The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-10-12

thirstily. He had an inestimable adj
vantage over Newt In that he was
starved, while Newt was surfelted
with advantages" for which he had
no use.
"Jennie," said Colonel Woodruff,
after the party had broken up, I'm
losing the best hand l ever had. and
I've been sorry"
I'm glad he's leaving you," said
Jennie. "He ought TO do something ex-
cept work in the field for wages"
1--we had no idea he could make
good as teacher-and what is there
in it II he does?"
what has he lost II he doesn't7"
rejoined Jennie. "And why can't he
make good?"
''The school boards against him, for
one thing" replied the colonel. They'll
fire him II they get a chance. They're
the laughing-stock Of the country for
hiring him by mistake, and they're ir-
ritated. But after seeing him perform
tonight, 1 wonder If he can't make
good"
IF he could feel like anything but
an underling, he'd succeed" said Jen-
ME.
That's his heredity," stated the
colonel, whose live stock operations
were based on heredity. Sims
scrub, l suppose; but he acts as If he
might turn out to be Brown Mouse"
"What do you mean, pa" scoffed
Jennie-"a Brown Mouser"
"a fellow in Edinburgh said the
colonel, CROSSED the japanese waltz
ing mouse with the common white
mouse. Jim's peddling father was
waltzing mouse. no good except to
jump from one spot to another for no
good reason. Jim's mother Is an al
bino of woman, with all the color
washed out in one way or another.
Jim ought to be a mongrel. and I've
always considered him one. But the
Edinburgh fellow every once in a
while got out Of his variously-colored,
Waiting and albino hybrids, brown
mouse. 1t wasn't a common house
mouse, either, but a wild mouse unlike
any he had ever seen. 1t ran away.
and bit and gnawed and raised hob. 1t
was what we breeders call Mende-
liam segregation of genetic factors that
had been in the walters and albinos
all the time-their original wild an
cestor of the woods and fields. II
Jim turns out to be brown mouse.
he may be bigger man than any of
u.s. Anyhow, I'm for him."
Hell have to be big man to make
anything out Of the job Of country
school teacher" said Jennie.
ANY jobs as big as the man who
holds 1t down." said her father.
Next day Jim received letter from
Jennie
Dear JIM" 1t ran. "Father says
you are sure to have hard time-the
school boards against you, and all |
that. But he added I'm for Jim, any
howr / thought you'd like to know
this. Also he said, ANY jobs as big
as the man who holds it down. And
| believe this also, and I'm for you,
tool You are doing wonders even be-
fore the school starts in getting the
pupils interested in a lot of things,
which, while they don't belong to
SCHOOl WOIh, Will mike luril lilcuuS
Of yours. l don't see how this will
help you much, but it's fine thing
and shows your interest in them.
Don't be too original. The wheel runs
easiest in the beaten track. Yours,
Jennie"
Jennie's caution made no impression
IN Jim-but he put the letter away.
md every evening took it out and read
he words, 'Tm for you, tool" The
dictum, ANY jobs as big as
he man who holds 1t down." was an
lmersonian truism to Jim. 1t reduced
Ill jobs to an equality, and 1t meant
equality in intellectual and spiritual
development. 1t didn't mean, for In
tance, that any job was as good as
mother in making 1t possible for a
nan to maryland Jennie Woodruff's
'Humphl' returned to kill and drag
IF her I'm for you, toow