The Red Marble Story

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 red marble story.

I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me. I noticed a small boy delicate of bone and feature ragged but clean hungrily looking at a basket of freshly picked green peas. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me.

During the waning years of the depression in a small southwestern idaho community i used to stop by mr. Barbara miller was bagging some early potatoes for me. Food and money were still extremely scarce and bartering was used extensively. 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.

Miller was bagging some potatoes for. 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. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shiny red marbles. We will not be remembered by our words but by our kind deeds.

T hree red marbles by w. Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas apples tomatoes or whatever. One particular day mr.

The moral of this story. Three red marbles by w. The story is told of a man whom the store owner mr. Petersen this story first appeared in the october 1975 ensign magazine.

Miller s roadside stand for farm fresh produce as the season made it available. 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.