Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-10
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to the village noises common to all
the world, jungle or prairie: sounds
simple and charged with magic-dogs
barking. chickens making a gurgling
sound of content, children at play, a
mar beating a rug. wind in the cot
tonwood trees, a locust fiddlng. a
footstep on the walk, jaunty voices Of
Bea and a grocer's boy in the kitchen,
a clinking anvil, a piano-not too
near
Twice a week, at least, she drove
into the country with kennicott, to
hunt ducks in lakes ena1neled with
sunset, or to call on patients who
looked ulJ to her as the squire's lady
and thanked her for toys and mag
azines. Evenings she went with her
husband to the motion pictures and
was boisterously greeted by every 9TH
er couple;a or. till it became toe cold,
they sat on the porch, bawling to
p~assers-by in motors, or to neighbors
who were raking the leaves. The
dust became golden in the low sun;
the street was filled with the fra
GRANGE of burning leaves.
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But she hazily wanted some one
to whom she could gay what she
thought.
On a slow afternoon when she fid-
geted over sewing and wished that
the telephone would ring. Bea an
nounced Miss Vida. Sherwin.
Despite Vida Sherwin's lively blue
eyes, II vol had looked at her in de-
tail you would have found her face
slightly lined, and not SO much SAL
low as with the bloom rubbed off; you
would have found her chest flat, and
her fingers rough from needle and
chalk and penholder; her :blouses and
plain cloth skirts undistinguished; and
her hat worn too far back. betraying
a dry forehead. But you never did
look at Vida sherwin in detail. You
couldn't. Her electric activity yelled
her. She was as energetic as a chip
munk. Her fingers fluttered; her
sympathy came out in spurts; she sat
on h edge OF a chair in .eagerness
to be near her auditor, to send her
enthusiasm and optimism across.
She rushed into the room pouring
out: I'm afraid you'll think the
teachers have been shabby in not
coming near you, but we wanted to
give you a chance to get settled. I
am Vida sherwin, and try to teach
French and English and a few other
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