The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-12-28

a smile. Il should not like 20 have 4
give up what once you have uRa
taken TO do"
.Thsrs you'd like me to add IN
nnce. Now I want Z ask you a cd
ton. Does being neat mean weaa
n stitf collar and a white shirt {
keeping my shoes blacked7~
Il should think SO"
Well I can't do a."
You car do Il. You may not u
to ysry muesS
Try again"
Suppose Tom tells mo to take a '
neck 40 I can't nod7'
Don't hear him"
"Ycs. I will. and pound him. too"
welly'
why. OF course. when you look a, I
like that I'll try ~ I die In the attend
and. taking n pencil from his pocket
recorded his two VOWS.
on the following day Jimmie went I'd
town and bought n n~slf-dozen white sd
rrd a. many COLLARS.
'ft don'i want any hnlf-high cold
| c!thCg." ~ said 20 the clerk. II wan d
u.ar chokcTs. Death can't come any 4
ruIa 60 a fellow that has 10 wear Il
things. want rood POINTS TO them. "a
y hrH h appeared NJ dinner. his Il
Fcii l-Eh ard his chm acraping the I'D
I az every movement OF his head. The I'D
ta.aiiy looked the Agnazcment that Il
DJt dare ~Icat. Something IN JlEns|
r=i -D-F.cG forbade a..
NisI urrsi,ing regularity. his Rnsui
gr.!. "NCg mother" NO. father" and
~ --Cl D., head moved s~usplc.ousiy 1
- IT, 49, - ~. ab.lr. ....wa .MW.N-- 4
la,y -. Ca-@ht himself and the Wsj
: sa..t'la 't'f"c 70 rave him. Eva dccarl
! 20 he. moth. - hour later that her ID
aLI neck achsa for Jimmie. and on "a
= 4 c;ccc,rE day through the week \
, w...G.l fer Saturday.
SUrrly Jimmie would put on his old =
ten bxirt for Saturday" she told her mssA
cr In another outburst OF suffering. Al
Z he does. III Just hug him. I Ike 4
giouchy old Jimmie n hundred times u
ter than I 10 this high-collared "a
ENa.cd' bog We a now"
But Saturday brought no change
Jlmmic's attire. and still no one dars
speak 10 him about Il. Jimmie went 90 \
room earlier N the evening now than J
used 20 do. and during the summcr J
spent many m hour alone In his rot
with his door locked. The year wore :
and nnal:y tn. 3ist OF December. isos. a
como and was almost gone. a party
young people had gathered at the hosi
OF the wilson's 10 watch the old year o
but iust before the clock struck u Jimri
touched his mothers arm. and togc,si
they slipped OF TO his room.
Going 10 the table drawer he took q
the lii:Ic book. and. opening u 20 the ~
on which he had written his r~esolut.0n
A.. $1,000 AZ 49, sA. kla aWA w~.lN@N n
the clock to strike. when the last sou
had died away he look his pencil al
wrote across the page Victory" Then
slowly removed his high collar And thr
Il into his mothers lap. Standing dircc.
In front OF her. he said:
Mother. ask me II / am glad that J
has arrived"
She rer<,ated tho question. and Jlm=
deliberately nodded his head three times
Now. ask me IL I am going to make a
more New Years resolutions"
She asked this question. n he sho
his head three times. from, right 10 u
Then he broke into n hearty laugh.
II just wanted 10 sec n I knew hos
do It," no said. 81 used 10 come OF
here and take on my collar and res, .
head and mech. but never onee did D
my head. Now. I think I can rcmeme
to say yes and no. but I've bought n box
new collars. and they arc not high OF
either"
He produced a bon filled with the col
Portable turnover kind. and. selecting Of
put II on. Then he said: I'VE had b
ter 90 downstairs. They have missed
but don't say n word about this."
Tell ms n thing more" sad
mother as they started down "How
you manage TO remember not to o -
head. Jimmie laughed again.
"Oh. my collars always managed u
for mo " hg said u