Show I OLD PLACE WAS GOOD ENOUGH M y Comprehensive Reason Why Citizen Came Home Squire Lord of local fame In Ef t tln ham N It fifty years ago hart i accumulated by all sorts of methods H fortune for the times and place Keeping the country store being practically prac-tically tho bank of thoso parts and Increasing wealth beyond expenditures J had nourished nn ambition to live in > a place larger and with moro social 4 opportunities than the little village at fordod So ho packed up utno autumn took a houso in Portland which was t tho tovn 6 the world jo country pea pie then and with his family started In to cut a dash To his chagrin ho found ho was one of many In that place and not a scrape or bow was coming his way Christmas saw him back bag and baggage In Efllngham and that evenIng even-Ing In his store to the Inquiry of one of the village loafers Whyd yo comeback come-back squire foro youd calculated J ho replied t Ive had enough of that place Ye ECO Id rather bo a king among hogs than a hog among kings < |