The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-01-15
CASE OF TIT FOR TAT
BY B. c. ROGERS.

child in the family is more or less OBJ
stinate and is certain to be selfish.
Mr.. Lynn Stafford was an only child
He didn't have to divide his sweetcake
and jam with anybody If peanuts
were brought into the house, they all
belonged to him. If he wanted to kick
the poodle or maui the cat that was
his privilege.
Master Lynn ran the family and the
house and the neighborhood until he
was about thirteen years old. Then
he got a check-several checks. He
fought the boys to have his own way,
and he got licked every time he
fought.
Miss Mamie Holden was another
''only." She had the same doting pa
rents. She would have her own way
or bite and scratch and yell, and so
she was given her way. She became
naughty and snobbish and conceited,
but the remedy was at hand. She
found the small girls of the neighbor-
hood equal to the emergency.
At twenty-three years old Mr. Lynn
up an Office at Meadow Park. 1t was
more to please rich old aunt than be-
cause he was in love with the profess
sion and was anxious to win success.
Having no professional calls to
make, Mr.. Stafford took things very
easy. The first thing on the days
program after breakfast was a horse
back ride.
Miss Mamie Holden also had pro-
gram, and that program also included
4 horseback ride when the weather
would permit
1t was a beautiful June morning
when score of citizens of Meadow
Park assembled in front of the inn.
When the horse the doctor rode came
walking out of the stable on his hind
feet. He paved the air. He squaled
He kicked. He ran at Simon Green,
the grocer, and snatched the hat off
his head. Then he kicked at the COOP
er, squealed at the blacksmith, and
went dancing down the river road
Only the cook, the maid and the
mother saw Miss Mamie mount her
horse and ride away that morning.
The steed contented himself with
vaulting a fence, kicking over an ash
barrel, and climbing a telephone pole.
There is magnetic influence that
draws people together. If it were not
SO the professional bill collector would
never come face to face with some
debtors. This magnetism is stronger
when the sexes are opposite. DR.. Stat
ford never had met the Holden girl
The Holden girl did not know DR.. Stat
ford from roll of calfskin.
Why didn't the doctor take the Clay
ton instead of the river road when
his horse danced out of the stable?
Why didn't Miss Mamie take the
Willow Creek instead of the river road
when her horse got through with the
telephone pole?
DR.. Stafford had slowed his horse
down to walk after run of couple
of miles, and was breathing deeply
and viewing crow sitting on the
fence, when he heard hoofbeats. 1t
was Miss Mamie coming up, and her
horse had bolted Just past the doctor
she ran the animal into thicket and
stopped him without being dismount-
ed. AS she regained the road the doc
tor advanced, and said:
"He seems a dangerous beast for
young lady to ride"
II don't think SOL"
Magnetism works like a sawmill
when once started The next morning
II, to
the river road. She had gone about
three miles when a great clatter caus-
ed her to look back. Coming on the
dead run was the doctor on his horse.
The horse had the bit in his teeth and
had bolted. Just past the girl he was
refined into a thick growth Of hazelnut
bushes, and after f1oundering around
for spell he got his horse sense back.
HE seems dangerous beast for
young man to ridel" observed Miss
Mamie as she advanced to where the
doctor sat his saddle with Inundated
look on his face
"A rabbit ran out Of the brush and
across the road" he sullenly explain
ed
were bad weather for riding, {
and neither horse was taken out. On t
the fourth morning, however, things
we're all right, and as the horsewoman ]
rode through the village she knew
that she was the first one out. She {
was ambling along, keeping sharp t
eye on her horse for tricks, when DR.. i
Stafford came laundering down upon t
her. 1t was another bolt She pulled t
Ter steed back to give the other room Q
% pass, and had her mouth all fixed to z
,all out: Il told you sol" when the t
lorse seized the bit and was off like +
leer. And the boiling horses turned |
'ut for farmers load of hay, and Il
10Th fell fiat. Neither ride was con- a
cious when the farmer brought help. t
rhe doctor had broken leg and n
lumber Of bruises, and Miss Mamie d
lad broken shoulder, crushed o
land, and was all bruises. q
And still magnetism played his part is
When DR.. Stafford could get out he +