The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

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big1iving room for their camping guests were
a common happening at which times Day
Y light allotted them their chores and saw that
they were performed For one who stopped
only for the night 1t different Likewise it
different with her brother back from Germany and
again able to sit horse. On his vacations he became
the third in the family, and to him given the
building of the fires, the sweeping and the washing
Of the dishes
DAYLIGHT devoted himself to the tightening of
Dede's Iabors, and it her brother who melted
him to utilize the splendid water power of the ranch
that was running waste 1t required Dayights
breaking of extra horses to pay for the materials and
the brother devoted three weeks vacation to assist
ing and together they Installed a Peton wheel Be
sides saving wood and turning his lathe and grind
stone Daylight connected the power with the churn.
but mis- great triumph when he put his arm
around Dedes waist and led her out to inspect
washing machine, by the Pelton Wheel which
really worked and really washed clothes.
Dede and Ferguson between them after patient
struggle, taught Daylight poetry that in the end
he might have been often sitting slack in the
saddle and dropping down the mountain trails through
the sun fecked woods chanting aloud Kipling's
'TOmlinsOn" Or when sharpening his axe, singing
into the whirIing grindstone Heneys Song of the
Sword" Not that he ever became consummateIy lit
erary in the way his two teachers Beyond Fra
Lippo Lippi' and "Caban and Setebos" he found
nothing in Browning, while George Meredith was ever
his despair. 1t of his own initiative however,
that he invested in a violin and practsed assidu-
ously that in time he and Dede beguied many happy
hour playing together after night had fallen
So all went well with this well mated pair. Time
never dragged. There were always wonderful
mornings and still cool twilights at the end Of
day; and ever thousand interests claimed him and
his interests shared by her. More thoroughly
than he knew had he to a comprehension Of the
found in little things all the inensites of gratffca
ton and desire that he had found in the frenzed big
things when he power and rocked half conti-
with the fury of the blows he struck With
head and hand, at risk of life and limb bit and
break a wild colt and win it TO the service of man
was TO him no less great achievement. And this
table which he played the game was clean
Neither lying nor cheating hypocrisy was here
The othe" game had made for decay and death while
this made for clean strength and life And
So he was content. with Dede at his side to watch
the procession of the days and from the farm
house per- he'd the canyon lip; to ride through
crisp frosty mornings or under burning summer suns
and TO shelter in the big where bIazed the logs
in the fireplace he had built while outside the world
shuddered and struggled in the storm clasp of south
easter.
once only Dedo asked him if he ever regretted and
his answer was to crush her in his and smother
ntT IIl'S Win MS his answer minute later took
speech.
Little woman if you did cost thirty millions
you are sure the cheapest necessity of life ever in
duIged in" And then he added:-"Yes l do have one
regret, and mOnstrOus big one. too. Id sure like
to have the winning of YOU all again I'd like to
go sneaking around the Piedmont hills looking for YOU
Id like to meander into those rooms of yours at
Berkeley for the first time And there's no use talk
ing. I'm plumb soaking with regret that can't mt
my arms around You again that time you leaned YOUR
head on my breast and cried in the wind and rain"