CHAPTER IX.
"Even So" "All things whatsoever ye would That men should do to you, Do ye even so to them." Our big girls and boys always made a dreadful fuss and said we would catch every disease you could mention, but mother and father were set about it, just like the big rocks in the hills.

They said they, themselves, once had been at the mercy of the people, and they knew how it felt.

Mother said when they were coming here in a wagon, and she had ridden until she had to walk to rest her feet, and held a big baby until her arms became so tired she drove while father took it, and when at last they saw a house and stopped, she said if the woman hadn't invited her in, and let her cook on the stove, given her milk and eggs, and furnished her a bed to sleep in once in a while, she couldn't have reached here at all; and she never had been refused once.

Then she always quoted: "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye EVEN SO to them." Father said there were men who made a business of splitting hairs, and of finding different meanings in almost everything in the Bible.

I would like to have seen any one split hairs about that, or it made to mean something else.