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Show I : AN ANGEL'S TOUCH. The San Francisco News Letter tells this touch-ing touch-ing incident: One evening not long ago, a little girl of nine or ten entered a place in which is a bakery, grocery and saloon in one, and asked for five cents worth of tea. "How's your mother?" asked the boy who came forward to wait on her. "Awful sick, and ain't had anything to cat all day." II The boy was just then called to wait upon some i men who entered the saloon, and the girl sat . m 3 down. In five minutes she was nodding, and in ' J seven minutes she was sound asleep and leaning ; her head against a barrel, while she held the poor 'i old nickel in a tight grip between her thumb and finger. One of the men saw her as he came from .' 0 the bar, and after asking who she was, said : "Say, you drunkards, see here. Here we've - . been pouring down whiskey when this poor child and her mother want bread. Here's a two dollar " bill that says I've got some feeling left.'1 "And I can add a dollar,11 observed another. x "And I'll give another." 'They made up a purse of an even five dollars' ' and the spokesman carefully put the bill between ; ., two of the sleepers fingers, drew the nickel away n and whispered to his" comrades : "list look a' there the gul's dreaming." So she was. A big tear had rolled out from her closed eyelid, but her face was covered with a smile. The mtA,tip-toed out, and the clerk walk-! walk-! ' cd over and torched -the sleeping child. She, avroke with a laugb,- andNoried oit : I What a beautiful dream! Ma wasn't sick any ( more, and we had lots to eat and to wear, and my hand burns yet where an angel touched it!'1 When she discovered ttfat her nickel had been replaced by a bill, a dollar of which loaded her down with all she could carry, she innocently said : "Well, now, but ma won't hardly believe that you sent up to heaven and got an angel to come down and clerk in your grocery." |