Post by ResLight on Jun 9, 2014 19:58:26 GMT -5
An Apron Full of Glass
A plainly dressed woman was noticed to be picking up something in the street -- a poor, slum street, where ragged, barefooted little children were accustomed to play. The policeman on the beat noticed the woman’s action, and watched her very suspiciously. Several times he saw her stoop and pick up something and hide it in her apron. Finally he went up to her, and with a gruff voice and a threatening manner demanded: ‘What are you carrying off in your apron?’ The timid woman did not answer at first, whereupon the policeman, thinking she must have found something valuable, threatened her with arrest if she did not show him what she had in her apron. The woman opened her apron and revealed a handful of broken glass. ‘What do you want with that stuff?’ asked the policeman. The woman replied: ‘I just thought I’d like to take it out of the way of the children’s feet.’ Dear soul, she was doing what she could. How much sweeter the world would be if each of us would be careful to save the bare feet of the young and the weak!
‘Anecdotes and Morals’ - Louis Albert Barks -- page 12
