The good heart of Martha Hawkins having espoused the cause of the basket-maker, the heart of Bud Means could not help feeling warmly on the same side.

Blessed is that man in whose life the driving of duty and the drawing of love impel the same way! But why speak of the driving of duty?
For already Bud was learning the better lesson of serving God for the love of God.
The old basket-maker was the most unpopular man in Flat Creek district.
He had two great vices.

He would go to Clifty and have a "spree" once in three months.

And he would tell the truth in a most unscrupulous manner.
A man given to plain speaking was quite as objectionable in Flat Creek as he would have been in France under the Empire, the Commune, or the Republic, and almost as objectionable as he would be in any refined community in America.

People who live in glass houses have a horror of people who throw stones.