The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-06

| Mrs Price looked down at the curly.
haired culprit with a twinkle of fun in hel
eyes. She had black eyes, very much like
Kim's.
"Well, sonny, go get my purse out of the
| end cupboard. If / am poor, it sban't be
said don't do all can for my children's
education"
one, with steel rings.
Yes, here's a silver quarter. with the
| pillars on it. We are out of ginger.
| bread, and was going to spend.it for mo.
lasses, but never mind. 1 know it was
hard work to whip you, and she deserves
| the money"
"Thank you, Kimball," said Miss Peute
cost, in a low voice, when she received the
bright new quarter. "Didn't your mother
think deserved it,"
Yes'm;" replied the boy, his chin
sinking into the hollow place in his neck.
81 thought she would. Well now, my
dear, shall carry this quarter home, and
must bring me another. Do you under
standf"
Skim scowled down at his little toes,
and tried to stick them into crack in the
floor. Why, this was getting serious
Would the woman keep crying quarters
forever 2 1t was perfectly ruinous. His
mother had all she could do to support the
family before but what would become of
them nowf
"You may take your seat" added Miss
Pentecost,- still in a low tone, 30 that no
one could hear. but with a smile that exas.
perated poor Kim. at is dreadful that
You will be naughty but then you see,
the more 1 whip you the more money 1
shall get and perhaps before the summer
is out, l shall have enough to buy new
Dress"
"No, you don't thought Kim, shutting
his teeth together. Catch me letting my
mother buy dress for you'll Why, we've
You don't get another chance to whip me
for one while, ma'am-now you see"
To avoid q whipping it was necessary to
study, for Kim was boy that must be
busy at something. He saw Bob Whiting
go asleep, and longed to drop a tame cherry
into his mouth. He saw Joe Fuller saun-
tering down the aisle. looking straight be-
fore him, and it was the "cutest chance 2"
to trip him up but Kim, resisted all these
aliurements and fifty more, and got his
geography lesson SO we'll that Miss Pente
cost patted him on the head, and said,-
a" That's my good boy."-which would have
been delightful if he could have forgotten
that gingerbread.
"Why, 1 haven't had whipping since
Tuesday," thought he Saturday noon as,
he ran home with a silver medal on his
neck.
After that ne seemed somehow TO fall into
the habit of studying. Studying is habit,
let me tell You, just as much as playing,
though / suppose it is rather harder to ac
quire.
The little fellows will was aroused, and
that was precisely what he needed. In short,
Kim had had his last whipping from Mas
Pentecost or anybody else, and instead of
being her most troublesome boy, became
the best scholar in school.
shan't be able to buy that dress after
ALL" said she, the night before she left
skoodac "Kim, dear 1 know you are
glad"
Yes'm," replied Kim, meeting her eyes
with smile.
"And I'll keep the quarter to remember
you by. Your mother says she wishes me
to-"
"Yes'm."
,Kimball Price is now one of the wealth
lest and most respected men in his native
State.
"And that man," said Squire Hathaway,
the other day, in his Fourth Of July ora
ton, "was educated over here at Skoodac,
boys, in that little black school-house,
that is so poor and miserable, that
when it took fire afew years agoit wouldn't
burn down. Wide A,oake.