White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-09-17

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the weights on the clock. >"
After Spared had bathed his feet
and felt the gentle friction of his
nightshirt against his bare flesh, he
Law by the window in their down
stairs room on the soft feather-bed
Julia had brought with her to Wolf
pen after her wedding. Now that
the new mill which he had planned
during the winter was completed,
and everything on Wolfpen orderly
and in it's place, and his children
content with their life, he could rest
in peace as he waited the coming
of Julia and sleep.
.oThings are about the way Iwant
them around the place now. Ey-
erything is handy and we've got
Just about all we need to run a
place on. We've been getting it
brought up every year now since
Saul's time. My boys won't have
much more to do to it only keep it
up and enjoy it. It's about as good
place as there is around here. 1t
looks good and feels good. This
house here, this Pattern house that
took four beginnings Of us to get
built, it doesn't cover under the
mountains nor cringe up a narrow
hollow like lots Of them do; it
| stands up and looks around at
things coming into order out of the
wilderness, the way mans house
ought to stand, like himself.
"April again, hurrying by as usu-
al on wet feet. Getting time to put
seed in the ground again. Fifty
three Aprils I've seen come and go,
and forty-eight I remember. Each
one is better, the good Of all the
past ones recollect in the new one.
There are my sons going upstairs !;
they have many springs ahead OF
them on this place, and then their
sons and grandsons. We old ones
die but the feeling is passed on to
the new ones. Jasper'll be marry
ing Jane Burden, reckon, though
he doesn't say much. Quiet boy
good about the work but takes
things about as they come. jesse
he must be twenty-one now. Tie
reminds me of his Grandfather Ii
Wis, only there isn't much more to
do like building siding house OF
a mill-wheel. He ought to take the
Marebone farm and build it up like
Wolfpen. He's a good hand to dc
: it. And there's Abral with enough
: fidgety energy to do two boys
They'll get along, my boys will. An(
next week we must all buckle IN t.
; work and get the crops down."
> Julia came into the room after
: little while, and lay beside him un
der the soft warmth of the sea
: star. blue-and-white coverlet.
you're not asleep, Sparrel?'
!, .sNo. Julia. It's quiet this tim
: Of night. I've been listening to II
= used to wonder if we'd be any bel
- ter off to have stayed in Virginia.
don't any more. Sometimes it pear
to me like this is what everythin
= before it has been aiming at an
- now it's here and I'm looking at
! and listening to it. That don
: hardly sounds sensible, does it?''
"We've got about all a body coul
" want here"
n ut amt things, exactly, Julia, it
ia it's we'll, something II
in side. like the drum on banjo
it's like going around the hill in tt
an evening to hunt up the cows ar
IS when you think you won't find the
. before dark you hear bell ar
rs there they come out Of hollo
Mt along the path around the hill
We the edge Of the cleared line, one b
IS. bind the other, and not a bit
on hurry in them
he They went on again witho1
-. words. They could hear Cynth