The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-04-20

NO, there 1911 I, Bne interrupted.
TITS just the old brutal spirit that ma. ;
!. lions inherit from the time they were
only tribes; It's the tribe spirit, and
an eye for an eye and a tooth for q
tooth. It's those things and the love
Of fishting-men have always loved
to fight. Civilization hasn't taken II
! ont OF them; men still have the brute
In them that loves to fight!"
II don't think So" said Ramsey.
Americans don't love to fight; don't
know about other countries, but we
don't. OF course, here and there,
there's some fellow that likes to hunt
around for scraps, but I never saw
more than three or four in my life that
acted that way. OF course football
team often has. scrapper or two on
1t, but that's different"
mo-" she said. II think you all
really love to tight" M W..
Ramsey was reused to BECOME argu.
mentative. II don't see where you get
the idea. Colburn isn't that way, and
back at school there wasn't single
boy that was anything like that"
'What!" She stopped, and turned
suddenly to face him.
"What's the matters he said, stop.
ping, too. Something he said had
startled her, evidently. '.'g g
q 2'How can You shy such al thing ?.
she cried. "You love to fghtl"
'Me?"
"You dol You love fighting. You
always have loved fighting"
He was dumfounded. why, ! never
had a fight nsmy Her. Az ! IL
She cried out in protest Of such pre-
varication. r<r- Aa<T 6a$ Eye ~
swell, I never did," he insisted,
mildly. 2t55 St''s " - y''3- p"
"Why, you had a fight about mel'
!, "No, ! didn't" .esa4 M
"With Wesley Benderl''
Ramsey chuckled. "That wasn't 4
, tight r. II 'Fe@ par
ut wasn't?"
"Nothing like one. We were just
guyin' him about-about gettin' slicked
up, kind Of, because he sal. in front Of
you; and he hit me with his book strap
and I chased him off. Gracious, no ;
that wasn't flght!"
But you fought Linski only last
Ramsey chuckled again. "That
wasn't even as much like fight as the
one with Wesley. just told this
Linski was goin' to give him punch
in the sn- I just told him to look
out because was goin' to hit him, and
then / did 1t, and waited to see If he
wanted to do anything about 1t, and he
didn't. That's all there was to 1t, and
{ it wasn't any more like fighting than
than feeding chickens Is"
She laughed dolefully. 1T seems
to me rather more like It than that II
swell, 1t wasn't"
They had begun to walk on again
and Ramsey was aware that they had
passed the "frat house." where his
dinner was probably growing cold. He
was aware Of this, but not sharply OF
insistently. Curiouay enough. he did
not think about 1t. He had begun te
find something pleasant in the odd in
terview, and in walking beside girl
even though the girl was Dora Yocum
He made no attempt to account tf
himself for anything SO peculiar.
For while they went slowly to
gether, not speaking, and without des
tination, though Ramsey vaguely tool
It for granted that Dora was going
somewhere. But she wasn't. The!
emerged from the part of the small
town closely built about the universit!
and came out upon bit of parked
land overlooking the river; and herr
Dora's steps slowed to an indeter
inmate halt near bench beneath
maple tree.
e II think Ill stay here a WHILE" sh'
said and as he made no response, sh
asked: Hadn't you better be goin
back to your frat house for your din
ner? didn't mean for you to com
out of your way with me; only want
ed to get an answer to my question
You'd better be running back"
"Well-"
He stood irresolute. not sure that h
wanted his dinner just then. 1t woul
have amazed him to face the fact DC
liberately that perhaps he preferre
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