Pardee to fight the infidels, and the Browns to fight the Universalists." Holland Brown's brother, Leonard, and his wife--he had married my father's eldest sister, Ann Butler--had been baptized not far from that time.
Holland Brown relates the following incident, which occurred some time afterward: "Bro.

Butler was away from home, and driving a horse, which, though of fine appearance, was badly wind-broken.

At times the horse appeared perfectly sound, and at one of those times Bro.

Butler was offered a handsome sum for him.
"No," said Bro.

Butler, "I can not take that sum for the horse, he is badly wind-broken." "Why didn't you take it?
the man was a jockey, anyhow;" asked some one in my hearing.
"'Because,' was the ringing answer, 'I think less of the price of a horse than of my own soul.'" About that time father began teaching school in neighboring districts, which he followed for several years.