The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09

And now / see all the smooth frauds.
all the weak people who never have
or passions worthy of die
name, all the iiuicSy fiager-dusting
gentry with tine I'm souls" who fiat
ter themselves that theft tilnidity is the.
sQuearuishaess OF superior sensibilities
Il see a1l these feeble folk Tutoring
their feeble fingers in horror of hue.
1.-The brute!' they cry the bounder!.
Well, j accept the names quite cheer
fully. Those are the epithets the wlsly-
washy always flurl at the strong; they
put me in the small n truly aristro-
cratic class of men who do. L proud
ly avow myself no subscriber to the
code that was made by the shearars
to encourage the sheep to keep on pellS
nice doeile animals, trotting meekly up
to be shorn or slaughtered as their mas
tiers may decide. ] harm no man, and
no woman; but neither do | pause to
weep over any man or any woman VINO
filings himself or herself upon my steady
spear. / try to be courteous and con-
siderate to all: but | do not stop when
some fellow who has something that be-
longs to me shouts Rude! at me to
sheer me off.
At the same time her delicate beauty,
her quiet. distinctive, high-bred man
ner, had thrust it home to me that in
certain respects l was ignorant and
crude-as who would not have been,
brought up as was 1? L knew there
was. somewhere between my ~roughness
of the uncut individuality and the
srnoothness of the planned and sand
papered nonentity of her set a mean
better thar either, better because more
efficient.
When this was clear to me 1 sent for
my trainer. He was n of those spare,
why Englishmen, with skin like tanned
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the bones seem about to push their
sharp angles through, and there a
frosty, winter apple red. He dressed
like a Deadwood gambler, he talked like
q stable boy; but for all that, o
couldn't fail to see he was a gentleman
born and bred. Yes, he was a gentle
man, though he mixed profanity into
literally than did l When in a rage.
I stood up before him, threw my coat
back, thrust my hu1nb into my trous-
ers pockets and slowly turned about
like a ready-lnade tailor's dummy.
-Monson," said 1, what do you think
OF me?"
He looked me over as if I We're a
horse he was about to buy. Sound, I'd
say was his verdict. Good wind
good wind. A goer, and n
.stayer. Not a lump. Not a hair out
OF place. He laughed. action a bit
high perhapa-for the track. But a
grand reach
II know all that said I. You miss
my point. Suppose you wanted to en-
ter me for-say, the Society sweep
~Stakes-what then"
"Un1-um," he muttered r~efiectively.
That's different"
Don't / look-sort of-new-as if the
Varnish was still sticky and might come
off on the ladies' dresses and N the
Rne furniture.
"Oh-that!' said he obviously. But
oil those kinds of things are matters of
taste
stOut with it," I commanded. Dom
be afraid. I'm not one of those damn
fools that ask for criticism when they
know by his time. I'm aware of my
good points, know how good they are
better than anybody else in the world.
And l suspect my weak poin,s-always
did. I've got OIL chiefly because made
people tell me to my face what they'd
rather have grinned over behind my
back"
What's your gameo" asked Monsoon.
I'm in the dark"
"Ill tell you, Monson. 1 hired you to
train horses. Now l al to hire you
to train me-. too. AS it's double work,
IT'S double pay"
Say on" said he, and say it slow
E L Nd1lI Y lAslIAJ, l. ShPietIiSNi. L
want to inspect all the offerings before
e decide. You are to rain me so thai /
ran go among the herds that'd shy Off
from me if I wasn't on to their little
ways"
He looked suspiciously at me, doubt
tess thinking this some new develop
,ment OF american humor.
ct mean it," l assured him. I'm go
Ting to train. and train hard. I've got
go time to lose. 1 must be on my way
DOWN the aisle inside of three months
I give you a free HAND I'll do just what
you say"
trrhe jobs out of my line" he pro-
tested.
II know better" said I. I've always
Been the parlor under the stable in you.
We'll begin right away. What do you
think of these clothes?'
"Well-they're not exactly noisy" he
said. "But-they're far from silent.
gave me anothe nervous, tilnid look.
He found it hard to believe a man of
gny sort, SO self assured, would stand
h truth from a man of his second
fiddle sort.
go on!' 1 commanded. Speak out!
Mowbray Langdon had on one twice
as loud the other day at the track"
~But, perhaps you'll remember, it
was only his waistcoat that was loud
mo- be himself Now, q man of your
n n voice and-you've got a
look out of the eyes that'd wake the
Aead all by itself. People can feel you
coming before they hear you. When
they feel and hear and see all together
Its like a brass band in scarlet uni
form, with a seven-foot, sky-blue drum
major. If your hair wasn't so black
and your eyes so steel-blue and sharp,
and your teeth so big and strong and
white, and your jaw such a-such "a
jaw
II see the point said 1. And 1 did.
you'll find you won't need to tell me
many things twice. I've got a busy day
before me here; so We'll have to sus-
pend this until you come to dine with
me at Sat my rooms. I want you to
put in the time well. Go to my house
I'm the country n then up to my
apartment; take my valet with you;
look through all my belongings-shirts
ties, socks, trousers, w~aistcoats, clothes
of every kind. Throw out every rag