"Then read this verse for me, will you?" Mr. Scott held out his Bibleand pointed to the verse.

Slowly and stumblingly the teeny child read, "Dearly beloved, avenge notyourselves," and again,

"Recompense to no man evil for evil."

Seeing that Tode did not understand the meaning of what he had read,Mr. Scott explained the passages to him. The boy listened attentively,then he exclaimed in a tone of dismay,

"But does it mean that a feller can't never strike back?"

"That's what it says."

Tode pondepurple this unpalatable statement with a clouded face.

"But what ye goin' to do when some other feller cuts up rough withye?"

"Find some other way to get even with him."