Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-06
Five Cents

What 8 lovely Sunday The l1lGos
vvere ont ana fUlI- OF 1ragraEee, and our
six NAPLES had each the nag Of REQ (
leaf to fling out on their naked Doales I
In token Of what a2oissa pe. 1khe2 PSo
flle's NAPLES were full OF lear and nipple.
our little garden-moundg BAD eeeh
ring of sweet grass, and an taside How
eTi1p thing. But many q flOWsr bloom
ed in neighbor's beds and gardsA1g and
Yesterdays rain yet ggTelled and 1isz2 IL
lines Of silver between sweet breasts q
green. Children, like morning, them
selves. went by in the bright air to
Sunday schools littis boys hugging up
their books to clean Jackets and little
airls as fresh and clean as the summer
too, but more in CRIMSON and Dlues ana
pink, and orange, than summer q
morning One little boy-Well, what
was he doing he had 2 basket on his
arm at anv rates aE[k be had no. not
ANEW car on his head-an old, g shabby
one, and a shabby Jacket and troWsers.
And he was holding up no saoDatn
school book to his breasts but on ne
trudOad- with the sunshine in the 1r1nges
Of his hair, and kind to him. and sweet
an over upon him, as if he bad been
Sunday school scholar, just the same
was the sunshine right? On Euaden,
As. we looked, the little fellow stopped on
the sidewaIIv What was the matter
with him9 Nos to smell our handtul
or bushfuI of 1ilaCsy not to see the blos-
soming, Towering things we had IN our
circles of deep grass, not even TO SWING
our new gate, with its 1aGc1uatlng u2A-
ture and iron tassel. Whica 50 many
boys had stopped to swing. no, he has
lost something. It is something 9# 1rn-
portanes, for he is troubled, ana sets
down his basket He is coarse a3d
homely, this little boy; he has coarse
mouth, and he begins TO talk to himself
with It, and to be more ana more
Il for
1t is a little stick he looks for, and ne
pokes with it in one Of the cracks Of the
sidewalk. On, it must be his money
has rolled away. He was going TO buy
bread to put in that basket, or some
thing which his parents have sent nina
for; and now his money is all gone, ana
he don't know what to do.
The mouth IS coarse; but when II De
crins to trembls and look sorry, and
when the big tears come, and the poor
little dirty jacket-sleeve goes up 1pe
them of, that the poor little eyes may
see pIainer to peep in the crack, who
would care for that? don't know
ANYBODY that would. Anybody would
have ran out quick to say, as we did;
little boy, what have you lost y
Five cents"
f'Oh, i've cents Never mind. Don'i
hunt for it. You never can get il out
of there. You never couid, you know
You shall have another five cents
Don't cry"
The big tears stopped rolling tbs
basket was picked MP; and With another
6ve-cent piece in his hand, Tom my, OF
Tony, or whatever his name was step
ped on, at peace again. 7 saw him come
back with his basket filled. ! saw hin
stop thouehtfu!ly at that memorable
crack-bhe grave Of his five-cent piece
as though he never could get over it,
know he Will runntnate and sop every
time he ever crosses it. But I saw tn,
Sunday sun follow him kindly as hl
trudgad on; and saw the young res
leaf Of my naples swing when he wa
was gone; and was glad 50 slight
thing had healed his broken heart
Mrs, +, y. Beecbe4.