Hi everyone, Miss Jean here. Would you like to visit the Discovery Mountain Library again?

Well, Elsie, everyone's favorite library cat, is leading Gladys to her favorite shelf again.

The books are old, older than Discovery Mountain. They tell the tales of people who lived in the mountains long,

long ago. Gladys is ready for another reminder that God has brought people to these mountains

for one purpose from the beginning to exercise their faith in Him. Let's listen along with

Gladys in today's mini-adventure called Fergus versus Neil.

Oh, hello, Elsie. I like the book he showed me the other day. Yes, I really like the book he

showed me. Can you please show me some more?

Oh, oh, this one looks good.

Fergus versus Neil.

Ooh, I smell some drama.

Page 1.

In a small town, tucked up in the mountains, there lived two men.

These men were bitter enemies.

One of them, whose name was Rufus Fergus, was a blacksmith.

The other was a prominent lawyer named Richard Neal.

Both were politicians.

At any town meeting or celebration, one thing was

guaranteed. Fergus and Neal would both be there, shaking hands and saying there, how do you do's?

Fergus and Neil had been rivals in many political contests, and they disliked each other most intensely.

They would not speak to each other on the street,

and they would not both enter or remain in the same room. Fergus went about his blacksmith work,

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