The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-11-09
CHAPTER vIII-continusd.

CHAPTER vIIi-contlnued.
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Jennie blushed, and to conceal hel
slight embarrassment. got out for the
purpose of crsnking her machine.
But II / cannot line him up7" said
sha
81 tank" said HaaIon, IF you can't
line him up, you will have a chance
to revoke his certificate when you
take ONCE"
Jennie thought Of Mr.. Peterson's
suggestion as to lining up" Jim Irwin
~ 30 thoroughly sensible that she
gave 1t 4 good deal Of thought that
day. To be sure, everybody had al
ways favored more practical educa-
t1on." and Jim's farm arithmetic.
farm physiology, farm reading and
writing, cow-testing exercises, seed
analysis, corn clubs and the tomato
poultry and pig clubs he proposed to
have In operation the next summer,
seemed highly practical; but to Jen-
MES mind, the fact that they intro
duced dIssension In the neighborhood
and promised to make her official life
vexatious seemed ample proof that
Jim's work was visionary and imprac-
tfcal. Poor Jennie was not aware Of
the fact that new truth always comes
bringing not peace to mankind, but
sword
Father" said she that night, Tets
hovo Ifff1a frhriefrnac r,orfv
"All right" said the colonel. Whom
shall we invite?"
Don't laugh" said she. 81 want to
invite Jim Irwin and his mother, and
nobody else"
"All right" reiterated the colonel.
But whyY
"Oh." said Jennie. II want to see
whether / can talk Jim out Of some
Of his foolishness."
you want to line him up, do your
said the colonel. "Well, that's good
politics, and incidentally, you may get
some good ideas out Of jim"
Rather unlikely" said Jennie
Il don't know about that" said the
colonel, smiling. IL begin to think that |
inns Brown Mouse. I've told you
about the Brown Mouse, haven't IT.
yes" said Jennie. you've told
me But Professor Darbishire's
brown mice were simply wild and in
corrigible creatures. Just because it
happens to emerge suddenly from the
forests Of heredity, 1t doesn't prove
that the Brown Mouse is any good"
Justin Morgan was Brown
Mouse" said the colonel. "And he
founded the greatest breed of horses
In the world"
you say that" said Jennie, "be-
GAUGE you're q lover Of the Morgan
horne"
Napoleon Bonaparte was Brown
Mouse" said the colonel. so was
George Washington, and so was Peter
the Great. Whenever a Brown Mouse
appears he changes things in little
way or big way"
For the better, alwaysY asked
Jennie
mo-" said the colonel. "The Brown {
Mouse may throw back to slant-head- |
I'd savagery. But Jim some /
lines I think Jim is the kind # |
hendelian segregation out of which l
We get Franklins and Edisons and
heir sort. You may get some good
IDEAS out Of Jim. Let US have them
lere for Christmas, by all means"
There is no doubt that on Christ
nas day Jennie Woodruff was justi- I
led In thinking that they were a ?
ueer couple They weren't like the p
Voodrufrs, at all. They were of a t
ifferent pattern. To be sure, Jim's II
lothes were not especially note
vorthy, being just shiny, and frayed s
t cuff and instep, and short of sleeve
nd leg, and ill-fitting and cheap.
inns queerness lay not so much in his q
Iothes as In his personality.
On the other hand, Jennie could not e
clip thinking that Mrs. lrwln's queer
ess was to be found almost solely in Il
er clothes. The black alpaca looked d
ndeniably respectable. Jennie felt
must have story-a story In which b
lie stopped, rusty. somber old lady 81
oked like character drawn to har- tc
onize with the period just after the III
ar. W
But Jennie had the keenness to see dl
at II Mrs. Irwin could have had an In
,-to-date costume she would have e1
come rather ordinary and not bad W
okfng old lady. What Jennie failed
divine was that II Jim could have sa
vested hundred dollars In the serv- ca
n Of tailors, haberdashers, BARRIERS er
ID other specialists In personal APP In
arance. and could have blotted out is
) record as her fathers field-hand,
would have seemed to her a dis tn
lguishsd-Iooking young man. Not as
ndaome. Of course. but the sort pso- tn
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