The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-25
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slanted swiftly down. to climb once
more In u huge spiral to It's high tower
OF sky.
Perhaps II wondered, as It's tele.
scope eye looked down That had
been It's choicest covert. that DISNEY.
eled tangle where the birds held per.
petual carnival. the weasel lurked In
the underbrush and the rabbit lined
his windfall. Now the wildncss was
gone. a pergola, g%ltstening white. now
upheld the runaway vines. making a
s~ickle.like path from the upper ter.
a C. 10 the lake. In the barn loft the
pigeons still quarrelled over their new
cotes OF fresh pine. and under n clump
OF locust trees at n little distance from
the house, a half.dozen dolls cabins
on stills stood waiting the honey.stor.
age OF the black and gold bees.
There yer new d%enizens. also.
These had arrived In a dozen zinc
tanks and willow hampers. TO the
amaze OF n sleepy express clerk at the
railroad station: w swans now sailed
majestically over the lily.ponds OF the
lake. along It's gravel rim and a pair
OF bronze.colored ducks waddled and
preened. and Its placid surface rippled
and broke to the sluggish backs OF
goldfish and the flirting fms OF red
Japanese carp.
The house itself wore another air,
It's look CT unkemptness had largely
vanished The soft gray one OF age
remained. but the ~bleakness and for
lornness were gone; there was about
all now a warmth and genial bearing
that limited at mellowed beauty. fire.
light and cheerful voices within.
Valiant hcayed a long sigh OF salts.
faction AS he stood in the sunlight gaz.
ing at the results OF his labors. lie
was not now the Hippant bouleyardler
to whom money was the sine qua non
OF existence. He had learned a sover.
eign lesson-one gained o through
the push and hght OF crowds. but In
the simple peace Of n countryside. un.
vexed By the Clamor OF gold and the
complex problems OF a competitive ex.
istence-that he had inherited a need
OF activity. OF achievement that he had
been born to do.
'Chum.'' he said, TO the dog rolling
IN his back In the grass, what do
you think OF II all. anyway" He
reached down, seized n hind leg and
whirling him around like n teetctum,
sent him flying into the bushes.
whence Chum launched again upon
him. like a catapult. lie caught III.
white shoulders and held him Wise like
Just about right. Ell? But wait TN
we get those ramblers,"
And to think" he continued. within.
sically releasing him. that might
have gone on, n OF the little.neck.
clam crowd I've always trained with
at the same old pace, till the Yer,
mouth.cocktail. palm.Bcach career go,
n double Nelson on me and the umpire
counted me II Al this moment
wouldn't swap this old house and land
and the sunshine and that 'gyarden
and inc jefferson and Aunt Dapt
and the chickens and the birds and
all the rest OF II. for n mile OF Nil
lionaires' Row"
lie went into the house and to thu
library. The breeze through the wide
flung bow.window was f~uttcring tn,
papers on the desk and the map or
the wall was Mapping sidewise II,
went TO s%traighten II. and then saw
what he had not noticed before-tha'
II covered something hat had been lei
into the plaster. He swung II aside
and made an exclamation.