{"id":"01KG8AKBZAPPG85RQP11C722TM","cid":"bafkreibm5gciulbbcn3h5urnejzftwvuhhipuca6ac6r3c6oyfjxuhkvjy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4543,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 5","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":4467,"text":"Glancing another way till the spasm passed, the other continued:\r\n\r\n\"Charity marvels not that you should be somewhat hard of conviction, my\r\nfriend, since you, doubtless, believe yourself hardly dealt by; but\r\nforget not that those who are loved are chastened.\"\r\n\r\n\"Mustn't chasten them too much, though, and too long, because their skin\r\nand heart get hard, and feel neither pain nor tickle.\"\r\n\r\n\"To mere reason, your case looks something piteous, I grant. But never\r\ndespond; many things--the choicest--yet remain. You breathe this\r\nbounteous air, are warmed by this gracious sun, and, though poor and\r\nfriendless, indeed, nor so agile as in your youth, yet, how sweet to\r\nroam, day by day, through the groves, plucking the bright mosses and\r\nflowers, till forlornness itself becomes a hilarity, and, in your\r\ninnocent independence, you skip for joy.\"\r\n\r\n\"Fine skipping with these 'ere horse-posts--ha ha!\"\r\n\r\n\"Pardon; I forgot the crutches. My mind, figuring you after receiving\r\nthe benefit of my art, overlooked you as you stand before me.\"\r\n\r\n\"Your art? You call yourself a bone-setter--a natural bone-setter, do\r\nye? Go, bone-set the crooked world, and then come bone-set crooked me.\"\r\n\r\n\"Truly, my honest friend, I thank you for again recalling me to my\r\noriginal object. Let me examine you,\" bending down; \"ah, I see, I see;\r\nmuch such a case as the negro's. Did you see him? Oh no, you came aboard\r\nsince. Well, his case was a little something like yours. I prescribed\r\nfor him, and I shouldn't wonder at all if, in a very short time, he were\r\nable to walk almost as well as myself. Now, have you no confidence in my\r\nart?\"\r\n\r\n\"Ha, ha!\"\r\n\r\nThe herb-doctor averted himself; but, the wild laugh dying away,\r\nresumed:\r\n\r\n\"I will not force confidence on you. Still, I would fain do the friendly\r\nthing by you. Here, take this box; just rub that liniment on the joints\r\nnight and morning. Take it. Nothing to pay. God bless you. Good-bye.\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay,\" pausing in his swing, not untouched by so unexpected an act;\r\n\"stay--thank'ee--but will this really do me good? Honor bright, now;\r\nwill it? Don't deceive a poor fellow,\" with changed mien and glistening\r\neye.\r\n\r\n\"Try it. Good-bye.\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay, stay! _Sure_ it will do me good?\"\r\n\r\n\"Possibly, possibly; no harm in trying. Good-bye.\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay, stay; give me three more boxes, and here's the money.\"\r\n\r\n\"My friend,\" returning towards him with a sadly pleased sort of air, \"I\r\nrejoice in the birth of your confidence and hopefulness. Believe me\r\nthat, like your crutches, confidence and hopefulness will long support a\r\nman when his own legs will not. Stick to confidence and hopefulness,\r\nthen, since how mad for the cripple to throw his crutches away. You ask\r\nfor three more boxes of my liniment. Luckily, I have just that number\r\nremaining. Here they are. I sell them at half-a-dollar apiece. But I\r\nshall take nothing from you. There; God bless you again; good-bye.\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay,\" in a convulsed voice, and rocking himself, \"stay, stay! You have\r\nmade a better man of me. You have borne with me like a good Christian,\r\nand talked to me like one, and all that is enough without making me a\r\npresent of these boxes. Here is the money. I won't take nay. There,\r\nthere; and may Almighty goodness go with you.\"\r\n\r\nAs the herb-doctor withdrew, the cripple gradually subsided from his\r\nhard rocking into a gentle oscillation. It expressed, perhaps, the\r\nsoothed mood of his reverie.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 5"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4JACMJM5K6XEKVWTRB","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKBZAXEBR0ZHWDY90B90P","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.026Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.527Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}