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evenings after supper. But the Thomases had other ideas for their daughter and told Mac that they didn't need him any more. They sent him off kindly with a lot of good advice, some old clothes and a cold lunch done up in newspaper, but no money. Mona ran after him as he walked off down the dustyrutted wagonroad and kissed him right in front of her parents.

"I'm stuck on you," she said. "You make a lot of money

-79-and come back and marry me.""By gum, I'l do that," said Mac, and he walked off with tears in his eyes and feeling very good. He was particularly glad he hadn't got the clap off that girl in Seattle.

NEWSREEL VI

Paris Shocked At Last

HARRIMAN SHOWN AS RAIL COLOSSUS

noted swindler run to earth

TEDDY WIELDS BIG STICK

straphangers demand relief.

We were sailing along

On moonlight bay

You can hear the voices ringing

They seem to say

You have stolen my heart, now don't go away

Just as we sang

love's

old

sweet

songs

On moonlight bay

MOB LYNCHES AFTER PRAYER

when the metal poured out of the furnace I saw the men running to a place of safety. To the right of the furnace I saw a party of ten men al of them running wildly and their clothes a mass of flames. Apparently some of them had been injured when the explosion occurred and several of them tripped and fel . The hot metal ran over the poor men in a moment.

PRAISE MONOPOLY AS BOON TO ALL

-80-industrial foes work for peace at Mrs. Potter Palmer's love's old

sweet

song

We were sailing along song

on moonlight bay

THE CAMERA EYE (7)

skating on the pond next the silver company's mil s where there was a funny fuzzy smel from the dump

whaleoil soap somebody said it was that they used in cleaning the silver knives and spoons and forks putting shine on them for sale there was shine on the ice early black ice that rang like a sawblade just scratched white by the first skaters I couldn't learn to skate and kept fal -ing down look out for the muckers everybody said bohunk and polak kids put stones in their snowbal s write dirty words up on wal s do dirty things up al eys their folks work in the mil s

we clean young American Rover Boys handy with

tools Deerslayers played hockey Boy Scouts and cut figure eights on the ice Achil es Ajax Agamemnon I couldn't learn to skate and kept fal ing down

-81-THE PLANT WIZARD

Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in

Lancaster Mass,

he walked round the woods one winter

crunching through the shinycrusted snow

stumbled into a little del where a warm spring

was

and found the grass green and weeds sprouting

and skunk cabbage pushing up a potent thumb,

He went home and sat by the stove and read

Darwin

Struggle for Existence Origin of Species Natural

Selection that wasn't what they taught in church,

so Luther Burbank ceased to believe moved to

Lunenburg,

found a seedbal in a potato plant

sowed the seed and cashed in on Mr. Darwin's

Natural

Selection

on Spencer and Huxley

with the Burbank Potato.

Young man go west;

Luther Burbank went to Santa Rosa

ful of his dream of green grass in winter ever-blooming flowers ever-bearing berries; Luther Burbank could cash in on Natural Selection Luther Burbank

carried his apocalyptic dream of green grass in

winter

and seedless berries and stoneless plums and

thornless roses brambles cactus ---82-winters were bleak in that bleak brick farmhouse in bleak Massachusetts --out to sunny Santa Rosa; and he was a sunny old man where roses bloomed al year

everblooming everbearing

hybrids.

America was hybrid

America should cash in on Natural Selection.

He was an infidel he believed in Darwin and

Natural

Selection and the influence of the mighty dead

and a good firm shipper's fruit

suitable for canning.

He was one of the grand old men until the

churches

and the congregations

got wind that he was an infidel and believed

in Darwin.

Luther Burbank had never a thought of evil,

selecting improved hybrids for America

those sunny years in Santa Rosa.

But he brushed down a wasp's nest that time

he wouldn't give up Darwin and Natural Selection

and they

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