Show FICTION ANOTHER GOOD CROP CORNER By James B. Holm FARM FOLKS are always asking a squire for information and advice on Dave Tidwell was no Dave was a leathery faced man in his I was attracted by i f i a peach tree on his then in minine fuU bearing- He Fiction gave me a few I Dave's place didn't look any too He spoke of his dilapidated old car near the guess I'll never have money enough to buy a new he make anything on this place I could see he had something else on his Pretty soon he started to ask who does money belong to if it's found hidden in a man's I suppose It would belong to unless someone else could prove direct I told More questions were rather At length he used to have a hired man named Oble know If you ever heard of him or He's dead Ue was a good he was a young he and his brother Sid lived around Obie got engaged to a girl but she threw him over for Obie always hated Sid for that and left Never spoke to Sid He came to work for me nearly forty years ago and stayed until last year when he I didn't pay him much but he saved his He didn't trust and he never I could see he had something else on his Pretty soon he started to ask TL FTER HE GOT sick last year Obie didn't live One day I was talking to him and he if anything happens to me I got money enough in my clothes to bury Better get it right now over I did and we counted it He acted like he wanted to tell me something but all he ever said was that he didn't want Sid to have anything of few days later Oble The money wasn't quite enough to bury but that was all I paid the Sure Sid came snooping Inquiring about Obie's I told him what I knew but I guess he didn't believe Argued on it and huffed and Was real ugly about He claimed Obie's clothes and Probably his by law I couldn't prove anything could here a couple of weeks ago I was working In the barn and came across a wad of ten dollar bills stuck away In a mortise Wasn't a great I don't know who put It Who does the money belong I can't advise but if it had been me that found I wouldn't do any hunting for an It's your isn't We looked at each other with the light of understanding between don't know if there's any more there or said I I don't know what Oble did with his He must have accumulated quite a little In forty He may have done something with It I don't know or he liked to be alone around die barn a great I people don't know won't hurt If I found any money in my barn I would regard it as another good If anyone thought it would be up to him to prove his Dave looked guess I can trust can't I forgot all about the matter until a year Then Dave Tidwell came to my office carrying a half bushel basket of are some of the peaches you liked so he had another nice crop this Matter of all crops were good this No My The look he gave me was a knowing one and confidential I looked out my window and saw Dave drive He was driving a nice new It was a make that must have cost twenty-five hundred dollars or Ash wood used for baseball bats is cured in a shed where it will dry thoroughly in about two If the wood is not thoroughly dry the bat will not be lively and a batter will not like the feel of the wood in his Gertrude who created 21 years ago and has been playing it ever brought her stage superstitions to Hollywood when she made her debut in Paramount's Berg insists all members of her cast step onto the stage with their right foot |