The schoolmaster, living in poverty on his meager salary, pawns his overcoat to purchase medicine for his dying mother. The old garment has been ridiculed by the pupils, and when he appears ... Read allThe schoolmaster, living in poverty on his meager salary, pawns his overcoat to purchase medicine for his dying mother. The old garment has been ridiculed by the pupils, and when he appears without it one cold morning they investigate and learn the circumstances, and that the wom... Read allThe schoolmaster, living in poverty on his meager salary, pawns his overcoat to purchase medicine for his dying mother. The old garment has been ridiculed by the pupils, and when he appears without it one cold morning they investigate and learn the circumstances, and that the woman has died. They get together and take up a collection, each donating his treasured penni... Read all