The Red Marble Story

Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas apples tomatoes or whatever.

The red marble story.

T hree red marbles by w. One particular day mr. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me. Barbara miller was bagging some early potatoes for me.

This man noticed a small boy who he described as hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas he said he was delicate to the bone and feature ragged but clean. When they come back with their red marbles and they always do he decides he doesn t like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one when they come on their next trip to the store i left the store smiling to myself impressed with this man. The story is told of a man whom the store owner mr. Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath.

When they come back with their red marbles and they always do he decides he doesn t like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one when they come on their next trip to the store i left the store smiling to myself impressed with this man. Three red marbles by w. The moral of this story. Petersen this story first appeared in the october 1975 ensign magazine.

Miller was bagging some potatoes for. Miller s roadside stand for farm fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money were still extremely scarce and bartering was used extensively. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me.

I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. During the waning years of the depression in a small southwestern idaho community i used to stop by mr. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shiny red marbles. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me.

When they come back with their red marbles and they always do he decides he doesn t like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one when they come on their next trip to the store. Positive featured inspirational story june 25 2006 to july 29 2006. Petersen this story first appeared in the october 1975 ensign magazine one day mr. I noticed a small boy delicate of bone and feature ragged but clean hungrily looking at a basket of freshly picked green peas.