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THE GALLEON
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scrubbed on his greasy hands
and muttered something about
"these everlasting fool woemn."
"Now, I don't want to be
fussy about anything, but the
color scheme at my party was
pink and yellow; here you have
it printed pink and purple. I
can't see for my life how you
ever made a mistake like that.
My friends have always compli-
men ed me on my artistic tem-
perament; what will they think
when they read a thing so ab-
surd as pink and purple for col-
ors to be used at a party ?"
"I am sorry, Madam," he said
while he was thinking, "You
idiot, I wish it had been worse."
She walked out with a quick
step and a high head.
"I don't see why in the world
that editor don't come on ip this
office and let these old women
'fume' at him awhile. He thinks
he is busy all the time, but I
don't ever see him do anything
except walk the streets and sit
on goods boxes. I got nearly
every ad for the paper. He
thinks if he gets two or three
locals, he has finished. Last
week he waited until time to go
to press before he wrote a single
editorial. I never was a person
to believe in putting things off.
Why not do it and get through
fooling around. I slave here day
after day, never have a vacation,
nor time with my family. It is
all foolishness, anyway, for
there are a thousand other
things I could do that are more
pleasant. After I exhaust all my
effort, somebody is always
growling about what I do. There
is Jim Jones out on a hundred
acre farm making a comfortable
living, driving two cars and a
Ford. If a circus comes to town,
he ups and takes his whole fam-ily."
His hands kept time with his
brain, so by the time he had
finished the train of thought,
one job of the printing was off.
The following day was the
time for the giving away of a
Ford car. Five thousand circu-
lars had been printed, but they
needed more. One must be plac-
ed in all the cars and sent to
each box op the mail routes. A
drink from the stone jar, which
had, early in the morning con-
tained a chunk of ice would,
perhaps, help to tide him over.
The power was not strong
enough to run the press fast.
The papers, being electrified,
slid in every direction, down un-
der the press into the ink.
"Where is your printer ?" ask-
ed a firm voice. "Here he is" he
said, on seeing a large figure
emerge from the stacks of pa-
per.
"Why John, where did you
come from? I thought you had
moved out to Fisher County."
"I did, but I couldn't stay
away from home long. I have
bought the old Jones farm out
here south of town, You know,
am getting too old to farm. I
know you will do to depend on to
keep up a place, and I'd like for
you to go and take charge of it
for me."
"Why, John, I've been here
twenty-five years. It wouldn't
do for me to just quit."
"You are not getting half as
much for your work as I could
afford to give you. Then, when
you are on the farm, you are
free to take a holiday if you
want it, and it's nobody's busi-
ness."
"But what would I do if a
drouth were to come ?"
"Oh well you have to risk that
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