uld give him some more, and when he had got enough, I
would say to him: 'Now, when you feel that way again, and want to enjoy
yourself, you come right to me, for I don't have any too much exercise,
anyway.' But why do you ask? You knew all the time what I would do if a
man hit me," and the old man walked around the room as though he would
like to see someone hit him.

"That's what I feared," said the boy, as the twinkles played around his
eyes. "You see, among the verses in the Sunday-school lesson was this
one, 'If they smite you on one cheek, turn the other cheek, also,' and
I thought I would like to get the opinion of an expert as to how to go
about it, to turn the other cheek the right way."

"Say, here, you don't take advantage of an old man that way," said Uncle
Ike, as the boy began laughing. "When you ask questions like that you
want to read the verse first, and give a man a chance. 'Course, if they
smite you on one cheek, you want to do just what the Bible says. Some
of you kids make me tired," and the old man wished dinner was ready, so
they could change the subject.

"I told my teacher I didn't see how a fellow could turn the other cheek,
also, and maintain his standing in society, but she said it was the way
to do, and then the Sunday-school superintendent came along, and she
asked him about it. He belongs to the athletic club of the Y. M. C. A.,
and I have seen him box with soft gloves, and he said it was right to
turn the other cheek, but I noticed he smiled, and then the minister
visited our class, and the teacher asked him to impress on us boys the
idea of turning the other cheek. He looked pious, and said you must
turn the other cheek when smote, as it showed a meek and forgiving
disposition, but I know the minister is a boxer, also, and I heard that
he almost jarred the head off a tramp last summer for sassing him, so
I am worried as to what it is best to do, in a case of smoting. The
teacher, you know her, the pretty girl that let you hold her hand so
long at the picnic, when you was introduced to her, and you told her you
used to know her mother when she was a girl, and used to go with her,
and all that rot, she told me I better talk it over with you, Uncle Ike,
and see what you thought about it. So you honestly think it is best for
a boy to grow up letting people get in the habit of smiting, so to see
him turn his other cheek, and get another bat on that cheek, eh? Don't
you think a boy that takes