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"That's so," cried another; "an' Doctor Prescott an' Basset have got to hand out ten thousand apiece if he does. Fork over, Simon." "Guess ye'll wait till doomsday afore J'rome sticks to his part on't," said Basset, with a sneer; but his lips were white. "No, I won't; no, I won't," responded the man, hilariously. "J'rome's goin' to do it; Jake here says he heard so; it come real straight."
"I tell ye, J'rome, balance-wheels an' seesaws an' pendulums wa'n't give us for nothin' besides runnin' machinery and clocks. Everything on this earth means somethin' more'n itself, if we could only see it. They're symbols, that's what they be, an' we've got to work up from a symbol that we see to the higher thing that we don't see. Most folks think it's the other way, but it ain't.
Jerome cried, angrily. "He is going blind, and this money will cure him. If you are his mother " "Don't ask anybody to take even a kindness that you wouldn't take yourself," said Paulina Maria. Jerome flung out of the room without another word. When he got out-of-doors, he found Adoniram at his elbow. "I want ye to know that I'm much obliged to ye, J'rome," he whispered.
You don't come of a liberal eddicated race. You've got to work for the breath of your nostrils, and not for the breath of your mind or your soul. You'll find you can't fight your lot in life, J'rome Edwards; you ain't got standin' room enough outside it." "I don't want to fight my lot in life," Jerome replied, defiantly, "but I thought I'd go to school this winter."
"I tell you, Henry," pleaded Jerome, struggling with him to loosen his neck-band, "you shall not have the doctor; I'll doctor you myself." "You don't know how you don't know how, J'rome! She'll say you don't know how; she'll send for him, an' then, when he's got all my land, how am I goin' to get them a livin'?"
"I tell you, Simon Basset, you haven't got to give a dollar," shouted Jerome; but he might as well have shouted to the wind. "No use, J'rome," chuckled the shock-headed young man, "he's gone plumb crazy over it. You can't make him listen to nothin'." "What do you mean, badgering him so?" cried Jerome, angrily. "He's a mean old cuss, anyhow," said the young man, with a defiant laugh. "That's so!
In spite of the teacher's half-pleading commands, they made a rush and formed a ring around the fighters. "Go it, J'rome!" they shouted. "Give it to him! You're a fighter, you be. Look at J'rome Edwards lickin' a feller twice his size. Hi! Go it, J'rome!" "Boys!" called the teacher. "Boys!"
"I never had a black silk dress in my life," said she, finally, in a shaking voice, and that was all the reproach which she ever offered. "You shall have a black silk dress anyhow, mother," Jerome replied, piteously. He went out of the room, and his father got up and followed him, closing the door mysteriously. "That was a good deal to give away, J'rome," he whispered.
I calculate you mean to do your doctorin' cheap." "Cheap!" replied Jerome, scornfully. "Do you think I would take any pay for anything I could do? Do you think that's what I'm after?" Jake Noyes nodded. "Didn't s'pose it was, J'rome. Well, there'll be lots of things you can't meddle with; but there's no reason why you can't doctor lots of little ails if folks are willin' an' save 'em money.
J'rome, I declar' to reason, I b'lieve you're crazy, an' the hull town has caught it. What's that? Who's comin'?" A wild-eyed little boy, with fair hair stiff to the breeze, came racing across the plough ridges. "Come quick! Come quick!" he gasped. "They've sent me Doctor Prescott's ain't to home he's most dead! Come quick!" "Where to?" shouted Jerome, pulling the tackle off the horse.
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