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IT ONLY WANTS TURNING
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IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

ing, and blinking, and looking

CHAPTER I.

"THERE are two sides to
everything,"
Plumb,
"two

the

said

village

Mr.

grocer,--

sides whichever way you

look at things-there's
and bottom

to

most

that's my opinion-and

at his toes.

I expect he had a

pair of good eyes, and used them
too; and he'd recommend you to
do the same;"

and so saying,

a top

this decided little man looked

things;

round on the assembled company,

there's

to see whether

even a distant

an inside and an outside to most

thought

things,

were rising in the mind of any of

that's my opinion too

-- and there's a front door and

of

contradicting him

his hearers.

a back one to every house--and

These consisted of some of his

there are two sides to every ques-

neighbours, who had assembled

tion, if I don't very much mis-

round his window to read a bill,

take; and I don't think I do

which stated that " owing to the

make a mistake.

depressed

It isn't often

state

of

trade, the

that John Plumb makes a mis-

manufacturers in the neighbour-

take-that isn't much in his line;

ing town must, for the present,

he hasn't gone through life wink-

take ten per cent., or two shil-

IT

ONLY WANTS

TURNING ROUND.

lings in the pound, off the weavers'

by day, and then to be turning

wages."

into bed at night."

There was much talk-much

"I thought so," said Mr. Plumb,

murmuring over this bill; and

" and the consequence is, he keeps

the grocer had come out in con-

regularly at his work, and makes

sequence, and delivered himself

no signs as yet of giving over;

of the speech which the reader

and it would be well for people

has just now heard.

if they followed his good example.

As no one gave signs of con-

Believe me, there are two sides

tradicting Mr. Plumb, he pro-

to that bill," said Mr. Plumb;

ceeded farther with a statement

"there's your side, which is the

of his opinions.

only one you can see; and there's

can't make a pair of

trousers,
grocer,

the master's side too, and you

Mr. Snip,"

"You

should look at the one as well as

addressing

said

the

the village

the other.

Now you can't see

tailor, "but they have a wrong

the top and bottom, or the inside,

side and a right."

and the outside of a thing at the

" Of course not," said Mr. Snip

same: time; and if you want to

meekly, remembering how long

know what the masters think,

a score he owed at Mr. Plumb's.

you must put yourselves in the

"And

the

world

don't

go

master's place.

Just turn the

straight on without turning round

matter round, and 'tis quite plain,

and round, does it ?" said the

if trade is bad for them, it must

grocer to the schoolmaster.

be bad for you. If they can't sell

"Certainly

Mr.

their goods for as much as they

" I should think not,

have been doing, no more can you

indeed-to liken this world of

sell your labour, which is your

ours to a human being, he might

goods.

be said to be turning himself

coveries people make when they

round to the sun to warm himself

go to look for things.

Gremmer.

not,"

said

'Tis wonderful what disAnd now,

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING R0 UND.

neighbours, 'tis eight o'clock, and

tened to the grocer's remarks was

I'm going to close up;" and the

a young man named Edward

grocer called to his boy for the

Jacobs.

shutters.

every one, had his good points

Amongst those who had lis-

Edward,

like

almost

of character as well as his bad;

Irtl

Had

and the two struggled hard within

things only on the surface.

him.

Jacobs gone down a little deeper,

One of his characteristics was
"discontent;"

and this, in his

he would have been both wiser
and happier than he was.

The

case, sprang, as it does in that of

weaver was, what one might call,

so many others, from looking at

a one-sided man; he took things

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

just on their surface; he never

look at them every way; but you

dipped into them at all; he never

know, Ned, you toss matters off

turned them round, or seemed to

at once; and though I often ask

think that they had more sides

you to think over them again,

than the one he saw.

you ask me 'where's the use in

Still the weaver was not a
dogged man;

he was open to

reason in a general way; and

keeping on bothering? you know
all about them; and there's an
end of it.'

sometimes he pondered over what

"You know you wouldn't look

he heard; and when he did so,

at that offer of Squire Brooke's

he was always the better for it.

to go and live in his lodge, in

Now then, he returned to his

more ways than one.

You said

wife, and told her about this said
bill, and Mr. Plumb's remarks

village;' but you didn't consider

upon it; and indeed upon things

how you'd live rent free; or how

in general.

" He says that won-

much more room there would be

derful discoveries are made by
folk; but I've never found out

for the children; or the conve-

anything particular about mat-

ing.

ters, by thinking about them,"

or drying ground, in my life.

said the weaver.

wish you had turned that round;

"Perhaps, Ned, you didn't look

'it was a long way from the

niences there were for my washI never saw a nicer copper
I

and we might have been there

long enough," said his wife; " or
perhaps, you didn't turn matters

now, instead of here."

about every way; or maybe, you

whistling a tune, that being in

didn't want to know everything

his opinion one of nature's pro-

you might have known.

visions against a woman's talking

Ned Jacobs here commenced

"I hold with Mr. Plumb that

too much; and sauntered out into

it is well to turn things about,

his little garden to get rid of the

up and down, and inside out, and

wise talk of his wife.

But neither

IT

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the whistling, nor the walk, could

the lodge over and over in every

*get rid of Mr. Plumb's speech at

direction, until at last he owned

his shop door, backed up as it

in strict confidence

was by what he had just now

that, he had been a fool; and

heard in his own house.

moreover, he determined to turn

"Well,"

said

the

weaver,

things

round for

to himself

the

future.

said he,

"that,

"there are two sides to one's

"Sometimes,"

own house at any rate;

and

perhaps, is all they want-and

when one's wife begins to set at

no such great thing either-only

him, I

turning round."

should say the outside

was the pleasantest of the two

--

at least, 'tis the one that suits me
.best."
CHAPTER II.

The lodge was not, however,
Ned had

THE following morning, Ned

Brooke was

Jacobs had to go to the grocer to

very kind to the folk he had put

purchase some necessaries for his

in there.

He had placed two of

family; and on arriving at that

boys at school; he had

worthy man's shop, he found him

done no end of things for some of

in a deep state of thought over a

them when they were sick; and

large American cheese.

at last the idea began to cross

time to time the worthy grocer

the weaver's mind that, not hav-

turned it round and round, press-

ing gone there was decidedly a

ing parts of it with his thumb;

mistake.

and had that cheese a voice, no

so easily got rid of.
heard that Squire

their

From

Now, though Ned Jacobs would

doubt it would have cried out

not listen to his wife talking to

both long and loud; for those

him, still he did to his own mind

were sore places in its body on

speaking within him; and so he

which Mr. Plumb had placed his

allowed it to turn that matter of

finger.

IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

But, as if that were not enough
for any cheese to endure, it had
further to undergo the indignity

Ned, " when all the rest is 7d. and
8d.; why is it so cheap ?"
"Because I have just been turn-

of being dug into with a scoop;

ing it round," said the grocer-

and its very inside being fetched

"I was working it and turning it

out in this irregular and suspi-

in my own mind, when you came

cious kind of way.

in; and that's why I didn't at-

Having carried on these proceedings

for

some

time, Mr.

Plumb fell into deep thought, his
lips moving all the while.

A

tend to you at once.

Now then

will you take your missus home a
bit ?"
"'Turning

round'-- eh,

Mr.

stranger mighthave been alarmed

Plumb ? if all that comes of turn.

and feared lest the worthy grocer

ing your goods round is to bring

was about to proceed

a little

down the price like that, I should

further in the direction of a fit,

say you had much better let them

and go off then and there; but

alone.

there

them the better they'll do-how

was an air

of business

The quieter you leave

about his face, which was reassur-

much would that cheese

ing on this point; and so the

been now, if you hadn't turned it

customer waited quietly, until he

round ?"

was ready to serve him.

have

"Let me see," said the grocer,

"Now, young man," said the

fixing his eye upon a smoked

grocer, after he had cut the cheese

tongue at the far-off corner of the

in halves, and stuck up a paper

shop-not that the smoked tongue

on each, with 5d. per lb. on it-

knew anything of arithmetic, or

"now, what can I do for you?

could afford him any manner of

Some of this fresh cheese at 5d.

help in his calculations, but that

a pound-you can't complain of

it was necessary to look some-

the price, can you?"

where in an abstracted way, so as
to fix his mind; and that smoked

"Cheap enough for 5d.," said

IT

ONLY WANTS

TURNING ROUND.

tongue was the most remote ob-

a loss, no doubt; but there are

ject in his shop-" let me see

times when it is wise to make a

cheese would have been

loss; and those times can only

61d., but on turning it round, I

be found out, by turning things

see it must go at 5d.--that will be

round."

-that

"LET

ME SEE-THAT CHEESE WOULD HAVE BEEN 62D., BUT ON TURNING
IT ROUND,

I SEE IT MUST GO AT 5D.

As Ned looked perplexed, the
grocer continued :"This cheese is not in the con-

)

it on hand it will get worse and
worse; and while it is now well
worth 5 d., in a fortnight's time it
One side of

dition in which it should be-it

won't be worth

will hot keep-every day I have

this question is, that the cheese

2d.

IT

10

ONLY WA NTS TURNING ROUND.

cost me 5d., and that it is very

see the thing as I wish it to be,

vexatious to make a loss; and if

why can't I think it is so at once,

I were a pig-headed, one-sided

and have no more trouble about

man, who never could look at a

it; but my wishing won't alter

thing but in one light, I might

the reality of matters, so I see

say, 'Why should I lose a half-

everything that comes before my

penny a pound on this cheese;

eyes.

and I might have sold it like the

"I might have given this cheese

Now suppose I didn't sell

a little push with my thumb, and

it; it would have got bad on my

said, ' all right, old fellow,' and

hands;

and suppose I did, it

fiot gone into the matter any

would have got bad on my cus-

more; but the cheese would have

tomer's hands, unless they con-

been ' all wrong' for all that; and

sumed it at once

even if I sold it, I'd have lost

rest?

and even if

they did, it could not give satis-

some of my good name.

faction; so I turned it round; I

me, a good name is a part of a

looked at it every way; and com-

man's stock in trade; and, what-

mon sense told me that the first

ever is lost, that should be kept."

loss was the best-'tis better to

As Ned returned home with his

lose a little to-day, than a good

purchases, including three or four

deal to-morrow; so I'm going to

pounds of the turned about cheese;

clear it out at 5d. per pound; and

he took still more kindly to the

if you like to have it at that price,

thought of turning things round,

'tis worth your money.

himself.

In my

business, NedJacobs, I turn every

Believe

In this, the cheese was very

thing round; and when I do, I

helpful.

determine to have an unpreju-

to do what is right without having

diced eye ; I want to see the
thing as it really is, and not as I

many little obstacles, as well as

wish it to be.

the great enemy of souls; but as

If I only want to

We seldom determine

great ones, thrown in our way by

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

II

a set off, and more than a set off

most of them determined that

to this, we have many helps--

they would strike work altoge-

often but little things in them-

ther.

selves; but still helps, put in our
way by God.

Let us use them,

At any other time, Ned would
have been one of the leaders of

and be thankful for them; and

such a movement as this;

we shall be surprised to find how

now he determined to do nothing

ihuch they may do for us.

hastily; and not to decide upon

Now, this cut of the shaky
cheese was especially helpful to

but

the matter, until he had first
turned it round.

Ned-he never could look at it,

In order to perform this pro-

much less eat it, but that this

cess satisfactorily, the weaver be-

subject of 'turning things round'

took himself to a little shed which

came uppermost in his mind.

he had at the bottom of his gar-

Hadn't every bit of that cheese

den, where he worked at his loom.

been turned? and as the week

There he shut himself in; and

passed on, didn't he daily see the

forthwith began to turn this mat-

truth of the grocer's words ?--

ter of the wages round.

was not the cheese going tdo ! on

His first thought had been one

Saturday night Mr. Plumb had

of indignation-" That's the way,"

not more than

said he, "with

three or four

the masters al-

ways-they're always trying to

pounds of it left.
The first matter which claimed

grind down the poor man ;" and

the weaver's attention, was this

he dwelt upon this for awhile,

affair of the fall of two shillings

until his blood began to boil.

in the pound in the price of

But

presently,

the

thought

struck him that, he was taking a

labour.
The notice in the grocer's win-

very one-sided view of the sub-

dow had created a great ferment

ject, and that it was not for this

amongst all the weavers;

purpose he had retired to the

and

IT

I2

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

shed; accordingly, though there

up

was nothing at first sight to be

while," said the weaver, as a

seen in the master's favour; still,

blank look came over his face,

as in honour bound, he had to

"instead

look and see whether anything

two shillings in the pound; and

could be said on their behalf-

then,

this question had to be turned

been ?'"

round.

business

turning it, the

weaver found that

for a

of only knocking off

where

"Humph,"

And on so

altogether

should

we

have

said the weaver,

after a few moments' more pause;

there was

" and now to give it a little turn

something to be urged on the

more, eighteen shillings is better

master's behalf.

than nothing.

We must, all of

Ned saw the newspaper now

us, have our ups and downs in

and again; and he remembered

the world, and this is a 'down;'

having read only a few days be-

but I hope there will come an

fore that, trade was getting duller

'up' by-and-by."

and duller -that

manufacturers

" I'll give it another turn," said

were not able to sell their goods

Ned Jacobs, as he fixed himself

at a profit abroad; and that there

still more in a posture of thought,

was no prospect of things mend-

" and see what will turn up.
"Abh, here it comes-better to

ing for some time.
"Well," said Ned, after a long

be at work than to be idle and

'whew,' "now I've turned this

miserable, and perhaps in the

matter round, I think I've turned

public house.

up the manufacturers' side. Why
should they work at a loss?

if

they have made money, surely

" Better to have half a loaf than
no bread-half a loaf-why the
eighteen shillings is nine tenths.

again; the

" Better to have employers and

wonder to me is that, they keep

employed kept together, than to

They might have shut

have them scattered, never per-

'twasn't to lose it
on at all.

ONLY WANTS

IT

haps to meet again when times
have mended.

Better, far better

TURNING

ROUND,

13

as much to be said on one side as
the other."

for me to keep up my connection

This resolution of the weaver's

during what

was the source of much imme-

may be, after all, only a short bad

diate happiness in his little home.

time, than to break it, perhaps,

His wife had greatly feared that

for ever.

his impulsive character, which

with my master,

"Now then," said the weaver, as

seldom allowed him to look at

he came to the end of the straw

more than one side of a thing,

which he had been munching,

would now bring the whole family

"I think I've turned this matter

to want;

moreover, she knew

I've

that there was a likelihood of her

given it eighteen shillings in the

husband's finding his way to the

that's

public-house; so, when he an-

what I'm going to get myself;

nounced his resolution to take

and

work--

the "ten per cent. off," she felt a

'twill be far the best thing for

load removed from her mind.

us all.

"And I'll do all I can," said the

over pretty handsomely.
pound at any rate, and
I'll

keep on at

"One thing I see," said the

weaver's wife, "to make up the

weaver, as he walked up the

other two shillings-perhaps a

garden to his supper, for he had

little more washing may come

not got much nourishment out of

my way; or I can cut things a

the straw-" one thing I see is

little closer; at any rate we'll go

that, when you turn things round,

over the hard time together."

you get a balance which you

The following day, a number

never dreamt of before; you find

of the weavers went out on strike;

that the down side weighs some-

and the village soon presented a

thing, as well as the up one; and

very altered appearance for the

the plan is, to see which weighs

worse.

the most; or whether there's not

Where the money came from

IT

14

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

nobody knew--but the public
houses had more visitors than
ever ;

and as time wore

on,

matters grew worse and worse.

It is true the cheese was cut
very close to the rind, and even
the crumbs were

gathered up

with great care in Ned Jacob's

Some who could get no more

house 'for some time; but there

credit at the public-house stopped

may be a great deal of happi-

sulkily at home;

while some

ness, even with all this;

and

others, in a most mysterious way,

scarce a day passed, but that the

kept up both their drinking, and

weaver

their payment for it.

turned the ten per cent. round.

rejoiced that

he

had

Many. a time did these men

As one bad thing leads to

taunt Ned Jacobs; and shout out

another, so one good thing leads

" ten per cent. off" as they went

on to another also; this world's

by his door; but he stuck to his

life is made up of leadings and'

loom like a man; and turned the

followings for good or evil, even

matter round; and saw some-

to the end. Happy are they who

thing very ugly at the other side

discover what is leading them,

Ned

and whither it is leading; so as

knew well enough that they had

to follow, or draw back, as will

taken to poaching-indeed, know-

be for their truest good.

of all these fine doings.

ing him to be a strong and determined fellow, they had sounded
him as to whether he would not
CIHAPTER III.

be one of them; he knew well
that if they would not turn this
matter

round,

'twould

turn

EVERY

day

convinced

the

sooner or later

weaver more and more of how

such

wisely he had acted in taking

itself, and

per cent. off;"

for,

things were very apt to stick,

the "ten

fast, and turn them round wrong

while many were getting into

end upward.

trouble, he had been kept steady:

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

and if no other good came of

more

having turned this matter round,

round. Indeed, Ned came to that,

it was no small gain that peace

that he thought everyone ought

and happiness still continued in

to have, so to speak, such a jack

his house.

But, in truth, the be-

in his mind, and hang up every-

nefit was not to stop here: good,

thing upon it, before he pro-

like evil, is very apt to keep

nounced an opinion, or made up

running on, once it is set in

his mind.

motion.

completely

round

and

And yet not everything, for it
at his

was quite plain that there were

stocking frame, Ned Jacobs kept

some things which needed no

turning this matter of the strike

turning at all, except turning out

amongst his neighbours over and

neck and crop, then and there,

over in his mind.

the moment they presented them-

Often,

while

sitting

At length the

habit of thus revolving matters
became

somewhat

fixed;

selves to view.

and

"When one sees a thing is

from having been a one-sided

bad right on the face of it," said

man in thought, he became a

the weaver, "then, out with it at

many-sided one, and began to

once;

take a rather enlarged view of

have the turning of it; he has a

things in general.

It was asto-

conjuring way with things, that

nishing how many things he now

comes to no good-be done with

looked into, which he never cared

them at once."

don't let the Evil One

about before; and still more as-

It must not be supposed that,

tonishing was the way in which

Ned Jacobs attained to perfec-

he looked into them, twisting

tion in

and turning them about, so that

Nothing of the kind.

if they had hung on a patent

come to perfection all at once?

jack, wound up and in best going

Chickens

order, they could not have gone

world without

this matter

at once.
Who does

don't come into the
being hatched,

IT

ONLY, WANTS TURNING ROUND.

and new habits of mind and life

work he had been cutting out for

require a good deal of hatching.;

himself, when he determined on

but that does not matter, so as

removing

the chickens come right at last.

school.

the

children

from

However, as we have

And Ned Jacobs' chickens were

already said, there are two sides

coming right. That matter of the

to everything, and even this pro-

" ten per cent." had come right--

duced its good-it directed the

turning things round had come to

weaver's

something in his business, and

affairs, and the need and benefit

now it was about to produce

too of turning matters round in

something in his family.

them, as well as everything else.

When the pinch in the matter

attention

to

The junior members

family

of the

of wages came, the weaver, in

Jacobs family availed themselves

order to meet the emergency, had

to the full of the state of liberty

taken his

in which they unexpectedly found

children away from

school-that was so much clear

themselves.

saving; and if there were less to

not wanted there they were sure

go into their head, there would

to be found; and where they were

at any rate be more to go into

wanted, there, with equal cer-

their. mouth.

tainty, not a sign of them was to

Ned Jacobs' wife had earnestly

be seen.

Where they were

Where their mother's

intreated him not to do this; but

little bit of washing was drying,

the weaver had as usual taken

there, and in no other spot would

his one-sided view of the matter

they play at bo-peep, to say no-

-- just looked at it on the surface,

thing of their climbing the drying

and nothing more; and so, the
young ones were to be found

poles, and swinging to and fro:
like ring-tailed monkeys upon

tumbling about here, and there,

the ropes.

and everywhere.

various experiments with the hot:
irons, both upon themselves indi-

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IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

17

vidually, and on each other, with

injury, and it is in an awkward

what precise end in view was

place too; you must keep her in

known only to themselves-the

great quiet;" and the medical

result, however, was clearly to be

man did all that the case required,

seen in the shape of blisters and

and took his departure.
But who was to attend to the

ugly marks of various kinds.
At last, one experiment ended

children?

It

was quite plain

Master Teddy, while

that Mrs. Jacobs could not do

his mother was called away for a

everything; it was just because

moment, tried how near he could

she could not, that the baby had

approach the hot iron to ths

been burned; if she could have

baby's face, without making her

only just answered the door, and

squeak; and in so doing he

kept at her ironing board at the

dropped it on the poor child, who

same time, this accident would

soon, by its screams, brought its

not have happened.

seriously.

If only we could be in two

mother on the scene.
A glance sufficed to show that

places at a time, how much we

the injury was a severe one; and

might get through; but as we

the child's father had to be called

can't, we must make our arrange-

immediately.

ments on the ground that we can

Ned Jacobs made all the haste
he could for a doctor, while the

be only in one, and act accordingly.

Ned Jacobs should have

the

remembered this, when he deter-

whole burned surface with flour;

mined on removing his children

and to her presence of mind the

from school-but we have to find

child owed its life.

out a great many things in this

mother

instantly

covered

" This is a serious matter," said

world;

and this was precisely

the doctor. " The iron must have

one of those things which Ned

been lying some time upon the

had to find out, as he would not

child to produce so extensive an

think it out at first.

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING RO UND.

But what was to be done with

shuttle won't hurt her;

she'll

baby ? That was the urgent point

sleep just as well with it as with-

immediately

out it; and she'll be safe out of

in hand.

Where

How could

was she to be put?

she be kept out of the way of

And, indeed, nothing better under the circumstances could be

these mischievous children?
"'Tis no good rating at the
children,"

harm's way in my shed."

done ; so the poor little thing was

said Mrs. Jacobs to

put into her cradle ; and the wea-

all comes of

ver walked off with her to his

her husband; "it

do.

shed, the mother going to see

Children have a deal of life in

that she was stowed away as

them, and they must be at some-

comfortably as possible.

their

having

nothing

to

thing; if they don't have what's

The baby Jacobs was, after a

make out

very short time, not in the least

good to do,

they'll

what's evil for themselves. They

disturbed by the

can't keep quiet, like grown-up

shuttle, so she went off to sleep

folk: they must let out the steam

in a short time; but every now

somewhere, or in some way ; and

and then the weaver could hear

its no use threshing Teddy-give

those

him something to do," said Mrs.

breathings, which in truth sug-

Jacobs to her husband;

"that's

gest to us one .of the saddest of

And now what are

thoughts-sorrow clinging to us

the thing.

we to do with the baby?

Some

little

noise of the

sobs, and broken

even in our sleep.

one must keep an eye on her all

And these sobs and broken

day long; and how can I, with

breathings, though merely the

running in and out after these

catchings of the breath of a little

clothes ?"

child, were destined to perform

"I'll take her," said the wea-

a very important part in the edu-

ver; " she'll be willing to stay

cation of the weaver, so far as he

with me, and the noise of the

was being taught the necessity

IT

ONLY' WANTS

TURNING ROUND.

a9

and mystery of turning things

told of babies - especially by

the

those to whom they belong; but

weaver's chief favourite - with

as if to dispel her father's fears,

whom he often played at high

the child took to breathing regu-

jinks-who pulled his whiskers,

larly again.

That little babe

round.

and even his nose with impunity,

"Twit," said the weaver, "you

was now going to take him in

won't die; " and he looked with

hand, and give him a lesson in

unutterable sadness and love up-

very serious things-for babies,

on the child; and the babe, who

and the grass of the field, and

no doubt knew the well-known

sparrows,

voice even through sleep, though

and small creatures

and things of various kinds, are.

she could not hear what was said

able to teach very big men, when

-made

they get a commision from God

that it was possible for a little

so to do.

child to make; and moved its

Once or twice the babe held
her breath, and her father jumped

the smallest little smile

chubby little hand under the uninjured cheek.

up out of the frame to look at

" Good little Twit," said the

her; the horrible thought crossing

weaver, "you're going to settle

his mind-" What if she should

off for a long sleep; you won't go

die!

Ahh! that bad boy'Teddy

from father;" and he sat down

would never forgive himself as

by the child's side, to watch it

long as he lived-and as to him-

for a while.

self! if he had fifty children more,

For fear that the shuttle should

he never could have another like

by any possibility awaken the

poor little Twit, who now lay in

child, the weaver did not go to

the cradle before him.

his loom again; but lit his pipe,

Whether Twit heard him in her

and sat still where he was.

sleep or no, we cannot undertake

And indeed it was a good thing

to tell, such wonderful things are

for the Jacobs family that he did;

20

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

for as he watched the child, he
began to think;

and what is

thinking very often, but turning
matters round.
Ned Jacobs need not go very

far to find something to turn;
that poor little wounded one suggested at once the propriety of his
performing the turning process
upon family matters.

7<
f

" 2

" FOR AS HE WATCHED THE CHILD, HE BEGAN TO THINK,"

if

would turn out to be bad; and

family matters were turned round

some that are bad would appear

oftener than they are, much good

to be good-moreover, many say-

Some

ings would turn out to be losses,

And indeed, good reader,

would be sure to follow.

things which seem to be good

and losses savings;

and there

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

21

would be, no doubt, a much more

anything to say to it is, just be-

correct estimate formed of how

cause he does not go to school:

family matters really stand.

and why does he not ?"

Ned Jacobs couldn't turn the

"Because the times are so bad,"

baby himself, for the great object

said the weaver to his conscience,

with this one in particular, as it

which indeed was his questioner

is with most babies in general,

on the present occasion.

was to keep it quiet; but he could

can I send the boy to school with

turn over the circumstances under

ten per cent. off wages ?"

which she had come to occupy

"How

his shed, with that terrible burn

Teddy's

and probably a scar for life.

much

a

"How

week

was

science.

"That Teddy is always in mischief," said the weaver. "There's

schooling,"

"Threepence,"

said Con-

answered the

weaver.

no knowing what kind of an end

" And how many pipes do you

he'll come to at last; he's the

smoke in the day," continued

cause of all this trouble."

Conscience.

"Softly,

softly,"

said

some-

thing inside the weaver, "don't

"Three," said the weaver.
"And

how much does

that

put it all on Teddy; at least not

come to for tobacco in the week,"

until you've turned Teddy round,

continued the enquirer.

and various matters connected

" Sixpence," said the weaver.

with him-how came he to be

Whereupon Conscience, much

about at that particular time, it

to the weaver's disgust, took to

was school hour; wasn't it ?"

figures, and began

calculating

the

about Ned Jacobs' pipe; for all

weaver, "but what has that to

the world as if it knew all about

say to the matter, when the boy

such

does not go to school now ?"

pipes and tobacco.

"No

doubt,"

thought

"But the reason that it has

And

common-place

things as

that, good reader, was

22z

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

just the very truth; for conscience

weaver.

"But ah!

I see what

and

you're

at," said

religion

rather

huffily,

has to do with matters of common

make

out that

every-day life, to make religious

educated two of my children for

things of them; and conscience,

what my pipe costs me; and that

on the present occasion, had a

if I had given up my pipe, I need

very. decided opinion that, the

not have taken the boys from

weaver had no right to smoke

school."

has to do with

religion

religious things;

and

Ned

"you
I

Jacobs,
want

to

might have

three pipes a day, when he could

"I didn't say that," said Con-

not afford to send his boy to

science ; " you're saying it; and

school.

I don't dispute it-all I said was

Apparently, Ned Jacobs' con-

that twice three were six; and

science found a slate and pencil

no matter how you twist figures

somewhere or other inside him;

about, you can't alter that."

for it began to work out this
matter in plain figures.
"Three

"Figures

are figures, I sup-

pose," said the weaver.

into six," said Con-

science.

" Now," said Conscience, "let
us have another try at the slate

"Twice," said the weaver.

and pencil.

"Are you sure you don't make

Twit there in the cradle-six

a mistake ?" asked Conscience.
"As if I didn't know how often
three went into six," answered
the weaver rather indignantly.

Look at poor little

doctor's visits

at

half-a-crown

each, how much is that, Ned ?"
"Fifteen shillings."
" And medicine, five shillings

"Now then," continued Con-

more; that will make a pound

science, " if one Teddy is equal

that your pipe-your want of a

to threepence; how many Teddys

little self-denial, has cost you,

will go into sixpence ?"

since the fall in wages-and how

"Two,

of course,"

said the

much shall we say for a scar on

IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.
her little face for life; and per-

not that much worth in the world

haps, for her not being able to

to lose ; but to other people ; how

get a place by-and-by owing to

could he tell but that that boy

her disfigurement; and to the--"

might set a hay-stack or corn-rick

S"Have mercy on me,"
the weaver.

said

" Who'd have ever

thought of bringing up all this

over."
Hereupon the weaver took the
pipe he was smoking out of his

against a pipe ?"
" And one question more," said
Conscience.

on fire, before another day were

"Twice

three are

mouth; and began to look at it,
and turn it round and round.

six-and three into six, are I see

"I've heard," said he, "that

too easy for you-now then; if

there's a deal of mischief in to-

Teddy does so much mischief in

bacco for the constitution; and

one day, how much will he do

that it robs a poor nian's home

in three hundred

and thirteen

of many comforts which it might

days; for, not taking Sundays

have; but I never thought of

or holidays into account, that is

these

the- number of days you must

mischief comes

have him on your hands in a

ways;" and the weaver felt very

year, unless you give up that

much inclined to smash the pipe

pipe ?"
But this big sum was altoge-

then and there.

ther too much for the weaver; if

do that;" and he laid it gently

Teddy had done a pound's worth

down on the shelf where he could

of mischief in one day, he might

see it.

do three hundred

and thirteen

just to take to you again; what

pounds' worth in as many days;

folk do in a hurry, they often un-

but what security was there that

do in a hurry too-I'll turn you

he would not do much more, not

round for a day or two longer."

to his

own people, for they had

side winds;
in

how much
these side

"But no," said he, "I won't

" I'll not break you, only

There is nothing in this world

IT

24

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

No sooner do

The consequence of the weaver's

you tumble a thing down, than

turnings was that, his pipe came

you find you have tumbled half-

to a violent end; and Teddy was

a-dozen with it; or lift one up,

sent forthwith to school.

standing alone.

than you see you lift others with
it too; accordingly, a number of
family matters now began

to
CHAPTER IV.

gather round this question of the
pipe and poor little Twit's burn;

So great were the benefits de-

and the weaver turned each of

rived by the weaver's family from

them round, as it presented itself

this

to his mind.

round that, he facetiously called

And he found that, for a house-

system of turning things

it a "merry-go-round."

hold to get on well, whether it be

Ned Jacobs had indeed some

that of a poor man or a rich one,

cause for saying this, because he

its matters must be thought of,

and his were great gainers by

and looked at in various lights.

this new system of not taking

There was sure to be some kind

things on the surface, but look-

of a second side to every ques-

ing at them in all directions.

tion; and it was always worth
while seeing what it was.

We need not therefore be surprised, when we are told that this

"Things won't turn themselves

good system spread itself still

round," said the weaver, "you

.farther; or, perhaps, to speak

must take them, and turn them-

more correctly, drew itself in still

and when you have done this, it

more closely upon the weaver, so

is not enough; you must keep

that it began to interfere with his

both sides steadily in view at the

most private matters.

same time-that's

the way to

In this it met with some little

come at a right knowledge of

difficulty, it is true;

how matters really stand."

not with any, when compared

but still,

IT

ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

25

with what it had encountered

once, he must have done so half

before.

a dozen times, as if it were some-

Of all private matters, a man's

thing

that must be answered

religion is the most private; be-

sooner or later, some time or

cause it must be between himself

other."

Not that it should

" I suppose," said Ned to him-

stop there; or, if it be worth any-

self, "this is one of those things

thing, that it can stop there; for

which want turning; and the way

where there is a private religion

to turn it is, by answering the

that's worth anything, there is

question."

and his God.

pretty sure to be a public mania

Now, turning religion round,

festation of it in some way or

is an operation which, though

other.

very.simple in itself, men for one

When a man talks of his reli-

reason or another shrink from.

gion being so very private, you

They would rather take things at

may in many cases be sure that

first

it isn't there at all.

very grievous are the mistakes

The way in which the weaver's

sight;

and consequently,

which are made.

Ned Jacobs,

religious matters were interfered

however,

with, and he was induced to give

benefit in my business and family

them a turning round, was by a

by this

and

why

text he heard his minister preach

shouldn't I benefit myself?"

Ac-

on, and which he could not get

cordingly the weaver took to

out of his mind, "What shall it

thinking over this matter;

profit a man, if he shall gain the

it was not long before he found

whole world, and lose his own

that there was much at the other

" that text the

side of it which he had never

soul

?"

minister,"

And

as he

said, " kept

poking at him all the sermon
through;

for if he repeated it

seen.

said:

"I

operation;

have had

and

This world's things had

seemed everything to him;

for

them he had striven, and in them,

ONLY WANTS

IT

TURNING ROUND.

to a certain extent, he had suc-

do himself. And 'tis one of those

ceeded; but what was there at

things that can't be done all in a

the other side of them-beyond

moment; and, the more you do it,

them;

when

he turned

them

the more you will find you have

round,

what

would

he

have

to do it.

And to good purpose

too," said the

then ?

I

weaver, "for

stuck to the

never give this subject a turn,

weaver; and as he revolved it in

but that I get something good

This question
his mind, he

determined

that

religion should be a very differ-

out of it."
"'Tis

good to feel that this

ent thing to him from what it

world is not everything, that

had hitherto been-the world's

there's something beyond-that

gains, looked at in the light of

there is a profit and a pleasure

eternity, seemed very bare and

too in serving God.

poor, when there

was nothing

knows

the

No one ever

profit,"

said

the

weaver, "until they turn the mat-

else to come.
" I used to Put my soul last, but

ter round.

It doesn't always ap-

now," said the weaver, "that I

pear on the top side: perhaps if

turn things round, it turns up

it did, people would be after reli-

first; and first, please God, it

gion just for the profit's sake;

shall be."

but only turn the matter round,

Ned Jacobs would not have be-

and you'll find it, sure enough."

lieved from any one's telling, how

" There's trouble," said Ned

much there was that was pleasant

Jacobs, "ah ! the world is full of

"It won't do,"

it-turn where you will, you find

in true religion.

everywhere

men

are

said he, "just to have another

it; and

person turning this matter over

speaking against it; as if it were

for you ; you must turn it your-

all bad, and there were no good

self. 'Tis just one of those things,

in it; and it had no use at all."

that to do properly, a man must

" But surely,"

continued the

27

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IT

weaver, " the Lord has a use for

as soon as ever they came.

We

only men

should have faith in the trouble

round,

from the very beginning--that

them

will make us strong to go through

something good by every one of

with it; it will honour God, and

them.

so bring us a blessing."

everything;
turned

and if

I

troubles

their

they'd find

He

means

I see in the Bible that

all the great saints had troubles,

"What

did God

give

man

but at the other side of them

brains for," said the weaver, "if

were blessings. That was a great

it was not to think; and what

trouble Joseph got into, when he

did He mean thinking for, but to

was cast into prison; but when

do people good; I've tried it now

it was fairly turned round, there

for some time; and I mean to

was a heap of good things at

carry it on for the rest of my life."

the other side of it; and Job had

And

the

more

Ned

Jacobs

his share; and as some folk would

studied religion, the more he

say, more than his share too;

discovered this; and the more

but when his troubles were turned

he told his neighbours that he

round, his latter end was better

"thought they'd be the better if

than

his

beginning;

and no

doubt our troubles will be turned
round

for us in proper time;

they did the same.

Some of his

neighbours listened to him, but
all observed him ; and it was

see that every-

quite plain that the weaver's reli-

thing has been ordered for our

gion had something solid and

good."

real in it.

and we

shall

Folk saw it in his

"I see well," said the weaver,

daily life; and his own family

"that we must be thoughtful and

saw it, and reaped the benefit of

trustful while the trouble is on;

it too.

and one-half the trial would be

It is true, times continued just

taken out of these troubles if we

as hard as they had been--the

began to turn them in our minds

" ten per cent." had not been put

IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND

28

on again, but Mrs. Jacobs said
"they had never been so happy

But, as we have said, it was
destined to do more.

as they were now; and she would

Steadily and regularly, every

rather have a thoughtful husband

Saturday, the weaver took in his

with ten per cent. less wages,

week's

than a one-sided man such as

grumbling and showing ill-tem-

hers used to be, even with the

per, as many of his fellow work-

extra pay."
" I know well," said she, "that

men did, always made the best

we're all

better

off, even in

work, and

instead

of

of matters, and hoped that they
would mend.

Ned Jacobs had

worldly things--a man who turns

turned the subject of the grumbl-

things round is able to see where

ing round, and had come to the

an advantage lies; and to see,

conclusion that in this case, as in

and to keep clear of a disadvan-

most others, it was not likely to

tage; and there's no small profit

do much good.

in that."

were to come of it, where was the

But what good

Mrs. Jacobs

And if nothing

use of it; for it was

not so

saw, was nothing to what she

pleasant, as to be indulged in for

was yet to see. " Turning things

its own sake.

round" had given her content-

Ned was, indeed, almost the

ment and comparative comfort in

only man with whom the master

her home, when the opposite of

could

these were the position of her

wages; for he was ready to enter

neighbours; it had given her a
thoughtful and steady husband;

into things reasonably-in fact,
to turn them Iound-while the

it had roused them all to think of

others were capable of looking at

things higher than this world;

them only in their own light.
Moreover, they were so short in

had it never done any more for
them, she would have lihad' good
grounds to be content.

talk on the

subject of

their answers, and so entirely put
on the air of injured men, that it

I~' ONAZLY WAN'S T7ARNING RPOUND.
.
was no use entering on the subject with them at all.

29

Accordingly, the situation was
offered to Ned Jacobs.

Five-

If people would only turn the

and-twenty shillings a week and

matter round, they would see

a small house on the premises

that a cheerful and friendly man-

were not to be despised at any

ner is much more likely to be to

time by a man in Ned Jacob's

their benefit, than one,

short,

position in life-much less when

sharp, and morose; and so our

wages were low. But before they

friend Ned Jacobs found out.

were accepted,

they were well

For, not long after the weaver

turned round-inside and outside,

had taken to going more into the

topside and bottomside, and every

two sides of things in religion,

side; the consequence of which

and, by God's grace, shaping his

was that, the weaver and his

life and conversation accordingly,

family entered upon their new

the foreman of the firm by which

career with double thankfulness,

he was employed fell ill.

for they saw all its advantages;

It was no easy matter to supply

and without much chance of being

the foreman's place, for a man

disappointed; for they had, in all

was required who had good tem-

this turning about, seen that there

as well as

were a few disadvantages too.

honesty; and such men were not

They had looked at both sides,

to be found every day.

and compared them together; and

per and judgment

Ned Jacobs' manner and con-

so Mrs. Jacobs didn't grumble be-

duct, all through this trying time

cause the new drying-ground was

of reduced wages, had attracted

not so good as the old one; and

the employer's notice; and now,

her husband didn't fret himself

in his difficulty, his mind turned

over his bit of garden in the

towards our friend as the most

country. No doubt if Mrs. Jacobs

likely man to fill the vacant

could have put her drying-ground

place.

on the cart along with her furni-

IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

30

ture, she would have brought it

knew whither they had

with her;

and if her husband

The police found one or two gar-

could just have pocketed his bit

ments more or less stained with

of garden, he'd have brought that

blood in their cottages; and it

in too-cabbages,

was believed that they had been

and onions,

and gooseberry bushes, all just
as they stood;

gone.

smuggled away wounded.

but they had

Three were left in the hands of

turned all that round, and they

the keepers, and these three men

didn't mean to fret themselves

were tried for their lives; for one

after what was impossible.

of the keepers had died from the

The new foreman heard, almost
every week, of the doings

in

.effects of a gun-shot wound fired
in this affray.

his old village; and grieved he

These men barely escaped with

was, to know that they were

their lives, and were finally trans-

getting worse and worse.

ported.

At

last, matters came to such a pass

Ned Jacobs was in Court at the

in the poaching way that, a de-

trial; and sorely it grieved him

termined

to see old neighbours in such a

and

combined effort

was made by the neighbouring

position.

gentry to put a stop to it.

nately refused all advice-they

The

consequence

was

But they had obsti-

that,

would look at things only in their

there was almost.a pitched battle

own light-they could not bring

between the poachers and a large

themselves to turn them round.

party of keepers.

Shots were

They rushed away headlong with

fired, and one of the poachers

one idea; and so, had come to

was killed, and it was believed

ruin.

that a couple more were wounded.

" Had I not been induced to

Two of them, at any rate, were

think over matters, and to turn

missing from the village the fol-

them round," said the foreman

lowing

to his wife, "I might have been

morning ;

and no one

IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND.

3r

where those poor fellows are now.

if I'm doing anything without

They tempted me much to join

looking at it on every side."

them; they jeered me; they even

"Daddy,

kiss

Twit's funny

threatened me; but the first turn

cheek," said the little girl; and

I gave the matter, showed me

the foreman, with a tear, took

that if I were to suffer, it was

the child up into his lap, and

better to do so for keeping out of

kissed it half-a-dozen times.
"Now, daddy, kiss other side,"

evil, than for going into it.
"It would have been a good
thing, wife, for us all, if I had
begun life with this good system-

said the child as she turned the
other cheek.
"Ah," said Ned Jacobs-" here

of turning things round; but bet-

it is again-'tis as much as to

ter late than never; and we all

say, ' instead of fretting over that

have cause to be thankful that I

scar, be thankful it is no worse.'

began to do so, even when I did.

Both cheeks

"As long as I live," said the

might have been

burned instead of one.

Thank

weaver, " that scar on little Twit's

you, little Twit.

cheek will remind me of what a

chick; like most other things in

fool I used to be-I am thankful it

the world-

isn't as bad as we expected it to
be; but it will always remind me,

I see my little

"IT ONLY WANTS TURNING ROUND."

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