Sez I, “Save the Sam, it may come in handy in the futer.”
“Save the Sam, it may come in handy in the futer.”
But the dimpled hands of that child seemed to draw Annie and Ellick nigher together than they’d ever been, and pull ’em both along, onbeknown to ’em, into the sunshiny fields of happiness.
Thomas J. gin little Tom Josiah ten dollars to put in the Savin’s Bank at compounded interest, and Josiah gin him two lambs, which are a-goin’ to be put out to double to the very best advantage for him.
By the time he is twenty-one he will have considerable money, and a big flock of sheep to drive on before him down the path of the futer.
But I might talk for hours and hours and not exhaust the fascinatin’ subject of the peace and prosperity of the one who has left the paths of sin and hard cider and whiskey, etc., and is walkin’ in the paths of sobriety and success.
But to them not interested so much in this cause, so dear to the heart of her whose name wuz once Smith, the subject may grow monotunous and tejus, so I will resoom and take up the thread of my discourse over my finger agin, and let it purr along on the spool of History.
CHAPTER V.
A HEATHEN’S STANDARD OF MORALITY.