The Press., 1896-01-16

SCHOOL! why @sk my69N so SA44y QueS- N@1 That childAs face futters in my bosom. Look here, MT. Mr.-Andrews-I never credited you with having much sound sense; but. hang it, sir, you are disappointingP
 He sank into a reverie, half in the darkness of sleep and half in the light of consciousness, as the slowly waving sun glints on his face. The boughs ceas- ed waving and he slept, dark shade ly- ing on his countenance.
 "Come on and let's eat a snack P' cried old Bradshaw. He had just turned loose the old gray nare-yea, had just dealt her blow witfS the bfSdle, still holding a memory of her ingratitade.
 Andrews started up, and, as if he would rub of the dark shade, passed his hand over his face. '"AlI niRht, he answered. "l'l be with you in moment. "
 Old Mrs. Bradshaw hummed sacred tune as Ghe assisted her daughter in putting the dishes on the table. Her face was radiant with the indescribable light of Q Christian hope and her eyes were, aQlow with thersoft teffulRence of her souls tranquility.
 "You appear to be happy" Andrews said as he approached the table.
 "YeS, for feel now that am elect ed. The clouds have been mighty dark, but the: sun shined out at last. I'm afraid that you won't find the dinner to 70 hkin, suh, but Miss Madam has done. the best she can,o reckon. D
 If I knoWed that l was elected, |" said the old man. softly chuckHng, Git wouldn't make no difference whuther a body liked my dinner or not"
 "Now, pap, you Oughen to talk that way, and you know it. It. do seem to me sometimes that you would make fun of anything on the face of the yeth. But reckon you can't help it. reckon 1t was jest bachully borned in you. MT. Andrews, you must help yo self and net wait for pap, for he never was a hand to help body"
 Well" replied the old fellow, "this is the first I ever heard of that. I'll help his plate as fast as he can empty it, and Chat is about all anybody can do,"
 CHAPTER ILL
 The days passed, but Andrews said nothing more about taking the school, marked that it would be better to wait until the corn should be laid by" Old Bradshaw and his wife appeared to be much pleased with him. At evening and sometimes at noon he would read Spnrgeon's sermons to them from tat tered book that had mysteriously found its way into the neighborhood, and the old man, with his chair tilted back against the wall, never failed to go to sleep, and his wife never failed to chide him. The visitOt essayed to show his usefulness in more than one way, and once he made pretense of helping Miss Madam and Little Dave hoe a piece of creek bottom corn where the land had been broken up" wet and which was too cloddy to be plowed, but the heat of the sun soon drove him in the shade. The girl laughed gleefully at his lack of endurance and said that he ought to wear sunbonnet and tic it under his chin as she did. The boy did not langhs nor did he express the contempt he felt, fearing that he might arouse Andrews' pride and thereby nerve him to the de- termination of overcoming his ayersiOm for the toi1some employment. AndEy1Vs went into the deep woods and sat a s loR 1n A'anaN, new made clearin hsre ! a lank and stoop ahouIdered man waa irving olapboards. # f
 l'sDen 't,ereckonf you ever dons aly work qf this sort, r said the man
 No don't think eyer did
 ''You don't think SOP Why, If you'd ever have done ih yop'd know is hla1nsd we'll, and there Wouldn' t be any think in about it E You are stoppin t RrasilA Ghaw 8, ain t you?'' %f<2
 ''Yes." & T4
 ''Hearn you axe goin to taks up . school" fE
 II was thinking of doing so.i' @7'~2
 "You was thinkin so, eh? You don t, pear to know nothin for certain. Jest soetar think so all the time. Don't see believe I'd sign for more'n a third of a scholar. .Waal, I must lba goin. Hope ,yop've got senss enough to find the way out of here"
 He took up bis frow and slouched himself away, and Andrews, stretching himself on 8 log, unused and doEed in the shade. lu1led by the soft, varying and never familiar harmonieS of a thousand buzzings, as farof and as sub dued as an echo and yet as close as 8 cong poured directly into the ear. A Epstling of the dry leaves on the ground startled him, and looking up he saw Miss Madam coming toward him.
 "We'vo got that piece of corn done," she said, "'and ain't got nothin to do now but go after the cows and drive 'em home" :"
 "Sit down and rest yourself" !"1 Ain't very tired, " she rejoined, seating herself on the log.
 "But you must be nearly roasted with that hot sunbonRet.
 ' II am pretty warm. She took of her bonnet aud sat swinging it by the strings.
 "Y0u were never m town, were yOu1"
 ''N0, not exactly, hut went with pap once when he went way over on tho other side of the ridge to vote, and we eat dinner with Q man that lived thar, and jest before we started home we saw some men get into fight and one of them was cut nearly all to pieces with knife. reckon they do worse than that in a regular town whar they vote all the time. Papsays that he wouldn't live in 2 town and he has been thar, bus he knows that some of the people that live thar are good and kind, for the jedge and his wife1 that give pap and mother the hoss muf have lived in town, but Little Da, says that he bet he didn't, but Little Dave is mighty briggity sometimes ] ! must go on after the oows." .:
 "I will 90 with you"
 II am goin with her," said Little Dave, coming ont of the bushes.
 "Why. how como you here9" she cried.
 "How come you hereH'' he aGked. ~
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