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The Mirror OPTICAL ILLUSION The scantily clad urchin shrugged his narrow shoulders as he turned reluctantly from the window filled with steaming food. He looked up just in time to prevent colliding with a neatly dressed young man, who had sympathetically witnessed the scene. The young man laying his hand on the lad’s shoulder smiled down at him. With a word of reassurance, he presented the boy with a hill, and waved aside the youth’s attempted thanks as he turned to walk briskly away. Following the neat young man down the street we notice him applying for work, for this particular young man happened to be one of those unfortunate men, the unemployed. The truth was, he was in urgent need of funds after he had so generously given the boy his last dollar. At night “the hungry-looking urchin” was seen in a group of flashily dressed pale-faced youths, each bragging of his shady accomplishments of the day. The “ex-urchin's” character and profession was revealed in his own words, “Shucks, youse guys are pikers! I got a good racket that drags in at least ten bucks a day.” (More paragraphs follow soon—when Justice rights some wrongs, and balances this unbalanced story.) —James Gibson THE OLD MILL A small boy trudged wearily up the path to the old grist mill; on his back was a sack of corn nearly as large as he. Reaching the porch he let the sack of corn fall on the ground beside him. Then he sat down and placed his chin in his hands — seemingly deep in thought. He was interrupted at last by the miller, a man of about middle age, who came out on the porch. “Well, son, said the miller, “got more corn today? Seems like it was only day before yesterday that 1 ground a sack for you.” Paying no attention to the miller's words ihe small boy looked up to say, “You know, Mr. Jack, some day when 1 grow up 1 am going to the city and live where I won’t have to earn corn to the mill every few days.” “Now, son. you are too young to be getting foolish notions in your head. Look at me, I have lived here all my life, nearly fifty years: and, according to most folks, I have done pretty well. Better give up that idea.” The miller picked up the corn and went inside. When he returned the boy had not moved. Finally, the boy got up, slung the meal over his back and started down the path. After taking a few steps he turned around and said, “You wait, some day 1 am going to the city to live.” Twenty years have elapsed since that day, but, as we look into the old mill we find the same old man, only he is older with gray hair and long white whiskers. When he comes out and sits down on the old rickety steps in the warm sunlight, he dozes; and in his dreams he goes back twenty years to the day when a small boy had told him, “Some day I’m going to the citv to live.” [10]
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T he Mirror Suddenly the miller is awakened hv the sound of an automobile horn. Who in the world can it be stopping here at this hour of the day? he thinks. By this time he is fully awake; and, as he looks, he secs a car stop in front of the gate. A young man gets out and walks up the path. “Hello, Mr. Jack,” said the young man, you don't know me, do you?” Seems like 1 ought to. Remember one day about twenty------- He gets no further because the old miller remembers. The two shake hands and stand in silence for a few minutes. “I thought that you wanted to live in the city.” “So I did until I got there. But everything did not hold our as 1 expected it, so I decided to come back and ask you if you wouldn’t let me run the mill for you. “There isn’t a thing 1 would like better. It can be our mill, with you as the active partner.” “Thanks, seems like I was just cut out to be a country boy. Please hang around, Mr. Jack, to see if 1 run true to form.” By the time the sun disappears behind the hills, the young man is finding a new life in an old one. —Douglas Hancock AS THE CLOCK COES ’ROUND It was the day before Christmas, and all the festivity and gaiety of last-minute shopping was in the air. Walking down the avenue were two girls, apparently looking for a particular gift. This is an interesting looking place,” said Pat to her sister, Jo Anne, as they stopped in front of a queer little Oriental gift shop. “I believe we can find the very thing we arc looking for in here, she continued. The windows of the shop were full of delicate beauty, china objects which were, so the sign on the window said, old Chinese heirlooms. Let’s go in, suggested Jo Anne, as she spied a little china clock on the shelf. As the girls entered they were greeted warmly by an old Chinaman. We should like to see that china clock. chimed the girls. The old man took it down and gave it to them. It was a pretty thing with its floral carved figures and humming birds. What a quaint piece of art! exclaimed Pat, We must have it for Grandmother!” Their grandmother had always loved beautiful things, but many misfortunes had been hers during the past years. How she had loved her household treasures— her rare porcelain, her pictures, and antique vases. But with hard times she had had to sell them one by one. Although she had lost her lovely household objects, she had not lost her love for beauty, nor her sweetness of spirit. Upon inquiring the price, they found to their surprise that they could afford [11]
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