The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-01-02
By Lucille Baldwin Van Slyhe.

Derisive laughter greeted this remark. laughter.
that stopped abruptly Mr.. Richard called to his
son. u "f '.'
John, / should like you to come downstairs"
Jack came, awkwardly holding violin boz Ne
hind him. - '~'.". - =
Were you making that strange noise?"
eyes, l."
What have you in your hand?" 49,.
Jack held it out sulkily. :. -.
did or did not tell you last summer that you
were to leave that violin alone?"
"Tisn't your VIOLIN" answered Jack with curl
little light Of victory in his gray eyes. "It's
my very own !. ~ r.
"Your own" asked his bewildered father.
where did you get it?' '."'
"oh a fellow over in Oxford Street.
Indeed. Well, where did you get the money
to buy 1t with? "' ..
Didn't have money Just traded old truck for
it,"
'Well?" prompted his father -
you said you were tired Of their burrowing up
the lawn" began the boy virtuously, "And it was
a fierce job always feeding them and"
"Whyee," protested the indignant, Kate. Jack
Richard, you know those rabbits are half mine.
You've got right" -
They are not" retorted Jack hotly. You gave
up your half in: 'em for my letting you have all
the tennis racket for yours
'"Children, don't wrangie,' said Mr.. Richard
sharply us that all you gave this youth for the
fiddle, John?" j."
'"Most ALL stammered Jack, "Just some old
stuff. let him have my .year-before-last skates
'l-I-I w-w-w-want th.those sk-skates,' sobbed
the "baby'' suddenly. "You said you'd teach me
on EN- when it was winter You know you did"
II did not" denied Jack. II said If your feet
got large enough, and they aren't! And said If
you stopped being such cry baby and you're cry
ing now this minute :: II - -.. 49,. -:
THAT will d." interposed their father sternly.
"You will all keep still while John answers me-
Now, John, tell me exactly what you gave the boy
for this violin" f.. 3 ~':*': :~": -
9TH rabbits an tn old skates an I'VE of tn
old photograph records and my air rifle with the
broken barrel and the old hose you threw away
down to the stable and eight hundred and forty
two cigar coupous."s~. *.<@ go - ,~o'&E<&T
: Mr. Richards head went up in one, OF his rare
noise1ess laughs. '- >%..: 49,: r.: 50 81 =.
Jack grinned ID ok happily - 49,.
Honest lisa terrible good VIOLIN papa" he
said; Just take a look at the bow, It's an aw-
fully good bows it pulls just as easy! And the
boy gave me a whole lot of :rosin for nothing"
His father regarded the bow with a SIGH '
Run along" he said; but for Heavens sake
go into the storeroom chamber. Spot and can't
stand that unearthly racket if 1t is bargain
OF course Jack had dnly realized for some
years that true genius is appreciated at the
start, but the disloyalty of his immediate family
was q great: shock to him. He endured their
taunts with remarkable fortitude for he found a
solace for all his boyish woes in the storeroom
chamber. His mother, tender-hearted, came to
the rescue at length with a most charming and
surreptitfous arrangement for some LESSONS with
young student.
Il do not approve OF family secrets as a rule
she said. :.but really Jack your father does not
like to hear you play, and so IT. you will promise
never to practise when he is in the house I will
pay for the lessons" -:
To Betty he poured out his soul in these davis
Never before had he felt he hSl any secure hold
on that imperious little lady's affections: but in
this she thoroughly sympathized with him. The
day when Ned Henson's brother was prevailed upon
to admit him to- the sacred realms OF the orchestra
as substitute member, he marched to the corner
drug store and dropped precious nickel in the
telephone slot
Say, Betty he conhded rapturously "suess..
what's happened? He's let me in! That is, most
IN: can go to all the rehearsals, and I'm the
second-violin substituted -. ...:<:
''Do you think you'll get to be first before the
concert?" came IL happy tones over the wire. :
Well, not quite he confessed: but might
get to be the ehrst-violin substitute or the really
second violin. Say, can't tslk any more 'cduse
I'm in drug store. ! didn't call up At our house
for fear the kids would hear everything
= The clandestines thrill that came over the wires
was quite worth his extravagance: 90: -. 49,
: Nobody knows I'm taking to you either, gig
sled Betty. ~ shut the :hal door when you said
1t was you! I'm awtully proud Of you. bet every
'body: will be surprised to see Whit you can do:'
II guess they WILL exulted Jack. And look
here. Betty. anyhow I can set you and Nell those
tickets tor the concert. They're going tos have it
In the Hensons' new barn this year aud have jap
lanterns and lemonade and the Virginia reel and
whole slew Of things dong .-==>S s. - 81 I
The cruel interruption Of Central and the lack
of another nickel broke in upon the rapturous ac2
count Of air these anticipated joys, but the boy
rushed home to excited conferences with mother