Did You Hear About The Time My Hit Four Homers & Stole 8 Papers?

Archie Brown’s daughter, Evonne, was an athletic girl. When she was only 8 she made headlines in the local newspaper’s sports page! It read “Brown Hits 4 for 4 Home Runs!” The story gave an account of the softball game Evonne had played in the previous night. Her team had won and she had indeed hit 4 homers in the game.

As he read the paper, Archie called Evonne from her room to see the story. He told her that they should get some extra copies of the paper so they could send to grandparents and othr family members that would want to see it. Evonne said she would go across the street to the newspaper rack to make the purchase. Archie gave her 8 quarters to pay for the copies he decided were needed.

A few minutes later Evonne came in with the papers and returned 7 quarters to her dad. When asked why she had not deposited the quarters, she said that when she had opened the rack with the first quarter, she took all the papers she wanted and did not have to put in any more money.

Archie informed her that she could not take the papers without paying for all she had taken. She was shocked to find she had stolen the papers. She ran back to the rack and deposited the rest of the quarters.

And Archie had another memory for life.