The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-26
Mary Jane's House Pan
BY Julia r. Burr.

what your last name is, William"
said Mrs. Crosby.
20 will you?" exclaimed William.
II do hope that will find some
one that is related to me. / am so
lonesome"
you will not be lonesome here
with u.s." said Mary Jane, who was
by this time well. Twill he moth
err"
"No indeed" replied mother, che
will be considered as member of
our family"
Mr.. Crosby went UP town to pur-
chase some new clothing for Will
liam. While she was gone she told
William to take bath. She was
not gone long and when she got
back she found that William was
not through yet. But he soon was
ready and Mrs. Grossly gave him
the new clothes to put on. He
looked like different boy. He
thanked Mrs. Grossly over and
over. Next day, which was Sunday
the entire house party went to Sun
day school. They all went to Mary
James Sunday school, which was
the Second Presbyterian, because if
each one went to his own Sunday
school, they would be greatly scat
tered. William was glad he had
come because this was the same
kind of church his father had often
gone to.
Mary Jane took all the girls to
her class. Their teacher was very
pretty and very nice. So were the
children of her class. The visiting
children especially liked the way
the class work was. Every Sunday,
if any one in the class would learn
something from the Bible he was
awarded by blue star. This star
would be put on a service flag made
of fine stiff paper. The service
flag was like a real one. The Dor
der of red, the center of white and
the little blue star. The first girl
to get her flag full would have a
gold star put on and she would be
awarded a prize. One girl had ten
stars, the highest in the class. The
children from New York said they
were going to ask their Sunday
school teachers il they might do
this way.
The Sunday school teacher was
a student of Earlham college and
she promised the children and her
class that next week she would
take them to the museum at Earl
ham. She told them to bring a
lunch SO that they could stay all
day. The children were delighted
with this plan and they said that
they didn't know how they could
ever wait that long.
It was time for Sunday school to
close and the children declared
that they didn't want to go home
yet, but they finally went. That
afternoon they went on hike to
the Thistlethwait's pond. They
took marshmallows along and toast
ed them. They saw many kinds of
birds, which they had never seen
before, but William told them the
names of each one.
How do you know so many birds,
Bill?" asked Mary Jane.
"My father taught me when we
lived in the woods" Bill answered.
30 tell us about it. Bill" urged the
kids.
well, there's not much to it"
began Bill. only dad took me to
the woods when I was ten years
old. That was three years ago.
We lived there long time. There
was not any one else except us,
that lived in the woods. There was
a town about five miles from us
where dad got his supplies. l don't
know why dad lived up there, but
he was always reading book
about birds and he taught me all
about them. He seemed anxious
for me to learn and he told me
that when l grew older he wanted
me to study hard about the birds.
1t was three weeks ago that dad
died" l didn't want to go to the
orphan asylum so buried dad my
self and ran away and that's how
got here"
Poor boy" sighed Mrs. Crosby
again.