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Who Was Rich?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 11.

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Who Was Rich?

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“If I were only as rich as he is!” muttered a boy who had just found a crust of stale bread in a garbage barrel, as he eyed a poorly dressed boy leaving a baker’s shop with a basket of whole, fresh loaves.
“If I were only as rich as he is!” said the boy with the fresh loaves as he saw another boy on a bicycle munching candy.
“If I were only as rich as he is!” sighed the boy on the bicycle as another boy rolled past in a pony-cart.
“If I were only as rich as he is!” grumbled the boy in the pony-cart as he caught sight of a lad on the deck of a beautiful private yacht.
“If I were only as rich as he is!” this lucky fellow wished, as his father’s yacht cruised in foreign waters, as he spied one day a young prince attended by a retinue of liveried servants.
“If I were as free as that boy is!” impatiently growled the young prince, thinking of the boy on the yacht.
“If I could drive out alone with a pony, and nobody to take care of me but myself!” thought the pampered boy on the yacht.
“If only I could have a good time like that boy on the bicycle!” longed the driver of the pony.
“How happy that boy with the basket looks!” said the boy on the bicycle.
“If I could relish my dinner as that boy does his crust!” said the baker’s boy. “I’m sick and tired of bread!”
Which one was rich?