Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-05-20


member ! put it there ! might have worn
it to rags. I'll put them in my pocket now
until after church,
But even then they were a source Of troub
le to him. When the deacon passed round
the plate, Mr.. GILES put his hand in his pock
ct hurredy to get the twenty-five or fifty
cents he usually put in, and in his nervous.
ness and haste he pulled ont the identical roll
Of bills and dropped them on the plate, and
Deacon Holt turned away, aud was mortified
to feel his coat tails seized on, and hear a
loud, sepulchral whisper.
Stop" And Mr.. Giles grasped his
money. with an addition of five aud ten cent
pieces sticking to IT, He got out of the tan
gle at last, with a face like the rising sun
It's no use.n said his wife, when they
got home, you may as well give me that
money to take care Of, if you don't want it
lost.
al believe will" said Mr. Giles, for
I'm sick Of the job. do hope it won't both
er you as il has me-
No fear" answered ietty, putting the
roll in her pocket with an assumption of bra
vado she was far from feeling.
q" believe III leave it right in the pocket"
she thought etc. She took her dress off, aud
so she folded il carefully away, with great
feeling that it was safe.
The next morning when she swept the
house, she saw something on the floor
What's that2' she thought, g looks like
my old Lsle-thread gloves though | don't
know what they should be doing there"
She stopped to pick it up, and found it to
be that unfortunate money
Mercy me :" she exclaimed "I believe
its alive 1t must have dropped out of my
dress when folded the skirt up. What a
wonder that it is Mt gone do wish knew
where to put it :"
/ For week it was moved every day 1t
occupied the bureau drawer: it slept between
the mattresses; i, snuggled in a trunk Still
Mrs. Giles felt troubled.
81 want to put it away in some place, and
forget it, she said to herself After thinking
for awhile. an idea dawned upon her
alt will be safe there" she said, no burg
lars would ever think of looking there, and no
harm can ever touch it, I'm glad | thought
of it,"
SO the money was placed safely in its new
resting-place, and Mrs. Giles, sure of its se-
curity, forgot it for days at a time.
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