Show harvest hands copyright ion by associated literary ry press they wanted harvest hands in indiana iowa kansas all over the vest west they wanted them so bad that very high wages were offered and agents sent cast past to talk and ad ver vertese use it was tree free tare fare out with keep on the road and then 3 per day and the most liberal board tor for weeks and weeks it was the great est eat chance for the students working their way through college and scores of them took advantage of it dwight carleton of columbia looked upon it as a special interposition of providence in six weeks he could earn sufficient to take him through the winter term he ile had no wealthy father to back him fourteen hours per day in the har bar vest field and the farmer carrying a grouch because be he could not make it fifteen A bed on the hay in the barn and every man still hungry as he arose from the liberal table the husky workers groaned and per and stood it those who had never roughed it kept on as long as they could and dropped out and were paid off and told to go and when dwight carleton was handed his wages after ten days of back breaking work he found them anaut even to pay his railroad fare back as far as chicago and then some one stole ha his spare clothing and when he hit the pike be he had nothing to carry in his hands there cagne came a day to dwight carlo carle ton when he be had to eit sit down by the roadside and wonder if he could ever make another mile exhausted with hunger and tramping and exposure and a fever burning him he sat with his bead bead in his hands and his courage all gone and then the children from the country school a quarter of a mile away came along on their way home and stopped to look at him and make comments and a little later came the schoolman scho olma am in her pink net and clean calico dress you are III she slip said as she glanced at the young man he bodde his head weh weil come back to the first house that a where I 1 live my fath er Is a farmer but im I 1 m teaching this school this term lerm you are ill and weak take my arm but im penniless replied the ex harvest hand band with a rueful smile come now and we well 11 walk slow ay 1 it was after the patient had got to the house and found a bed and the telephone had summoned a doctor that the farmer came up from the field to gay to his big daughter for the last two years youve you va been trying to turn this house into a tramp hospital and now you ve done itt it that teller faller Is playing pos bum sum on you he hes a got to get out of this and move along the father was taken into the bed room of the half asleep muttering young man and shown the palms of his hands they were blistered guess he a s been at work some where a and played out but it ain aln t for or us to pay his doctor bills and nurse him I 1 can cart pay father from my school money I 1 humph and when be he gets able to go hell steal my best horse it was two weeks before the pa tient wag was able to I lave ave his room and two more before he was moving around outdoors before that he bad had told his story and written a letter to be mailed to new york city trying to get through college hump I 1 was the farmers reply ma ala our susie s soft as butter she behaves believes every word that teller faller says and you keep heep your eye out that they elope together that letter to dyt 1 pe vt new york was only a blind it 11 never be took notice of but it was there came an an awer and a big money order and young mr air carleton was to get some clothes and come on as soon as he could he ile owed sorro sor thing to the farmer at P a family council the farmer reckoned that 50 would woul d be about right ito shall never pay it father ex claimed the daughter as the red blazed up in her cheeks then who willa I 1 will viii I 1 told you so in the beginning that money Is only a loan from a friend out in the orchard the day before he left the ex harvest hand tried to pay the money to his nurse but she held her bands hands behind her and said ehe she wanted to be his creditor for how long he asked till you you I 1 shall come back some day to pay my debt when I 1 do I 1 shall ask for something I 1 dare not speak of now how tiow long will you waita I 1 ran t cash in thirty days the rule she blushingly asked one spring day three years later the mother ran down into the field to ay say to the husband I 1 oh pa but it its a all happened its 1 ill all happened has that dinged smokehouse tipped vera omera lo no 10 but that young man has walked home from a hool with susie and he hes through with college and ties has got a place that pays thousands year and ho he a paid back her money nd wants to be married right away and and wall I 1 allua allus said sald atwould comet corn a I 1 t A |