Show tented her strength charley 51 was at homo from college spending his summer vacation tho M s were people fairly well to do and charley was passing the forenoon very comfortably on the cool and shady veranda down by the barn yard fence in a neglected place a crop of strong healthy weeds had sprung up and flourished under the summer sun left unmolested in the rush of work on the farm they were fast becoming a blot on the otherwise orderly premises and that morning charleys fat herthe old man had sallied forth and was now making a vigorous assault upon tho patch suddenly ho left oft his work and came up into tho yard taking a va broomstick which happened to bo leaning against tho veranda he laid it on alio grass then turned to charley and bald git down here and eco if you can fi pull me over that stick lie held in his hand a small chain in each end of which was inserted n stout stick to servo as a handle then tho tug began and developed into quite a contest but at last charley succeeded in dragging tho old man across the line there do he said dropping his end of the chain 1 I guess youve sol strength enough to pull them weeds down thero by tho barn 1 I never said a word said charley telling story afterward but before noon there any weeds left standing youths companion |