The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-11-24

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to the had boy. rs he came in with
a poor dirty looking tramp. and
bought him n pound Of crackers
and a big piece of cheese, and ~
the tramp sat down on a soap box,
and began to go through the tod-
der as though it was a banquet,
and the boy looked out Of the win
dow ut the rain that was falling,
the groceryman added, "What has
got In you! Have you got religion
again
NAV, I guess not, said the boy
rs he slyed a pickle out of a barrel
to the tramp. That is, | haven't
got it by any regular rule, but may
be It's in my system. tell you old
oleoInargerine. | have always been
IN for fun, and haven't cared much
how had it, but lately | have had
lore fun making people happy.
a | ever had making pa jump
around. Don't you know, if you
see a person who is in hard luck,
and thinks the world is all a fraud,
and who almost wants to be run
over by a freight train, and you 90
to work and surprise the person
with a bit Of kindness, and smuggle
a warm meal down him before he
knows it, makes your heart feel as
though you had got to loosen your
belt! | never knew there was so
much suffering in the world until
that humane society fellow hired
me to go around with him to hold
his horse while he relieved the
distressed, but the woods are full
'of people who have no drawers to
wear in winter, and would faint at
sight of a roast of beef. ! wish |
had n million dollars.
80, what would You do with a
million dollars - asked the gro
ceryman, as he watched the tramp
pick his teeth with a silver off the
soap box. If you had a million
dollars you would buy a dude suit
Of clothes, and a trotting wagon
with red wheels, and a horse that
could trot in two-ten. And you
would part your hair in the middle
and wear yellow gloves and say
'g-lang.' That's the kind OF a mil
lionaire you'd be-"
''No. sir you are no guesscr,"
said the boy, as he gave the tramp
II glass of cider. | would buy II
bakery and a meat market, and
when poor people hadn't anyt'iug
to eat | would invite them to call
on Henncry. Then would invite
them to call on lIennerv Then /
would take a hundred thousand
dollars and go around paying q
months rent in advance for reopte
If some people knew they would
not be bothered about paving n
months rent, they would be 70
happy they would ache. Then |
would buy ten thousand pairs of
red flannel drawers, regular Old
thick ones. all sizes, and sell then
IL poor people and take th,irr.r~
for pay. You see, some pectie
wouldn't like to have drawers Civ
en- tn them, but if you took Their
notes they would feel as though
they had bought the drawers, and
then You could have Il bonfire AMI
burn ny the notes. Bnt | hai
rather be able to work miracles
than be a millionaire, If could
take stones and tnrn them into
@loavcs o! bread, and water into
wine, the way Christ did, ! would
set up business at a stone quarry
and open a free bakery, and I'd
take the Milwaukee river and turn
it into wine and tell the poor peo-
pie to help themselves. 1t would
make the breweries sick, but they
could ship their beer to Texas and
Colorado. l tell you. what this
country needs is a fellow that can
make a bakery out of a stone quar-
ry by Il simple tnrn of the wrist,
and | had rather have such a Job
than to be President. If | could
turn hard heads into bread it would
be a picnic. / would take a big
stone and go to the house ot a poor
woman who had nothing to eat
and tell her l had brought her some
bread, ard | would hand her n
stone rs big as a peck measure,
and she would feel sorry because |
was so mean, and then while she
was wiping her eyes on the inside
of her apron, I would touch the
stone with my magic wand, and
turn it into u loaf of salt-rising
bread. or brown bread, with man
sard roof on, and the look the Door
woman would give me, when she
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