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However, I did my little best, so far as making a date with Babcock was concerned, and as it turned out in the end I dare say the hero of romance wouldn't have managed it much better himself. If I were dusty and dirty when I arrived, you ought to have seen me the next day after a two-hours' job with the differential gears.
Go to the University of Wisconsin and ask Professor Babcock why he gave to the world without money and without price the Babcock test an invention which is estimated to mean more than one million dollars every year to the farmers and dairymen of that state alone.
General Babcock, of my staff, reported to me that when he first met General Lee he was sitting upon this embankment with his feet in the road below and his back resting against the tree. The story had no other foundation than that. Like many other stories, it would be very good if it was only true.
Babcock, to whom they were directly addressed, stood the ordeal well, revealing himself as flattered, contrite, and zealous to avail himself of the blessings of the church. He admitted that lately he had been lax in his spiritual duties. "We come every Sunday now," he said buoyantly, with a glance at Selma as though to indicate that she deserved the credit of his reformation.
but find, in an ever-increasing degree, that the dream is merged into the profoundest reality of experience. "Present suffering is not enjoyable," said the late Rev. Doctor Maltbie Davenport Babcock, "but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.
"Ye see," she said, turning to Babcock, "that man Duffy tried to do me, he's the sergeant at the fort and Dan McGaw ye know him he's the divil that wanted to work for ye. Ye know I always had the hauling of the coal at the fort, an' I want to hold on to it, for it comes every year. I've been a-watchin' for this coal for a month.
"What papers?" snarled the other, Babcock by name. "The papers you took from the wreck." "They are below, soaked with water." "Get them!" "But " "Get them! Quick!" "But they are afloat, and " "Get them!" Babcock went down the staircase with murder in his eyes. He returned, in a moment, with a sealed packet, which was perfectly dry. Ned broke the seal and glanced at the sheets inside.
It is related of Babcock, that when the British in a successful charge took a number of the Americans prisoners, they were ordered to deliver up their arms by the British officer of the detachment, which demand was readily conceded to by all the prisoners except Babcock, who looking at the officer sternly at the margin of a mud pond foot of Bunker Hill turned his musket bayonet downwards, thrusting it into the mire up to the armpit, drawing out his muddy arm, turned to the British officer, and said, "Now dirty your silk glove, and take it you red coat!"
Where d'you play in your game? 'Forward, sir. 'You can do better than that. I've seen you run like a young buck-rabbit. Ask Dickson from me to try you as three-quarter next game, will you? Cut along. Jevons left, warm for the first time that day, enormously set up in his own esteem, and very hot against the deceitful Babcock. Mullins turned to Winton.
Then I will sleep and when I awake in the morning it will be as it was that evening when I walked out of my dark apartment after having had the most notable experience of my life. What I mean to say, you understand, is that, for me, when I awake, the other woman will be utterly gone." Copyright, 1921, by Sherwood Anderson. By EDWINA STANTON BABCOCK From Harper's Magazine
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