The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-07
CASE OF TIT FOR TAT
BY 3. c. ROGERS.

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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. II peanuts
were brought into the house, they all
belonged to him. II 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.
/.
Stafford graduated in medicine and set
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 a pro-
gram, and that program also included
horseback ride when the weather
would permit.
1t was a beautiful June morning
when a 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 fence. kicking over an ash
barrel, and climbing telephone pole.
There Is a 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 a 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? y
DR.. Stafford had slowed his horse
down to walk after run of couple
Of miles, and was breathing deeply
and viewing Z crow sitting on the
fence, when he heard hoofbeats. 1t
was Miss Mamie coming up, and har
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 dangerous beast for a
young lady to ride"
81 don't think sol"
Magnetism works like a sawmill
when once started. The next morning
Miss Mamie was the first to pass down
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 thick growth Of hazelnut
bushes, and after floundering around
for spell he got his horse sense back
HE seems a dangerous beast for a
young man to ride!" 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" ne sullenly explain.
ed
1t so happened that the next three
mornings were bad weather for riding,
and neither horse was taken out On
the fourth morning. however. things
were 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
eye on her horse for tricks, when Dr.
Stafford came laundering down upon
her 1t was another bolt She pulled
her steed back to give the other room
to pass, and had her mouth all fixed to
call out: II told you sol" when the
horse seized the bit and was of like a
deer. And the boiling horses turned
out for farmers load of hay. and
both fell fiat. Neither ride was con-
scious when the faymer brought help
The doctor had broken leg and
number Of bruises, and Miss Mamie
had broken shoulder crushed
hand, and was all bruises.
And still magnetism played his part.
When DR.. Stafford could get out he
rode over to the Holdens and was
| Hospitality received AS his leg con.
| tinued to mend his visits grew more
frequent, and there came an afternoon
when he said:
"You are a pretty good horsewoman.
but do you think you can manage