She said, "Will
you not please, my dear, stop the ----, and the ----," (naming two
newspapers,) "and take others?"
"Why," said I, "what is the matter with them?"
She began to weep again. In a few moments she said, "I would give the
world if I could have a conversation with that Southern lady."
"I fear," said I, "that it would have a deleterious effect on your
attachment to the principles of liberty."
"Liberty!" said she. "Oh, how foolish I have been! I see now that there
is another side to that question."
"I hope, my dear," said I, "that you will say and do nothing to occasion
any reproach. Certainly, there are two sides to every question. If you
manifest any surprise at finding that there is another side to the
Liberty question, I fear that some will quote to you the fable of the
mouse who was born in a meal-chest."
"I never heard of it," said she.
"Why," said I, "the mouse one day stole up to the edge of the chest,
when the cover had been left open, and, looking round on the
barn-chamber, she said, 'Dear me, I had no idea that the world was half
so large.'"
"The cover has been down and the meal has been in my eyes long enough,"
said she.
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