The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-05-17
Annsehu1a aEntds.
FRED AND ROB.

"What are you doing down there on the
grass, Rob ?" said Fred Green to Robbie
Hope, one bright Saturday morning. "Why'
| am taking up this little plant for MOTHER
to put it in the fower-bed in front OF the
house, replied Fred; 81 don't know how 1t
came to grow here"
"Hurry up, then, and come have game
of ball. The other boys are all ready to
play now, and We just want one more, and
you are the very one"
"But | have more to do than this, 80 you
go on and play, for l can't come"
eyes, you can it is all nonsense for you
to stay st home and work this fine morning
What have you got 10 do?"
"Now, I'll tell you, Fred" said Robbie,
looking up from the plant, I" this is some
work am doing for mother, and she is pay
ing me for it, l have errands and other
things to attend to about the house every
day; that's only regular work; but mother
aid that if would work in her hower-beds
this morning, she would pay me for it, and l
want that money for our mission band. You
sac we are going to raise thirty dollars this
year for scholarship in the school at Can
ton, and that's big pile of money, but vel
do it, if we have to work all day Saturdays
for it..
CT wish l belonged to the band, Rob; do
you think they'd let me joint"
"Think so? l know they will, and LII
'maugarate you Il guess that's the word !;
that's what they say when they put the
President in office right now, and tell EN- at
the next meeting that I've got new mem
Der, and that he's frst-rate fellow too"
"All right; halloo boys!" shouted Fred
to the boys, who were growing inpatient to
begin their ball playing; Rob and l are
not going to play ball, so go on with your
game. Now, Rob, let me help you in your
fower-beds."
"But it's my work, and if you help nae,
then I won't earn the money"
Just then Robbies mother came out to see
how he was getting on, and when she found
that Fred wanted work too, she told him that
there was plenty for him to do, and that she
would employ him also. They went to work
with will, and accomplished great deal
that morning. The time passed far more
quickly than Robbie had expected when he
began work alone, and after it was over they
had good play, which they enjoyed exceed
ingly.
The next Saturday they picked strawber,
ries for Farmer Smith, and occasionally Mrs.
Hope had more gardening for them to do /;
then they gathered some old iron and sold
it, besides finding various other ways to
bring in the pennies. You may be assured
that their part of the money for the mission
ary band was raised in good season. And
the other boys and girls had been working
too: then they had nice little meetings, in
which they told how they were getting along
in their attempts to earn money, in which
they prayed that God would help them, and
that He would make the children in the
school at Canton His children. They had
one of their school aliases there, and looked
out Canton on the map of China, and they
told all they had been able to learn about
China and the people there. They traced
the route to that country through California,
and across the Pacific, stopping at Japan to
rest and then the homeward one around
the other side of the world. Well, at the
end of the year they were surprised to find
that they had more than their thirty dollars.
And now they are at it again, doing their
best this year, and expecting to do more than
they did last year hildrsm's Work for
Children.