Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-07

True turned. and would have struck
him had he not seen shat the child was
lame. AS it was, he said Grossly:
Be OFF with you, and let my FISH
alo2e!@
81 don't want your fish, was the
reply, In a quiet, hurt voice. "I only
want to give you knife YOU dropped
this morning, and to tell you I used
it. =
What business had You to do that %
began True; but his tone suddenly
changed. Il beg your pardon, said
he. How did you know the knife was
mine ?" And he rummaged his pockets
for q penny, which, not finding, ne
drew forth instead a lump of putty.
Here, said he, don't you want this ?7
mo, said Perry; but his eyes seemed
to contradict his words.
~Yes, you do, said True, now. good,
naturally; and I am much obliged to
you. The knife Is new, and / have
lost about a dozen in a year. What did
you do with it %
II made some boats. III give you
one for the putty, for 1 believe I can
use that"
Certainly yo1 can. Come on, boys,
let's go to see the little chaps boats. I
/ don't believe they are good for any
| thing, butt it may please him, " he added,
/ IN an undertOne, conscious that he had
/ been too hRsty and cross in his first
/ suspicion.
Perry led the way to his house, fol-
/ lowed by the three others, and when
! they saw his days work they were both
/ astonished and ashamed.
/ l. II
could do all this while we were lazing
about, whispered Ned.
Il can't do much, said Perry, mod
! estly, cause I haven't good tools;
that's the reason I used your knife, s"
turning to True. y hope I haven't
| dulled it, and I'm sorry"
You may keep it a week, a month.
You may have it out and out, said the
impuIsive True.
NO, I won't, " replied Perry, color
ing hOtly.
"Why not?"
"Because-oh, no matter only I'm
glad you came back this way from the
river, for 1 don't know where you live,
and If 1 had gone on using it / might
have broken 1t on something"
"NOw, see here" said True, taking
up a boat and squirting at it, TIN
going to the seashOre, and I want half
a dozen boats just like this. I can't
make them myself; so if you can,
let's call it an order, and you take half
your pay out in the use of the knife"
That's fair, " said the other boys.
So Perry yielded; and True, who had
a turn for business, drew up a contract
on piece of brown paper, in lead
pencil, and made every one sign it..
The boats were to be done in a week,
and were to cost twenty-five cents.
The bargain, however, did not end
there. True went to the seashore and
showed his boats to every one, telling
all he knew about Perry. The boat
trade became so brisk that the lame
boy could hardly work fast enough,
and he had been able to buy very
good knife for himself. When True
came home from his summer jaunt,
and found Perry looking pale and thin,
he did something else, in which Ned
and VIII joined. They rowed him out
on the river once day steadily, and
had the satisfaction of seeing him get
a nice healthy color in his cheeks.
Perry never told any one but his
mother the whole history of that sum
! mer morning; and now he cuts chess
men, and sells enough to buy books as
s well as knives, ne often thinks how
? different his life would have been had
he yielded to that subtle temptation Of
: his invisible guest.-Tbe CblJTCbn3G71