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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-10-21, Page 6ave =: ou Tries 1nel in a class br itself. Ask for it. alnut Trcc BY ROSE WILDER LANE. PART I. When Aust Salty Gordon saw the car at the gate and the strange man coming on loot up the hii1, she thought he wet :mother tourist needing water or gm eiine, She hoped it was water. There was plenty of water in the well at the back door; anybody was Wel, care to it, and Aunt Sally liked to talk to the tourists while they drew it up. There was an air of freedom and adventurousness about them: But if the man needed gasoline she would have to charge him thirty cents a gallon for it. That was the price James set; James said if folks didn't have sense enough to, fill their tanks at the filling stations they could pay for their foolishness. So whenever a tourist stopped, Aunt :Sally hoped it was water he needed. to She had poured hot swill. into the hogs' buckets, and was stirring the dry feed at the bottom with a stick, so it would be well soaked and appetizing of his for the hags: James was proud dollars„ he can have it;,' s..aid'"James;. "I gties{s 1 eau always rind use fell' the menu'," 'We've got mere than twelve thou- sand iellars 'in bonds," Astat ,Sally said.. And the farm and all. I don't_. know but it's' worth something to me' to have that tree shading the kitchen in summer." James said" "Oh, you wd11't amiss it much. Walnuts aren't much good for plate and &aid, "I sold the walnut this morning." Aunt Sally repeated/amazed, "The walnut?" . James said, "That fellow that was here, seems he's working for a com- pany that's buying up walnut trees to make furniture of. He thought he was going to get that tree fom fifty dollars, but time I got through ,with him he gave a hundred." It seemed as though Aunt Sally couldn't believe her ears. She said, "A hundred dollars?" "One hundred dollars for that old tree," said James. Ile took a long drink of coffee, wiped hismustache with the back of his hand and said, "There's no tree on earth worth a hundred dollars to me, but I guess he knows how he'll get his money out of it." James got up. "I'm going over ko' Morton's;" he told Aunt Sally. "Jim says he's got a likely heifer for sale." In a few minutes Aunt Sally heard the engine roaring backward out of the garage, and then the car rattled hogs, and very particular about their under the walnut and down the hill. feed. While she stirred, the stranger It was a little car, battered and came almost to the door. He stopped. mu Sy, its front fenders held together and stood looking at the old walnut tree. Taking off his hat he said, "Good morning! Fine tree you've got shade." Aunt Sally didn't reply. She had never answered Janres whet he dispos- ed of a subject lar that way, Janles. was a good man, and one of the best farmers in Green Valley; people ua- tulrally accepted his decisions. Ile had always provided for her as well as he could. When they were first married she had never asked him for anythini ; they were then so poor that he needed every cent for the farm.. As he pros- pered he had begun to buy her: dress goods, and other things—e. sewing ma- chine, a patent churn,. On -g a :few big basins are! ' a years after he had h1s b � b1 � , silos he had built the.new house, LatRr I he had let her keep the egg money, to . save or spend as she pleased. Yes, James was en good man, and sensible.. She had always said to 'herself, "James knows best." -When the dishes were washed Aunt Sally brought her mending -,and sat down. Her needle went in and out as usual, But every moment she felt less like herself. The kitchen seemed stuffy to her, and ugly. She kept thinking of the tree out in the coon'. wide moonlight. It didn't seem right to kill it. "I'm getting nervous as a witch," she thought. At last the said, "James, it isn't as if we needed the hundred." James made a vague sound and stir- reda little in his chair. In a minute he,; said, "Hogs ,are up anothercent." He-hadt't heard her. He paid no - attention to her. Aunt S,ally's •needle wabbled. She dropped the mending in her lap, pushed up her glasses and looked at James. He sat there, read- ing en down the market reports. Aunt Sally's anger frightened her. It was wicked to be so angry. And at James,. for nothing at all! She tried to be sensible, They . were just ail old coup, le sitting in their ldtchee, after thirty-five years together. It was na- tural he didn't pay muchattention a to her. "If I was a hog he'd pay attention to . me," 'she thought suddenly. "There's money in hogs." It horrified her to think such a thing of James. "I don't'know what's getting i into on she thought, wiping her glasses corner of her apron. (To be concluded.) 'Big Money for Ford Owners smug- pate Shock Absorber's, Spring Gontrols and Lubricator. write for particulars. The W. G. AteTLE SALES .Co, Brldeeburp 4 Ont. i by" wires. The car was like James; no 'foolish folderol about it, but it went right ahead over the road: there.:, Aunt Sally cleared the table and All at once Aunt Sally's wrinkled began to wash• the dishes.. The window face had something shyly girlish in it. by the worktable looked out into the She said, "Yes, I guess it's aboutthe lowest branches - of the walnut tree. biggest walnut in Green Valley." I`All -the .little leaves, in pairs up their Minaret's Liniment foe bruises. The stranger raid "Hire while he, stems, were yei?ow now; they were like a the tree. "Where'll I find .fountains of yellowness at the ends of-0e133�1tg looked atIii li s the man of the place?" the small branches. Among thein there P' Aunt Sally told him that James was was a frisk of plumy tail"; a squirrel to United States ' gall granary, beyond, the barns. invading the great tree for its harvest Reviewers give much space . in the "That's the feed grinder you hear," , of nuts. Aunt Sally turned her head; ;papers to Rttdyard4 Kipling's new. she said. "Follow it up end you'II1 through the other window she could' book, says aLondon despatch. find him." She added sympathetically, see the squirrel sitting upright on- a' One poem particularly attracted the "But you'll just be wasting time try- big gray limb, holding a nut tightly, attention of some reviewers, who. see ing to sell him anything." I to his litt_e breast. He was a young; in it an obvious allusion to" the United The young:man smiled again and squirrel. Aunt Sally hoped the cats, States in connection with the great went confidently toward the barns. .wouldn't get him. ;war• The l7oent'is entitled "The Vine - It was almost eleven o'clock, and been 'That old tree had beea sight oft yard," and .the first and concluding' the cream separator not scalded yet, company for her. It gave her an empty i verses are: nor dinner started. And Aunt Sally , feeling to think of its being gone. had meant to churn that morning. There would be nothing left to look at At the eleventh hour he came, Tune had been when she could do all but`the barns. But his wages ,were the same the housework, milk half the cows,' The tree had been hardly more than' As ours, who all day long had trod take care of he' hens,get a . week's a sapling when she and James were' The winepress of the wrath of God. washing out on the line, and have tb,e vegetables gatheredand ready to cook, by eleven o'olock. The children were small tl_en, too, and she had to look after them. But now the children were all grown and gone, there was nobody and d Tam es to do for, elf an but hers hon r eve yet it seemed as though she never caught vp with the work. After a whi'e'Aunt. Sally saw the above yellow tassels of blossom, -then To our works before Ise came. stranger going down to the gate, spreading in green tufts; like palm! • , whistling.He got into the car and teees. Aunt `Sally : had never seen al TM he showed us for our good- • palm; but -the- many little. branches of I Deaf .to mirth and blind to scorn-- •t 1 ve West vvitllstoosl married. Thirty-five years ago. Aunt, Sally had' a queer sensation, thinking Since his back had felt no load, of all those years. She and James had. Virtues still in him abode. been young then, and now they were; Who swiftly nsad'e,his •own old; all those years had gipped a'wayI Those lost.spolns we had not won. from them almost unnoticed. Every' spring the trees had; put out its newt We went home, delivered thence, i use young leaves; curled ;together ,like- Grudging him no tenon p~� d • ame baby hands at first, then opening. out Till he portioned,Praise or bl drove away. She had the dinner on the kitchen the walnut, standing up with those How we nn 1a table when James came in at noon. It green tate at their tops, had always! Burdens that he had not borne. kitchen. It made* her think of palms and deserts' --, saved work to eat in tile' was easier to wipe off the oilcloth than and strange foreign peoples. I Scotland's' Oldest Burgh.to wash and iron tablecloths and nap- Then in the summertime, the rustl- kins. Then it wasn't necessary to ing shade of the tree,. full of :birds.; Rutherglen, a busy community near' sweep and dust the dining room every And in the fall the leavers 'were Always Glasgow with a population of 29,000, day. The front part of the house was yellowelike this. Then the winter carie,' recently celebreated its bight-hun- a' tohave It is a id "h birthday. t r o. Jamesoutlin- d e hardly used at all any more. Jam and all the gray branches were had no use for folderois,.and saw no edin white snow. E,ery*speeng, every received its charter as a royal burgh ` use in wastieg time and strength on winter, every summer, the tree' ha'd.,Item David 3. in 1125. them: been the same; yet all the time, imper-' Although once a royal residence, When he had taken the edge off his coptibly growing older, growing larg-!lititherglen'Castle was demolished in appetite James:Cooked up from his ear, spreading roots and branches far- the enghteenth century, but .was gar- __.,, _ .thee into earth and air. tisoned by the English during the Aunt Sally thought of the axes cut- ivsi•s with Scotland. :Bruce lay siege tins: into it. Killing the old tree. to it on ,several occasions, but his She did a strange thing. She left brother Edward ° eventually .captured he dish water cooling and went out to"' u 1313. for you and your children in -eek at the tree: She stood by the the Historycastle ill; is alsir. "linked with the old • the Peppermint sugarjacket . woodpile, shading her . eyes with her church steeple of I$nglen, as the ire - hand, Pnd looked at it. Its yellow top tine call it. It marks the site -of the and another i i the Pepper- was high against the sky; its branches original church In which a truce be Gprrad or,«r the :ave kitchen roof. The tween England and Scotland was sign- s7nant-iavorecl gum inside. e'r y trunk was sturdy above the ed in 120 7' :' 0 rev roots that gripped the earth- -. [N RM)iO YES VHS IS BATTERYLESS. ' Judging Irum.eaublio demand and the report from tke various, Radio Shows in the United States andlat the Cana- dian National',Cxhibition, the' tendency lin radio this year is undoubtedly to- wards 13atte�ryless Sets.. . 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E iece 41--`26, it, tree wee still young and strobe. aeiglit live a hundred years. It A Frenchmen called to see e friend' Trt 4 bes. g and announced: ;, be tieing wean h •r ,rdndchi.= .,1 call to sea Mr. l3rown.'' • I had .,randchildren of their own. re lee had :old it.tobe killed, for Maid "'You can't see him, sir; lie's • hundred tl r.:er's. • not up yet." o 4 i s a Frenchman--� Vat. you tell? 1 Coni'. • That right a-.u;ruer she ,and to ''sines, "Did that man pay you for yesterday,'' and you stay, Can't see heels 1.- `zee'?" This Language of Ours. because he is not down; now you say, • <i can't see heoin because he is, not up. aures sand . 1`to 1 told hint to lsrin the cash when he comes to cut it down. Vat you mean? Von wil he be,n-•ze If frit not here yon' get the cash before middle?" ' you lest them lay ani to it. 1 guess he's _ y straight enough, and likely his cheque is good, hut, there's no need, to take chances:" i "1 don't see 'any' need to sell that tree, ,James," Aunt :rally said. "It isn't as if we had to have the hundred idol ars," 1 "Any time any man wante any tree. of mite more than :he wants a'btandrved Yononro HAIriOFmsnia ACADEMY a wpalvou IIp, t11 I ,a fd/ In9 fe1rtY GFIiVfa.Ildrk� l d is �tlintl oaAPu. ,.un.. - pa qtn f�cheet, H O -7S1; OkT. T,� p7iflYa lld1� 7�110NT0' E� �l,llilil� 1Uttttlill ,,,,,, mens Ir 11111111111111111111000qm Throw away the Washboard -Ise Ringo E old-fashioned wash -day is gone. With it has gone the everlasting rub-rub-ru.bbing - and ugly hands, lame backs, frazzled nerves arid short- tempers and a spa - .. odour all through icy the house.. • 0 so and 't' of a ®u us e Rig: ea .� Inst d y mornings for the weekly wash. .. 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Ameeg objects fount were coins of the reigns 'of Claud.iub, Vespasian, Trajan and Hadrian, a.first oentury bowl which had been broken and riveted; a clay inlepot and a clay Incense bunter. Plenty of oystet. shone and debris tit lea.nc ,s from cook= ing were also £sisal ,.