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The experienced colonel gazed into the upturned face, and gently said: "Pet, yer an orphan." Reverently the boys carried the dead man into his own hut. Several men dug a grave beside that of Perkins, while the colonel and doubter acted as undertakers, the latter donating his only white shirt for a shroud. This duty done, they went to the saloon, and the doubter called up the crowd.
"No, and it would be worth very little if you got any," Bill Brown offered, as he and Gus, who had been detained a moment by Professor Gray, joined the loitering group. "Thanks, Mr. Brown," said Dot, half shyly. "Who asked you for your two cents' worth?" Terry demanded. "I'm donating it, to your service. Go and do something yourself before you make fun of others," Bill said.
Each week, in rotation, four Boosters were privileged to obtain the pleasures of generosity and of publicity by donating goods or services to four fellow-members, chosen by lot. There was laughter, this week, when it was announced that one of the contributors was Barnabas Joy, the undertaker. Everybody whispered, "I can think of a coupla good guys to be buried if his donation is a free funeral!"
They had not gone far before they ran upon a watchman, who threatened to run them in; but the police of those days were as susceptible to a bribe as they are to-day, and after donating liberally to the cause of justice and protection, they were taken to their rooms instead of the calaboose.
That irritability and anxiety had been attributed to a natural desire to Donate as often as they could, but now the Count was beginning to think it might be a physiological need as real as a Kin's need for blood. Thompson certainly hadn't had time to miss Donating to that degree, not with Kaufman having taken him the day before. "Captain," she said gently.
Aaron seized the annual report and list of donating members of the hospital and opened it at the letter K. "Do you know what I think, uncle?" Aaron cried. "I think that Alex Kronberg puts 'em up to asking you for money." "Alex puts 'em up to it?" Mosha repeated. "What for should Alex do such a thing?" "Here; let me show you," Aaron cried. "Alex himself gives them fakers five dollars.
Here is fifty cents from me, Co." "I'll give you fifty, Co," said her mother. "Me, too," said Flamingus. The other boys followed with equal contributions, Bud generously donating a five-dollar bill he had received that day for a solo at a musicale given by Miss Lyte. "Here's fifty cents from me," said the Boarder, who had remained very thoughtful during this transaction.
It maddens me to think that the society in which I have been brought up, the same to which we are both said to belong, is satisfied year after year to go on dressing and eating and having a good time, giving and receiving entertainments, spending its money on houses and luxuries and, occasionally, to ease its conscience, donating, without any personal sacrifice, a little money to charity.
J. L. Burchard, agent to the Round Valley Indians of California, furnishes an account of burial somewhat resembling that of the Navajos: "When I first came here the Indians would dig a round hole in the ground, draw up the knees of the deceased Indian, and wrap the body into as small a bulk as possible in blankets, tie them firmly with cords, place them in the grave, throw in beads, baskets, clothing, everything owned by the deceased, and often donating much extra; all gathered around the grave wailing most pitifully, tearing their faces with their nails till the blood would run down their cheeks, pull out their hair, and such other heathenish conduct.
And now by the most natural gradation, we come to those much bepraised acts of our multimillionaires the seignorial donating of millions to "charitable" or "public-spirited" purposes. Like the Astors, the Schermerhorns, the Rhinelanders and a galaxy of others, Field diffused large sums; he, like them, was overwhelmed with panegyrics.
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