St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-08-27

/ and the sooner he left this campus,
where he found himself IN the position
/ OF a hippopotamus in drawing-room
the better. For the first time, he felt
himself standing in slippery places:
but the young woman laughed merrily.
Il am so rejoiced to find you, my old
| friend, still in the flesh"
| Eyes, am old Jack, still in the
flesh, and you are Miss"
| II am what you called me, and by
that sign knew it was you. I am
Dot. -
II beg your pardon! you are Miss
Dorothy Knox, the mighty president of
a most distinguished class, a bach elor
Of arts, with your flowing robe, and
| mortar-board tassel hanging on the
proper side, and most remarkable
career before you"
She made him mock courtesy
Where did you learn SO much? And
may / ask what have you been doing
with yourself all the morning?"
| s."As, to the learning / have been to
school; and for the rest, skipped stones
on the placid pond!"
And didn't you see me graduate ?"
No, Ibid not6e you take your de-.
gree ~ 2. - -
t"And you didn't hear. the address?
It was wonderful It was about
Ruskin."
.Rushin, Who's he"
\ * nian- ES asrsg
81 am glad to hear IT, hope he
knew enough to keep in his place. " " .
HE knew enough to make his place,
which is better
"OR is it9"y".t ..' - sc~
you know it is, for you have made
your own place."
"Of course, you! Don't you suppose
I've heard about you, and your doings,
and your goings on. Don't you sup
pose I'VE swelled with pride remem-
bering that big and mighty you, car
ried little Insignificant me, over mud
puddles to school, and"
ooh, say! did yea remember that?"
His voice trembled.
"Could ever forget it; and how you
waded into the big pond and pulled me
out, after I'd gone down the third
time? 1t always seemed to. me as If
the black water covered you that day,
for you left, and I never heard one
word in Is years.. It is you who for
got" .@
mo, Dot, never forgot"
'Why did you never write to meT'
4 IT never learned how to write prop
erriy.o
"Oh!" she was doubling with laugh
ter. q 81 +
"And never felt sure of my capital
letters, and I can't punctuate, to save
my Nfe.' Fl
"Punctuate! 1t issa mercy you have
one resource left. You can skip
stones! But ten me, how came you
here this day."
Yon 2unlst know that FIN . l0rt sofd
wil1-o-the-wisp. had been making
Investigations along the Alaskan |
range and at Seattle had an impor-
'tant call east, so here am"
:, %..And. SO had nothing whatever to |
doWith it," She buried her face in a
bunch Of American Beauties. "If |
things hadn't come to me as they did,
L. might have had more strength to /
meet it."
Things come to you as they did!
What things? To meet what !''*'--
Eyes, things in the way of disaster,
SORROW"
Disaster, sorrow to you?"
Everything. Father went first;
then mother because her heart was
broken. Only Nell was left
NELL" He had forgotten Nell
Where is Nell?"
Teaching summer school in Penn
sylvania. She. would have been with
me to-day, but We couldn't AFFORD it,
Couldn't afford it! l thought
you
you thought we were what we are
not. All that was in the old, old life
I seem to have lived 100 years since
then. Everything went. Every
thing!" @ 49,
John Robinson felt the ground more
solid under his feet.
She turned to him all at once face
radiant. He thought she was the most
vital woman God ever made. la
when you lose everything and have
that is the time to find your
self, and before you know 1t You have
nil things and abound. We found our
selves; we learned to do things; we
wrote, we taught, we got scholarships.
Nell enters sophomore next October.
am proud Of Nell.
'And you, Dot: Why didn't you tell
me you Notwithstanding -for-this
day especially ?"
Tell the man In the moon! All
the rest had their home friends.
had nobody, not one of my blood; act
one of the lid life. Don't We need
strength to c1rry US through, when It
zones Us That! Strangely nough I Y
had been thinking of YOU all Gle night,
and all the morning; in fact. all this
week"