The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-11-11
LUCINDA'S
EXPERIENCES

Pm the greatest one to find things
,rat ever VAS" said Lucinda, but |
r.ver find anything valuable Ard
vhv 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
,rrt, Other people find the valuable
n ings and all that | get is what my
brother Claude calls the junk
And the way l find the brass things
is as onishing. It's mostly baby pins
mt find, and l discover them on
the car tracks, on the sidewalks and
in tie street; everywhere, in fact
81 see something glistening under
the edge of a fence and l pick 1t up,
and it's another baby pin. Beautiful
" carved, and all that, but worth
nothing.
Sometimes the pins find thus are
new and bright, sometimes old and
battered; but always they are worth
less 80 far as actual value is con
cerned. Why do l never find gold
baby pin? | did find one once that
teweler said was ten karat filled, the
nearest | have ever come to 1t, 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 tho
same material, namely, glass, and like
the rings in which they were set, OF
no value whatever
"And 1t has always been Just the
same with the various other miscel
laneous items of iewelry have founl
The good things appear all to havJ.
been picked up before l come along
and all the brass goods left for me.
and 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 a poke
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 biz
sums of money.
Il never found any money but twice
in my life, and once it was a cent
and once a dollar. The cent | kept:
the dollar was very glad to be abe
to give UP within two minutes after |
found 1t.
Il was walking along a street wher
found this dollar. | spied it ahead
Of me lying on the sidewalk, and
when | had come to it and picked it
up and found that it was a really an
truly good dollar bill laughed to my.
self gleefu!iy; I couldn't help 1t: |
had finally found something of value
actual good money And then | won
dered where the dollar came from.
Walking on along the sidewalk
ahead of me was a little girl carrying
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 sudden
she stopped short and seemed to gel
sort Of stiff all over right in a jffy,
and then she turned around and start
ed back toward where | was, and now
she was crying and about as distressed
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:
I've lost dollar
"Well, don't you worry any more
over that. my dear said to her
here it is
And | handed 1t over to her; and
my gracious! I've seen a few quick
changes, but never did see shadow
succeeded by sunshine quite so sud |
denly as 1t was now on this little |
girls face; and | know that ! got |
more fun out of giving the little girl |
back her dollar than | ever did out |
of any little thing in my life.
"But really, now, why IS It. do you |
suppose, that | find SO much of that |
stuff that my brother Claude calls the /.
Junk but never anything of value?"