Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-28
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you over there by the collar: Last !lo
night made up my mind. I'd give you
lust one more day. Well, you got to
1t before did-pretty close to the
eleventh hour! All right. Start In to-
morrow. It's the first O the month.
Think you can get up in time?'
"Six o'clock" Bibbs responded brisk
". "And want to tell you-I'm go
ing in cheerful spirit AS you said,
I'll go and I'll like it,!
.That's your lookoutw his father
grunted. "They'll put you back on the
clippin machine. You get nine dollars
week." .
"More than I'm worth, too," said
Bibbs, cheerily. THAT reminds me.
didn't mean you by Midas in that
nonsense Id been writing. meant"
makes a hell Of a lot Of difference
what you mean!' ~
II just. wanted you to know. Good
night, father" L ~ ),
"G'nighty' G2F
The sound OF the young mans foot
steps ascending the stairs became In.
audible, and the house was quiet. But
presently, as Sheridan sat staring an
grily at the fire, the shutting Of pair
of slippers could be heard descending,
and Mrs. Sheridan. made her appear
ance, her oblique expression and the
state of her toilette being those OF a
person who, after trying unsuccess'
fully to sleep on one side, has got up
to look for burglars.
"Papa! she exclaimed, drowsily.
'Why'n't you go to bed? 1t must DO
yoin' on 'leven o'clock
She yawned, and seated herself near.
aim, stretching out her hands to the
are. whats the matter" she4asked,
sleep and anxiety striving sluggishly
with each other in her voice. II knew
you were, worried all dinner time.
You got something new on your mind
besides Jim's bein' taken away like he
vas. What's worryin' you now, papa?
""Nothin'."
She jeered feebly. IN tell me that!
You sat up. to see Bibbs, didn't you?"
HE starts in at the shop again to-
morrow morning. said Sheridan.
"Just the same as he did beforeT
"Just precisely"
f"How-long you goin' to keep him
at it, papa?" she asked, timidly.
''Until. he knows something" The
unhappy man struck his. palms to-
gether, then got to his feet and began
to pace the room, as was his wont
when he talked. Hell 60 back to the
machine he couldn't learn to tend prop
lerly in the six months he was there.
and he'll stick. to it. till he does learn
| It! That boys whole life, there's been
a settin up O. something mulish that's
against everything I want him to do.
I don't know what it is, but it's got
to be worked out of him. Now, labor
amt any more simple question than
what 1t was when we were young. My
idea Is that, outside o. union troubles,
the man that can manage workin' men
ls the man that's been one himself.
| Well, set Bibbs to learn the men and
to learn the business, and he set him.
self to Lalk on the first job! That's
what he did, and the balk's lasted close
on to three years. II he balks again
I'm just done with him! Sometimes l.
feel like was pretty near done with
everything, anyhow!"
II knew there was something else"
said Mrs. Sheridan, blinking over q
yawn. You better let it go till to
morrow and get to bed now-'less
1 you'.!! tell me?"
| Suppose something happened to
Roscoe he said. "Then what'd l
have to look forward to? Then what
could depend on to hold things to-
gether? A lummix! A lummix that
hasn't learned how. to push a strip o.
zinc along a groovev'
''Roscoe?' she yawned. "You needn't
worry about Roscoe, papa. He's the
4 strongest child we had. never did
know anybody keep better health than
he does. don't believe he's even had
cold in five years. You better go up
to bed, papa"
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