The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-14

his peculiar gift He was sitting in
the kitchen. reading. while Kate the
hired girl Was making tomato ketchup;
Well You know how hungry the smell
OF thas good continent makes a TEL
low and john. who had not eaten a
muuntful since breakfaSt-and TX was
now nearly o'clock a. m.-was natur-
ally raVenous He held his book in
witch had something good 20 eat.
Then he felt something soft N his
hands ana 10 and behold his book was
q cake lie didn't stop 10 THINK OF
the cons duenceS. hut he just ate II,
and ii was 'lickin good. as his aunt
Penelope would have said. But after
again about the man who wanted to
shiVer. FOR il was Grimm Fairy Tales
he had been reading. But he couldn [
do il. for the book was III has little
stomach Well he didn't mind 50 very
much because the book wasn't his
only borrowed. Blu; Kate was aston
ished to think he could turn II INTO
cake She was not much Of reader
herself and she hated baking. Land
sakeS." she said, If l thought l cotld
get rid of baking by turning your pa ;
books into bread and cake I'd never
light the oven again
Il don't suppose YOU can said John,
but l guess ] can.
We'll, try IL" said Kate.
Johns father was minister and he
had two or three hundred theological
books in his study. He was not at
Pittsfied 10 attend some convention or
other. SO John and Kate went into
his study and John said 10 her, What
We'll said she. 4 was going to
bake bread this morning as soon as
the ketchup was done. You might
make me "a large loaf OF bread
What book'n ! take" asked John.
ION, any book. They all look about
alike. He'll never miss it, he has 50
many.
Foxs Book Of Martyrs He held it in
one hand ana said Il wish this was
q loaf of bread. And then a remark
able thing happened. Both John and
Kate were SURPRISED at it. The book
sill continued 10 bc a book.
Why. that's funny. said John. ~, II
though S5 had ,ot the ,a5 G2wer and agd lie
said i wish this was loaf OF bread.
and this time il became a warm. fresh
loaf Kate was delighted: So was
John. What boy wouldn't be?
It was such large loaf that Kate
wouldn't need another for three days.
They had il for dinner and Mrs. Smith
complained that . was heavy, but
make light bread out Of heavy ma
terialS.
After that at every -9akias. John
bread for me family, which was what
his father had been doing for many
years although not so directly. But
sttNti - aNtlllv nv MI soiliilAi Hpiittti
that his library was growing beauti-
fully. le.s. and as he never loaned his
books he wondered thereat. At last
one Saturday after completing his SER
mon ne lay down anon the sofa 10 take
nap, but he MAS awakened by hear
ing light footsteps. Through half
closed lsts be- saw his son enter the
room and take down a copy of The
Growth of iEongrega tionalism in New
England and make a loaf out of il,
and as Ire was a Quick-witted man
he gealized what had become of mis-
liprarE and also fathOmed the cause of
John severely until the boy told him
than he had only done it to ease Kate :
lab9rs. ard then the old gentleman
made her cease her labOrs entirely and
retire TO acr home for an indefinite
resi-. So she learned that a loaf has 10
L. paid for sooner or later
But although John never took ANY more
hooks "a turn into bread. he often amused
himself by making pumpkins out of rocks
or candy out of twiss. and when the older
boys and girls of the village went on an
excursion TO Bash Bish Falls they always
took the little fellow along as il saved
lovely chicken sandwiches out of moss
One day. Rev. Mr.. Smith. his wife and
John went down TO New York To see the
sights. and among the places that they
visited was Central park. John was very
much interested in the ancient pottery
and the mumrnies and things that he saw
in the Metropolitan museum. bat as most
of them We're under glass. he did not do
any damage. as he might have done if
he'd suddenly become hungry and turned
an Egyptian mummy into a Welsh rare