The weekly soliphone., 1917-08-09


 was trying to find a farm where work was inviting, and expected to palm myself off as genuine boy and do my very best. I couldn't see that anyone was being harmed because of my inclination to sub stitute trousers for skirt, and I am sure I wronged no one except to the extent that 1 told enough stories about myself to fill good sized book When folks got inquis- itive,'I naturally matched up the most convenient tale and gave it to them. This happy-go-lucky meth od carried me through successfully until the end.
 ''After spending the first night out I went to the home of l.. R. Scott. who lives within four miles of the Broroughs home. At first my application for work was de- nied, MT. Scott at that time having all the heavy assistants he needed. Later in the day, however, when I returned, some other boys who had been helping around the place quit and I was employed. My con- tract called for six bits a day and board. l was particularly interested in the board, especially the first night, for tramping around hunt
 ing for work, and at the same time looking out for 'spotters,' gives one good appetite and makes bacon and beans and cornbread and sweet milk have mighty pleasant taste The Scotts were good to me from the very beginning, and I am sure that if I had made a clean breast of conditions they would have help ed me just as substantially then as they are trying to help me now Mrs. Scott had three children, and quite naturally I knew something about looking after kiddies and keeping house and would have pre- ferred to-do work of this kind. At the same time, I had given in my name as Glen Smith, and I wore trousers and a cap, and my hair was back somewhere in a cornfield I had been to the Bertig Supply Company at Marmaduke and had bought an outfit which cost seven dollars and fifty cents from MT. Sto- wall and Will Raspberry. I told them R. l.. Presson was my uncle and had no difficulty in securing credit. My outfit then consisted of white shirt, a cap, trousers = but no underclothes Later on I discovered that there are other things essential to comfort, but did not go back to make additional purchases. By that time 1 had concluded to let well enough alone and not try to overcrowd the credit of my Uncle Presson.' But I am forgetting the collar, tie, cuff but tons and tie-clasp. These things were included in the original sev- en and a half dollar purchase. knew that if I remained full fledged boy it would be necessary and I didn't want to be without the necessary collar and tie. Fellows who go out calling on Sunday without the regulation neckwork are always laughed at.a and I did not propose to be 'slouch' and make a bad impression.
 WORKS IN CORNFIELD.
 "Mr Scott put me 10 work in the field before I had been given much of chance to loaf about the place. This suited me pretty well. and I did my best to earn that seventy-five cents. Later on MT. Scott decided that 1 might work for Cecil Tiller. an eighteen-year- old boy who looks after his fathers farm near the Scott place. Cecil's father is a minister and is away from home, and the younger Filler is general manager. 1 was given a blow and told to go at it, and I did. Flowing in July and making every step in pair of overalls when one is not accustomed to that mode of dress gets to be disagree able work after while, but it wasn't up to me to complain or explain, and I kept right at the