The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-07-30

cast. hONeOuu mereuitu, shiu NiNN
ely wsheringly. "is would serve you
right TOR putting that toad in the plate
II your hand would get all over wartsl
I'm sure I hope II will" She rescued
the fallen piece of bark and an
nounced; THE collection this after
noon f1s amounted to a hundred dol
lars and seven cents. And now. chill
dren. we will skip the catechism and
| viii tell you a story"
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer, a double row OF attentive white
and black faces, as Hickey with a pre-
limlnary bass cough, began in a drawl'
ing tone whose mimicry called forth
giggles OF ecstasy.
There were once two little sisters
who went TO Sunday-school and loved
their teacher ve-e-ery much. They
were always good and attentive-not
like that little Niger over therel the
one with his thumb In his mouth n
was little Mary and the other was
little Susy. They had a mighty rich
J uncle Who lived In Richmond, and
once he came TO see them and gave
them each n dollar. And they were
l ve-e-ery glad. 1t wasn't a mean old
/. paper dollar, all dirt and creases; moi
a battered whitley silver dollar; bu'
II was a bright round gold dollar. right
out of the mint. Little Mary and little
+ Susy could hardly sleep that night FOL
thinking OF what they could buy with
+ those gold dollars.
i Early next morning they went
downtown, hand In hand, to the store
J and little Susy bought a bag OF goober'
peas, and sticks and sticks OF striped
d candy, and a timber Jack, and a gold
ring, and a wax doll with a silk dress
q on that could open and shut its eyes
u "Huh!" said the captious Cozy
u "You can't buy a wax doll for a dollar
VI My %littlest, %littlest one cost three. ant
, she didn't have a stitch to her back!
, shut upl" said Hickey brief,
: Dolls were cheaper then" She locke
at the row OF little negroes, google
eyed at the vision of such larges'
what do you think little Mary di
with her gold dollar? She loved doll
!, and candy. too. but she had hear
= about the poo-oo-r heather. There wa
. a tear in her eye. but she took the do
q" lar home, and text day when h wer
, to Sunday-school. she dropped 1t
= the missionary-box.
40 Little children, what do you recko
20 became OF that dollar? 1t bought
y big s~atchelful OF tracts for a mission
airy. He had been a poor man wit
- six children and a wife with a bon
:. felon on her right hand--not a Chi
:, old enough to wash dishes and all
=. them young enough to fall in the fire.
"A so he had to 20 and be a missionar
n, He was going to Alabam-to a cam
bal island, and he took the tracts ar
sailed away In & ship that landed hi
on the shore. And when the heatht
cannibals saw him they were ve-e-el
glad, for there hadn't been any shi
,,r wrecked sailors for a long time, al
they we're ve-e-ery hungry. So tn
tied up the missionary n gather
me- a lot OF wood to make a fire and COZ
him.
or But Is had rained and rained Al
as rained for so long that the wood W
m. all wet, and It wouldn't burn. and tn
,le all cried because they were 30 hung
,ly And then they happened to find t
ir. satchelful Of tracts. and the traS
to were ve-e-ery dry. They took the
and stuck them under the wet woo
IN and the tracts burned and the wo
caught fire and they cooked the m
sionary and ate him.
1t. Now. little children. which do y
Ithlnk dtd tho moat pood with her a
is lar-little Susy or little Nary"
a." The front row staggered. and a 81
re- came from the colored ranks. de
ca ar can'bals." gasped a dusky infa
are A~reathlessly. "-dey done eat up
rer dat candy and dem goober-peas. toe
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