The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-05

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"But son it's hot as Fluiins up there in summer" Bunny
didn't know where or what Funs might be- but he answered
that Paul it, and anyhow was good Tor you 70
sweat Dad was getting heavy and he could sit under the
bougainvlea vine in Beach suit while Bunny did car
oenry work Paul and would be change and Bunny
would up Dr. Bakston and have him order It, WnereuPon
Dad gnned said all right and he might st as Wen ADOPT
hat Watkins pair and be done with it.
they went the Bascum ranch taxing theH VeC %IoIS
Paul Ruth insisted giving up the house and uIn
slept tent and Paul made his bed IN the empty naynG%
Paul had hired horse and poN and mad
garden big patch of beans and had set IN "cn
he tending with little hand cuvatGr tey aa nan
goats and plenty Of milk and some chlcKenS winch ~
took of. ,-, .-. 49,.
was no place Them but Paul had made shelves out OF
pacngbox there stood Huxley and Haeckel and keenan,
and other absolutely fatal to the soul of any person VINO
reads them Pap" had given Ruth said she had got TOO
growed up sudden too big to be whaied and besloe
Pap rheumatic terrible and Eli couldn't heal it. Dad SAID
that they ordering the lumber for the CABIN they
during the winter and Paul had another argument and
this his house. wasn't it. and he sure had gn
to nut some he wanted them Paul could lend
him when he up here and st hep MIN get
bit of education even now, as old as he was. ,
1t happy family, and fine place to be- because TOOK
Dads mind and his trouble with one OF his best
didn't have his mind on his They got the lumber
from the at Roseve and Paul was the
and bunny was the accarpente Dad kind of fused
until he got perspg hard and then he went and
sat under the bougainvea blossoms and Ruth opened him
bottle of gapec that part of the fancy stun he had
And then in the evening they drive into Paradise and
get the mall little local paper that old Mr.
Watkins took Bunny began to look over and gosh almighty
look at this story the front page about the mar
velous meeting that Eli had held at santa LUCIA ana
the worshppers had got and Eli had made the
commissioned to build the Ia9ernace OF tne
Third Revelation, which was TO be all OF lape
gold and to occupy one entire BLOCK IN anger C
and be of exactly the dimensions which naa pee 70 m
in dream The dimensions were gwen anu Eau ' e. ny
bigger any block that Eli would find In Angel CITY, ou no
doubt they'd way get around that and call new
Revelation The Rosevie "Eagehat was the name OF tne
paper-was boastfu of Eli who was putting the san Edo
valley on the map out of the ee will offerings at EMS meet
ns but the old would be preserved SO that pilgrims
might visit the place where the True "ou hao Oeen
And then came Mr. Hardacre meeting them the street
Young Bandy had got tired OF his dea that DAD was
going drill wanted to take his parents to the city ana
be business man. the family would take DADS oner II IT
twas still OPEN said all right to let him know he'd come
acre drove out to place, and said he'd taken the
escrow the Bandy place. and old Mr. Bandy ana
wife had signed deliver the Decd and so DAD
and Bunny got their and drove to the bank ana DAD
put up thousand dollars and signed contract to pay eg
Thousand more the title search completed Then.
when they Of the bank he gnned and sad All rgh
son, you drill your tract|
course Bunny wanted to go right to wanted Lad 70
telephone his head foreman and get road contractor at
work. But they'd finish the cabin first and meantime
he'd thinking Bunny back to work mailing shingles
and he happy youngster could oeexcep
flor one uncomfortable thought gnawng like
in his SOUL tell Paul and Ruth about their decision
would Paul and Ruth consider that Dad had got the
Watkins ranch upon false pretenses? .
Fate was kind to Bunny Something happenedyou could
guess thousand years. Only three days had passed
they put through the Bandy DEAL and Dad was s thinking
matters over when Watkins walking from her home
with big blue sunbonne to protect her from the midday
sun-and brought amazing piece of news Old Mr. Wrnkum
driving from town. stopped by and told Pap that big oil
concern Company had leased the Car
ter ranch the other side OF the Vaey ABOUT e "ese VI
Paradise going start drilling for Oil Meee gave this
news to Dad who sitting under the bougainyea ana Dad
shouted to Bunny and Paul who were up laying e noo OF Tue
cabin running and Ruth running from ner
chickenyard when they heard the Bunny CRIED Elk
celsior Pete! Why Dad, that's of the Big Fi=e!
each other and suddenly Dad cenched his
hands exclaimed "By goy them people don't drill unless
they know they're dom Bunny believe I'll try well
here on place, and what we get"