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"THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1939 . |J.l.lU Mann. What does he live on mean- while ?" Lives off his hogs." In that part of the ountry, hogs earmarked by their owners, run wild through the woods and live o the country. Nobody fences hogs m! it isn't: done. If you don't. like your neighbor s hogs eating your garden. fence your garden. That's the law. Joe had eighty-four hogs. Every fall he had 2L task on his hands, rounding them 11:), for they were wild as quail. They were razor- backs. and local humor asserted .::_: "Burn it," And Rithmatic 32 BAY FIELD STREET L.uo\.;;. he said, and strode for said Joe. .- .. w. R. ALLENQ The Gift That Lasts GLADSTONE BAGS See our display of popular Priced Quality Baggage I , I There, announced Joe Kimerick, is just. what I want. An overcoat like that, -with balmalacca. shoul- ders. He smiled in at the clothing store window, his big frame hunch- ed a. little forward, his nose almost against the window glass. Do you think it would make me look too swaggish ? -n hwikl . 1-n..,1 n..nnHnn fn IIYICKIYDI` they had to stand twice in the same place to cast a. shadow; still, eightyv four hogs was a lot of sidemeat. I II t It About midsummer, Joe bought a team and wagon. He graduated from woodcutting into hauling; and thereafter I saw him four or ve times daily, when he pulled up at the pumping plant to unload. How's she st;eamin ? he would ask, which is the standard rice-country greet- ing. While I told him how she steamed, he would rub down his horses with a handful of grass, put them on the muzzles, and comb the snarls out of their manes. - - __4.-L_ ._- - 4.1.- L. Dllll vuv ua. vn-an ....... -.4. Next spring they wrote me that Joe had acquired some timber land, and was selling cordwood. He had four other teamsters working for him. He still raised hogs, and was a. busy man. He still stuffed his cheques into the kitchen clock, and once in months went to town and deposited them. When he endors- ed them, he marked the back with an X, and the banker wrote along- side: Joe Kimerick, his mark." .. .1 1. I certainly Joe. He kept walked, looking new overcoat. laigs irk me better days. There were suits for sale where you got the coat. u`? 1......" our 'InI-'1: Gnrl nr\;\+hn` _yuu evv un. vuwv. I know. But; let's nd anbther store. I aim to diversify." He sneaked a look at me from the :- nu, -. - n,.__..u..:..... 1 aucuncu .. L\J\.Il\ .... ..... .... .. .--- corner of his eye. Something, I knew, was behind all this. So far, I couldn't tell what it was. So I let. diversify go past; me wuhout comment, along with ba1ma1acca" and the others. At another store he selected two suits, one to be delivered to his hotel later, the other to be altered immediately. We sat on a. red lea- ther davenport and waited while the tailor worked on the trousers. I don t live where I used to," volunteered Joe. I live at the schoolmasters now. It's education- I know. It's account of Nellie. She's going to marry me, but not until I learn to read and write, and spruce myself up other ways. so I moved to the school teacher's house, and he grammars me. We sit and talk of an evening and use big words-you would hardly be- lieve it. It's kind of fun." He sat. musing. But gettin it on p.1per- t1:n.t. s harder." -- ,:_..-1_._s 1..:_... 1-. lard u. "-L El Anal. uun. . The tailor signaled him. Joe took the altered suit and went to the dressing-booth. When he returned, he was a changed Joe Iiimerick. Clothes do make a difference. Let's go, he said. I have so buy a hat." .. . ,:.~. LI-.. L..:I.... u-r)..o nwa.55AoAA . It was a. hard question to answer. Joe's adjectives had me back on my heels; he ha.dn t; always talked this way. Moreover, nobody knows just how swaggish another wishes to look. Try one on, I suggested. See for yourself. un....... .....n I...-. ...-.:.-I nnrl ch-nrlafnr ll nah. Pa.rdon," said the tailor. But your old suib-sha11 I deliver that to your hotel ?" feel elegant, said bending over as he ' at the front of his But them breeches some. They've saw PHONE 557 7' We had lunch, and we Dough`. shoes. This ain't too much trouble? he asked, for the fourth time. I'm sure obliged to you." --. A,.,\ z__ x-.....4. ,.r n Ia.-.6 Mrmn hnuv. a. AAA u\,|Au `.0... We stood in front; of a` hat store looking in the window. He said: You see that sign? I can read pretty near everything on it. T1:-; sign said Robbs Huts Six Dollars. And I can endorse my clicqucs ne. So you can pmctically say I can read and xvrito. He stood, up straight, grinning`. It's :1 good feeling. 77:. 4.....:... uvvnn Ann fn In-nun of. Don't bother, said Joe. 4` .2 .k Phone 531 A. MOFFATT For Chr THE GIFT OF LASTING BEAUTY AND USEFULNESS 1i`()UR \']C.'\ R G U.v\1{.-\l\I ',l7]<}E 7.'+r-.".=,g,-_.;;:'~,`;,v-**.= 'v".!\;.v"`.!_v- .! :.?;1';;.I GIVE HER A HEATING AND PLUMBING AGEI\"T FOR fll1*]UL.\ FU]1N.v\vCES was due to leave at sepmntely. I`m kincl-.1. startin` over," he ex- plained. Three years ago I cheat- ed 9, fellow in a horse deal. On my \`-.'z1_V home I'm going` to stop and :.qu:11'e up with him. We went to the train and bade each other zyoocl-by. I'm obliged to you," he said. You've been a. help. -- - - - - ,1 ., .,__ A-.. He had been And I \\'is11 I with Nellie. I a good man. He was packing i He took fteen an envelope and . L. IMAU uvus. He seemed out of p1ace-baggy suit, clumpy shoes, overcoat; that had quit trying. But one knew in- tuitively that. there was something happening in his mind. There was motivzntion behind this. --- - ,1, _ .__ -1. .... ......... n-I 118 Dunlop Street :1 help to me, too. could have a word think she's getting PAGE SEVEN .___..-........__...._,. in his hotel dollars, put; l pocketed it 1lLUl4LV(|Al4AU.l.1 LJ\4LAL.lA\4L xuauu. The clerk who met us surveyed Joe Kimerick and listened to his speech without so much as raising an eyebrow-\vhich was a. good thing for everybody. He shucked Joe out of his old overcoat and into the new one with a. single motion. Joe settled himself into the coat and stood among the mirrors, patting himself and nodding approval at the vie\v from front and rear. Looks like I hoped," he said. Do you like it? -. ,.......x |.:___ u:Ly,. nu,-. r IHXU 1|: I Joe, I assured him, it s one of the nest: coats I've seen this year. I'll take it." Thank you, sir, said the clerk. And where shall I send your old when I rst knew Joe Kimerick he was a. woodcutter on 2L rice plan- tation. All day, deep in hardwood forest, he swung a. double-bitted ax; and in the evening, on his way home, he stopped at. the pumping plant for a. drink of water. He ivas a. quiet man, with hands as hard as his own ax helve. A-- -._-_1 I.......1n ,.,.,;,q M1,, as 1115 uwu an ;.u.ux.. He's a good hand, said the overseer. Every week I hand him .._,_u_ ......n 1.. rvnna hnrnn and 0Vl:`1`5t2l:1`. 4VUL_y wuun ... ;......\.. .... .. a. pay check and he goes home and puts it inside the kitchen clock with the others. Once a. year he goes to the bank. - 4--.. 1... 1:...-. An rnnnn-