People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — What I Would Do. [ARTICLE]

What I Would Do.

The following essay was writ ten by a nine-year-old girl student, and is so full of thoughtful suggestions mingled with childish ambitions, that the teacher, D. H. Hamilton, has kindly sent it to the Pilot for publication. Here it is without the change of a letter or mark of punctuation. WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WERE RICH. If I were rich, I would go to school, and give myself as good an education as I was capable of containing. I would build real castles instoab nf imaginary ones, as I now J .. i ’»>uld have a train of servj>-"i . f my command. To wait on un; wherever I went. I would dress in silk, and satin, I would travel from one country to another, till I knew the whole world like a book. I would have my papa president, my mama should be queen, and while enjoying all these good times, I would not forget the poor, which we have all over our land. I would build homes for the poor orphans, and a school I would have, whicli would be free for ever one. And my little kinder gardens should be found all over the land. But my greatest joy would be at Christmas times. When I would hunt up all the little folks whose parents were to poor to buy them presents, I would make them think that Santa claus came down the chimney for sure and such dinners would make them wish thai Christmas would come every day in the year. A Kinman 3d Reader Pupil.