Pocahontas star herald., 1911-06-23
LUCINDA'S
EXPERIENCES

m the greatest one to find things
lna' ever was" said Lucinda, but
never ind anything valuable. And
why 40 you suppose that is?"
reople must lose valuable things
ooht they? Why certainly; but If
uoesht seem to be my lot to find that
sort Other people find the valuable
thihgs and all that | get is what my
brother Claude calls the junk.
And the way find the brass things
IS astonishing It's mostly baby Pins
lhat ! find, and ! discover them on
the car tracks, on the sidewalks anG
IN the street; everywhere, in fact.
l see something glistening under
the edge CT fence ana pick it up
and its 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 SO far as actual value is con
cerned. Why do ! never find a gold
oaby pin? | did find one once that a
Jeweler said was ten karat filled, the
nearest have ever come to ii, 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
ianeous items of jewelry ! have found
The good things appear all to have
been picked up before come along
end 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 pocket
book containing seven hundred anC
eighty-two dollars and ten cents? AnC
how somebody else found 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.
81 never found any money but twice
in my life, and once 1t was a cent
and once a dollar. The cent | kept
the dollar | was very glad to be abl'
to give up within two minutes after
found it.
q was walking along a street whei
found this dollar. ! spied it aheat
Of me lying on the sidewalk, an,
when | had come to it and picked
up and found that it was a really an
truly good dollar bill ! laughed to my
self gleefully; | couldn't help it;
had finally found something of value
a,7al good money. And then ] wol
defed where the dollar came from.
Walking on along the sidewal
ahead of me was a little girl carryin
pitcher, and of course all | coul
see of her was her back, but sh
seemed to me a pleasant little gil
and she seemed to be walking alon
cheerfully, and then all of a sudde
she stopped short and seemed to &c
sort of stiff all over right in iiif!
and then she turned around and star
ed back toward where | was, and no.
she was crying and about as distresse
little girl as one could ever expeC
to see; and of course knew what wa
the matter with her now, she had los
dollar.
When she came along to where
was ! said to her, What's the matte
my dear?' and she answered very tea
fully and solemnly:
1--WE lost a dollar
Well, don't you worry any NOR
over that, my dear ! said to he
here it is
And | handed It over to her; an
my gracious! I've seen few quic
changes, but | never did see shade
succeeded by sunshine quite so SUI
denly as it was now on this littl
girls face; and ! know that e
more fun out of giving the little gil
back her dollar thar | ever did OF
of any little thing in my life.
But really, now, why is IT, do yo
suppose, that | find so much OF tht
stuff that my brother Claude calls th
junk but never anything of value?'