Show Freely Feely Have Ha e Ye Received Freely Give Givet t J t t EMILY EMY CLOWES GLOWS BURKE BUK Its being being more blessed to give than tha to receive depends upon what lJ 13 glen given and the spirit thereof and ane how fur far the tho little candle throws throw his beams hUns Ho H must shine far and Wl wide e in this bleak wilderness below if IC lie h would n the thousand and ono ways to serve God In serving hIs creatures Certain It is too If It we would bo 10 faithful to the law Jaw of charity chali which is the tho law of love Jovo Wo l must self he 10 dumb dum of mouth known by b our OU fruits fruit on earth carth hoping hoping only for our own growth above the tho skies With 11 hat ono one sus lS r und and bare halo feet wandering away a wa from frol nowhere somewhere down downIn tOWI In II the state a n Maverick laverl l of humanity shivered into town ono one late lato autumn day with wll a L look resembling that of or ofa ora a helpless kitten dropped from a asack sack into va a great cheerless 3 Held led with dread of oC dawn und and docK to n The Tho city oly was a great gr at bleak healt l to 10 lL with wih little Uto to 10 glean in II tho way WU of o from the tho stubble and total lack ac of warmth and ancl sympathy in the grim stumps Clothing in that field leW for kitten not hut but a oven a mouse mOI o u for a crow cro LuclI Luckily how bow over and by hy ole freak rea of o fate or hand of providence EdL eluded the the row crow Eddys father futher a n man of or tho free freo and giving type t upon tho death of o otho tho mother molher hud hall distributed his child children chill ren Ien to tho scant tant cn and Ild scattering populace of nf thy th farming district in II which he he lazily ok il out outa Oula a lil existence for and 1 Humorous family and at It Ile took louk to If tho hill hil to prospect Tho ho people to tn whom J Il chanced ohal cl to 10 ho 11 glen given suddenly experienced a athan Change than of oe heart and wih an idea of the thc blessedness of giving and receiving it H possible for ful the thu unwelcome foundling to run away wa And FO o It II was that ragged ra gIll but game gaIC Eddy 1 boat helt his pas age to town I did di not get gol in till tl dark an the first thing thilI a dog dol chased eL me IH an 11 then thena a I policeman EIll was tolling his story to the tho rare woman who hall had given receiving him a homo with wih no thought of And nd what did you do 10 then ed cd I ran ln down the tho track und and pray prayed pry Prayed Yep YepI I mean mother told mo monever moneer never neer to forget that What happened next Then I found a haystack ha It was pretty prot good I hud had slop be before toro fore an then I wont went to 10 a In tho and a woman gave tavo mo something to eat and ulL told mo to go goto goto to another place an her slater sister would Give me mo a waist to wear ear I And you ou went And Ind Yes but did J sho give gie you the ta waist WI t j ia JI i But what Eddy I I I wear it for tor I never I had no pins nor But why pins pin Were Vera there no Jf buttons Well Wel you see she gave me m the waist first frt an then she snatched it i away again and cut off the tho but buttons buttons tons an un pulled out th e draw drw string an it no use to me mo then so so What did di you ou do doI I gao it back Ito to her and nd Bho G said she sho allus alus mod knowd beggars wot as us bad oft off as m they the made out olt Tho adopted mother said nothing and Eddy EILy mistook Her silence for tor censure of ungratefulness and cald But I wear it itI ItI I guess you son And my mother wua that thatto to tramps tram IS ISho Tho ho boy bo never forgot his OTTO 01 mother who though poor gave o oher of her best to tramps Ono day da Eddy Ed camo In II from school and quickly slipped up stairs to change chango his waist and tie 10 before setting about his hi chores The now new had never known him to make mako a I lightening l change Ho lo carried carrod a I serious air nil and the tho coal cOlI bucket In his 11 loft lot hand which wag Wa noted to together gether with a black eyo and suspicious rod blotches hero helo and there Everything all al right at nt school to today day 11 a 11 d 1 Y I Eddy looked her straight I In tin tl eye e and ald she thought sho saw SIW I unshed tear Has lla anything at gone gono wrong wron Ys I hud hul a fight A fight i iY Yes Y mother told me mc to fight my ll own IWI battles In ho blurted out Olt lest the mother mothel e tho th mother could wiy a nothing of oC course co UC save ao Plats right Eddy providing your OUI cause cal c Is a just ono one Why h there is I blood back hac of your oar ear did 1111 thu til other boy ho strike you there thero Oil h but that Wil Ah h thaI just jUHt blood from 1101 hla hi and mine 1 1 an it took look three thre licks Ih to make Ills his bleed hl d too and only one lne tor Cor mine eRle the thc seriousness of the tho the tho new leI mother could not repress s a smile although Eddy did not nOl see It I That Phat evening tho boy ho said I think Til Ill just go 0 down dowl an un foi HO nob an say fa be friends if he likes wol fy mother all we never lost by I belli on the side an I guess that means In to tn good and hands hats Its best meaning son And so the tho lessons 11 went on from ono to the other in the blessed measure of giving j V And when whon Sunday evening came Eddy Edt was sitting beside his now no mother being toM told things thing of wisdom The Tho childs Impressionable age had seemed se red at its Is keenest during the period perl d of his mothers fow te brief In Instructions and the last act of his 1 father r 0 Honor H nor thy th father and thy mother that thy days ma be long lon mother was W reading tho commandments c un nd c she had finished the said f r Wel allus alus remember my JloU r but bulI 2 e forgot riy l father y 1 i Why Wh dear mr L B a he usall us li owa never kin r that th ol have ani ai sst r hii il i r s when tiey I ask van What dp Ido you OU say su son I i iI I 1 toll a story st r I say s L 1 l vont i nl I 1 lon what to do about lit IH But I story half I I s bad bd us ln on dad and his hL son Besides If I dont know l whore bm is rho never nover told i where wh ro they thoy went I vo only told you about t And ld shifting closer cl lie n brown br wn eros l Con Cl If jes b our r secret s er t I Im m therl Ami An mother with wih a quiver quor in her voice yol answered ls ur ref secret se re son j |