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Show DO NOT FORGET TO GIVE YOUR GRANDFATHER CREDIT In the September American Magazine, Mag-azine, Katherine Holland Brown, writing n story entitled "Aunt Jane and the Lion Tamer," presents two characters whoj discuss Jerry Led-yard's Led-yard's adventurous pioneer spirit a young man in tho story, who Is going to marry a girl named Elizabeth Ann whom he expects to take with him tq Ecuador. Here Is the argument between be-tween two of the characters in the story: "Oh, your Jerry Is a wonder, al right, he growled! But take It from me, he's like all the Ledyards. Pack of mooneyed dreamers, every mother's moth-er's son of 'em. Always hlkln' out -for tho foot of the rainbow, always llmpln' home stung. Look at Jerry's, father, sinking his whole Inheritance-in Inheritance-in that wild Tennessee, land then struggling along on his salary the rest of his days! "Well he thought there was coal on it, you know, And there was. Stacks, Nowadays, Blnce tho railroad was put through Jerry and his brothers broth-ers hreclearlng twenty per cent on tho original investment. The old gentleman was a bit far sighted,, that was all. "Far slghted7 Mayoo. But what about Jerry's grandfather? That pie-faced pie-faced old Dutchman who spent nine years hanging over a crucible trying try-ing to make gold out of horseshoes? Call that far sighted, too? "Not so far sighted that he did not stumble on a cheap process for hardening hard-ening steel, and clear halt a million off it. You'd forgotten that, had not you? Want any more moonoyed Instances, In-stances, dear?" |