New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
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"You will grow up Suppose you Should lose your
health, leg or your Sght; nc man 'I iloI III,
tended to become 50 personal as to refer to his own
health: so he had hastily added the other words.
The little fellow urtively glanced toward his lett foot
and crossed his other over it. The man did not notice
A. hest he was a poor observer. Tonight only detail
bore and there held his attention Now it was the large
ewes Of his fellow passenger full OF sympathy.
81 didn't know-you was sick II must be hard-to
ne sick" Sonny faltcrcd his mind groped TOR some
idea that might help Il amt ever oc oSeI SICK myself
But sick people often get well you know
Carroll saw the PRAYER in the soul OF the little speaker
and il touched him 1t new thing TO nm that any
one should really care. And now a cmid whose name
even he did not know, was pulling lor Irn' oolle
faint wish that he worthy OF 1t took hod on num-
"Thcres a whole lot in just thnkln you re goin 10
get well, YOU know" the boy went on loyouSiy. I've
fried il with other things besides my health, an II WORKS
Gee. i works all right That sign up there he pointed
~ an attractive advertisement of breakfast food COW
cred with the most luscious OF red StraWDcrrcS,- now
YOU know that tastes heap better to the Sght tnah II
does any other way. It's bully how things work out
that away. If Gppy Smith had to taste EN- III MS
mouth he couldn't 10 it in a hundred years. He's got
salivaon-not the kind the people sing about an pray
about on the street corners an you get IN the near
He, got in the throat 50 he can only thhK now 8ooG
thngS taste Whv can look at that sign up there an
h about il till the iuicc Just runs in my mouth an
feel like Sunday school picnic don't hold no more at
fractions for me! An if a sick fellow just wants TO get
well bad enough an thinks about it that away oet
it'll DO him lots o good just bet on that! .
The man smiled in spite OF himself. He was forgetting
why he had set out on this ride into the country
The boys philosophy interested hlm ou are an, i,lt
right. nv little man" he acknowledged; but the
worlds been easy OF you. with Sound pou! anu sooo
parents to look aftc~ you M
sonny rccoict; but Carroll did not understand. The
bov heard his last words "Thcre cheerful philosophy
for man who has lost his health and ms possessions.
When YOU We knocked up against Ic "oId III !O'i '"''
These were big words for the little fellow; but he
graspcd their meaning YES m lucky I t aWay va Ian. al,
try to be thankful I'm lucky 1t must be nard 10 nave
lot, at first an then have nohn at last When was
bov was born an lived in a cabin till was tlve An
now live in a grca big house with windows that go up
an down an big grassy yard all round 1t with flowers
an apDlc blossom trees, an a barn. an chickens an 4
mowin machine cut the grass in the big fields. Gee
but it great. An help, an there's teachers to learn
me- ,
The man really meant it when he said he hoped the
boy would always be 50 fortunate.
at must be great, though Sonny rcloned, TO grow
uo TO be a man an lust keep shown your heels 10
Misfortune There's lots o fun in kccpn ahead OF the
came I've watched our pigs in the PEN an they Just
lv down an stay there till its catln time, an then they
begin nosn around. They wouldn't ever get OUT. but
YOU put a in pen, an ne don get out guess
the pen lust about where he ought 10 be- Glppy Smn
said one dav that he wished boys was COWS 50 We CnuI
ius, Law down an eat the things inside OF us without
hlvn TO 60 out an get en- Glppy KIND Id|y' puU
he'll get over II sometime
Jimmy carroll laughed When he became conscious
thI, he was laughing he checked himself II was not
becoming in man who was headed for the dark, out
living prairie with gun in his pocket To laugh lie re,
turned to the subject suppose YOU were man ana
had lost your health and your m"ncy ana 'nJ'I , WIS
nobody to take Of YOU; wonder YOU could keep
ahead Of the game
"That's bofrowin the young,,cr quickly replied
"an | amt ever gon 70 have anything 10 do with my
trouble, till they have something 20 DO with me guess
nobody can tell beforehand how he's goln to act Only
| know won't ay down an let troubles tramp me UNI
der Mis-, Currcns Miss Cuwcns IS my teacher, an 4
bully one she is tool she was cllin Us about man who
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