The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-10-07
AND He FOUND
A CROOKED
SIXPENCE
BY Winifred Black In the Chicago
Examiner

It's all there-every bit of 1T
the Moher Goose book. The littl
boy showed me the pictures this yer
=, morning.
There was a crooked man and h
went crooked mile" or course h
did, poor man; he never could wal
n straight one to save his life. can
he found a crooked sixpence"--crook
ed to be sure 1t was. If it had beer
straight II would have been in a good
sensible, straight purse somewhere Of
in a till or anywhere else where the
straight money goes. And 1t lay
against crooked stile."
"He bought a crooket cat which
caught a crooked mouse'-that's the
only kind the poor crooked cat ever
does think of catching. "And they all
lived together in little crooked
house"-poor, crooked things, poor
warped, twisted out Of honest proper.
ton creatures! I wonder II they
thought they were happy, living in
their way in the little crooked house?
/ suppose so. know a crooked
man who's so proud OF being crooked
that he never lets you forget II Cor
one minute. He is always talking
Oh NrAAtsr sAAa y,gs nj
something he calls comes ons." BY
these names he means, have discov-
cred, honest men and women who be-
lieve what they are told unless they
have strong reasons for dist leving
II.
He was rich when l first knew the
crooked man. He lived in fine part
of a fine city. He had a stable full
of fine horses and two automobiles,
French chef and a little black eyed
wife who wore as many diamonds as
a Hindoo idol.
He's poor now, the Crooked Man
Nh, 'Siy pun oo pOoI he Sdu lOl
even hire anyone to send special
meals to him at the prison where he
is. And the black eyed wife ran
away with the chef. And the Crooked
Man is quite alone, for all of the PEG.
pie who flattered him and laughed at
his strange talk of come ons' and
easy marks are busy laughing at the
jokes of the man who bought the
Crooked Mans house the day he went
to the penitentiary.
went to see the Crooked Man the
Other day. He once did q favor for
one | love and | cant quite forget
that-crooked though he is or may
he. Poor thing, | thought Wien
waited in the gray room of the war
dcn's Office for the Crooked Man to
come from his cell. Poor thing. He
viii want to talk about straight
things and straight people now, | sup
pose
But he didn't. He's crooked yet, the
Crooked Man; born so and will stay
so as long as he lives.
don't think the Crooked Man
likes stranght money or honest pros
perity | believe he would rather
cheat some one out of hundred dol
lars than earn a thousand fairly and
honestly. That is how he is made. He
Is not sorry for what he did that got
him into the penltentiary-not he.
lie Is not bit ashamed of It. He is
ashamed of being caught-that is all.
He feels foolish about that. but new.
er mind, when he gets out he will
show them-he will fool them-the
honest men who put him behind the
bars. There must be something crook
ed about them. There is about every
one. He will find It out, he will
rack them down he will get even
see If he does not.
Turn straight? Keep honest? Do
he square thing? Why he cannot
poor crooked man he could not to
save his life, That is why he thinks
no one else can, either.
| wonder why?
II buys so little-the crooked mon
ey-lt is always crooked, too, the
thing that crooked money buys, and
nobody wants anything to do with 1t
but crooked people. would rather
be poor than have any of it, wouldn't
and honest and self respect
ing and light hearted?
II is kind of disease, the crooked
way of looking at things. A disease
like meningitis or lockjaw or anything
else dreadful and mysterious. Let us
hope we never catch 1t. And II any
friend of mine ever sees me stopping
In my path to look even little long.
ingly at crooked sixpence that hap.
pens to fall in my way, / hope that
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