Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1902-01-28
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You are somewhat !a4n= 10 come
10 50 sad Il decision said the inter
viewer. Possibly yen have had some
bitter personal experience Of the sex
which you woe.d lar1Iy care 10 sub
mir to the cold gaze 81 The Tet,5e."
.'Doa1 yea fret Yourself abens that,
Anything i tei sou E9a ss4n Use--on
the terms we arranged Ard | should
lot take tine risk II telling you aas-
thing | wanted you 10 Aesp 10 your-
self. As to my being young. / may be.
but I've seen good lit OF women.
And | say you may possibly like them.
and you may possibly admire them
for some things bur IN hanged If you
can trust them
Dear me-" said the interviewer.
And I'm not so precious easy taken
in as some chaps are. Now. there's
Tiison anythins's good
enough for him. l said to him one
day, Take three trfangles. all the same
size. and arrange them so as to make
the name of we'll known cricketer.
He asked me not to tell him and said
he believed he could do it. He made
mis- triangles and got to work. Later
on he came To me and said he was
pretty certain the name was Fry and
asked me if it wasn't. Well l said.
that would be telling you nearly all
of it, So he wouldn't be told and
said he'd bet he'd get it before the end
of prep. All through prep. he was
working at it as hard as be could so.
The triangles looked like Euclid at a
Js1.+. IeA a 1rft yof
COPIED. Besides, you can do what you
like in Piggy prep
Piggy inquired the interviewer.
.Piggott-one of the masters-he's no
good. Wen. after prep. Tilson owned
up that he couldn't do ii. What? +
said. Cant arrange three triangles SO
as to make the name of a well known
cricketeg: No said he. No more can
l., said L. And | never heard of any
body who could Then he chivied me,
and we got into the bootroom and
slung boots at one another until he
sent one through the window. He was
in proper row. too. next day because
he hadn't done any prep. oh, you can
always catnh Tilson."
(which things are in the nature of
depression" observed the interviewer
Mature of which? Well, I'm not
like Tiisan. and | know most catches.
But I've been taken in by women more
than once, and | don't trust any OF
them any more. Some time ago | used
TO get up TO the sickroom just before
going to bed. I'd got a cold and cough
and tickling in the throat. and the
matron gave me lozenges that weren't
bod FOR mo
that weren't half so decent to eat. So
I'd sit on the table and chew those
lozenges and say that day in bed
would put me right-though that never
came off. l used to talk. and she en-
couraged me to talk, and she used to
talk herself. II l thought the grub
wasn't quite up to the usual mark. I'd
mention it. I'd make criticisms on the
masters. I'd tell her about any special
little lark we were having. And she
used to listen to it all. and you'd hive
sworn she was on my side. Yet she
used to pass the whole blessed thing
on-pea ched regularly. There's a viper
for YOU
Thus early does one learn discre-
tion." observed the interviewer.
Not so blessed early either" said
James Robinson Il got done again
after that | didn't know then they
were all alike. | thought that matron
might be an exception 1t was in the
holidays when | was stopping at my
uncles at SafwoId. I've got three cous-
ms there-all girls-and they'd got an
other girl. friend of theirs. with
them. Her name was Dora Lemaine-
My uncle being the rector. he natural
iy corks me into his choir. where they
can't sing for bananas. and l do a
solo for them on Sunday. That was
the beginning. of course"
Why"
anybody who sings or plays pretty
well. This Dora Lemaine began to
take lot of notice of me. Consequent
~ | began to take some notice of her.
Some ways she wasn't bad
How old?''
'.She was a bit older than me. Per
haps about twenty-five. But il she'd
been all right in other ways I wouldn't
have let that interfere. l killed wa
ter hen with catty Chats thing !
bet you've never done) and gave her
the plumage for hat. Played tennis
with her. though she wasn't up to my
class Let her play my accompani-
ments. Exchanged photographs. Show
ed her how to make jumpers. Ran
five miles to catch the post in the next
village for her one night. She kissed
me once. Everything seemed to be all
right. And all that time she was max
ing game of me to my cousins q found
that out from the youngest Of them
and repeating particularly private
things that I'd said to her and sort of
jeering at me. What's more, she was
engaged. And that letter took to the
post for her was to the man. She's
married him now. When I was leav-
ing. she wanted to kiss me again. but l
wouldn't. No. you can't trust any wo-