The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

At this outburst father hurriedly
clapped hand over my muoth and the
old farmer laughed heartily, Offering
me bright new silver dollar from
canvas sack of money he carried in his
deep trousers pocket. / took the dollar
and threw it over into a field we were
driving past. Father climbed out of
the wagon and recovered the coin apd
he looked pretty mad.
81 don't want it," / declared def
antly. "He wasn't kind to my papa
and he needn't try to make me love
him, for / WON'T"
whats the little chap driving
at. Frank" the old farmer wondered
"Oh, nothing, dad; don't pay any at
tention to him." said father, scowling
at me. 81 guess he's been spoiled with
fool fairy tales his mother reads TO him.
There's one about "A poor little orphan
boy who was greatly abused by his
stepparents, and l guess this young
man is pretending you're the stepfather
or something. But let's hurry along,
for l know mother will be anxious to
see u.s.
Well, l had nothing further to say
in the course of the drive to the farm.
just listened to father and that old
wretch talking as though they actually
liked each other. / couldn't understand
why father was so nice to him.
When we reached the farm and the
old farmers wife had finished hugging
me and stuffing big hot ginger cookies
into my pockets and telling the old
farmer how much l looked like Frank
when Frank was my age and wipng big
shiny tears from her wrinkled cheeks
| I of Sh I m see
the garnet where papa used to SLEEP
and the bucket where the ice was.
Garrett" questioned the farmers
wife. "Why. my darling, there ISM
any garnet in this house. Your papa
always slept in this nice warm bed
room right over the kitchen, where Il
was cozier and better than any gar
ret. We're sorry-wish we had a gar
ret. but the house wasn't built tina
way"
mo garrett? Well, then" persisted
In spite of fathers evident displeasure
; ''let me In the barn where you keel
the twenty horses and the herd OF kim
, and all the pigs and things"
, Twenty horses, Land sakes, sonny
, we are just plain farmers. We neve
had but four, and now we only kee
one. since your papa went away. Com
along with grandpop If you want to Sc
old Dobbin."
A The trip proved exceedingly beneficial
: to father. He never mentioned hi
a chldhood's hardships after that. A
o his stories from that time onwar
q painted him as a son OF ordinary coun
Q try folk who knew how to bring u
!. children. And these tales had a niue
/ more cheerful. ring to them, l though
o 1t must have been hard on father
( have all his standard fictions destroye
n at one fell blow so to say. | scarcel
e realized this at the time. but I do nov
r realize it more and more every time
= take the family back home to spend
= few days with the folks.
c Really, 1t seems that the further bac
you go in the family line the more r.
4 markablc memories you find. Father
e father, as already explained. had niue
r better memory than he. and j have n
v doubt his father back of him would hay
g ridlculed his tickle memory OF hazy de
e tails. II one could trace the line bac
$ TO the year one what a whale Of mem
Y DRY Adam would have had! And Adar
r probably got up early In the mornlnl