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 "I hope it hain't goin' to make him vain and over-*bearin." And she asked me who I meant?

And sez I, "Why, that Heathen; he'll be rich as a Jew by mornin'. I am most afraid such onexpected riches will make him hold his head and feet up above his mates." Sez I, "If everything is sold as high as the things you've sold me, he will be independent rich." She kinder laughed and said, "Oh, you know that things sold for charity are always higher priced."

"Oh, I don't begrech the money, not at all, and shouldn't if I didn't git nothin' back. I wuz always sorry for that Heathen, and am glad to take holt and help him, but," sez I, "I wuz wonderin' what effect such sudden wealth would have on him, whether it would quell down his appetite for missionaries, or whet it up, you know you can never tell what sudden prosperity will do to anybody's character."

And she said, with a kinder shrewd look, that she guessed that the Heathen wouldn't be enriched to any alarmin' extent, for, sez she, lookin' round the almost enchantin' seen and down onto her own gorgeous costoom, "The expenses to-night have been something enormous, and the Heathen can't have anything till the expenses are paid. And then," she said, "it is very expensive to get the funds carried so far."

"Why, yes," sez I, "I know there would have to be a money order bought or sunthin' of that kind." But she smiled and went to wait on her next customers, and who should they be, for all the world, but my own son and daughter, Thomas J. and Maggie? They wuz real glad to see their Pa and Ma, and showed it. She looked very sweet in a thin, black lace dress, a white lace bunnet with some pink and white flowers in it, and some