“You just ask your neighbors, and they’ll tell you that nobody thinks of raising a calf—in town here.” “But I’m not asking my neighbors.”
“Now, Miss Barton, don’t you know we have no pasturage and we have to buy all our feed, and feed is high now, too.”
“Never mind, we’ll get the feed.”
“But, Miss Barton, the calf is a nuisance around the house, and it will cost more——”
“Now, you’ve said enough; the calf is not a nuisance and I am paying the expenses. If you don’t want to take care of the calf, I’ll take care of it myself. Now go along and don’t talk to me any more about that calf. The butcher will not get it.”
And the butcher didn’t get it.
LXV
Clara Barton, an example of charity to a younger generation.
Boston (Mass.) Pilot.
Woman! there is a place for thee; go forth and fill it, that in thee mankind may be doubly blessed. Clara Barton.