A SUGGESTION FOR PRACTICAL JOKERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12189, 10 June 1907, Page 7

A SUGGESTION FOR PRACTICAL JOKERS.

Two travellers were passing along a toad, and saw a pair of empt\ shoes and i worn coat lym.n beside them. Said the , lofet-soi to his student companion: 'Some poor man has left Ins shoes here

..hile he finishes his d.'>s work." "Lei as play him a trick," eagerly suggested ;he student. "Let us hide the shoes. md conceal ourselves behind these bushes. Then we will see what a state the man will be in." My young- friend," inswered the professor, "we must never 'mUse ourselves at the expense of the oor. You are rich, and may give yourelf a greater pleasure than by hiding he shoes of the man. Put a silver dolu in each shoe, and then we will hide 'urselvcs as you suggested." And so he did. Slowly and wearily over the field ame the man who had left his shoes at be wayside. When he reached the spot V slipped one foot into a shoe, but he elt something hard, and stopped down 0 remove it. A silver dollar! Had it iropped from the skies? He looked up it the clouds, and then down the road. The pmfessor and his pupil, unseen, \ere watching the man. He put the dol,ir into his pocket, and proceeded to Jip his foot into the other* shoe but there 1 as something hard in that, too. What ! \nother dollar? Then the poor man fell in his knees and thanked God for havng heard his prayer for help. He spoke >>t a wife sick at home, and helpless, and jf hungry little children and asked God's blessing on the unknown had that placed the two dollars in his shoes, and walked i^ though he was rested. When he got ■)Ut of sifht the professor and the student came out into the road. "Are you not better pleased than if you had played \our intended trick?" asked the professor. "Indeed I am," replied the student. ■ I feel the 'ruth of some words I have never understood before: "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

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