Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-26

west go2 There you will do better as here,
where your fields are all tipped on one side
up and rock fun"
"Well, I've had Il sort o. hankerin to go
west for IA long spell ~ said Mr.. Bascom,
"but faint : easy to sell when there
ain I any to-sv Sin to buy. l stay here
because the farms mine, an there ain t
nothin else thrt is | never could get fore
handed enough to make start, and it $ all
l can do t. make II livin here, "
But the boy" said the professor Evil!
he all his life stay here also and be poor"
No. exclaimed the father almost an
grily. Not if I'm spared long enough to
care for his mother till he gets start.
He's bent on schoolin, and his mother and
are coin to sect he gets it. He'll have tc
work his own W., though" added the
old man, VITA II little sigh. ave can I
help him mHch.'
Yes, that is good" said the professor
sit is better as boy his own education
get
Ard after that he talked with young
John The boy was shy at first hut un.
der the professors blunt questioning he
soon warmed up enough TO talk of his am
bition He wanted to he a civil engineer.
he said, and the professor found that he
had laid a good foundation for an educa-
ton in the village academy ana had bought
and mastered a few good books.
Moreover he was obscrvant. One day
when the professor was almost we'll he was
looking over the specimens in his KNAPP
sack when John came and looked on.
There's a good deal of that kind of rock
on the east side of the farm, he said,
pointing to enc of the chips.
The professor started a little, but he
spoke as deliberately as usual. You shall
show to me that east side, he said, when
l can climb those hills some day
81 guess you can get there now" said
the lad. 1T isn't much of "a climb, and
there's smooth path"
So they went out together, and the pro-
lessons eyes cleaned when he saw the
ledge John pointed out. He said very lit
tie, though, and after he mad taken some
measurements and collected IL few spec-
mems they went back to the house.
Next day he said he was going away,
and he asked Mr.. and Mrs. Bascom how
much he owed them for his board and his
medicines
Land sakes, professor" said Mrs. Bias
com, "you don't Spose we could take your
money, do you? What little we We been able
to do for you is little enough for what you
did for us" And the farmer himself spoke
as earnestly, so the professor said no more
about money. In fact, he seemed SO well
pleased that Mr.. Bascom remarked it when
he was alone with his wife
Pears to me that there Professor
Hugo almighty skinny about money" he
said. "He was tickled to death eenamost
when he found he didn't have to pay moth
in"
John Bascom," exclaimed the good
woman, "you don't mean to stand there
and tell me you would take money from
the man that saved your own daughter )
life?'
"Don't be a fool Maria. 'Tain't likely
would, but I'd "a thought more of him
if he'd IA tried little harder to pay"
But there was another one in the family
who had no such thoughts. When Ella
Bascom babe the professor goodby, she
said, 81 never have really thanked you as
| want to, and l don't s'pose l ever can,
but | want you to know that l never eau
forget what you did and what you have
suffered for Inc. "
"Pish, pish!" said the professor careless
ly, though lie was well pleased. at was
nothing only my own stupid foot that all
the trouble made And l did for you very
little Only am glad, fraulein, that l
stuA} tie rocks that day" And he kissed
her gJodhy.