Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-20

confident that the leaveniy
Father heard her that Pould al :
most see His hand on head
potting tho poor chill She
didn't tell God anyth1 about
my pawning my watch 4 buy.
ing the apples, and b didn't
mention my name at al but l
could imagine that B who
watches even the sparro fall.
was onto the bunch of rs in
my vest pocket, hitched D the
watch chain. bigger tho . house.
Say. do you know. som OF these
long prayers by the d ss-parade
preachers, who get a alary big
enough to own o yacht, }nake me
tired, and I want to 60 put into
the woods and hear eveh q flock
Of black birds sing praises, in
preference to listening to . long
recital of what q lot of miserable
sinners all the people are who are
being prayed for, but I could
have listened to that ragged dirty
girl pray for an hour, she was so
natural and pitiful, and talked so
God could understand it whether
He had ever graduated at college
or not. But she wasn't talking
against time, for wages either,
and she just seemed to have a
little conversation with the good
Lord, just as a child would with
its father, and then she got up
and fred some medicine down her
old grandma and made her cup
OF tea on an oil stove, and toasted
q piece Of bread and poached an
egg, while l sat there thinking.
Do you know, she broke me all
up. II it wasn't for that old
calico dress, and the shoes run
over at the heel, and the moth
eaten stockings, l should have
thought she was an angel, and
by gum, ! will pawn everything 1
have got for her to get things for
her grandma, but somebody elso
has got to chip in to buy gin for
the old man. l can't run a hos
pital and a distillery both, on one
cheap watch, but | am going to |
work for the Humane Society
next week, and that girl can have
all the money l make, as long as |
the old ladys cough hangs on. |
Say, do you think there is any
bath room in Heaven where they |
can take such q dirty girl as that |
and make an angel Of her that
will pass in q crowd? Take the
dirt out from under her finger
nails. and soak her hands in hot
water, and put cold cream on
them, and let her sleep few
nights with rubber gloves on, and
! suppose they could make her
pass as an angel. Well, / have
got to go down TO the Humane
Society Office. 1 was in a street
car the other night and the car
was full and got off the track, and
The mules couldn't pull it. All
he men sat there and wouldn't |
get out: They read papers and
acted mad, while the driver
pounded the mules. / was on
he back step, and | yelled, The
of the Humane Society
ire requested to get out Of the
,ar and help push. You ought
% have seen EN-. They all looked
It each other. and then they all
got out, and some OF 'em looked
lshamed, but they helped the
mules. The boss Of the Humane
Society heard of it, and he said
10 would give me job watching
'Or butchers who maui cattle. |
,uess ! can work my way up 10
will finally hold the proud posi-
ion Of looking aftes the lame
horses that draw swill wagons.
Well, I must 60 and send our
loctor down the alley to sound
he old lady's cough, and have
him charge it to pa
As the boy went out tho grocc-
y man told the carpenter that
hat boy had q heart in him as big
IS barrel, but yeu had TO watch
he raisin box, all the same, when
no was around.