Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-09-16

like whipped school children, all whim-
perlng. AT last supper time came, and !
mother went out to prepare 1t. | went
into the kitchen.
Where do you live. Jimmy?' she |
asked.
In New York replied.
What are you working at now,
jimmy
I'm working in a dry goods store |
Then suppose you don't live very |
high, for | hear of city clerks who
don't get enough money to keep body
and soul together. SO I'll Just tell you,
Jimmy, We've nothing but roast spare
ribs for supper. We haven't any money
now, Jimmy. We're really poorer than
Jobs turkey.
Il told her | would be delighted with
the spareribs; and to tell the truth,
John, | haven't eaten meal in New
York that tasted as good as those crisp
roasted sparerihs did. spent the even
ing playing checkers with father, while
mother sat by telling me all about
their misfortunes, from old white
Mooley getting drowned in the pond
to fathers signing a note for friend
and having to mortgage the place to
pay 1t.
THE mortgage was due inside of
week, and not a cent to meet 1t with
just eight hundred dollars. She sup
posed they would be turned out of
house and home; but in my mind | sup
posed they wouldn't. At last nine
o'clock came and father said: Jim. go
out to the barn and see II Kit Is all
right. Bring in an armful of old shin
giles that are just inside the door. and
fill up the WATERFALL. Then We'll go Off
to bed and get up early and go a-tish-
| ing
II didn't say word, but went out
| to the barn, bedded down the horse,
broke up an armful of shingles, pumped
up a pail Of water, filed the woodbox.
and then we all went to bed. Father
called me at 4:30 in the morning, and
while he was getting ii cup of coffee
skipped over to the depot cross lots and
got my best bass rod. Father took
nothing but trolling line and spoon
hook. He rowed the boat with the
trolling line in his mouth. while l stood
in the stern with silver sinner rugged
on. Now, John, | never saw man
catch fish as he did.
AT noon we went ashore and father
went home. while | went to the post
office. got a letter from Chicago witt
n check for one thousand dollars in 1t
With some trollale l got it cashed, get
ting paid in five and ten dollar bills
making quite a roll. then got roas
Joint of beef and lot of delicacies
and had them sent home. After that
went visiting among my schoolmate
for two hours. then went home. Th
Joint was in the oven. Mother had pu
on her only silk dress. and father hat
donned his Sunday go-to-meetini
clothes-none to good, either.
This is where played joke ON tn
old folks. Mother was in the kitchen
watching the roast. Father was out t
the barn, and | had clear coast.
dumped the sugar out of the old blu
bowl. nut the thousand dollars In II
and Dlaced the cover on again. AT Las
supper was ready. Father asked
blessing over 1t. and he actually tren
hled when he stuck his knife In th
roast.
1--WE haven't had a piece of mea
like this in five years, JIM he said, an
mother put in with. And we haven
, had any coffee in year, excepting th
, times when we went a-visitin. Ihe
, she poured out the coffee and lifted tn
a cover of the sugar-bowl. asking, 'Ho
a many spoonfuls, jimmy
g "Then she struck something th'
wasn't sugar. She picked up the boy
and peered into it. Aha. Master Jill
9 nv. playin your old tricks on yo'
A nanny, Ell? Well. boys will be boy'
+ "Then she gasped for breath. 81
a saw It was money. She looked at IN
- then at father and then with trembliI
n fingers drew the great roll of bills OF
q "Hal ha, ha. | can see father no
n as he stood there, then, on tiptoe, WI
his knife in one hand. fork in the 9th
I and his eyes fairly bullying out OF \
o head. But it was too much for motht
~ She raised her eyes to heaven ana sa
,r slowly: Put your trust in the Lol
y for He will provide
81 Then she tainted away. Well, job
n there's not much more to tell. '
O. threw water in her face and broug
| her to, and then we demolished tn
lr dinner. mother all the time saying, y
1e boy. Jimmy! My boy. Jimmy"
I Il stayed home a month. | fixed
OF the place, paid off all the debts, had
Id good time, and came back again
nd New York.
a Il am going to send fifty dolls
nd home every week. tell you, John,
mighty nice to have home
1t. John was looking steadily at the he
M of his cane. When he spoke he to
as Jim by the hand and said, Jim.
en- friend. what you have told me has
re fected me greatly. l haven't he;
pr, from my home way up in Maine for
he wears. I'm going home to-morrc
Ter Jim. st. Paul Pioneer-Press.
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