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Show 1JHE PENNY AND THE DOLLAR A dollar and a penny once happened to come together in a preacher's pocket, and the dollar at once began to put on airs like a red cow in a harnyard. "I am a biggun," slid the dollar, "and you are a nobody. I am white and bright, and you are only a dull, mud colored little Indian. I am religious, for" I am all the time saying 'In God We Trust,' and you are pnly a pagan. I am patriotic, for on one side I have the American eagle and on the other side the Goddess of Liberty, and I buy lots of fire works for the ( Fourth of July. I am heavenly minded, m too, for I have stars to think about arid you.don't have anything. I am precious, for I am nice, bright silver, and everybody every-body wants me, but you are only a bare copper and nobody cares for you." "That may all be so," said the poor little lit-tle penny in a weak, piping voice. "You may be bigger than I am, and more patriotic patri-otic than I am, and more religious than I am, and more heavenly minded than I am but I go to Church and Sunday. School a good deal more than you do. Selected. . If Uncle Sam appoints a man to work out conservation, I'll follow that appoin-' appoin-' tee's plan, and try to save the nation. Per-Jiaps Per-Jiaps the rules he may lay down will seem like gentle kidding, but I'll be the man in our town to hump and do his bidding. I'll do what that official says, and blithely, too, doggone it; if he insists I'll wear a fez and soak my Sunday bonnet. If he declares that eating fowl three days a week is useless, I'll cut-out chicken, duck and owl, and make the "three days goose-Jess. goose-Jess. No doubt there will some funny rules, by rushed officials handed; each rule is sprung before it cools, and jars us iwhen it's landed. And contradictious will aris.e, confusion worse confounded; j). 'but we'll obey, if we are wise, as soon as , they're propounded. It is not ours to reason rea-son why, the loyal man is whyless but it is ours to cut a pie on days appointed pie-less. pie-less. Some rule to me may seem obsurd, it leaves me dazed and frozen, but he who made it is a bird, or he would not be.chos-len. be.chos-len. He knows much better where we're lat than I, so weak and giddy; at his behest be-hest I cut out fat, and eat ancient biddy. y At his behest I sell my shoes, and bare- , foot gladly wander, and hope my trajls may amuse the soldier boys out yonder. v ' By Walt Mason. ' v . t i |