The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-12-16
LUCINDA'S
EXPERIENCES

I'm the greatest one to find thing
that ever was" saiG Lucinda, but
never. find anything valuable. And
why do you suppose that is?''
People must lose valuable things,
don't they? Why certainly; but ii
doesn't seem to be my lot to find that
sort Other people find the valuable
things and all that l get is what my
brother Claude calls the junk.
And the way find the brass things
is astonishing It's mostly baby pins
that | find and l discover them on
! the car tracks, on the sidewalks and
lii the street; everywhere, in fact.
81 see something glistening under
the edge of fence and l pick 1t up,
and it's another baby pin. Beautiful
! ly carved, and all that. but worth
nothing.
/ Sometimes the pins find thus are
now and bright, sometimes old and
| battered; but always they are worth.
| less so far as actual value Is con
| cerned. Why do l never find gold
! baby pin? | did find one once that
! ieweler said was ten karat filled, the
| nearest | have ever come to it, but
! even that was of no money value.
Rings? Why, yes; I've found rings
| too. Sapphire rings and turquoise
/ rings and emeralds, and once found
a diamond ring, but the precious
stones in these rings were all OF the
same material, namely, glass, and like
the rings in which they were set, OF
no value whatever
And it has always been just the
same with the various other miscel
laneous items of jewelry l have found
The good things appear all to have
been picked up before l come along
and all the brass goods left for me.
and l certainly do find them.
"And when it comes to finding
money it's just the same. Somebody
else appears to find all the money.
Don't you know how you read in the
papers how somebody found pocket
| book containing seven hundred and
eighty-two dollars and ten cents? And
how somebody else found a pocket
book containing eleven thousand dol
lars, and things like that? But moth.
ing like that ever happened to me
somebody else always finds the big
/ sums of money
II never found any money but twice
in my life, and once 1t was cent.
and once a dollar. The cent l kept;
the dollar l was very glad to be able
to give up within two minutes after
found it.
Il was walking along street when
I found this dollar spied 1t ahead
of me lying on the sidewalk, and
when / had come to it and picked 1t
up and found that it was a really and
truly good dollar bill laughed to my
] self gleefully; I couldn't help 1t;
had finally found something of value
! actual good money. And then l won
dered where the dollar came from.
Walking on along the sidewalk
! ahead of me was a little girl carrying
! a pitcher, and of course all could
see of her was her back, but she
seemed to me a pleasant little girl
| and she seemed to be walking along
cheerfully, and then all of a sudden
she stopped short and seemed to get
sort of stiff all over right in a fifty
and then she turned around and start
ed back toward where l was, and now
she was crying and about as distressed
a little girl as one could ever expect
to see: and of course knew what was
the matter with her now, she had lost
a dollar.
when she came along to where
was said to her, What's the matter,
my. dear? and she answered very tear
fully and solemnly:
1--we lost a dollar
well, don't you worry any more
over that, my dear I said to her
here 1t is
And handed 1t over to her; and
my gracious! I've seen few quich
changes, but l never did see shadow
succeeded by sunshine quite so sud
denly as 1t was now on this little
girls face; and know that | go,
more fun out of giving the little CIR.
back her dollar than ever did out
of any little thing in my life.
But really, now, why is it. do yol
suppose, that I find so much of thu
stuff that my brother Claude calls thf
Junk but never anything of value?''
a Calamity