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Updated: May 23, 2025
"That's all you know about it," he said carelessly, as he shut one eye and took steady aim at the "dib" in the ring, "I've had two." "Nobody can have two fathers on earth," said Bessie Brownlees piously "we have one father on earth and one in heaven." "Mine ain't on earth," said Jimmy, "mine are both in heaven." That was a poser.
Jessup's delivery boy, driving back from his last trip, was larruping his horse and careful Ellen Nuby was taking in her clotheslines. On the back porch of the Brownlee bungalow Jocelyn was shaking a white tablecloth, for the Brownlees had supper early. Jocelyn flapped and flapped, then folded the cloth neatly as she had seen Green Valley matrons do. That done, she waited.
So long as he had his mother, and his mother smiled at him, life was all sunshine. He gave his name to the teacher, and answered all her questions readily, and was duly enrolled as a pupil in Grade I, along with Bennie Cowan, Edgar Zinc and Bessie Brownlees, and set at work to make figures.
Brownlees, who sympathized with her, that she did not know what to say then. At last she said, "But she has no right to have a child," and the teacher said: "Why not if she wants to. She's good to him, dresses him well and trains him well. My mother had nine and got away with it and likes them all. Having a child is nothing against her." Now, wasn't that an awful way for her to talk? Mrs.
"That sounds as if they might be the only one," said Elnora, "and, indeed, they are not. I know dozens. Aunt Margaret and Uncle Wesley are another, the Brownlees another, and my mathematics professor and his wife. The world is full of happy people, but no one ever hears of them. You must fight and make a scandal to get into the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.
Brownlees said it certainly was fierce! and the other listeners on the phone, for the audience had been augmented as the conversation proceeded, politely said nothing, but hung up their receivers with haste, and acquainted the members of their household with the disquieting news. Mrs. Switzer threw her apron over her head and ran out to the pump, where Bill was watering his three-horse team.
Brownlees had been given a ditch just where he wanted it, digging it himself, and been paid for it by the Government; the third trustee had been made game warden, at a monthly salary and no duties; so naturally they would like not to hear their friends criticized. Mrs.
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