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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-10-14, Page 2!lave ou Trie � s In a class by itself. *,.sit for it. • l3 BY ROSE WILDER LANE. PART I. When Aunt Sally Gordon saw the car at the gate and the strange roan coining on foot up the hill, she thought he w e another tourist needing water or gasoline. She hoped it was water. There was plenty of water is the well at the hack door; anyboay was wel- come to it, and Aunt Sally liked to talk to tea tourists while they drew it up. There was an air of freedom and advent's. ousness about them, plate and said, "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 for fifty dollars, but time I got through with him he gave a hundred," It seemed as though Aunt Sally Rut if the man needed gasoline she couldn't believe her ears. She said, would have to charge him thirty cents A. hundred dollars?" a gallon for it. That was the price Ono hundred dollars for that old James set; James said if folks didn't tree, said James. He took a long have sense enough to fill their tanks drink of coffee, wiped his mustache at the filling stations they could pay (with the back of his hand and said, for their foolishness. So whenever a There's no tree on earth worth a tourist stopped, Aunt Sally hoped it hundred dollars to me, but I guess was water he needed. he knows how he'll get his money out of it." James got to Morton's," he told Au up. "I'm going over She had poured hot swill into the Sally."Jim hogs' buckets, and was stirring the says he's get a likely heifernt for sale." In a few minutes Aunt Sailty heard the engine roaring backward out of the garage, and then the car rattled feed. While she stirred, the stranger under the walnut and down the hill. came almost to the door. He stopped It was a little car, battered and and stood looking at the old walnut muddy, its front fenders held together tree.. Taking off his hat he said, by wires. The car was like James; "Good morning! Fine tree you've got there," All at once Aunt Sally's wrinkled dry feed at the bottom with a stick, so it wou'n'd be well soaked and appetizing for the bogs. James was proud of his hogs, and very particular about their no._fooeeh folderol about it, but it went right ahead over the road. Aunt Sally cleared the table and began to wash the dishes. The window dollars, he can have it," said James. "1 guess I can aderays find use for the money." "We've gnat more than twelve thou- sand dollars in bonds," Aant Sally Said. "And the farm and: nil`, I don't know but it's worth something to me to have that tree shading the kitchen in summer." James said, "Oh, you won't miss it much, Walnuts aren't much good for shade." Aunt Sally didn't reply. She had never answered James when he dispos- ed of a subject in that way. James was a good man, and one .of the best farmers in Green Valley; people na- turally •accepted his decisions. He had always provided for her as well as he could, When they were' first married she had never asked him for anything; they were then 'so poor that he needed every cent for the farm. As he pros- pered he had begun to buy leer dress good's, and other things—a sewing ma- ebine, a patent churn.. Only a few years after he had his big barns and silos he had built the new house. Later he had let her keep the egg money, to save, or spend as she pleased. Yes, James was a 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 cool, wide moonlight. It didn't seem, right to kill it. "I'm getting nervous as a witch," she thought. At last she said, "James, it isn't as if we needed the hundred." James made a vague sound and stir- red a little in his chair. In a minute he said, "Hogs are up another cent." He hadn't heard her. He paid no a4rention to her. Aunt Sally's needle wabbied. She dropped the mending in her lap, pushed up her glasses and looked at James. He sat there, read- ing on down the market reports. Aunt Sally's anger frightened her. It was wicked to be so angry. And at James, for nothing at alt! She tried to be sensible. They were just an old couple, sitting in their kitchen, after thirty-five years together. It was na- tural he didn't pay much attention 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 into me," she thought, wiping her glasses on a i? ace had something shyly girlish in it. by the worktable looked out into the corner of her apron. She said, "Yes, I guess it's about the lowest branches of the walnut tree. (To be concluded.) biggest walnut in Green Valley." All the little leaves, in pairs up their - The stranger said "H'm" while he stems, were yellow now; they were like Ntinard'e liniment !o• trrulses. looked at the tree. "Where'll I find fountains of yellowness at the ends of . the man of the place?" the smell branches. Among them there i I[� tgsllaag's Foe y Allude Aunt Sally told him that James was _ was a frisk of plumy tail; as squirrel! to United gates. in the granary, beyond the barns.; invading the great tree for its h�arvesk! Reviewers give much spu•eo: �i►ti "That's the feed grinder you hear," of nuts. Aunt Sally turned her head; she said. "F'o:'!ow it up end you'll through the other window she could bookrs to R.ndyard Kpatch's new hind him" She added sympathetically, see the squirrel sitting' upright en a Ibook, says a London despatch. "But' I One poem particularly attracted the you ]1 just be wasting time try- big gray limb, ho:'ding a nut tightly ; attention of some reviewers, who seee Ing to sell him anything. ` to his little breast. He was a young, ill it ti obvious allusion to the United The young man smiled again and squirrel. Aunt Sally hoped the rats' States in connection . with 'the. great went confidently towerd the barns. wouldn't get him. It was almost eleven o'clock, and itled "The Vine - That i,:d tree had been a sight of' yard,"Ta and the he poem ifirsts tiand concluding the cream separator not scalded yet, company for her. It gave her an empty' 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, Time had been when she could dt all but the barns. 1 the housework, milk half the cows ' i 13u't his wages were the same t ; The tree had been hardly more than! As ours, who all day long had trod take care of the hens, get a weeks a sapeng when she and James were, The winepress ot the wrath of God. Wasting out on the line, and have the married. Thirty-five years ago. Aunt, vegetables gathered and ready to cook, Sally had a queer sensation, thinking! Since his back had felt no load, by eleven o'clock. The children were of all those years, She arid James had i Virtues still in him abode. small ti_en, too, and she had to look been young then, and now they were! So he swiftly made his own after thein. But now the children were old; all those years had slipped aweyL Those test spoils we had not won. all grown and gone, there was nobody' from them almost unnoticed. Every 1 but herself and James to do for, and I spring the tree had put out its new • We went Bonne, delivered t.hene , yet it seemed as though she never] young leaves; curled together Like! Grudging him no recompense, up with the work.baby hands at first, then opening out'; Till he portioned praise or blame After a while Aunt Sally saw the above yellow tassel's of blossom, then , To our works before he came, stranger going down to the gate,' spreading in green tufts, like palm,' whistling. He get into the car andtrees. Aunt Sally had never seen a! Tilt ha showed us for our good .,,, •_.,-, drove away. . palm, but the many little branches of 1 Deaf to mirth and blind to scorn She had the .d'rntier on the kitchen, the walnut, standing up with those' How we might have best withstood table -when James came in at noon. It 'green tufts at their tops, had always! Burdens that he had not borne. saved work to .eat in the kitchen. MI made her think of palms and deserts was easier to wipe ori the oilcloth than I and str^ng'e foreign peoples. i t ki The it 't s ry to o wash and iron tablecloths and nap -f Then in the summertime th a tl I Scotland's Oldest Burgh. ns. n wasrt nese sa � ing shade of the tree, full of birds. sweep and dust the dining room every) And in the fall the :eaves were always day. The front part of the house was yellow Iike this. Then the winter came, hardly used at all any more. James 1 and all the gray branches were outlin- had no use for folderols, and saw no/ed in white snow. Ivery spring, every use in wasting time and strength on winter, every summer, the tree had ahem. j been the same; yet a:i the time imper- When he bad taken the edge orf his ceptibly growing older, growing larg- appetite James looked up from his! er, spreading roots and branches far- . ; ther into earth and air. ' Aunt Sal: thought of the 1 autherglen, a busy community near Glasgow with a population of 29,09.0, recently celebreateh its eight-huu- dred"th birthday. 'ft is said to have received its charter as n royal burgh from David 1. iu.11LG. Although once a royal residence, ! Ruthergleu Castle was demolished in the enghteenth century, but wi:a gar- risoned by the English during the wars with Scotland. 13rnce lay siege ; to it on.- several. occasions, but his j brother Edward eventually captured the castle in 1813. History is also llnksd with the old church steeple of "Rnglen," as the ua- ] it, 1t marks fives cal 1 s the site .of the original church in which a trnce be- tween England and Scotland was sign-, ed In 1297. This Language of Ours. here's a Treat for you and your children in the Peppermint sugar jacket and another a in the I'e:pper mint -flavored gum inside. WRIGLEY'S *WE* Utmost value in long l-a-s-tai.tt-g delight. WRIGLEY'S aids digestion. and makes the next cigar tastes Setter. Try it. Class AAFiRREVERY MEAA/ IS US No, $j' t3 un1, . a axes cut-. ting into it. Killing the old tree, She cicd a strange thing. She Left the dish, water cooling and went out to 'eek at the tree. She stood by the woodpile, shading her eyes with her lesnd, and 1 yellow rvalccd at it wes hi rh aWr' Its bratop t mat tee sky; its branches ipread over the .ow kitchen roof. The • tray trufik was sturdy above the. 1•ea y roots thee gripped the earth. I'h_t tree was still young and strong. 1 t inip;bt a hundred years. It might- b vin;:• wh;an her grandchil- dren had grandchildren of their own. : .lames haarl w.nid ft to be killed, for .t bemired •rol'le'rs. That night at supper she said to James, "Did that man pay you for; the tree?" James said, "No, I told him to bring the cash when be come to cult it down. If I'm not hate you get the Bash before you let them lay ex to it. I guess he's straight enough, and 'likely his cheque is good, i'ut there's no need to take 'chances." 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