The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-10-25
D%arbishire's," said the colonel, "were
the devil and all to control"
CHAPTER x
Facing Trial.

A distinct sensation ran through
the Woodruff school, but the school
master and a group of five boys ant
like conference in the back Of tn,
room were all unconscious of 1t. TIL,
geography classes had recited. ant
the language work was On. Those
too small for these studies were play
ing a game under the leadership o.
jimmie Simms, who had been promot
ed to the position of weed-seed mon
itor.
The game was forfeits. Each child
had been encouraged to bring some
sort of weed from the winter fields
preferably one the seed of which still
chung to the dried receptacles-but
anyhow, a weed. If any pupil brought
in a specimen the name of which he
himself could not correctly give, he
paid a forfeit. If a specimen was
brought in not found in the school
cabinet-which was coming to con
tain a considerable collection-it was
placed there, and the task allotted to
the best penman in the school to write
its proper label. All this caused ex-
element, and not a little buzz-but it
ceased when the county superintend-
ent entered the room.
For it was after the first of Janu-
airy, and Jennie was visiting the Wood
ruff school.
The group in the back of the room
went on with its conference, oblivious
of the entrance of Superintendent
Jennie. Their work was rather abb
sorbing, being no more nor less than
the compilation of the figures of a COW
census of the district.
Altogether" said Mary Talcott,
I'VE have in the district one hundred
and ifty-three cows"
81 don't make it that" said Ray
mond Simms. 81 don't get but a hun
dred and thirty-eight."
"The trouble isl said Newton Bron-
son, that Mary's counting in the
Bailey herd of S~horthorns."
well, they're cows, amt they?" in
%terrogated Mary.
Not for this census" said Ray
mond.
"Why not?" asked Mary. They're
the prettiest cows in the neighbor-
hood"
Scotch S~horthorns," said Newton,
"and run with their calves"
Leave them out" said Jim, "and
tomorrow, l want each one to tell in
the language class, in three hundred
enough cows in the district to justify
a cooperative creamery, and give the
You'll find articles In the
farm papers If you look through the
card index. Now, how about the cen
sus in the adjoining districts?"
There are more than two hundred
four miles on the roads lead
ing west" said a boy.
my father and l counted up about
a hundred beyond u.s." said Mary.
But l couldn't get the exact num-
Der."
why" said Raymond, 1--WE could
ind six hundred dairy COWS in this
leighborhood, within an hours
six hundredI" scoffed Newton.
crazy! In an hours driver?
Il mean an hours drive each way"
said Raymond.
ST believe we could" said Jim.
And after we find how far we will
lave to go to get enough cows, if half
If them %patronized the creamery, we'll
work over the savings the business
would make, if we could get the prices
or butter paid the Wisconsin cooper
tive creameries, as compared with
What the centralizers pay US, on a /
'asis of the last six months. Who's
n possession of that correspondence
the Wisconsin creameries?" 5
Il have it," said Raymond. I'm
ectographing a lot of arithmetic {
from it,"
How do you do, Mr.. Irwin" 1t (
1as the superintendent who spoke.
Jim's brain whirled little prismatic [