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Updated: May 24, 2025
Berts, suddenly, springing forward "there he is!" And trembling all over, she pointed to the figure of her husband, standing just outside the window and looking in upon them. Thunder had been rumbling round the house during the whole of this scene, and now the rain had begun. It beat on the bare grizzled head of John Betts, and upon his weather-beaten cheeks and short beard.
"Write a letter home signed by Berts name telling the folks that he is somewhere & going to Chicago or some other place has a position etc and that they will advise later about it Say tired of living at home or anything you want. You know about the way he writes.
Naturally the grown-up generation of Berts and Sids, the voters and householders, do not realise, still less admit, that it was they who called the tune to which the politicians danced. They had to choose between the vote-mongers and the so-called 'scare-mongers, and their verdict was for the vote-mongers all the time.
And before her fancy passed the countless generations of the stupid lowly, the Billys and Saxons, the Berts and Marys, the Toms and Sarahs. And to what end? The salt vats and the grave. Mercedes was a hard and wicked woman, but Mercedes was right. The stupid must always be under the heels of the clever ones.
To throw the spoon at 'Arry was merely his playful mode of announcing his identity. I left the trio reviewing the past and exchanging news of the present. My services, it was clear, would no longer be required by the prodigal. He and his mates gave me a hearty good-night. I did not guess how intimate was soon to be my association with the Berts and 'Arries and 'Erbs of the world.
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