A Sabbath-school worker was visiting a Sabbath-school some distance from home. Being called upon to address the school, he commenced by asking, “Who can tell me something about Peter?” (the lesson was about Peter that day). Having received no answer from either large or small pupils, he again made the request. This time a little girl put up her hand. He called the little girl to him and placed her upon a chair. After complimenting her on her bravery and brightness, he asked her to tell him all she knew about Peter. In return came the following:
“Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her;
Put her in a pumpkin shell
Where he kept her very well.”
Senator Beveridge, in recommending broad and generous views to the graduating class of a medical school, told this story:
“I once saw two famous physicians introduced at a reception. They were deservedly famous, but they were of opposing schools; and the regular, as he shook the other by the hand, said loudly:
“‘I am glad to meet you as a gentleman, sir, though I can’t admit that you are a physician.’