CHILDREN’S PAGE.
BILL AND ANDY’S LARK.
MRS. HARRIET A. CHEEVER
“I say, Andy! let’s go hear Sam Andrews talk to-night; doesn’t cost anything to go in, but they take a c’llection after he’s through, so we can put ten cents in the box, and after meetin’ we can buy some nuts and candy, and have quite a little lark; come on, will you?”
“Sam Andrews!” said Andy, “what, that colored boy that’s been off to the sem’nary?”
“Yes; they say he talks splendid.”
“How much money you got?” queried Andy.
“Fifty cents,” answered Bill. “I’ll take forty cents along to-night—earned it all, you know, so it’s mine to do what I please with; I’ll put ten cents in the box,—oughter help Sam a little, you know,—then I’ll spend, say twenty cents for goodies, and have ten cents in my pocket, and leave ten cents at home; must save a little, you know; how much you got?”