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Show TEXT TAKEN TOO LITERALLY Ten-Year-Old Julia Gets Into Bad Graces of Mother by Giving Tramp a Half-Dollar. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained en-tertained angels unawares." The foregoing quotation is from chapter xiii, verse 2, Book of Hebrews, and it is introduced solely because it constitutes a vital part of this story. Julia is ten years old and she goes to Sunday school. It appears that on a recent occasion the Sunday school teacher had considerable to say about this matter of "entertaining angels unawares." Anyway, it made a deep impression with Julia. A few days after the lesson Julia's mother left her in charge of the house for a few hours. When the mother returned re-turned she went to a particular cup In the cupboard to extract therefrom one-half dollar. In this cup is kept the family pin money, and Julia's mother knew that she had put 50 cents there before she had gone out. But the half dollar was gone. There was an expression of anxiety on Julia's face and mother scented mischief. mis-chief. "Did you take that moner?" asked the mother, somewhat severely. Julia broke into tears. "I gave it to a man that came to the back door," sobbed the little girl. "Gave it to a man!" exclaimed the mother. "What for?" "I thought he might be God," tearfully tear-fully replied Julia. Kansas City Star. |