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A strange turn of events had taken place at Uncle Silas and Aunt Sadie's place. 
Aunt Sadie had come running into the house in tears, wet with sweat, and all out of breath.  “Joe Gunnels has gone crazy or something,” she finally was able to catch her breath enough to exclaim to Silas.  Joe and Silas were long time neighbors and close friends, so naturally this caught his attention at once.     
“What happened?” he asked Sadie. 
“Well, I knew that his corn was ready to pick roasting ears, so I went into his corn field just like I always do to get us a mess before they got too hard,” she stammered out.  You see neighbors and friends around Needmore had always been encouraged to pick what they wanted at that time of year. Since the corn on different farms  usually came in at different times, all the community was able to have what they wanted for most of the summer.
People around Needmore were generous with what they had, and everybody tried to help everybody all they could, with anything they could do.    It would be a better world if we still had that attitude today.  How long has it been since the neighbors around your place gathered in to “set up” with sick? 
“Now, slow down, Sadie and tell me what happened,” Silas said.
“I was picking me some corn and Joe came running out through the corn field calling me an old heifer and ordering me to get out of his corn field.
“He said he was fed up with the way I had been acting, and that he had a good mind to get rid of me. He even hollered back for Suzie to bring him his shotgun. 
“He said ‘that heifer is back in the corn again and I am going to sprinkle  her backside with bird shot to teach her a lesson.’
“Caused me to almost fall down and I almost got run over by an old Jersey cow as I was trying to get away before he shot me,” continued Suzie.
Very puzzled and a little bothered by this outrageous action Silas hurried over to his neighbors house to see what was going on. 
Joe seemed glad to see him and said, “I am glad you came over.  That sorry milk cow of my wife’s is out and in my corn field again.  Have you got time to help me get her up?  I was thinking about shooting her, but was afraid I might hit her in the sack and cause her milk to dry up.”
“And, oh,” he continued “why don't you grab that grass-sack over there and we will get you a sack of that corn while your over here. It's just right to be good now. 
“By the way, do you have one of your old sows out?  Something was running through my corn field just before my cow ran out.  I just figured it was your old Poland China sow.”
Many hurt feelings and much trouble come about because of misunderstandings.  The Bible says that a good understanding avoids confusion.