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THE IDAHO SPRINGS SIFTINGS-NEWS. *Tn not afraid of him.” “Peabody,** she called, “this boy has We kissed each other and, again, worked like a bearer every minute BOB MAXWELL THINKS BOSTON BRAVES WILL that well-remembered touch of her alnce you left—ayes be has! I never hair upon my face! But the feel of aee anythin* to beat It—never! I WIN NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE her warm Ups upon my own—that was want yon to come right ont into the THE LIGHT eo different and so sweet to remem- wood-shed an* eee what he's done — ber In the lonely days that foUowed 1 this mtnnte —ayes!** Fast flows the river to the sea when I followed them into the shed. youth is sailing on It. They had “W*y of all things!'* my uncle ear* shoved me out of the quiet cove Into claimed. “He’s worked like a nailer, IN THE CLEARING. the swift currant —those dear, kindly, ain't bef* thoughtless people. Sally ran away There were tear* in his eyes when A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY Into the house as their laughter con- he took my hand In his rough palm tinued and my uncle and I walked and squeezed it and said: IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT down the street. How happy I was! "Sometimes I wish ye was little I observed with satisfaction that again so 1 could take ye up In my the vUlage boys did net make fun arms an* kiss ye Just as I used to. of me when I passed them as they did Horace Dunkelberg says that you’re By when I wore the petticoat trousers. the best-lookin' boy he ever see.'* IRVING BACHELLER Mr. and Mrs. Wright came along with I repeated the rules I had learned AUTHOR or the crowd, by and by, and colonel as we went to the table. HEN HOLOCK VII ANDC DAttEL Of THE MASCO fiLCk Medad Moody. We had supper with "I'm goln* to be like Silas Wright If KEEPING UP TfTTH UZZIE. ETC, ETC the Senator on the seat with us. He I can," I added. and my uncle begun to talk about the "That's the Idee!" said Uncle Pea- tightness of money and the banking body. "You keep on as you’ve start- laws and I remember a remark of ed an’ everybody'll milk Into your BARTON GETS NEW INSPIRATION FROM THE THE WORDS my uncle, for there was that in his pall." tone which I could never forget: I kept on—not with the vigor of OF THE GREAT SILAS WRIGHT. “We poor people are trusting you that first day with Its new Inspiration to look out for us—we poor people —but with growing strength and effec- are trusting you to see that we get Bynopti«.—Burton Baynes, an orphan, goes to Uts with his ancle. treated fair. We're havin’ a hard Pea boy Baynes, and his Aunt Deel on a farm on Rattleroad, In a time.” neighborhood called Lickityspllt, about the year 1826. He meets Sally My uncle told him about the note Dunkelberg, about his own age, but socially of a class above the and the visit of Mr. Grimshaw and of Hayneses, and is fascinated by her pretty face and fine clothes. Barton his threats and upbraldlngs. as also meets Roving Kate, known In the neighborhood the “Silent “Did he say that In Bart’s hearing?” In Woman.” Amos Grimshaw, a young son of the richest man the town- asked the Senator. Roving boys’ ship, is a visitor at the Baynes home and Kate tells the “Ayes!—right out plain.” fortunes, bright gallows predicting a future for Barton and death on the “Too bad! I’m going to tell you Reproved an boyish away, for Amos. for act of mischief. Barton runs frankly, Baynes, that the best thing with the Dunkelbergs. He reaches Canton intending to make his home I know about you Is your conduct to- asleep a porch. There Is he is found by Silas Wright, Jr., a and falls on ward this boy. I like it. The next man In public affairs, who, knowing Peabody Baynes, takes prominent best thing is the fact that you signed Barton home after buying him new clothes. Silas Wright evinces much HANK GOWDY the note. It was had business but interest books magazines the In Barton and sends a box of and to It was good Christian conduct to help Baynes home. A short time later the election of Mr. Wright to the your Don’t regret it. You United States senate Is announced. Barton learna of a wonderful power friend. were poor and of an age when the A critic has been found who believes in the Boston Braves. He Is Bob known as “Money,” and how* through Its possession Grimshaw is the Maxwell, the Philadelphia Public Ledger expert, who, making a tour of boy’s pranks w’ere troublesome to both after most man In the community. Grimshaw threatens to take the getting powerful of you, but you took him In. I’ll southern training camps impressions for a series of articles on major Baynes a note which he holds is not paid. farm if lend you the Interest ahd try to get league prospects, comes out with a strong boost for Stallings’ crew. says vastly the mortgage on He the infield is improved, and will be even better, of course, another holder for pitchers look good, one condition. You must let me at- when Marunville reports; that the and so forth. With both CHAPTER V—Continued. “That’s right,” said Mr. Dunkelberg. back, thinks Maxwell, tend to Bart’s schooling. I want to Maranvillo and Gowdy the Braves will be a first division **Why, Bart, 6he’s 6pry as a cricket in he "Herzog he boss about that. We have a great team. "For the first time years," says, is trying to make good To Aunt Deel wagon grease was and pretty as a picture. Come up to at base.” schoolmaster In Canton and when Bart second worst enemy of a happy and re- dinner with me and see for yourself.” to look upon Herzog as one of the the is a little older I want him to go This reads odd those who hardest work- spectable home. Uncle Peabody hesitated, whereupon baseball, else may against there to school. I’ll try to lind him ers in whatever bo said him. team to the grass- I gave him a fur five nod and he said We hitched our a place where he can work for his hopper spring wagon and set out on “All right,” and then I had a deli- board.” journey. was a warm, hazy feeling of excitement I had our It cious “We’ll miss Bart but we’ll be tickled day in November. As hard work to control my impatience Indian-summer to death—there’s no two ways about CUETO’S PRESS AGENT NOTES of the pve passed “the mill” we saw the Si- when they talked. that,” said Uncle Peabody. lent Woman looking out of the little By and by I asked, “Are you ’most Senator tested my arithmetic reported window of her room above the black- ready to go?” The One Day Mr. Grimshaw Came Out in When Manuel Cueto DIAMOND grammar geography as we Annapolis smith shop—a low, weather-stained, “Yes—come on—lt’s after twelve and and the Field to See My Uncle. to the Cincinnati Beds he baschuil squad of 200 can- rode along In the darkness and said brought own press agent didates includes pitchers. frame building, hard by the main o’clock,” said Mr. Dunkelberg. “Sally his 26 by and by: tiveness. Nights and mornings and in person of his road, with a hanging stair on will be back from school now.” with him the narrow “You’ll have work hard, Bart. Saturdays I worked with a will and a sugar the side of It. So we walked to the big house of to uncle, Slxto Urquizu, George DuMont has made a good to your book Into my book in my pocket or at the side Havana. Senor “She keeps watch by the winder the Dunkelbergs and I could hear my You'll have take merchant of beginning with the Red Hox. us every row of the field and was, I know, a help • • • ain’t travelln’,” Uncle beating we In at the field I did. After Urqulza was advised to spend when she said heart when turned a of syntax on My goln’ my of corn I learned rule or of some value the farm. schol- the summer in the North and he university appears Peabody. “Knows all that’s the gate—the golden gate of youth arship Improved rapidly year Columbia to have arithmetic or a fact In geography while and that will do it traveling around with a on—that woman—knows who goes to It must have been, for after I had strong baseball nine this spring. rested, and my thought and memory I went about as far as I could hope incidentally sending the village an’ how long they stay. passed it Ithought no more as a child. I Cueto and took hold of It as I plied the hoe. I to go In the little school at Leonard's reports of how the Cuban When Grimshaw goes by they say she That rude push which Mr. Grimshaw back The Tennessee supreme court has don’t want you to stop the reading, Corners.

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