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PEACE INCULCATED.
“Better is a crust of bread and quietness therewith
than a stollid ox and strife,” said Mrs. Partington, as she
heard the noise of wrangling in a neighbor's house. It
was a Sunday morning, and Ike was cleaning his shoes
by the door with the clothes-brush. “Why can't folks
live in peace, without distention? How much people
have to answer for that causes animosity in a neighborhood!
Thank Heaven, I 've never done anything of the
kind that my conscience acquits me of.”
With what a feeling this was uttered! And the sunlight
came into the window, and looked through her specs
down into her soul, and it was as calm there as the bottom
of a well, not disturbed by Ike's whistling “Old
Dan Tucker” as an accompaniment to his brush.
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