Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — One Quarter the Little Heathen Did Not Get. [ARTICLE]

One Quarter the Little Heathen Did Not Get.

A few days ago a little girl—a tiny thing only four years old—went with her mamma to pay a visit up town. When she camo out she had a 25-cent piece clasped fast in her fat hand. As they walked up the street, suddenly the little one espied a most disreputable looking cat lying on the lower step of a stoop. It looked sick and forlorn and lay as if dead. The child rushed up to the creature and stroked its back with soft little touches until the poor thing opened its eyes slowly in recognition. Then the mother called the child away sharply and reproved her for making friends with such a wretched street cat. The child said nothing. When they got home, the mother said: “Grade, where is the quarter Uncle John gave you?” “I spent it, mamma.” “You spent it! Why, how in the world could you speud it without my seeing you?” “1 spent it to the cat, mamma, the poor cat I put it down on the stoop oy the kittie. I thought she needed it worse than I did. ” —New York Evening Sim.