Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — A Question About Firecrackers. [ARTICLE]

A Question About Firecrackers.

Mr. Magruder had forbidden his boys to buy anything on credit, and ono day he called the children and said he wante to know who had had five cents’ worth of nrecr ackers charged to him at the toy store. The older ones promptly said, “I did not," but the two little ones, John and Harry, seemed not so clear in their statements. John said he had bought five cents’ worth of firecrackers with five cents Uncle Frank had give him, and one time his mamma gave him five cents and he got some firecrackers at the toy store. “Oh, I don’t care about that,” his father said. “Did you have five cents’ worth of firecrackers charged?" Little Harry could not stand It any longer. He must make John understand, and he went right npto him and paid, “Johnny, did you ever get five cents’ worth of crackers with a five cents nobody never gave you?"—Harjor's Young People.