The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-12-13

| so tnutn as a ban IaSIt III JIG
and who can beat every professional
steeplechase Jockey in Great Britain
a-riding hands down--have you come
to the part yet where he gets into
wrestling match with the champion
pugiIist of the globe, and hurls the
champion AZ feet through one OF the
walls of the tapesJried drawing-room
where the contest takes place. and"
"Oh," said Mrs. Jobson, still srnil
ing, there is nothing of that kind
either, in this"
"Ain't, hey?" shifted Mr. Jobson.
'Well, have you reached the chapter
yet where the young woman who haa
been sent TO girls school in the city
from a farm returns, after five years.
to the farm and is made weary by the
sight of the wrinkles on her pawn
neck and the clabber- covered aprons
worn by her poor old mother, and the
hired men in harvest time devouring
pies for breakfast, and where the
young woman, full of the inspiration
OF the higher and nobler and the in
fuence of alien environment. decides
that she will shake down the coin hid
in the crock on top of the pantry and
flee to the great city, wher' she viii
study to become a sculptress and mako
St. Gaudens and Canova and Thor
waldsen and few other cheap figure
| makers like that look like
But this work." interrupted Mrs.
Jobson again, rs really utterly diff
ferent from what you"
Still different, eh?' said Mr.. job
son. well, then, | suppose it has to
do with the scapegrace son Of the
enormously rich English ironmaster
who, after having engaged himself 70
the fourteenth daughter of one of the
poorer jukes of the realm, sees an
American girl at the running of the
Derby and straightway gets to moon
ing SO about her SO that he can't sleep
O. nights. AMI finally musters enough
nerve to 90 and tell the iuke about it,
and is spitted on the end of a rapier
at dawn i'm the iukc's trusty right
band for his raddishucss. and then"
"Nn. fear You have not yet"
"Na,yut hit the motif of that fine
bit of Sunday reading you've been
porting over vet. hcy?' went on Mr..
Johsou. still >triding up and down the
room. "NrN. it's probably one of those
hashac-u colonial stories, then, where
ONE George Washington. one time
7rcsi lent Of the United States is made
io fg.rrr I'm a whole LOT of idiotfc adj
ventures. or whore some huge Young
cub from ono of the American colonies
eors over ro England ON ship and
.rt- cautur,I bE ptrttr- four or five
me4 ON the way. which makes IL
nns,rnlc for him to have fricasrcd pf-
rate for breakfast every morning OF
Inc VOYAGE for quito "a long stretch Of
weeks. and when he gets to England
mo- makes such hit with the court
and with himself that an of the Young
Na,fafr bucks and HrIgrayfa blades
become Jealous of him. and "
"Ngajn" said Mrs. Jobson, 81 fear
Won have quite failed to guess just"
g "lJavc. eh2' said Mr.. ~oh-on. "All
right. IT'S probably enc OF those man
Hud WIFE. social study affairs, where
thr NlIr, "Iirr carefully king IL
''r comes I'D the conclusion that her
husband, WI" '~ the proprietor Of a
H'ar and pr, porous soap factory that
Yields him au income Of $4,000 per
'n'N0. MOST OF MWrh me spends on
g.. Where iNle NIir, ! say. comes TO
Nr conclusion mat her husband don't
know enough about the rSotfrlc and
hr occult, mnyh less Nh" DeiSarle sys-
''m ana the science If rrpoSe, and
hat the gradually thickening roll OF
at ON the back OF his neck IS becom-
ing w"art~"mc to her, anyhow, not TO