let them come to John Manly."
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