Show GIFT NOT ALL A GIFT generosity that was purely the he suit of accident A missionary bishop told this story about I 1 marion crawford Craw tord the famous novelist mr crawford went to school he said in concord and one day he waa taken to call at a concord clergy mans the clergyman had a missionary box on his drawing room table and time hanging heavily on the boy s hands he amused himself with try ing whether a silver dollar it was all the money he had in the world and he had converted it into that gl gantic coin tor safety would go into the silt in the box s top it was a close alt but unfortunate ly it did go and the coin slipped out of the embryo author s fingers thera was a terrible crash of silver falling among the coppers and then the boy as the novelists say knew no more when he came to himself he found the clergyman and his family in rap tures over his generosity |