He was rather down in the mouth when he got home to his Goody; but when she asked him what he had done with the horse, he said,
“I gave it to the man too for Peter the second, for I thought it wasn’t right he should sit in a cart, and scramble about from house to house; so now he can sell the cart and buy himself a coach to drive about in.”
“Thank you heartily!” said his wife; “I never thought you could be so kind.”
Well, when the man reached home, who had got the six hundred dollars and the cart-load of clothes and money, he saw that all his fields were ploughed and sown, and the first thing he asked his wife was, where she had got the seed-corn from.
“Oh”, she said, “I have always heard that what a man sows he shall reap, so I sowed the salt which our friends the north-country men laid up here with us, and if we only have rain I fancy it will come up nicely.”
“Silly you are”, said her husband, “and silly you will be so long as you live; but that is all one now, for the rest are not a bit wiser than you. There is not a pin to choose between you.”
ONE’S OWN CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS PRETTIEST
A sportsman went out once into a wood to shoot, and he met a Snipe.
“Dear friend”, said the Snipe, “don’t shoot my children!”
“How shall I know your children?” asked the Sportsman; “what are they like?”