The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-22

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couldn't keep clean what she already
had; and suppose, with it all, she made
the house altogether u%npeaceful and
unliVable2"
Just one mlnuter' Sheridan inter
rupted, adding, with terrible courtesy,
"If you will permit me? Have you
ever been right about a%nything?"
II don't quite"
81 ask the simple question: Have
you ever been right about anything
whatever in the course of your life?
Have you ever been right upon any
subject or question you've thought
about or talked about? Can you men
ton one single time when you were
proved to be right?'
He was f%ourishing the bandaged
hand as he spoke, but Bibbs said only,
IF I've always been wrong before,
surely there's more chance that I'm
right about this. 1t seems reasonable
to suppose something would be due to
bring up my average"
Eyes, l thought you wouldn't see the
point. And there's another you prob
ably couldn't see, but I'll take the lib
erty to mention it. You been balkin'
all your life. Pretty much everything
I ever wanted you to do, you'd let out
some kind of a holler, like you are
nOw-and yet / can't seem to remem-
Der once when you didn't have to lay
down and do what I said. But go OF
with your remarks about our city anc
the business of this country. Go on!
81 don't want to be part of it," sale
Bibbs, with unwonted decision. ="
want to keep to myself, and I'm doini
it now. l couldn't, If I went dow
there with you. I'd be swallowed int
1t. / don't care for money enough
to-"
mo" his father interrupted, still
dangerously quiet. you've lever hat
to carr a living. Anybody could tel
that by what you ~. Now, let m
remind you; you're sleepin' in a prett
good bed; you're eatin' pretty fai
food; you're wearin' pretty fin
clothes. Just suppose one O thes
noisy housekeepers-me for instance
decided to let you do your house
keepin'. May 1 ask what your prop'
sition would be?"
I'm earning nine dollars a week,
said Bibbs, sturdily. ''ItA enough.
shouldn't mind at all"
who's payin' you that nine dollar
a week."
my workg' Bibbs answered. Gan
I've done so well on that clipping m.
chine l believe 1 could work up to fl
teen or even twenty a week at anoth'
job. could be a fair plumber in
few months, I'm sure. I'd rather hay
a trade than be in business shout
infinitely"
''You better set about learnin' OF
pretty dam quickr' But Sherids
struggled with his temper and aga
was partially successful in controlliI
1t. "You better learn a trade oyer Su
day, because you're either goln' dow
with me to my Office Monday NOR
ing-or-you can go to plumbing!"
Gan right" said Bibbs, gently.
can get along"
sheridan raised his hands sardo
ically, as in prayer. 80 God" he sal
"this boy was crazy enough befo
he began to earn nine dollars a wee
and now his moneys gone to his hea
Can't you do nothin' for hlmY' TIL
he flung his hands apart, palms oil
ward, in a furious gesture of dism
sal. "Get out o. this rooml You 6
q skull that's thicker'n a whale
thigh-bone, but it's cracked spang
the way across! You're orackedl O
but l got a fine layout herel One s.
died. n quit, and ones a loonl T
looms all l got left Well, mister, 10
or no loon, cracked and crazy or whi
eve you are, I'll take you with 1
Monday morning, and I'll work y
and learn you-yes' and I'll lam 70
If I got to-untitl I've made somethii
out Of you that's fit to be called
business mani I'll keep at you VIII
I'm able to stand. and If l have to i