The young gentleman was surprised and ashamed. "Why did he offer to carry my turkey?" he asked.
"He wished to teach you a lesson," answered the market man.
"What sort of lesson?" "He wished to teach you that no man should feel himself too fine to carry his own packages."
"Oh, no!" said another man who had seen and heard it all. "Judge Marshall carried the turkey simply because he wished to be kind and obliging. That is his way."
THE PADDLE-WHEEL BOAT
More than a hundred years ago, two boys were fishing in a small river. They sat in a heavy flat-bottomed boat, each holding a long, crooked rod in his hands and eagerly waiting for "a bite."
When they wanted to move the boat from one place to another they had to pole it; that is, they pushed against a long pole, the lower end of which reached the bottom of the stream.
"This is slow work, Robert," said the older of the boys as they were poling up the river to a new fishing place. "The old boat creeps over the water no faster than a snail."
"Yes, Christopher; and it is hard work, too," answered Robert. "I think there ought to be some better way of moving a boat."
"Yes, there is a better way, and that is by rowing," said Christopher.
"But we have no oars."