Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-13
There it was fat and plain.

1 There it was flat and plain. l Mamma told me yesterday that if l did not discourage you she would 1 speak to you herself But what can she have against me?'
 She says she's going to take me 1 abroad next year and have some lord l or duke fall in love with me. Oh, Will 1 I wish mother wasn't such a goosel'' And you'll give me up to marry a l title?''
 ''N-o, and yet I must do as mother says, mustn't IT If you only go and do something heroic. Can't you save mothers life in some way? Can't some great danger threaten her and ] you rescue her2''
 Will Pelham had known Glynn l Burnham for a year or more, and he had been engaged to her for the last three months. though it was a secret engagement
 He lived in the city and had gradu- ated as a mining engineer and was looking for a place, He had no money to speak of, but those who knew him spoke in his praise. He had an uncle living near the widows country house, fifteen miles out, and he had been coming down tC see that uncle every Saturday afternoon and finding his way over to the other house
 The mother had never had a very warm welcome for him. Now she had put her foot down. She wanted a rich titled son-i Jaw. He must not call wouldn't elope with him he must give her up. While he was holding down a place in Montana or Nevada, a thousand miles away, she would be taken off to Europe to captivate some old man with a title and the gout
 Miss Glynn was fearful and he was sad at the parting, though neither looked at it as final. It was too sudden. Two human hearts cannot be parted that way. They must have time to get accustomed to the separation.
 On his way over to his uncle's young Mir. Pelham noticed the proud and ambitious mother in the meadow culling daisies, She had gone forth to give the daughter an opportunity to repeat her words.
 Forty rods farther along the nigh way he noticed brindle COW looking over the fence at the widow and shaking her head and giving other signs of anger.
 Only civil or mining engineer, whose profession it is to surmount all surface, would have stopped for five minutes to wonder how to bring that brindle COW and that ambitious woman together. He looked at the woman as she culled at the COW as she mumbled at the solitary tree in the pasture and he decided that it could be done.
 He went home to ask his uncle
 Who owns that old brindle COW over there?''
 Why, Griggson does. I meant to tell you about her Don't try to cross that field. She pretty nearly killed two tramps this summer
 That was enough for a starter, and Will sat down to figure the rest out to scale. This would be an above ground affair, but there would be some points to solve.
 For instance; How fast can a brindle COW run? How much faster than a brindle COW can a young man in love run? What are the first i'm pressions of an ambitious mother at seeing a brindle COW coming for her in an open lot? Would her second impression bid her climb the tree within a few yards of her? Can a young man in love run around the trunk of a tree faster than a brindle COW not in love?
 engineering problem before the young man, but he had a week to work at them before coming again, and there was a hopeful smile on his face.
 He knew by letter what had hap pened after he left the house The mother had come in with her bouquet of daisies and said:
 T saw that person passing along the
 Then we may consider the matter
 ''Yes, mamma"
 You told him what I asked you to ?''
 Yes"