The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-20

thirstily. He had an inestimable &C
vantage over Newt in that he wa
starved, while Newt was surfeite
with advantages" for which he ha
no use.
Jennie said Colonel Woodruff
after the party had Broken up, "In
losing the best hand [ ever had, an,
I've been sorry"
I'm glad he's leaving you" sail
Jennie. "He ought to do something ey
cept work in the field for wages"
Tive had no idea he could make
good as a teacher-apd what is Their
In it If he does?'
what has he lost If he doesn'tY
rejoined Jennie. "And why can't he
make good?'
The school boards against him, for
n thing replied the colonel. They'll
fire him if 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, l 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. "Jim's a
scrub, I suppose; but he acts as if he
might turn out to be a Blown Mousse
what % you mean, pa" scoffed
Jennie-"a Brown Mouse!"
"a fellow in Edinburgh" said the
colonel, CROSSED the Jal waltz
ing mouse with the common white
mouse. Jim's peddling father was a
Waiting mouse, no good except to
jump from one spot to another for no
good reason. Jim's mother is an al
bino of a woman, with all the color
washed out in one way or another.
Jim ought to be a mongral. and I've
always considered him one. But the
Edinburgh fellow every one in a
while got out of his variously-colored
waltzing and albino hybrids, a brown
mouse. 1t wasn't a common house
either, but a wild mouse unlike
any he had ever seen. 1t ran away,
and bit and gnawed and raised hob. 1t
what we breeders call a 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. If
Jim turns out to be a brown mouse,
he may be a bigger man than any of
is. Anyhow, Pm for him."
Hell have to be a big man to make
anything out of the job of a country
school teacher" said Jennie.
ANY jobs as big as the man who
holds it down. said her father.
Next day Jim received a letter from
Jennie.
Dear JIM 1t ran. "Father says
you are sure to have a hard time-the
school boards against you, and all
hat. But he added I'm for Jim, any
1 thought you'd like to know
his. Also he said, Any jobs as big
IS the man who holds it down. And
believe this also, and I'm for you,
90! You are doing wonders ever be.
ore Tie SClOOl SLdIlS III SelllHS lllt
pupils Interested in a lot of things,
which, while they don't belong to
chOol work, will make them friends
# yours. / don't see how this will
Ielp you much, but It's a fine thing,
nd shows your interest in them.
DON'T be too original. The wheel rum
asiest in the beaten track. Yours,
ennie."
Jennie's caution made no impression
n Jim-but he put the letter away.
nd every evening took it out and read
he words, I'm for you, tool" The
dictum, ANY jobs as big al
ne man who holds it down." was an
,mersonian truism to Jim. 1t reduced
jobs to an equality, and it meant
in intellectual and spiritual
evelopment. 1t didn't mean, for in
lance, that any job was as good as i
mother in making 1t possible for a
an to maryland JeT ME Woodruff's
Humph p returned to kill and drag
her I'm for you, tool"
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