The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-11-06

skeered AT sight o. automobile In a
city street. never hayin seen either
one o. them or knowed what they was.
I:'s Ill In tie life you live. miss City
iolss come down here. an takes fright
~ tame little moody COW gCin along
mindin' lis own Dizziness: an We coun-
try folks. when We gets up there. Is
skeered plum into Ats at the trolley
cars II yon are raised under the feet
a. a COW. you don't mind her: ii
you've been raised TO get out from IN
der one O. them cow-catchers in front
O them trolleys. you kin get out from
under IT. with your life. an II you
sin't been. you can't It's all in the
tein' 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
'rith metic. Gaze 81 could do nothing al
sll with her when II 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 larned man his
Eelf: 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. IL 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
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 bowed themselves tired
in the woods. then dropped TO the
ground IN rested till il got time to
blow asin. I say. II was sort o re-
freshin' Huh"
Il never said word" | declared.
Not a solitary word"
Andrews blue-shirted shoulders
moved with a mighty shrng.
"Bein a woman" he explained. =.
happen TO know you're dyin' TO ask
some question or other, If you Amt
actually askin' O. il. SO | might jest
as well tell you the story o that there
ldLul iAoln rtdAt " nAiSh- ~ dtA
your curiosity will be gettin' the bet
ter o. you sooner or later, an you'll
be skeerin' o. the fish, a-bustin' Out
taikin.
las I said before, that yacht be-
longs TO old man Smythe, mp on the
hill"
His voice sank trifie lower. a mys-
terisus undertone IL was, though there
was 10 one but me TO hear.
They're getfin' it ready for his sor
Jeans w.ddin tower to foreign parts.
he finished. pausing for the space OF
some minutes to observe the effect
oh" | dared 10 calculate.
Yes. that's what they lie a-doin'
You see, old man Smythe want liks
81 Slocum. He made his son take al
the 'vantages D a college education
He sent him to about a dozen. il re
ports is true. which they mostly amt
You can't any more count on EN- thai
you kin count on ketchin' fish whel
there are wimen round talkin.
don't know how he happened TO sem
him to so many. unless he'd got ex
PEELED from. a few. They said thai
too. while they was a-sayin' things
Anyway, he come away from chem col
leges a great expert. they tell me. II
rowin' an swimmin' an playin' leap
frog or football. or whatever that Their
game is where they double each othe
into knots an set on EN- an breai
Ill ar
outright What is il you call it?'
Football" said
Tim, Football. Well. when he
finished them colleges he had splendi
muscles. they said. an face as BROW
as Beta Slocums. Yes. you wouldn'
want TO see a finer specimen o ma
than that Jean Smythe when he com
from college.
I'm, For all the Latin an Greek
them deceased languages they stu
EN- with at them there colleses-ther
want much more larnin' lookin' on
O. Jeans eyes than there was lookir
out o. Beth Slocum's. When you com
TO think O. IL. want Beth traine
about on the same principle. ceptir
she was trainin' herself with her row
fin an exercisin' in the open air. a
maxim o. herself strong What wa
the dif'rence? Money. That was al
4 fortune bein' spent on him an moth
!ng on her Takin' il all in all. though
they was a mighty fine pair, them tw
ath-ath--
Athletes volunteered. with som
timidity on account of the fish
Athletes. he repeated. drawing
coarse sleeve across a STUDY musiach
in an embarrassed way. Il always dis
remembers Jest how them city swell
calls the name. or how they pronounce
ii.
-I.eastways, after he'd finished ths
: there college trainin o hisn. Their
Was high old doin's all 'ronnd-th
New York mansion in the winter tim
with balls an parties an dancin. al
this here place on the sound in sun
mer. an SIGH a place. A p'latial res
Gence--thai was wha; them city swell
called it-with smooth. sheered gr.'
all round it. gate house big enoug
/. for a ordinary family, a conseryatoI
with glass windows. an a army
l~-.c,s e., laet, tho com mon herd Oh