PITY TO WASTE THEM!
I Maidie, nearly four, brought to her mother two little branches which she bad broken from a bush and stripped of Iheir leaves. I “Here, mother,” she said, “here are tome little sticks to whip the boys with Ivhen they are naughty.” I “But,” objected mother, “you do not ■rant your dear little brothers to be whipped, do you?” I “Well, when they’re naughty,” Blaidie emphasised. “They're such nice Kttle sticks”—(lovingly)—“it would be R pity to waste them.” I THE RICH MAN’S JEWELS. 9 Once upon a time there was a very Brli man, who had ever so many fine K/vvels. He had big diamonds, big rubms, big emeralds, and all kinds of lug and beautiful gems, and as he had many of them fastened to his clothes, where they glistened brightly in tne sun, lie was, indeed, a splendid sight as he rode about in liis line carriage. Hundreds of people used to look at him and at his clothes and gems, and I daresay that many wished they were as rich he was.
One day the carriage* stopped at the door of a house, and the rich man got out of Ids carriage to go into the house. Just then a very poor man, who war dressed in very shabby clothes, and who had not a single jewel of any kind what ever, looked very hard at the gems and jewels which the rich man had. Then the poor man said to the ricli man, “i thank you very much for the jewels!” The rich man stared very much at the poor man, and then sa;d, “My friend, you <are much mistaken, for 1 have never given you any jewels.” The poor man smiled and replied: “1 know that very well. But you have let mo look at thorn, and you can. only look at them yourself. Therefore, all the difference between you and me is that you have the trouble to wear and keep the gems and I have not!” Now, that poor man was rather wise, for he knew that the rich man must often worry about the gems, and be afraid that robber men would some day take them from him, and perhaps even kill him. For Art Printing apply “Times 51 o fHcft. P u k elroh e.,
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 735, 30 May 1922, Page 7
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388PITY TO WASTE THEM! Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 735, 30 May 1922, Page 7
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