Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — A Pretty Big Discount/ [ARTICLE]

A Pretty Big Discount/

“There was a children’s hospital in New York which a society lady visited regularly, taking fruit and flowers to the little patients, and in a certain ward a boy was pointed out to her one day as a bad customer. M 'Oh, he is incorrigible,’ sighed the Burse. "Miss Society talked a while with the little chap, and when she arose to go she said: * 'See here, I have heard bad reports abent you. Now, I want you to promts# me to be good. If you are good for a whole week, I’ll give you" a dollar when I come again next Thursday.’ “The boy promised to try to be good. This promise, though, he did not keep. On her next visit Miss Society, going to his cot, said: “ ‘I shall not ask the nurses how you have behaved this last week. I want you to tell me yourself. Now, what do you think—do you deserve that dollar I promised you or not?’ “The boy regarded Miss Society with a troubled frown. Then he said in a low voice: “ ‘Gimme a nickel.’" —New York Tribune.