Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-06-06

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rand the girl looked plessanter; be-
fore the parcel was done up she smiled,
and as Winnie disappeared through the
door the girl really looked as though
she thought the world very nice
place.
And all that Winnie had done was to
make few pleasant remarks about the
weather and prevent the girl from TAX
ing down a lot of unnecessary boxes
from the shelves, because she saw the
girl was tired, and to smile and nod a
good-by when she turned to go.
As Winnie came out of the store she
caught sight of little ragged boy sit
ting on the curbstone. A large tear
was rolling down his grimy cheek, and
ne looked the picture of woe. Winnie
stopped and spoke to him and ques-
toned him, and found that he was cold,
yes, and hungry.
"Dear me, this will never dol" said
1 Winnie. "Come with me, my little
man." and she led him across the street
into the grocery store. AS her school
was at considerable distance from her
home, Winnie usually rode in the cars
one way, and so she had just five cents
with her. With the five cents she
bought a puffy mince turnover and a
shiny bun, and when she had asked
the storekeeper to let the boy sit beside
the radiator while he ate these delica-
cies, she went on her way rejoicing.
The little boy gazed after her, his
cheeks distended with pastry and a
grin of perfect content on his dirty
little face.
The storekeeper, too, who had been
scolding his chore boy in a frightful
manner when Winnie opened the door,
Eo~ looked as mild as any lamb, quite
benevolent, in fact, and the chore boy
was whistling softly to himself as he
wiped the dust from shelf
Winnie walked briskly along, for it
was getting near school time. A good
many of the people she met glanced
at her as they passed, and the glance
seemed somehow to have cheering eff
feet on them, for their eyes frightened
ard they stepped more quickly and held
their heads little higher.
When quite near the school house
Winnie overlook one of her classmates.
There was a cloud on his face, but the
instant she spoke to him it disappeared,
and he actually smiled as he turned
toward her, though the tone of his voice
was still somewhat lugubrious.
Have you done those two problems
| in algebra" he asked.
NO. laughed Winnie; shave you?"
II sat up half the night trying, and
1 don't believe they can be DONE" said
the boy, bitterly.
"Oh, yes" answered Winnie. "Will
Bailey told me last night that he had
done one of them and mean to go at
them in good earnest as soon as l get
the history lesson off my mind. think
we can do them"
Perhaps we can," said the boy, more
hopefully, and by the time they reacehd
the schoolhouse steps he was not only
! convinced that he could, but resolved
that he would do them, and was quite
cheerful in consequence.
As l said before, it was cold morn
ing, and the schoolroom felt the effect
of it, The heat didn't come as it should.
and the teacher and all the scholars had
blue noses and their shoulders were
| drawn up.
Winnie and the boy were two seconds
late, and Miss Miller frowncd as she
heard their footsteps in the hall, but
when she saw Winnie her frown faded
| l.
her seat nearly every pair of shoulders
in the room went down a trifie, AS
though her coming had, in some mys-
FERROUS way, tempered the prevailing
frigidity.
Nothing of particular moment hap
pened during the forenoon, unless II
was the falling out of Nellie Patterson
| and Julia Davis at recess. Their eyes
were flashing and they were making
the most ill-natured remarks to each
other, when Winnie CHANGED their way
| don't know whether she said any
thing or only looked in their eyes till
they couldn't help laughing. but do
know that two minutes later Nellie and
Julia were pacing the hall arm in arm
and on the best OF terms.
There were seven scholars who lived
so far away that they always brougnt
their dinner, excepting when they for
got it, as did Annie and Frank Carroll
on this particular day. Winnie spied
them standing apart from the others,
staring disconsolately out of a window.
and Immediately OWNED the trouble.
Almost before you could say Jack
Robinson" she had gone to them and
before you could count so the three
we're seated, with Winnie's lunch bas-
llet in their midst, making merry over
the shortness of their commons. Then
the other four joined the group and di-
yided their lunch also, and as the moth
ers of some of them had been particular
ly bountiful in the matter of food that
day the whole seven Jared well enough,
and / dare say ate all that was good for
them.
On the way home from school at
night Winnie saw tive boys on the side