The Arizona sentinel., 1888-08-04
NUMBER 36.
"Prettier than our cbildr,o. one.

two. three?" said the clock.
 Not according to my way of think ing," replied the kite, ''but, as I said before, they were very pretty"
 And their names?" asked the Japanese lady.
 ''Madge, Ralph and Carl" said the kite
 "Oh, thank you," said the Japanese lady. "Pray go on."
 And the kite went on. Ralph told his sister and his brother that he could not buy a finer kite because he had spent all the rest of his money for bon bons."
 Il know what they are," cried the kitten that was peeping out of shoe. Things for kittens to play with"
 ''Just sO," gravely remarked the kite, ''if they happen to drop in kittens way. Then the children be- gan to think what they could do to add to my beauty"
 "'Add to your beeuty?" repeated the maid who was dressing the OdpdneSe Iduy ndlf.
 ''Oh, I beg pardon" said the kite. '1 should have said to make me better looking. At last they hit upon plan, which they proceeded to carry out at once, by going into their fathers room and taking some strips of green paper from his desk. These strips were all of the same size, being seven inches long, and three inches wide. And they were all alike, with pretty pict- ures on both sides, and a figure ten in each corner. There were six of them, and Madge pinned them carefully to me. I tell you, I looked fine when they were all pinned on. Then the children went down into the street to fly me. There was brisk wind blowing, and I scared rapidly and gracefully up, up, up, till I reached the clouds. On 1 sailed, in great glee, with my tail streaming out far behind me. Presently, the string by which Ralph held me broke, and away went. l must have gone many miles when dropped into an old apple-tree that stood in front of little cottage. l dropped just where I could look into the second story window. l did look in. and saw pale young man lying on bed, and brown old woman sitting beside him. There were three bare footed children in the room also. Oh, dearn said the pale young man, as looked in. What dreadful winter this has been.'
 But the spring is here now,' said the brown old woman, and you are fast getting well.'"
 .. Still l can't help wondering said the man, where 1 am to find the money for shoes for the little ones, and seeds for my spring planting.
 Don't worry, my son. said the old woman. 1t will all come right. I am nearly ninety years old, and never yet But at this moment the eldest boy spied me. Oh! grandmama, he cried, there's a big kite caught in the apple-tree.' And, in few moments more, he had me out of that tree, and up in the second-story room, and his grandmama was unpinning those green strips of paper. 1 suppose by this time you have all guessed what they were?"
 ''Ten dollar bills" shouted the odd little table, standing on one of its queer, crooked legs, and waving the other two wildly in the air.
 ''Yes, ten-dollar bills," said the kite, land the children and the young farm CT got every thing they wanted. But not until he had tried his best to fin6 out where those bills came from, for he is an honest fellow"
 You could have told him." said the Japanese lady.
 No, I cOuIdnt," replied the kite. land I didn't want to tell him, any, how, for I'm sure they were not much missed where they did come from. Well, every thing prospered at Apple tree Cottage from that March day, and just two years after, the parlor was re- furnished, and 1, in a golden frame, was hung on the wall. And now you all know why 1 am here. ."-MargGrct Eytinge, in J1dge's Young Folks.