Show WAS A BRIGHT BOY but bat he wanted the atee monument on sundays sunday say mister have you ever been up in that place said a boy probably 15 or 16 years old addressing a stranger on one of the walt wait line cars the car just passed the monument lot and the boy pointed to the shaft as he spoke says the washington star it like he asked his first question having been answered in the affirmative 1 I should think a boy like you would have been there tor for yourself replied the stranger ive been thinking about it tor for a long time replied the boy and I 1 guess ill do it when I 1 go by in the morning it looks so big and strange standing in the mist with just a little sunlight on the top then when I 1 come back its mostly dark and the great white shaft stands out against the sky I 1 always ook look at it and I 1 want to go in it and got get away up at the top some of these days ill do it do you think I 1 could make it in half an hour 1 I 1 might stand to have my pay docked for half an hour but im afraid that if I 1 got up there I 1 might stay longer and then id be short on money to pay my board that week I 1 go there sundays and walk around it sometimes but its shut then say do you know mister I 1 believe that if george washington was living he would have that open tor for a little while on sundays and holidays ive been thinking that maybe it might be open a while on thanksgiving day jf if it aint ill go there some day anyhow and get docked for or it where do you work asked the stranger down here in a sawmill you see I 1 get only 4 a week and two of that has to go for board but ive been to a manual training school and can turn and I 1 think put me on a lathe soon then ill get more money it if I 1 dont s see it before that I 1 can then afford to be docked tor for long enough to see the monument dont you think they ought to let us in on holidays ive been here tor for six months the first two days I 1 had nothing to do and I 1 saw the capitol and something else but I 1 was a stranger and did not know where to go then I 1 got work and have had no time since no of course 1 I dont go to school but the folks I 1 board with take the papers and let me have them when they are through I 1 read those things that interest me and get a pretty good ide idaa of things |