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About Butte Falls bulletin. (<1994 Dec.->) 1994-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 2000)
Adapted from Hugh T. Kerr Home is the place where first lessons are learned And it is the place where much of what you do, you do for love. There was once a boy named Bradley. W hen he was about eight years old, he fell into the habit of thinking of everything in terms of money. He wanted to know the price of everything he saw, and if it didn ’t cost a great deal, it did not seem to him to be worth anything at all. « ' But there are a great many things money cannot buy. And some of them are the best things in the world. One morning when Bradley came down to breakfast, he put a little piece of paper, neatly folded on his mother’s plate. His mother opened it, and she could hardly believe it, but this is what her son had written: Mother owes Bradley: For running errands: 3 dollars For taking out trash: 2 dollars For sweeping the floor: 2 dollars Extras: 1 dollar Total that Mother owes Bradley: 8 dollars His mother smiled when she read that, but she did not say anything. W hen lunchtime came she put the bill on Bradley ’s plate along with eight dollars. Bradley ’s eyes lit up when he saw the money. He stuffed it into his pocket as fast as he could and started dreaming about what he would buy with his reward. All at once he saw there was another piece of paper beside his plate, neatly folded, like the first one. W hen he opened it up, he found it was a bill from his mother. It read: Bradley owes Mother: For being good to him Nothing UTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA For nursing him through his chicken pox Nothing For shirts and shoes and toys Nothing For meals and beautiful room Nothing Total that Bradley owes Mother: Nothing Bradley sat looking at this new bill L without saying „ „ a word. After a few minutes he got up, pulled the eight dollars out of his pocket and placed them in his mother ’s hand. And after that, he helped his mother for love. | MOM UTILITY BE l T^ zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA PAGER/ CELL PHONE \ fl The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. -Harold B. Lee AU-PURPOSE CLEANSER ANTIBACTERIAL WIPES FKVITKOJJ-S L / BANDAGES I tfOT-GLUE r GUN , T/MEOUT -TIMER I e l e c t r o n ic I SCHEDULER TISSUES O X m i n iv a n hi KEYS 1J. V +
