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was
WHEAT CROP.
a marvelous crop. of wheat. their sense of direction. Foolish. To- The best
of machinery. high. over pix feet er felt better in his life When he didn't return to the house, than the evening after supper when Ruth would become alarmed and or- he stepped from the house and walked ganize the harvesters into a posse to along the edge of the field. A hot dry scour the countryside. Why, he might wind was blowing. To-morrow the har wander around here for days!.. vest would begin. Before another week had passed he would be rich. Rich enough to have every comfort that the countryside offered the next winter. No scrimping. Plenty to eat. New A terror seized him. He started to. clothes for Ruth and little Jimmie. A walk again. He walked 100 yards in movie once a week,
one direction, then the same distance It got Joshua stopped every once in awhile, in another, then in another. thrust this hands deep into the pocket him nowhere.
Dumbhead. He ground his teeth. To-morrow would be blistering hot. He'd have no water. He'd become a raving maniac.
*He
of his jeans and just stood there and. The light was almost gone. admired. Golden dollars. That's what hoped the wind would go down with the those acres were transformed into sun, but it didn't. It blew harder. He golden dollars by hard work and sweat tried jumping up, in the hopes of see- and knowing how to treat the soil... ing a light, but he couldn't get his head There'd never been a better crop, above the stalks. They were too high. Where he stood the stalks were. a good Almost seven feet. seven feet. Well, six and a half any way. He stepped in among them. It gave him a tremendously satisfying feeling to see the tassels waving in the wind above his head!
He sat down, Then he got to his knees and began breaking off stalks. Might as well give in to the thing. Might as well make the best of it. He began making a bed of wheat stalks. He walked on a little ways, parting Nothing else to do. He lay down and....... the stalks to form an avenue, thrilling, thought of Ruth. Good lord, she'd be to the rattle and rustle of the wind worried to death! But what could he
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By Richard Hill Wilkinson
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among them, glorying in the feel of do? Best thing was to think of some- them against his body. He sighed thing else. The harvest The money deeply, contentedly, and turned back, his wheat would bring. That is, if there' circling a little to come out nearer the ever were a harvest. If they never house.
found him—if he wandered around for. He walked on and on and presently days in his own wheat until he dropped he stopped. The edge of the field, he from exhaustion. figured, must be over to the left. He Joshua's last waking thought was of turned in that direction, but he didn't Jimmie and Ruth buying new clothes come to the edge of the field. Ahead with the wheat money. He dreamed and on both sides were gently moving of being scooped up by a binder; wrap- wheat stalks, hundreds of them, mil-ped in a stack with dozens of others; lions, of them, all looking alike. He left in the sun to fry. cocked his head, listening, but the rush When Joshua opened his eyes it was of wind and the constant rustling daylight again. The sun was already. drowned out any familiar sounds that hot. He felt stiff and sore. might
from the house. Then he heard the sound of voices. He grunted, changed hig direction Two men were coming toward him. He- and started to walk again. After ten heard his name mentioned. They were minutes he stopped. A smile played looking for him. He got to his feet,, about his lips. This was a hot onel shouted. Then men came running up. Lost in his own wheat field! Then the Joshua took two steps toward them thought vanished. Suppose he had been and found himself on the edge of the walking in the opposite direction from field. The house was only a stone's the house? Suppose he had been walk- throw away. ing in circles? An annoyance
He looked at the men and they. through his mind. The wheat field I guess I musta laid down and
him. He grinned sheepishly. was 1600 acres in extent. It was as flat as a pancake. It's boundaries dropped off," he said, wealdly" were irregular. There were no land- marks to guide him.
ran
He started to backtrack, but present- ly he discovered that the wind had forced the bent stalks back into place. He wasn't sure that he was on his own trail.
He stopped again, deliberating, cock- ing his head to listen. But there was no sound other than the rattling of the stalks. He considered shouting but if Ruth discovered what had happened she'd never get over joshing him.
The light was fading rapidly. no time, at all it would be dark. started ahead once more, stopped in a sort of panic. It was incredible!
In He
The men began to laugh. Then Jos- hua saw Ruth coming from the house. He sighed wearily." Last night he'd never flet better in his life. This morning he felt like a plugged nickel. (Copyright, 1938, By The Associated Newspapers)..
BE
A MAN OF FEW WORDS if you wish, but don't
tolerate a directory few words. Get
He decided to shout, and did so lust KELLY'S DIRECTORY
The sound of his own voice was ing, but it didn't bring results. hemmed him in like ■ jun- They offered no surcease.
Ind seemed to mook him.
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