MIRACLES 4½d.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)

MIRACLES 4½d.

! This story is a true story of a. trim miracle that happened because a little English girl wanted it so. Elsie’s mother was very ill; so ill that the doctor bad almost given up hope, and Elsie listened anxiously id hear what the. doctor said when he came to see her. What he said to her father was “No-, thing but a miracle can save her.” Without a word Elsie went, to her money-box and took out all its contents? There was just fourpencc-half penny in it. - . She hurried off the finest chemists shop in the town, where they seemed iosell everything. Walking straight to the main counter, to which she could only just reach, and holding up the 4Jd she had taken from her money-box, she said, “Please, sir. I want a miracle.” The assistant laughed, and answered, “Ihit we haven't got any.” Then Elsie began to cry as she walked toward the door where, ■ just at that moment, a gentleman was talking to the manager of the shop. “Dear, dear!” said the geiltlcmrui to her. “And what is. the matter now ?” It took Elsie some time between her sobs to tell the story of her mother’s illness and the saving ' miracle that could not.be bought. Then the gentleman asked her where she lived, and when she told him said, “Come along, I’ll go and see her.” It was a poor part of the town to which Elsie led him, and in the little house the gentleman said something to her father which she did not understand. But whatever it was it evidently surprised the father, who replied,-“Yes, you can see her.” ' Tlie gentleman examined j. isle’s mother, and then, turning to Elsie, he said: “Give mo your 4 1 / ;; d and 1 will sell you a’ miracle.” And it was so. The local doctor was fetched and talked -with the gentleman, who proved to be a very skilful surgeon, and through his skill Elsie got her mother back from death’s door, and she also got her fourpence-halfpenny back with interest. The miracle of which the local doctor had spoken had been wrought. ■' • ' . ..The difficult thing is to gel the foot in the stirrup. • The handsomest woman can only giro what she has. # # # * Every truth is not to be told. ■ • , -