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Show OUR ATAVISTIC ATAVISTICINSTINCTS ATAVISTICINSTINCTS"a-ByLIILIANOAKLEY ATAVISTICINSTINCTS"a ATAVISTICINSTINCTSa ByLIILIANOAKLEY ATAVISTICINSTINCTS"aByLIILIANOAKLEYMcdure INSTINCTS INSTINCTSBy - < ; > " * - By LIT LII LIAN OAKLEY OAKLEYMcClure ( Mcdure McClure Syndlcale-WNU Syndlcale WNU Syndlcnte-WNU Syndlcnte Syndicate - - WNU Service ) TillS THIS ' "pHIS pHIS " is the story of o ( Henry HarumTodhunter HarumTodhunter Harum Todhunter and h s TBone THone LIzzie LIzziethe Lizziethe Lizziethe the pride of o ( the Hexham campus campusthe campusthe campusthe the car whose slogans were louder louderthan louderthan louderthan than her rattle ratUe But the explana explanatIon explanatlon explanation tIon tlon of the story lies lles in a quit quitcountry quitcountry quiecountry country churchyard where Henry s stwo stwo stwo two great grandfathers are pcacc pcnceful peacefully pcncefully tJ tJly ly sleeping slecpmg beneath the yew } ew tree treesshade treesshadeGreat s sshade sshade shade shadeGreat Great Grandfather Todhunter was wasa wasa wasa a Methodist minister famed for hf his hispraying hispraying praymg praying and tasting fastmg fasting and for bis his su supreme supreme supreme preme faith in God s power to pcr per pcrform perform perform form miracles Great Grandfather GrandfatherHarum GrandfatherHarum GrandfatherHarum Harum was also famous but not notfor notfor notfor for his psalm singing smglng But he had hadhad hadhad 1 1had had a supreme faith m in his own ab 1 I 1ity Iity 1ity ity as a .nidge nidge Judge . of good horsefic.h horsefich horseflesh horsefic.hI horsefic.hhlch horsefleshthich horsefleshwhich . \\hlch hlch thich \ left him w th a reputatIon reputatIonpar reputationpar reputationpar I par excellence as a horse traderHenry traderHenry trader traderHenry Henry was walking wa11.mg wa11mg . the floor of h s sroom sroom sroom room in the Kappa S g house wIth wIthh withh withh h s book m In his hts band hand Tomorrow Tomorrowwas Tomorrowwas Tomorrowwas was examinat e'taminat etaminat ' on dayAnd dayAnd day dayAnd And the more he reviewed h s sEngllsh sEnglish sEnglish Engllsh English for the last semester the themore themore themore more fully he real zed that he was washopelessly washopelessly washopelessly hopelessly helplessly Irretrievably irretrievablylost lost And if he failed he would be bedropped bedropped bedropped dropped from the football team and andthat andthat andthat that would mean that Hexham would wouldgo wouldgo wouldgo go down m In defeat before Notre NotreTame NotreTame NotreTame Tame the enemy they had worked workedSIX workedsix workedsix SIX years to beat . . Henry wasn t tconceited tconceited tconceited conceited m In think thmk ng this tor for Coach CoachBrmdle CoachBrindle CoachBrindle Brmdle Brindle and his teammates had Just Justtold justtold justtold told him hlffi so and dared him hlffi to de default default default fault in scholarshtpHeck scholarshipHeck scholarship scholarshtp scholarshipHeck Heck what a mess to be ml Inl in ! He Hetos.ed Hetossed Hetossed tos.ed tosed tossed . the book on the bed-read bed read bed - read ng ngIt ngit ngit It only made him hlffi hun realize reallze how lltUe htUe lltUehe htUehe littlehe ' he knew knewIt It would take a miracle to sa sae saeme sa/eme sa eme Ie / , ' me nohe no now no\\ no \ he mutteredAt mutteredAt muttered mutteredAt At the word miracle the shade of ofhis ofhis ofhis his Great Grandfather Todbunter Todhunter Todbunterarose Todhunterarose Todhunterarose arose from its peaceful slumberPrayer slumberPrayer slumber slumberPrayer Prayer can work miracles It Itmurmured itmurmured itmurmured murmured in Henry sear searFor s earFor ear earFor For several minutes mmutes Henry stared staredout staredout staredout out of the window into the dark darknight darknight darknight night . . Then he left the room clos elos closIng elosing closing Ing the door softly behind him He HeI Hewent Hewent Hewent I went out the back way and down downa a sidestreet to the little Gothte Gothic Gothtechapel Gothicchapel Gothicchapel chapel chapelhose \ whose \\hose hose those doors were always alwaysopen alwaysopen alwaysopen open And then he prayed He Hedldn Hedidn Hedidn dldn didn t ask God to let him learn the thewhole thewhole thewhole whole English Engllsh book in a night . . He Heprayed Heprayed Heprayed prayed only that the teacher mIght mIghtask mightask mightask ask just the questions that he knew knewthe knewthe knewthe the answers to And In the fervor fervorof fervorof fervorof of his prayer he promised God that thatif thatif thatif if He would help him pa pass the theexamInatIon theexamination theexamination examInatIon that he would sell his hisTBone hisTBone hisTBone TBone Lizzie the only salable thng th ng nghe nghe nghe he had and give all of the money he hegot hegot hegot got for her to the charity chanty fundThree fundThree fund fundThree Three days later when the exam exammatIon examoration exammation , matIon oration grades blazed from the b g gboard gboard board for all the world to read Hen Henry Henry Henry ry s name like llke that of Abou Ben BenAdhem BenAdhem : Adhem led all the rest restThis . . i This put Henry back on top of the theworld theworld theworld world again It would have been the theultimate theultimate theultimate ultimate ecstasy if the shade of ofhis ofhis ofhis his Methodist ancestor hadn t kept keptnaggmg keptnagging keptnagging naggmg nagging at h mWhat mWhat m mWhat What about your promise to toGod toGod toGod7 God ' it asked You know a fel fellow fellow fellow low who 11 U pay you forty dollars for forthe forthe torthe the TBoneYeah TBoneYeah TBone TBoneYeah Yeah and it If he hI ' sold her Henry Henryasked Henryasked Henryasked asked himself " , what hat then ' " ' He d dnever dnever dnever never be able to get forty dollars to tobuy tobuy tobuy buy another car and life without a acar acar acar car after alter twelve months with the theTBone theTBone theTBone TBone would be dull and unpopu unpopular unpopubar unpopular lar bar What would his fraternity fratermty broth brothers brothers brothers ers think ' " ' What would Mabel do do7 do7At ' At the word trade the shade of ofGreatGrandfather ofGreatGrandfather ofGreat-Grandfather ofGreat Grandfather Great-Grandfather Great Grandfather - - Harum left Its Itspeaceful itspeaceful itspeaceful peaceful grave beneath the yew yewtree yewtree yewtree tree i s shade Henry listened for a afew afcw afew few fcw minutes then peace replaced replacedhIS replacedhis replacedhis hIS worryThe worry worryThe worryThe The next morning mommg one of the work workmg workmg workmg mg students spread the news that thatHenry thatHenry thatHenry Henry Todhunter s II TBone THone LIZzie Lizzietas Lizziewas tas \ as on sale in the square for one onedollar onedollar onedollar dollar Everybody that had a dollar dollarleft dollarleft dollarleft left the breakfast table and hurned hurried hurriedto hurnedto to the square The TBone THone was the themost themost themost most popular car In the state Her Herslogans Herslogans Herslogans slogans were quoted like llke a 'May May 'MayWest "MayWest MayWest " ' May MayWest West wisecrackHenry wisecrackHenry wisecrack wisecrackHenry Henry sat m in the car ImpervIous ImpervIousalike imperviousalike imperviousalike alike to the remarks of friend fnend and andfoe andfoe andfoe andfoeHave foe foeHave foeHave Have you gone nuts Henry sell sellmg selling selling mg ing that car tor for a dollar7 dollar dollar7Don ? ' Don t be a tool fool Henry I II 11 ll pay payyou payyou payyou you fiveDon five Don t let him have her I 111 III II give giveyou giveyou giveyou you ten when I get my check from fromhome fromhome fromhome fromhomeHenry home homeHenry Henry stood up and look looked cd over overthe overthe overthe the sea of waving one dollar b lisThe UsThe Us lis UsThe The price of th s car is one ODe dol dab dollar dabtar dollar lar tar he said no more no less lessBut lessBut lessBut But ' . and he held up two spare sparet t res these two tires go with her herand herand herand and I 1 m asking askmg twenty dollars a apIece apiece apiece pIece tor for emThIs emThis em emThis This met with cat calls and jeers jeerstrom jeersfrom jeersfrom trom from the assembled students Most Mostof Mostof Mostof of them turned to leave dlsgusted disgusted dlsgustedwith disgustedwith disgustedwith with Henry 2 II a perfidy But Isaac IsaacCohen IsaacCohen IsaacCohen Cohen whose father owned all the thecleaning thecleaning thecleaning cleaning shops within withm a radius of ofthree ofthree ofthree three miles of the campus pushed pushedthrough pushedthrough pushedthrough through the angry mob and handed handedHenry handedHenry handedHenry Henry forty one dollarsIt dollars dollarsIt It ain aln ale t a bad bargain bargalD at that thathe thathe thathe he told the boysHenry boysHenry boys boysHenry Henry turned his back on the car carand carand carand and started startod up the street streetWhere . . Where are you going gomg Lame LameBram LameBrain LameBrain Bram Brain ? his chum asked tallmg falling tallmgnto fallingnto fallingnto nto step beside him1m himI him himIm I Im 1m m gomg going to the chapel to DUt out DUtlhe outthe outthe lhe the dollar I sold the TBona TBone foi fOl m in mhe inhe inhe he charity chanty box Henry told him himWhat himWhat himWhat What then then7Then ? ' Then I m . go ng to : take t:1ke t1ke the rest restof restof resot ! of the money to town and buy me meanother meanother meanother another car answe ed cd Henry |