Show THE VIL VILLAGE LAGE IDIOT A talo cf of grief h kf ilow george iaillery Pat Ia nera Illers was DebIro jed and lid un 1111 red cd bj I 1 im traffic of or ills jus greatly child Cli leaco dlly dally ear I 1 19 I 1 11 ethry al bly b dy in tamarack knows I 1 crazy george lie ile is an institution of tit the village the boys poke fl fun un ar him lie the girls arft arp afraid men nien pay little ut to dimand the old women sigh over 11 ht t wretched lot crazy george is is no oller older 4 looks go than ho lie wa was twenty tell yeara rs ago that is the tile ways odthe of the world lyt la a 1 man go crazy and become use less lesi tu to himself and a it burden to others and he lie will live till the cows come home but cure him and give him ambition mid etarl him in ill a Hemin seemingly gly useful career and first you know ho be will fall fiall sick ick and die tile this would be a good place to say something mean M can about n nature and its ways ways but I 1 am not in a quarrelsome mood and then nature is a pretty good friend to have after nil all but to get back to george poor fellow the boya boys delight to chase him and see fee him lice in fright and cry like ft a child sometimes Sometime 4 they threaten to strike him just to hear his plaintive appeal oh oil dont bit ittle Geor georgiea giel for his delusion seems see ins to bo be that he lie is is a helpless lit tic boy another of his exar expressions ons that evoke laughter from the V village age boys is please turn tum an fiss ittle Georgic Gorgie that sounds funny does it not coming fini fi ni a hale and hearty looking old man mail wait it will seem sad when abu you know what it means some thirty odd years a nga 9 61 george ceorge dancers came back f from born college a ref refined ined studious young rain man with a it wider knowledge of men nen and books and of the world than anybody eho elke in tamarack ra marack could boast with his father and mother lie spent andea soll of beskon the old farm that has since bt a it part ft Thomas Jud kinas ss es estate over here about a mile ruile george helped about the tile farm work by day and studied by night flight until i it t V vas a 3 determined that t lie should go 1 to the city and put 11 his 1 18 learning 0 of the tile I 1 law law to practice it was a hard drag ati at first fur for people preferred to trust their law cases to better known hanla and add older head heads and george had often to intimate to hia his indulgent father that if ho ile had money to spare sparer a little a very little would keep keel him hini alive perhaps until he lie got another case 11 in these pinches george was 0 o almost persuaded to the dishonorable course pursued by some of his bis professional brethren of 91 working u up lawsuits out of cases that might CC be amicably settled and pocketing outrageous fees fur for hay ing coaxed liis clients into P needless edless trouble and expense but always before he got around to this sort of thing he lie relented an and his manhood asserting itself over his avarice he counseled peaceful and anti inexpensive bettle ments his motto and his advice to those who consulted liim him was forgiveness ia is the most glorious revenge reve tige a beautiful motto that kept george danvers as booras poor as a bobtailed cow in fly time one day lay george was wai called home his juis fa father t her was sick very sick and george was needed about the place the father s sickness did not ilot last long in a week after georges arrival at Tarn tamarack arack the old black hearse was brought out and the elder air mr D dangere Da nvere grave was wet with the tile tears of a di disconsolate consolate widow and find an affectionate aon young persons with no great regrets for their past behavior toward their parents arc are seldom long weighted down by the burden of grief laid ad aion ion them when those parents die the young heart is yielding but tough it is flexible under pressure of grief but it sel dim d m breaks so george wept liia his grief away and only the tear marks re remained maill d in his tn memory emory but poor old mr we danvers could not thus wash out of her mild blue e eyes es the image of that departed sorrows orrow and sand her joys BO so us its the best th thing i g to do she soon followed her h husband leav leaving in george alone the tile owner r of the tte little farm again the fountains of hia heart broke forth and again hot tear scalded his sorrow until it sit shriveled I 1 ivelez to a mere sad re collep tion then came annie becket from the city to be his wife and in indue due time upon the linkof link of love that bound these theme two god hung a charm a little boy As mothers will annie auie danvers gave her son the name that sounded sweetest in her ear ears her husbands hus bande name and so they went one george tho the 0 other flier georgic never heeding the day that might be corn com ing when their mail would be mixed and the ratier r would get the tile sons love letters and the kan the fathers due bills A beati beautiful ful picture that little group made of an ail evening e as goorge with georgio on hia his knee and annie by his iside tol told d story after story never fr forgetting getting the nil all important moral that maffa go so ilee p an impression on oil the young f and adf nind the cn if the sprite of bight cadue and I 1 his band in ill tho thu 0 little U brown own eyes eye sand and made the winks grow long lono and long and the goodnight goo i night kiss was given and arldt robed all in white the chubbs hubl I 1 little bundle of love was tucked anay away ill in the tile trundle bed where w here an cli ought ough t a avit y to stand guard to keep the d dreadful i d r I 1 buga bugaboo boos a away but notwithstanding the tile moral inora taught human nature was wag strong in little georgic georgie one lay day I 1 he ie stole tole sollie lall an thing ing to do but lie who stolen has never been a boy not a regular boy and t know how licking good J jam can be when the condi conditions eions are all in its favor but that it is not ilot all he ile fw f W flip adf heir and anti pill pulled led down und and blile ilarra half a dozen dozell aliu nid mol tonii mid painted ili from chin chill lo hillwi with cry very red jam ratu v IK n his mother ran ab to ee I hw iv v many times the terrible chiller cla itter had killed her ber dar liti lift lite i little chunk chulik 1 of hunjadi here there with hid his daubed fingers spread apart and declared swore affirmed and dc de joeed thathy do it that he lie want in in that part of the united stales Stat qi when it was done that it was aunt sallies sallie s little poodle dog log 11 in chicago that did it when george came home annie told him the stor story not forgetting to add the charge of falsehood to that thit t of theft now georgia georgic was wits il F 1 years leara aldand something roust must be done 0 to EO nip dip hie I 1 is tendency to false falsehood bood in tile very bud the stealing was bad eno enough u gb I 1 the W bing wn waft terrible what ello should tild in be c done ione the slick stick ah ab yes yo the stick spare pare the rod and spoil if the child all alte clail lust bu bt spared though its ixil the tife rod so go with heavy 1 heard beart Ciren george rge led his fit little tie olle one to tile blied tho th mother El shutting lutting herolf in lier her to keep out the piteous cries george had never struck his child it was a tremendous effort that conquered lib his warm it was ti the 1 e chilap welfare he be thought that 1 urged iii him tn to give the blows he would rather have taken hii on lifs ills Is own back with multiplied force when tile father ali andr 4 boll son I 1 returned that pretty faciso wont to be lie sunny and cheary wite wa etri lied and wid barea ked wit with 4 lear learland jand catchy sobi sob to be bi caking the little heart while the fat fathers bers wet ey erf 3 turned away th that t the tile cm clil arit if bilg might lle not 1101 aro sro th the e cri C V v ot of ayin pathy frice told hd heavily 11 I 1 ble livirt ln pi i 1 1 I chilt t rangit i hu linear carn oh don ilori bit ittle Cs argit e I 1 that wnm a 9 a iad sad vc ning P in george house tild abeln ten reali ti tier of or ha had 1 pretended 1 his ilis I 1 lad armed itself with sharp pointed arguments and declared bitter war against liis his heart lit art which though fortified with 8 sympathy and lov loveras ewas all unarmed for fuch such a battle 1 I be firm lie said in ill ili liis head while in his hi henrt beart lie pleaded for his baby boy nu no I 1 will not kiss bouto night I 1 do not kiga kiss boys who steal and lie I 1 kisi only good bon boys when len you arc are a good boy I 1 will ill kidsy kiss you u said he lie as je white ro robed ed fellow canie came and stood at uee and turned ill the round and swill len face ui to get the good night 11 ht kiis never before withheld from froin him lihn A fresh flood of tears told that this was severer than that that the rod had inflicted and tile battle autho father s breast raged f fiercer iem r than before would he yield could he hold out against him himself I 1 could not I 1 would not no not if that kias kiss were the tile acl of hia his soul to mut must mu t have kissed that baby b boy 0 but I 1 am ft it weakling geor george e ian danvers was strong cruel reason I 1 ore re availed over tender sympathy plene Pl catO pd pati ej ittle Ge 1 urgie xo naughty boy no and anti georgie was P put 1 I 1 ti away upstairs where here ti after vainly VI t 11 y 1 appealing 1 in g please um uni an ti 1 8 ittle ca agit 1 ito lie sobbed himself elf i to elera I 1 ii 11 ani wa laid when georgid dan verp went welt to to bed so jo late that gentle sleep soon drew her lier aty cur tait iva tyvr r cold c ld r J enned th le c lit abed mind ain d with it ii 1 peaceful d dream r tuna ile ale pt Ile aviV but blit is athi tilis tilis A awful gine of oppression lon inning stif fing atmos phere fire fire my god annie the house Ls 14 on firel 1 n waking halfe razed by tho tile elul discovery get refo 1 llord his first abild ran down MI stairs for water A pail d a can call oil wit where ere is everything thing Is nothing to 10 be found A crusie tile stairs had bad fallau falleni A flash fla sh I 1 tim the w hole whole hoeme bentile bec seemed tile ablaze thought lit now nov wais quick annie filu must t drop george from the window and 1 I id jump herself annie arow georgie down t to 0 me tile annie my C god g 1 annie darling r li ing ill I 1 A little whito face appeared at the window completely framed in lurid hue georgio Gc orio my child chiki junist jump lapapa i 4 i but t the tile ghostly flavile la pe 11 ita it horrid about the lilt lattio 1 0 white whit io robe be and george danvers Din vers saw na no more when the neighbors neighbor 8 came cattle run rill ning from their faraway homes I 1 they hey found round the semblance of bf a man landing like a marble statue look ing g but aein seeing noth nothing ilig lutr ning b but t hearing no tio bound the hattle betl between bc tween veen reason and lie the heart hit had been ought to the bitter enda eul and reason lay din disarmed armed and slain poor crazy george I 1 BEN 0 |