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 JOHN JUSTIFIED: 
 
 A REPLY 
 
 TO THK 
 
 %\Vm fawe '^urtipa'iS <f rhojil, 
 
 SHOWING THi.T 
 
 THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO 
 
 EVERY QUESTION. 
 
 T JUSTITIi?L. 
 
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 "^THE CANADIAN NEWS AND PUBLISHING CO. 
 
 1871. 
 
JOHN JDST[F1E1): 
 
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 FIGHT IN DAME EUKOPA'S SCHOOL 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 -HiH— 
 
 "TIIERK ARE ALWAYS TWO SIl'KS TO EVKUY 
 
 QUESTION," 
 
 liKINCi A UKl'LY TO 
 
 *' THE FIGHT IN DAME EUHOPA'S SCIIOOI.,'" 
 
 A bko(;huuk, iii which Europe in the School kept by 
 Dame Eiiropii, and the five greiit Powers, MouifeorK 
 under the name of Louis, William, Aleck, Joseph, 
 and John, whose business it is to keep order in the 
 Scliool. These five Monitors have gardens, in which 
 thev have built summer-houses and tool-houses, and 
 which they cultivate, suid are allowed to sell the 
 produce to each other. 
 
 William is accused of having long coveted two 
 Hniall plots in Louis's garden, and of having put 
 himself in training, and of having taken lessons in 
 boxing; and when he thought himself strong enough 
 to fight Louis, of having tried to place a cousin of 
 his in a garden adjoining Louis's whicli seemed to 
 
l»olon^ to no ouo just then (but wliicli he knrw 
 liOuis would not allow), for the exprcsH |)urj)os(; of 
 picking a qujirrel with him ; and although Willirtrn 
 on Ix^ing remonstrated with, forbade his cousin taking; 
 this* spare garden, Louis thought himself insultrd, and 
 challenged William to fight. They did (i^^ht, nnd 
 Louis got the worst of it ; and Mrs. Euro]»a thou^'ht 
 thab JohnoujT'ht to liave interfered and i)revented their 
 fighting, and rated him souiuPy for not having done 
 Ko, tolling him ho was so selfish nnd so fond of his 
 money, ama.ssed by selling things ho made in his tool- 
 house, that he thought of nothing else, and took no 
 cara now of the peace of the School, and was so 
 takeai np with his money-making as to have forgotten 
 how to fight, so that none of the Monitors cared for 
 him, or feared hira, so the ])ame threatened to take 
 bis Monitorsliip away from him; but some of the 
 little boys begged her not to <lo so, as John had been 
 very kind in acting as sponge to both of the combat- 
 ants, and had washed the blood off their faces, and 
 bathed their black eyes ; on which the Dame relented, 
 so far as to let John off with a good lecture. 
 Kut this reply shows, that 
 
 " There are two sides to every question." 
 
 % 
 
 
lere are always Two Site to Every Question. 
 
 — ^^>3 — ■ 
 
 That sumo evening Mrs. Europa IvnX invited jiuold 
 friend and confidante to take tea witli her in iiei- 
 private room. The good Danio was so full of the 
 events of the morning, that she fidgeted and .fidgeted 
 until a })reak in the conversation enabled her to un- 
 burden her mind and enter into a minute detail of all 
 that was passing in the School, but as her friend .i!ia<ie 
 no remark, Mrs. Europa said, "I see you think I was 
 too lenient to John, and ought to have taken the Moni- 
 tor.ship from him, or even to have expelled him from 
 the school. Do say what, in yoiir opinion, I ought to 
 have done V 
 
 "Well," said her friend, "as you ask me for my 
 opinion, I will give it you ; but before doing so, I 
 should like you to answer one or two questions. Have 
 you not always found John honest and truthful and 
 true to any engagement he makes T 
 
 " Well," said the Dame, " I must allow that ho is 
 what you say, and even when this quarrel between 
 Louis and William began, he manfully took the i>art 
 of a very little boy who was in danger of having his 
 
n Rqdy to <' The Fi(jUt at 
 
 ^tirden run ovtu-, if not taken from liirn, by Willijiin 
 or Lou 18. 
 
 ** Exartl/ HO ; and doew Ikj not always take tlit* part 
 of the weakest, if Im thinks liim in tho right? and 
 when lie does interfere, does lie not do &o heartily 
 never snaring the money you say he is so fond of, or 
 oaring for hard knocks and kicks, of which he niMn- 
 age;-« to get plenty, although I must say he generally 
 gives uj) good as he gets ?" 
 
 " Vea, that is very true, and I rcmemher now, that 
 wJien some years ago there was a terrihle scamp in the 
 Hcjhool, who took possession of the garden that Louis 
 now lias, and set himself up for a monitor, and no* 
 content with that, wanted to make all tho other moni- 
 itors obey him, and made such a disturbance in the 
 school that I was nearly driven wild, ho also attacked 
 tho monitors who then held the places that William 
 and Joseph now have, and so drubbed them that they 
 could not show themselves for a long time. ITe then 
 cast a longing eyo on John's garden, but found he co\dd 
 not get across the water to it, and even if he could he 
 saw plainly that he would never be able to get >)ack 
 agiiin, for John is, I must own, a sturdy fellow, and 
 ho keeps such a fierce bulldog that every one is afraid 
 to venture into his garden against his will. Now Naj% 
 
JJame Europns School'* 7 
 
 for that was tlio name of this bully of a hoy, fiiuling 
 .folin'H garden was not to ho had, Buddenly htartcd ott* 
 and attacked a big, burly, boariHh boy, who held the 
 garden Aleck now has; but there he burnt hi« 
 tingerg, for tho big boy net firo to his suninier-h(nis(; 
 rather than let Nap have it, and so singed tho 
 scamp that ho was never worth much afterwards. 
 All this time John had been helping the other 
 monitors with all his might, he gave and lent them 
 his money and attacked Nap so fiercely, pummelling 
 him in the back to draw him olf from his attacks 
 upon the others, and then fighting him face to face 
 and giving him such a drubbing that blaster Nap 
 had to run from the school and never troubled it 
 again ; oh, I remember it all well now, and John 
 certainly did behave like a man then." 
 
 " And was not j^our school quieter after that than 
 it had been for many long years before ] And did it 
 not keep (piiet until Aleck's successor in his garden 
 wanted to bully that little dark boy, when John 
 came forward and with the help of Louis gave that ^ 
 rough cub of a boy such a licking as has kept him 
 quiet ever since, though 1 hear he is beginning to get 
 nnruly again V 
 
 "Yes," said the Dame, ''that is true also." 
 
 *• Then," rejoined her friend, " you must admit 
 
8 Jieply to " Tke Fight at 
 
 that you owed tlie quiet tliat reigned in your school 
 for so many years, and which saved you from so 
 much trouble and anxiety, chiefly to John, did you 
 
 not r 
 
 " I am willing? to admit," replied Mrs. Europa, 
 *' but why did he allow the disturbance in the school 
 to break out again now'^ that's why I blame him." 
 
 "Softly, my good friend," said her comjianion 
 " you admit that it was owing to John's exertions 
 that yonr school was so orderly for so many years, 
 but do you forget what it cost John to do all he 
 did for the peace of the school? Thinking so 
 much of his money as you say he does, you can- 
 not deny that he spent it liberally then, and 
 scattered it in all directions, wherever he thought 
 it might 1)0 of use, and, in fact, that he did not 
 hesitate to get greatly into debt, so reckless was 
 he of what he spent; but he did it with a good 
 will, and took cuffs and blows with a good will, 
 too ; and what did he get for it 1 Not ninch 
 thanks, I imagine ; for wdien all the row was over, 
 the other monitors soon forget what John liad 
 done for them, and [began to envy him his good 
 name and the position he had rightly earned to 
 hold among tliem, and they abused him and 
 
Dame Europas School." 1' 
 
 wanted very much — at least one of tlieiii did — to 
 take his garden from him ; but they were afraid 
 of his bulldog, who began to show his leeth 
 when he saw them stalking about on the other 
 side of his stream and making as though they wished 
 to cross over. Now, just think, my good Mrs. Euro- 
 pa, was this the way to make John interfere in their 
 quarrels and tight their battles for them again, and 
 spend more of his money that he and his class work 
 BO hard for, and get more cutis and knocks, and then 
 be abused for his pains, and possibly, when he had 
 worn himself out by helping others, and l)ccanu' weak 
 and tired, some of the others, who had taken it easily, 
 would come on and pitch into him, and even perhaps 
 try and get into his garden and rob his tool-house and 
 his money-box \ No, John — for I know the boy well, 
 and like him for all his rough ways — has got wiser 
 than that now, and does not see why he is to b(! al- 
 ways interfering in other boys' (piarrels and get no 
 thanks for it. He is willing to take his share in keep- 
 ing the school quiet, and that is all you have a right 
 to expect of him, and he w^as willing to do so in this 
 last quarrel." 
 
 " Then why didn't he 1 tell me that." 
 
 ^* He did try to persuade them not to tight ; but 
 
10 Reply to ** The Fight 
 
 Louis told him it was a ^;Wi'a^e quarrel of long stand- 
 ing between him and William, and had nothing to do 
 with the rest of the school, and that he liad no busi- 
 ness to inter*fere." 
 
 "Yes, he did that ; but when he found that they 
 would fight, why did lie not step in w^ith his great 
 broad back and make them give up fighting 1" 
 
 '• Wliy did not ivho do this V 
 
 " Why, Jolm, to be sure ; who else was to do it ?" 
 
 " Oh ! I thought there were Jive monitors, and that 
 only two of them were fighting, so there must have 
 been three looking on." 
 
 ''Well, what of that?" 
 
 " Why, if there were three monitors looking on, of 
 whom John was one, why were the other two not to 
 interfere as well as John f 
 
 " Why why why because, of course, it 
 
 was John's business to interfere ; he always did so be- 
 fore, and the others would have been sure to have 
 
 done so now if he had set them the example." 
 
 " I think T have heard you say," replied the Dame's 
 
 friend, "that for some time past John had lost all his 
 
 infl^uence in the school ; that he was supposed to care 
 
 only for his turning-lathe and his money-box, that lie 
 
 had become sluggish and stupid, lost all his activity, 
 
Dame Europas /School." 11 
 
 and got fat and flabby and quite unfit to fight (although 
 they would find their mistake if they dared to molest 
 him, for he can fight as well as ever if forced to do so) 
 and that none of the other monitors cared for or feared 
 him r 
 
 " Yes, I have often heard them say so." 
 
 " Then wliy was he to put himself more forward 
 tlian the others u this instance I If they did not 
 think it tlieir business to interfere, and j)revent Louis 
 and William fighting, why was it John's business more 
 tlian theirs 1 When two boys have got a grudge 
 against each other, and are determined to fight, fight 
 they will some time or other, do wliat you will to pre- 
 vent them. No, my good Mrs. Europa, I think yoii 
 are unjust in this case, and hard upon John ; you 
 should at least have called up Aleck and Joseph, and 
 lectured them also ; they have been lookers on, or 
 neutrals, as they call themselves, as well as Jolm." 
 
 " Well, but why has he helped Louis by sending 
 him over those stones to pelt William with ?" 
 
 '* You must remember that John and his chiss are 
 very industrious boys, and make a number of things 
 which you allow them to sell to the other boys. 80 as 
 John could not prevent the quarrel, he said, ' I can't 
 stop from selling either of you anything you want to 
 
12 Reply to *•' The Fhjht at 
 
 buy from ine, merely because you arc fighting vvitli 
 each otlier, it -svould be unkind ; so either of you may 
 liave wliat you require.' Louis wanted some stones ; 
 so John sent him a few, for he had very few at hand ; 
 and William has been very angry at this, as he says it 
 is hol])ing Louis to pelt liim. But it so happened that 
 William did not want anything just then from John, 
 and if ho had done so, he could not have got it, for 
 you see Louis has much the larger boat of the two, 
 and obliges William to keep his boat locked up in his 
 boat-house, wliilst Louis can fetch anything he wants ; 
 so that had John made a fresh rule now, Louis would 
 have complained that he was favoring William at his 
 expense, and that it would not be acting fairly to both 
 parties. If when tiiis tight is all over, all the moni- 
 tors agree to make a rule that if there is a tight among 
 any of them, none of the others shall supply either of 
 the combatants witli anything they may want, it 
 Avould be a very just rule ; but to alter an old-estab- 
 lished rule noiL\ which would etfect one party and not 
 the other, would not be fair, and 1 think William will 
 see this when the fii^jht is over. But for one stone that 
 John sent, those sharf) boys in the school across the 
 water sent him a cart-load, yet they call themselves 
 neutrals also. But I hear no complaints against them; 
 
Dam". Enroms School" 13 
 
 it is always Johi should have done this, and John 
 should not luivo done that. Poor John ! ho is al- 
 ways the one to be blamed. Fortunately, ke has good 
 broad siioulders and can bear it. He goes on in his 
 own quiet way, and does what he thinks right, 
 whether he gets abused for it or not ; raid even in this 
 case, althougli he could not interfere, he has done his 
 best in * using the sponge ' and binding uj) the wounds 
 of both parties." 
 
 " Well,'' said Mrs. Europa at last, " you have put 
 the case very strong for John. I had no idea ho had 
 so staunch a friend. I have been so in the habit of 
 always hearing him abused, and of being told that 
 everything he saitl or did was wrong, even by parties 
 in his own class, that I supposed it must be so ; but I 
 fear, in this instance, I have done him wrong, and 
 been hard Tipon him, and so I will tell him to-morrow 
 before all the other boys, and I will make what amends 
 to him I can by replacing him in his former position, 
 of, if not the first, at all events one of the most honest, 
 and disinterested, and well-meaning monitors in the 
 school ; for, as you justly observed, my dear friend — 
 " ' There are always two sides to every question.^ " 
 " Now," said her friend, " since you have done 
 justice to lionest John, there is one other little point 
 
1 4 RepUi to " The Fight at 
 
 ill the story you told me on mHiIcIi I wisli to say a word 
 or two. You said that William had long coveted two 
 little plots in Louis's garden, and that almost from the 
 time when Nap gave him such a licking, he had j)ut 
 himself in training and taken lessons in boxing, so 
 that ho might take these two coveted plots by force 
 whenever he felt strong enough to do so, and that he 
 had put his cousin up to take that S]»are garden near 
 Louis's for the express purpose of })icking a quarrel 
 with Louis. Now, I don't qidte know how you liave 
 found that out ; but surely you must be aw are that 
 ever since Nap's time his class ha\ e always coveted 
 a little water-course that runs through a ])art of Wil- 
 liam's garden, and that Louis has lon^r been waitin^^ 
 for an excuse to quarrel with William and take it from 
 him ? You say that Louis was in a gi-eat rage even 
 after William had said thit his cousiu should not take 
 that spare garden, and pretended to be insulted. Of 
 course he was in a rage, because William had taken 
 away the cause of offence, and Louis fea<'ed that the 
 opportunity of quarrellin:^ with him would i)ass away : 
 for it so happened that Louis had also been in train- 
 ing, and thought he had found out souie wonderful 
 new way of hitting, which was so severe and dreadful 
 that no one could stand up against it. He was so 
 
Dame EuropoHs School." , 15 
 
 proud of tliis, so certain of its deadly effects, un<l so 
 atfraid that the secret would leak out, and that William 
 would hoar of it and learn liow to employ it as 
 well as he, that he was most anxious to begin the 
 tight at once, and would listen to no reason, hnt 
 called upon William to make a i)i'omiso that he 
 knew he would not make, and that lie did not wish 
 him to make. Poor fellow I ho has suffered sadly for 
 his folly, and I pity him with all my heart." 
 
 ** But if William has beaten him so, and punished 
 him so severely, why is he not satisfied with the drubb- 
 ing he has given him? and not go on hitting him now 
 he is down 1" 
 
 ** Well, you see it stands thus. AVilliam did not 
 wish to ficrht if he were let alone. He had plentv to 
 do just now putting his garden in order, so he saiil if 
 he was t( ^ght now, he would fight so as to secure his 
 not bein-' attacked iaiUiiL by. Loiii^f pr;i{r\y.of hin class.- 
 Between the w^t^eroonifeo 'iti^'WiUi^mJij 'ifflyfiU'U.und 
 Louis's garden Ul^ey© ayc\sdilie Ittglj Jtud ^{tvoii^ -wfills, 
 which belonged to Ldflfs* uml wliicli*W«iUiAni drtks* ho*v 
 taken from him, and which he is determined to keej) 
 to prevent Louis getting over them and taking his 
 watercourse at any future time. So William says to 
 Louis, * If you will give me permanently those walls, I 
 
IG " y/ffc' Fiijlit at Dame KnropaH Sdtool.'' 
 
 will stop licatinc,' you ; as 1 cannot take your word 
 
 that wIkmi you arc^ well and strong' ai^ain you will not 
 
 wish to li.i;hb nie once more, I must liavo some 
 
 *' material guarantee." such as those walls, that you 
 
 will leave me in peace for the future." Poor Louis 
 
 ha<l, however, before this V»een so mauled that lie. had 
 
 neen c.irried away ; l)ut those who now keep his 
 
 •garden say, 'No, we will not give you ojm> stone of 
 
 these walls, or one Incli of ground on which they 
 
 stand.' So what is to he done? William has ])een 
 
 terriblv bruised and hurt in this fifTrht, and now that 
 
 he has beaten Louis, who was the aggressor, he cannot 
 
 ]>e expected to let him off scot free, or not to secure 
 
 himself from being again molested, or fi-om having his 
 
 watercourse, and that part of his garden through which 
 
 it runs, taken from at any future time ; for you know 
 
 he and his class rave about their watercourse, they 
 
 make'songs upoii 'it'are sofonc^of re thjit I believe they 
 
 would rather all fight till they ,(\ied so.oner than Jiavo 
 
 it taken iro'ii tJ-iem.-: »s'o"uniril * Louir's successors find 
 
 they must give in, or can manage to take the stone 
 
 walls back again from William, I fear there is no hope 
 
 of the lighting ending, or of any peace and quiet for you 
 
 my good Mrs. Europa ; for here again, you see, — 
 
 " There aie always two sides to every question." 
 
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