Show E gamse ramsey CY lk ma AC 0 I 1 by BOOTH copyright by doubleday pare 6 0 company THE BOY FATHER OF THE MAN here another of 0 thota those booth boy and girl stories lories that set rt e everyone ve laughing and living over again the days day of 0 youth till one la Is much like penrod and seventeen an and the oriole its if different ilic too in that it carries ramsey hanney Ull holland and dora yocum through school and college life to early in the world war so its serious us as well as funny and its ita one ot of booth tar best 0 t its kind thais enough 0 O CHAPTER I 1 1 aben johnnie comes marching home again hurrah hurrah well give five him a hearty welcome then hurrah I 1 hurrah the men with cheers the boys with shouts the ladles ladies ti aney will all turn out and well at all 1 bete eel e I 1 ray gay when hen johnnie c comes mes marching ng home again the old man and the little boy it hla Is grandson sat together in tile lie shade of the big walnut tree in the front yard watching the decoration day parade as it passed up the long street arid and when the last of the veterans uns caf out of sight eight the grandfather mar inured the words of the tune that came drifting back from the now distant band at the head of the procession did you grandpa the boy asked tid did I 1 what did you all feel gay alien the lie army tot home it get home all at once precisely tile the grandfather explained when the war was over I 1 suppose we felt rell relieved eved more than an thing else you feel so guy gay when her the war was though I 1 guess the boy ventured 1 I 1 guess we were you scared grandpa were you ever scared the Joh johnnies onles would hinr win no we ever afraid of that well you ever scared your conr self grandpa I 1 mean when you were viere in a battle oh yes I 1 was the old man laughed scared aplenty 1 1 I dont see why by the boy said promptly 1 I be scared in a battle your course not hotl I 1 grandpa why dont you march in tile the decoration day parade they let you im not able to march tiny any more mar e too short of breath and too shaky in the legs and too blind 1 I care said tile boy id be in the parade anyway if I 1 was you if id been in your place pince Gr grandpa anapa and let me be in that parade id been right up by the band look grandpa watch me grandpa I 1 this 19 the way id be Orand grandpa pa lie ile rose from the garden bench where they sat and gave a complex imitation of what had most appealed to him as the grandeury grandeurs gran gron deurs of the procession his prancing legs simulating those of the horse of the granil grand marthai marshal while title his upper parts rendered tile the drums and bugles bugle of the band a as well as the officers arid and privates of thi the millton i company which had been a feature of the parade the only thing he left out was the deta detachment ciment of veterans putty boom putty boom putty malm iwin boom boom 1 he vociferated as the drums drum and then as the bugles to tn ta ra tarn tara ue he addressed his festive legs lees whoa there you gee haw git cupl up 1 then waving an imaginary sword collumn right 1 farhud marchl march 1 halt I 1 barry arry harms lie he carried arnn show dier harms harm ue ile shouldered arms and returned to his sent seat be me grandpa Orand pa the way id do arid and as the grandfather nodded seeming to agree a thought recently dismissed returned to the rand llod l lod of lie composite procession and ot e sake ashapa well why by you ever afraid the johnnies would whip the unions grandpa oh we knew they 1 I guen so the little boy laughed disdainfully his question satisfactorily answered III 1 guess those file ol 01 Joh johnnies nales mi whipped lipped a heal they know how to light fight any at fill 11 II did they grandpa oh ob yes they didt did I 1 what the boy was astounded they all just ole cowards grandpa no sold said the grandfather they were pretty title soldiers they were viere well they ran away whenever he never you began shoot ln at em they sometimes they did hut but most times limes they sometimes they fought like and sometimes we alere ft ere the ones olt ran ituau an ay but the loh johnnies ohn nies nilles were had bad men they grandpa no the boys forehead customarily vacant I 1 scinie little vertical ertl cal thadows shadows produced by a straggle to think well buthe began slowly lirten grandpa lw beret you sold aid you said you ou rib nr or got seared the oe alle f were gaan to win 1 they did win pretty often said bald the ahe grandfather they won a good goo mony many battles 1 I mean you said you neer got goi scared win the war no we were never afraid of that well but if they were good men and fought like uIl wildcats deats grandpa I 1 and kep winning battles and every tiling thine how could that be how could you help bein scared win tile the ii war R r the grandfathers feeble eyes twinkled brightly why we knew they ramsey at this the little vertical shadows on Ram ramseys forehead became more pronounced for he be had find succeeded in thinking well they know they did they he argued they thought they were coln to win they yes I 1 guess they did cut but you see they were wrong well but ramsey struggled listen i I 1 listen here arar grandpa idaa I 1 well anyway if they neer got scared wed win in and nobody got scared win will well I 1 dont see i you dont see sec what eat but ramsey found himself unable un alil to continue its ills concentration oil oh much lie murmured 1 I see and his grandfather lau laughed glied again you mean if tile lie johnnee Johnn leq le felt just as sure of winning the war mar as we vie did and kept winning battles why iby we ue ever have had oil ani doubts we were going to win that sir it it 1 I guess so grandpa well I 1 think it was mostly because we were certain that we were right III 1 I see said ramsey the johnnie Johnn le knew they were on the side of the VIA 0 4 D V 0 1 11 I care said the boy id be in the parade anyway if I 1 waa you devil rut but rt at this the grandfathers laugh was louder than it had bad been ile he fore and ramsey looked hurt hirm well you can laugh if you want to lip objected in an aggrieved voice anyway the sunday school told us when people knew they were on the devils side they always 1 I dare say I 1 lore dare say the old ann interrupts Interrupt A d a little impatiently nut but in this world mighty few people think on the de dells ills side ramsey the south thought the devil was on oil our side you tee cee well that kind 0 oi mixes it all up moren ever sulp suppose you look at it this way the south was as fighting for what it belfe believed led to be its right to be a country by luelf hot but we were fla biting for liberty and union now and forever one and inseparable theres the reason we had the certain knowledge that we were going to win the war how flow plain and simple it list Is I 1 ramsey think so ile he hart had begun to fed bored by the conversation and to undergo the oppression he usually suffered in ID school the cartiest car riest old voice of the veteran TOS only a sound lit in the boys ears bourn boom the veterans had begun to fire their cannon on the crest of the low jow hill bill out at the cemetery and from a little way down the street come came the rat a tat of a toy drum and sounds of a fife planed execrably A file of children in cocked hats bats made of pere pera crime came marching imports importantly ally up the sidewalk under the maple shade trees and in advance upon a velocipede rode a tin personage shrieking incessant commands but not himself with uI whether lether or not any military obedience was thereby obtained here was a effect spon young ramsey his sluggard fillds eill ds opened electrically he be heaed to his feet ft ct and abandoning bis big grandfather without preface or apology sped peo across the alic lawn arid and out of the gate charging hea headlong dJang upon the commander of the company you got get off that locI pede wesley bender Beri derl 1 he bellowed bellm Ned you tou glame that sword I 1 what aliat rights you got to go abeln captain 0 ray my army id like to knowl who got up this army in file first place id like to knowl I 1 did myself ye and you yo abet back in live line or I 1 wont let you yo blong tc le it at all I 1 the pretender succumbed he in scantly dismounted lidna being out hooted arid overawed over awed on foot lie took tile hi place in the ranks while title ramsey be came sternly vociferous in it fara FarN ud iid marchl col lunin luini inight barins unit halt far march carry harm the army went trudging away tire nn der the continuous hut but unheeded fit ii of orders and presently round a earner corner le ainz the veteran chuckling feebly under his tre and alone with tile the street at al I 1 trace of what he and ad said seemed III have been wiped front from tile the era ml son mind but memory has curious inis Ila calasey nitey had understood not a fifth noi no a tenth of his grandfathers talk and am already rendy ili h had forgotten fore otten all of it yet not only wen let I 1 here many mon man times in tile the boys hilior binl r life when ullen without c in elic lie remember ren ember boril and spoken by the tho the 11 IN 4 tener half drowsily lidid heard hut but tha th round bound of an rid 1 I earnest rnett and even tile the veterans nien mean litz took on n greater till it be became calne in tin the though th something clear and lif arlit and baand ful that he be knew without befog jus sure where or how he had learned 1 I CHAPTER CHAnTER II 11 ramsey ant nt miserably to in school his belliz ican principally of n fail bate torpor was n little allper dispersed pd during a fifteen minute Inter interial lal of lic when lie he arid and all the purla in the flip lare room of tite rive P r V arade rade sanz te pent edly fractions of if nhit they entin elated as the riar S ir rinia rah cullel banner bw afterward aften ard lip into the low imil nit ural nral to an bidy darin en forred 1 roll rn ment under no na tion alon was liv hv till nn temporary of the bp earlier platform a arm and it t bet felt I 1 ly cheerful ionna lonn i mounting thereon to tench teach geman ge ie man mim lor for a leing time final german had bad beon about equally repulsive to ramsey who ho found himself dally daily in the compulsory presence of if bat hatli but lie IK was g dually kominz i in regard german with tile hie greater berenter horror because after months of patient mental resist resl itice he at lost last began to conidi hint hill the flip german language has spec fall and particular waya of using the cerrinn article coart spond lna to that flexible hit bit of a word so easily managed in the lie what in the world wata the use of having sixteen wills of doing n thin that hat could just ns as well lie he dune in binl if the germans had contented conten teil tapin seles with fill insisting upon use ule less variations for word anrys such as hippopotamus for Ini instate In stame tane ramsey might hole hae thought the unreasonable hut but not i 1 il I clous cious it would lie be easy tc ic nold talking talk ing about a 1 if lie he ever had bud to RO go to germany t the fact that the german picked wit out a and the find and ninny many other little words in ili use till nil the time and gave ery of 01 p of then them sixteen forms nil and expected damsey to learn till tills dizzy ins ing down doun to hie file insl crotchety detail with when to employ which ns as a aTi I 1 ausen to prepare for fair final convulsion when uben a ip P uv ii because it was nn nit elci there was a n fashion of ens matters hurd hird that was meely me ine ely cly the teacher was but entla eathl sins winstle tle she told the children oner oer alid over that the german ans n hemil henu irn orti language find tier face always had n glow clow when she sat sald this at st m I 1 1 times the children looked patient ill clr supposed it trust must he be so ha bea hase se ight lit was nn an adult and their vil cher unit they believed her with the biame inn ann tier A believing which those of own hair who vilio went to sunday school ther thep u when hen tile llie inday sinday school teachers ten chers pushed into explanation of f var loii matters set forth in the alie aa 0 i tefil te fil ment or gave cave rec reckless kleRs descriptions a heaven that Is to say the did alil not challenge or deny they had been driven into habits a 0 resignation and were passing out jut 0 the age when childhood Is able to r eject adult nonsense ramsey ramse 1111 holland did not ann ul whether ellether lether the english language wr wi ful or not lie never though about it moreover though ills his deepe inwards hated german he liked ili hi germun german teacher and it was to look at tier her when that aliw cam upon her face you bet your life I 1 late hale her pet fact that what I 1 call her TO BE CONTINUED |