The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-08-06
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, cast. Rosebud Meredith said RICK
ey witheringly. 1T would serve you
right for putting that toad In the pla'e
IL your hand would get all over warts.
I'm sure I hope II will" She rescued
the fallen piece OF bark and an
nounced The collection this atter'
noon has amounted TO q hundred dol'
lars and seven cents. And now. chill
dren. We will skip the catechism ana
| will tell you n story"
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer, n double row OF attentive WHITE
and black faces, as Hickey with a pre-
! liminary bass cough, began In a draw
Ing tone whose mimicry called forth
giggles OF ecstasy.
There were once two little sisters
who went I o sunday.school and loved
their teacher ve-e-ery much. They
were always good and attentive-not
like that little Niger over there! The
one with his thumb in his mouth! One
was little Mary and The other was
little Susy. They had a mighty rich
uncle who lived in Richmond, and
once he came TO see them and gave
them each a dollar. And they were
ve.e-ery glad. II wasn't a mean old
paper dollar, all dirt aud creases; nor
a battered Whitley silver dollar; but
II was a bright round gold dollar. right
out of the mint. Little Mary and little
Susy could hardly sleep that night for
thinking OF what they could buy with
those gold dollars.
EARLY next morning thcy went
downtown. hand in hand, TO the store,
and little Susy bought a bag OF goober
peas, and sticks and sticks OF striped
candy, and n timber Jack. and a gold
ring, and a wax doll with a silk dress
on that could open and shut It's eyes"
"Huh!" said the captious Cozy,
You can't buy a wax doll for a dollar
My l%ittlest, %littlest one cost three. and
she didn't have a stitch TO her back"
Shut lup!" said Hickey briefly.
Dolls were cheaper then" She looked
at the row OF little negroes. google.
eyed at the vision OF such ~largess.
what do you think little Mary did
with her gold dollar? She loved dolls
and candy, too. but she had heard
about the poo.oo.r heather. There was
a tear In her eye. but she took the dol.
lar home. and next day when she went
to Sunday.school, she dropped II In
the missionary.box.
Little children. what do you reckon
became OF that dollar? II bought a
big satchelful OF tracts for q mission.
airy. He had been n poor man with
six children and n wife with a bone.
felon on her right hand-not a child
old enough TO wash dishes and all OF
them young enough TO fall In the fire
so he had TO 20 and be a missionary.
He was going 10 Alabam-to n canni.
bal island. and he took the tracts and
sailed away in n ship that landed him
on the shore. And when the heather
cannibals saw him they were ve.e-ery
glad, for there hadn't been any ship
wrecked sailors for a long time, and
they were ve.e-ery hungry. So they
tied up the missionary and gathered
n lot OF wood 10 make a fire and cook
him.
But Is had rained and rained and
rained for so long that the wood was
all wet, and II wouldn't burn, and they
all cried because they were so hungry.
And then they happened to find the
satchelful OF tracts, and tho tracts
were ve-e-ery dry. They took them
and stuck them under the wet wood,
and the tracts burned and the wood
caught fire and they cooked the mis-.
sionary and ate him.
Now, little children, which do YOU
think did the most good with her dol.
lar-little Susy or little Mary?"
The front row staggered. and a sigh
came from the colored ranks. Dem
ar ~can'bals,' gasped n dusky infant
breathlessly. "--dey done eat up all
dat candy and dem goober peas, too %
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