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Show THOUGHT COAT SURELY LOST. Small Bey's Natural Alarm at the Teachers' Information. A well-known Reading, Pa., merchant mer-chant was in the habit of paying weekly week-ly visits to a farm which he had purchased. pur-chased. To these living along the route he was wont to drive he was at first the object of much speculation. but In due time the cause of his frequent fre-quent visits became known, as did also the fact that he was a man of considerable influence and wealth. . As he was driving along one Sunday morning last summer he saw plodding ahead of him a small boy of the country coun-try thereabout, carefully carrying on his arm a coat, which, on account of the heat, he had removed; and, acting on a charitable impulse, invited the thoroughly abashed lad to ride as far r.s the "Sunday school," having gleaned that to be his destination. They were soon there, but the boy, in his perturbed state, did not realize until he had taken his place in his class that he had- left his coat in the carriage. The well-known parauie oc Lmaruo and the rich man having been assigned as-signed as the lesson for that day, the teacher, addressing the newcomer, inquired: in-quired: "What became of the rich man?" "He drove on down the road to his farm," promptly answered the youth, itill thinking of the coat. "For his misdeeds," affirmed the teacher, ignoring the answer, "he went to an awful place of torment, from which he can never return." "Holy Moses!" broke in the youth.. "He's got my coat with him." |
