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Show 88 jgTiM I F Came of It, -r0E THE BOYS AND GIELS. f! froDi Jersey City tito the Ooun-& Ooun-& TLotofEggB Hidm the 5a:D Where He Slept. ,itleobr the Salt T. . lcboyf and girl I am going . ,atoi'v. If Icpuldgetyou f wou'M tell if to you, but C many of you that it would ir, '' . for all to hear unless I ' then some of you , et 1 was preaching and would r SyV.lcop while lwaS :' rn- is stcr Snda.v' of " mi all know that, and it is L jiulo M"s adventure on Easter flC wort many years ago. His r Cha''lip. and he was a real Irioking iiltlf fellow, because I n nirtMie now in my album and I i a hv looking at it, Charlie ,,'Ur.T and lived in New York, ciu- which is the largest in ,.d Stitcs, and is at least forty l-irss" as I'ake- Charli0 wand all the money he had he i b, selling papers and blacking ',. .ometimes holding horses and . imimls. Charlie had never a!fFisl'r except that it was a day iifh "everybody ate. eggs. He liucv that it was the anniversary I rWnz fm the dead of tho Sa-,soii Sa-,soii do. Now that's funny, t " Well, ouc day. just before a long time ago, Charlie didn't ,mu.h success in" selling .his ,iWl ho felt pretty lonesome. Ill , m ike matters still more unr.oin-iil unr.oin-iil fr liini it rained hard and lie !Wd to take shelter under the :lt the Bowery theater, when the ft ',t was burning very bright. He i il a little and so he sat down ,.ik one of his papers and began :out a piece about Easter in the ', and how after church the boys J! ;, ttles and went off in the woods - ilftl eggs and had just-lots of fuu. j I as he read he thought what a ih ine he- would have himself, be-ou be-ou sec he had made up his mind nut among the farmer boys and fun himself. And the next day ho lajters all day and worked hard Kidcawhole dollar and twenty-w twenty-w mts beside. Then he paid his fare ; to Jersey City and got on a street id rode away up through the town !ic carat-to the end of tho street lie, and got off and walked away the country, where tho houses ! far apart and the roads were not rt I but were of dirt. It was pretty "1 and after awhile Charlie got tired k began to think about going to t He knew that it wouldn't bo gbt to wake up anybody and ask night's lodging, so he concluded t p in a barn, because it was too iy o sleep out doors. The first farm lie came lo had a big cross dog i wouldn't let him in the burn and -! tii walk about a mile -further. B was a groat big tlug there too, Charlie was afraid at first, but id fellow wagged his tail aud friendly, so Charlie coiu'ludcd the experiment t)f getting into in. The old dogweut along and jibt as if he would like lo say, "I you are a good boy just looking Mace to sleep," and when Charlie he liarii floor he walked back to ' ime! anil went to sleep. Charlie "I up the ladder into the hay loft, "gan boring a hole down into the ioi' vor. see that was the only way 'hi keep warm. While he was g down through the clover; all sadden his feet, struck a lot of eggs which the farmer i fi) saving tor Easter. He knew ' v.ouhl bu wrong to take any of so he covered them up as best he made another hole, and crawled ' ent to sleep. next morning the farmer caniu 'ih a big ha.-ket and crawled up in and ehut'-kled as- he. said to ;f "Sow, I'lLfooL tlie-old wpmau. links we ain't going to -have any for Easter rivlry whatwhat's ) Nko's been-hero? Ah! you young v'hat are you .doing. tbecj;.?", 5 'oke .Ckirlie ' up, . . iwid " he Mired, , 'ibiit .' ho managed the fanner who lib w as.iuid how 'wto bo iii -'-life hajV awl hu told 'm that he 'didn't mean any harm, -hat he wis. a ' newsboy. -ami had 1'" tie paper about ..the. fun the i:'.V boys had eating-eggs' in the and how ho had walked -all the from Jersey' City to have a . good :'M former listened to the story n told him that he must come in a and get some breakfast and 5 klptd the man pack the eggs 'toiket and -went in. And the ''suite kissed him and said he tli-d hpr of her bhy who was dead, -Jioil the farmer if he didn't think 'fltl. aucl ' he said yes, and 'he woman asked him if uldn't like to live in the Charlie said he would, and ')' sat down to breakfast. That as different from any Charlie v oaten before. There were . -??sand ham, and fresh milk, and 1rf'l and butter, and cake, and "'-everything nice. !f breakfast the farmer's wife fliai-lie a good suit of clothes and 'of shoes that just fitted him and -fy went to church. It -was the -j"? Charlie had been to church, Twn he heard how Christ came on ; tC suve men from eternal ptinish-indhow ptinish-indhow he was crucified,-and x& atvay in the tomb, ' and on rt "Wiling rose from the dead, he Pfwly surprised, yon nwy de- Charlie stayed then, ami drove . and fed the chickens and fli how to farm, and finally grew a mg man. fl weame of him? Weil I sup- would ask that question. Oh, .e rt west to Salt Lake and has u 'his story. And his name is , ; . . C. M. Jacksox. |
