The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-11-05

storms an bl9ckneoo an night, though
amt sayin' she mightn't q been
ekeered ct sight o. automobile In q
city street, never havin' seen either
ons, q them or knowed what they was.
IT, III IN tho life you live. miss. City
folks come down here. an takes fright
~ Q tame little moody COW goin' along
mindin' its own Dizziness; an We coun-
try folks. when We gets up there, II
skeered plum into Ats 1t the trolley
cars. II you are raised under the fest
o. cow, You don't mind her; Il
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 IL you
amt been, you can't It's all in the
bein' 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 O. been o. readin' an
'rithmetic, Gaze 81 could do nothing at
ell with her when 1t come to sgoin' to
school an larnin' out o. books an that.
Not to say he tried SO hard, not bein'
what you might call 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 q
sort o. relief, seemed like, to come
across q gal like Beth Slocum, what
didn't know nothing, an didn't pre-
tend to know nothing, but the earth
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
blow ag'in. I say, 1t was sort o. re-
freshin'. Huh?''
Il never said word" I declared.
"Not q solitary word"
Andrews blue-shirted shoulders
moved with mighty shrug.
"Bein' woman" he explained, II
happen to know you're dyin' to ask
some question or other, IL you amt
actually askin' o. It; SO might Jest
as well tell you the story o. that there
yacht from start to finish. II I 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
talkin'.
"As I said before. that yacht be-
longs to old man Smythe, up on the
hill.''
His voice sank trifie lower, mys-
FERROUS undertone 1t was, though there
vas no one but me to hear.
They're gettin' it ready for his son
Jeans weddin'-tower to foreign parts"
he finished. pausing for the space Of
some minutes to observe the effect.
'.Oh!" dared to calculate.
eyes, that's what they be a-doin'.
You see. old man Smythe want like
81 Slocum. He made his son take all
the 'vantages o. college education.
He sent him to about dozen, IL re-
ports is true, which they mostly amt.
You can't any more count on 'em than
you kin count on ketchin' fish when
there are wimen round talkin'. 1
don't know how he happened to send
him to SO many, unless he'd got ex-
PEELED from a few. They said that,
too. while they, was a-sayin' things.
Anyway, he come away from them col-
leges great expert, they tell me, in
rowin' an swimmin' an playin' leap
frog or football, OF 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 1t you call it?"
Football" /. said.
.'Um! Football. Well, when he'd
finished them colleges he had splendid
muscles, they Bald, an face as brown
as Beth Slocum's. Yes, you wouldn't
want to see q finer specimen O. man
than that Jean smythe when he come
from college.
"Um! For all-the Latin an Greek
them deceased languages they stuff
'em with at them there colleges-the
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.
maxim o. herself strong? What was
the difference? Money. That was all.
A fortune bein' spent on him an moth
ing on her. Takin' it all In all, though.
they was mighty fine pair, them two
ath-ath-''
Athletes volunteered, with some
timidity on account Of the fish. 4
Athletes" he repeated, drawing a
coarse sleeve across stubby mustache
in an. embarrassed way. II always dis
remembers jest how them city swells
calls the name, or how they pronounces
! it.
1"Leastways. after he'd finished that
there college trafnin' 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 soundsin SUM
mer, an SIGH q place! "a p'latial resi-
dence that was what them city swells
called it-with smooth, sheered grass
i all round IT. gate house hia enough