Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-16

inc T. 1T Jenny began to laugh. |An' not
ashamed t tell tn truth, either. Eut, young
man. SONS lies get YOU a long ways in this
bdrg. Don't forget that"
I'm green" he confessed. So Jenny was
on the stage? To which type did she belong?
Certainly not Nancy's, which was Voting.
tons. sans. feprochc. lie wished he could do
something for her. He was going to like
Jenny. n have lived nearly all my life in
the -GAlsp and among books. OF course. I'm
getting about all right; ! haven't bought 4
gold brick vet. But there's no telling. It's
all like q new people and a new language.
You two will laugh. but this is tho first time
| eyer drank tea With women, between
meals" ~
"Have<you got any money!" asked Jenny,
seriously. -.
This surprised him. "Why a little"
We'll, I'll lend you a siockin' an III show
you how t tie "a. knot in it,"
jenny said Nancy.
An how f hide it. in your trunk" went
on the incorrigible Jenny. But he says he's
green, Nancy; an his clothes show it. an his
tie an collar an shoes
Aren't they all right?" he asked, finger.
ing the tic.
Jeremiah, either you're the biggest liarI
ever saw. or you're a new Kind Of hick. Come
lCIO5S lo", GAVE us IN family HISTORY, we
gotta know"
Bancroft. Wen say I'm a new kind Of
hick. These clothes are the result of a care
full study of advertisements in the news
papers. Ny department is also due to news
paper study and many books. In fine, / have
q college education without having gone to
college. If ] had any natural shyness,
months in a military camp knocked it out
of ~ ex,1 - H.
is. l can adjust myself to such novel sirua-
tons as now daily confront me. have
handled the piow, hoed potatoes. helped
during harvest. can read and write and
speak Latin. / am tWenty.four, and an
orphan; and l have HAD the. toothache, the
earache, and the tulnmyache, like everybody
else; and I've had the heartache. too. l came
to the city because / could no longer stand
the loneliness. I wanted to see the world, to
become acquainted with. fact instead OF,
theory. Because l never had any friends.
Because my father was unjustly called "a
miser, and the onus fell upon me. I don't
know as there is any other thing l want SO
much as the friendship Of you two"
Jeremiah. anywhere in thu world" said
the impulsive Jenny, offering her hand.
No, no! You mustn't kiss met"
He blushed.
We'll, for tn love O. Nike. Nancy, did
~ So $AANS 'NShA Sool. " kNoilS
is made. Flo ziegfeld will give you Il thou.
sand per t. teach EN- how t. do it."
Wherever did you get those wonderful
Chinese vases" asked Nancy, who thought
that Jenny had gone far enough.
They are beautiful, aren't they. Some
thing my father picked up. / don't know
how. Some of those books are priceless, so
I've been told"
Why don't YOU sell t1em?"
Il hadn't thought of it. But / don't think
I shall. There are three or four hundred
bottles Of Burgundy in the cellar, too. Just
before you came l had ar odd visitor, and
We had a bottle between us. I had never
touched wine before, though l am in no wise
rabid against the stun. Maybe some day I'll
tell you about that visitor"
Why, you 1pust be rich" said Jenny. with
enthusiasm.
If you mean that one can be happy with
a little, why, then I'm rich" Now, If 4cSi.
dentally either fell upon the truth, they could
not say that he had lied.
" So you had been celebrating before I came
int" said Nancy, pleased that the history of
the tainted brath was singularly innocuous.
To. be sure, 1t really didn't matter whether
he drank or not; but II he were going to be
a neigfbor of any duration she would prefer
him as a teetotaler.
n g Well, r shouldn't cali It celebrating. He
had a queer proposition. and I believed !
might get deeper into It II / gave him some
thing to drink; but as I remember now, I did
all the talking. I probably gave him my
history back to the Genesis. II it only lasted!