Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Why Don’t Yon Go to Work? [ARTICLE]

Why Don’t Yon Go to Work?

Mrs- Korcistent was sewing, when there came a knock. Going to the door, she found a boy, who begged for somethingto eat. •' . , “Why don’t you go to work?” asked she, with a hard look on her face. “ I can’t get any work,” be said. “Well, people who woodwork can’t expect to eat,” she testily replied, u and shan’t get a mouthful here. You are big enough to do something for a living, but as vou don’t yon can leave here at once. I shan’t encourage idleness.” And she nhnt the door in bis face and went back to her work, proud ‘Of herffhnness and the great moral lesson she had taught Three days later, another knock disturbed her. She went to the door, and saw a hoy with a small tin,pail in his hand. It was full of grated horseradish, and he wanted her to buy some. “Go away; I don’t want to buy. ~Ljthing,” she snapped. “ It’s only fifteen cents for a pint,” he said. “ I don’t care how much it is ; I won’t have any peddlers around here, anyway. Go away, I tell yon. Take yourself off at once, and don’t let me see you again.” And, with a snort, she slammed the. door to and went back to her work, well satisfied with her firmness in resisting a peddler. As it was the same boy who came begging three days before, and was now on a mission to earn something, it would be interesting to kqow what he thought. However, that doesn’t impair the symmetry of the moral.— Danbury Noses.