Newport daily independent., 1903-11-06

one O theTT or knowed what they was. It's all in the life you live, miss. City folks come down here, an takes fright al tame little moody COW goin' along mindin' it's own Dizziness; an we coun- try folks, when we gets up there is skeered plum into fits at the trolley "ars. If you are raised under the feet O a COW, you don't mind her; if you've been raised to get out from un- der one O them cow-catchers in front O them trolleys, you kin get out from under it with your life, an if you ain't been, you can't It's all in the hein' used to things. That's half the battle. an more.
 Maybe, when all was said an done. that gal Beth was leetle more afraid than she might a been O readin' an 'rithmetic cage Si could do nothing at all with her when it come to goin' to school an larnin' out O books an that Not to say he tried so hard, not bein what you might call q larned man his self; but he could a tried harder. But accordin' to my notion, now in these days, when gals knows as much about books an things as all their great gran mothers put together, it was sort O relief, seemed like, to come across a gal like Beth Slocum, what didn't know nothing, an didn't pre- tend to know nothing, but the earth 1 an the sea an the air an the clouds, | an the shells that growed all over the beach thick as the pebbles, an the | flowers that blowed themselves tired in the woods, then dropped to the | ground an rested till it got time to hlow ag'in. I say, it was sort O re- | freshin Huh?"
 q never said a word," I declared. l Not a solitary word"
 Andrews blue-shirted shoulders moved with mighty shrug.
 "Bein' a woman" he explained, 'I happen to know you're dyin' to ask some question or other, if you ain't actually askin' O it; so 1 might jest as well tell you the story O that there yacht from start to finish. If 1 don't, your curiosity will be gettin' the bet ter O you sooner or later, an you'll be skeerin O the fish, a-bustin' out tallxin
 AS I said before, that yacht be- longs to old man Smythe, up on the hill"
 His voice sank trifie lower, mys- terious undertone it was, though there was no one but me to hear
 They're gettin' it ready for his son Jeans weddin'-tow to foreign parts" he finished, pausing for the space of some minutes to observe the effect.
 "Oh!" l dared to ejaculate.
 Yes, that's what they be a-doin'. You see, old man Smythe want like | Si Slocum. He made his son take all the 'vantages O a college education. He sent him to about a dozen, if re- ports is true, which they mostly ain't. You cant any more count on 'em than you kin count on ketchin' fish when there are wimen round talkin'. don't know how he happened to send him to so many unless he'd got eX- | pelled from a few They said that, too, while they was a-sayin' things. Anyway, he come away from them col leges a great expert, they tell me, in rowin' an swimmin' an playin' leap frog or football, or whatever that there game is where they double each other into knots an set on 'em an break their backs, when they don't kill 'em outright What is it you call it?"
 Football, I said.
 'Um! Football Well, when he'd finished them colleges he had splendid muscles, they said, an face as brown | nafh e xrntt 11r,ft want to see a finer specimen O man than that Jean Smythe when he come from college.
 "Um! For all the Latin an Crock them deceased languages they stuff 'em with at them there colleges-there want much more larnin' lookin' out O Jeans eyes than there was lookin' out O Beth Slocum's, When you come | to think O it, want Beth trained about on the same principle, 'ceptin she was trainin herself with her row | in an exercisin' in the open air, a. maSin' O herself strong? What was | the diff'rence? Money. That was all A fortune bein spent on him an noth- ing on her Takin' it all in all, though they was Q mighty fine pair, them two l ath-ath-"
 Athletes" I volunteered, with some timidity on account of the fish.
 Athletes" he repeated, drawing a coarse sleeve across a stubby mustache in an embarrassed way. T always dis remembers jest how them city swells calls the name, or how they pronounces | it.
 "Leastways, after he'd finished that there college trainin' O his'n, there was high old doin's all round-the New York mansion in the winter time, with balls an parties an dancin', an | this here place on the sound in sum- mer, an sich a place! A p'latial resi- dence-that was what them city swells called it-with smooth, sheered grass all round it, gate house big enough | f,,- ,wdfparxr Fa m Ivy poncorxoto,.x-