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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Family Tie
ADAM was thinking of home. Curious They shook hands warmly.
Then
"I'm not
how little things made you think Barry's, mother came from the house of home. With Adam it was a boy and his sister Marcia." He embraced with a firecracker. The lad was hay- them both and went inside and looked ing diiliculty getting the thing to ex- around. "It's grand!" he said. "It's plode. Presently, however, the fuse swell being here. Just like I pictured sputtered, the youngster ran whopping, it." and the cracker went ploop!
"Knew you'd come back,” Ted grin- Adam laughed. He guessed that was ned. "Say, what do you think! Mar- the only firecracker in the whole city cia's fallen in love." of Gelibolu. He guessed that the lad "I haven't!” Marcia cried. |must-bo. an American. He guessed even interested in Harry Meglin. Be-
that no one else in this far-away land sides, you mind your own business!” knew that it was Independence Day at
"Children!" Barry's mother exclaim- home, time for revelry and noise- ed. "For goodness' sake, let's not ar- making.
gue about that. Barry's home.” Adam left the rail of the tramp Barry's father got home from the steamer. He considered going ashore, store a little after six, and when he But it was sweltering hot ashore. No, saw Barry he greeted him eagerly and better to lie here on deck, thus idly but with warmth. They sat down to sup- comfortably consuming his shore leave. per and Barry told them about his tra- He found a shady spot beneath a life- vels and heard the gossip of the town. boat and lay down. At home all the Mr. Thayer said business at the store kids in the neighbourhood were explod was poor, and if Ted had any gump- ing firecrackers beneath tin cans, and tion he'd come down and help out in- socking torpedoes at everything that stead of lazing around the house. showed a hard surface. To-night there "Nuts!" Ted declared. "I'm going would be a big display down at the to work in Boston. I've written for a park. Adam's whole family would be job. Expect to hear any day." there.
"Phooey!" Marcia declared... "Any He thought of his family and smiled one can write for a job. It takes some pleasantly. He had thought of them one with brains to really get one." often during the past year while cruis- "Yeah?" declared Ted. "Well, lis- ing around the South Seas as a deck- ten, you' little scatterbrain- hand on tramp steamers. It was a "Shut up!" Mr. Thayer roared at year agoʻnext week that he had become them. fed up with the family and
Barry remained a week. He was loose. They had gotten on his nerves. home all right. Never a day passed
broken
By Stanley Cordell
"
It seemed they were always picking on but what Ted and Marcia quarreled. him, always wondering why he read so This was natural, he supposed. Bro- much and wondering what he was thers and sisters never did get along. dreaming about and giving him advice Especially in families where every one about the kind of job to get when he couldn't have, everything he wanted be graduated from high school. None of cause of lack of funds. them-Marcia nor Ted for his mother The whole family gave Barry advice and father understood him, sympa- about, what he could do now that he thised with his queer ideas about life. was home. Ted wanted to know if he They were always quarreling among was still dreaming about his wonderful themselves, too.
future, and Mr. Thayer remarked that
But when Barry thought of his fami- hardly a book had been opened in the ly he never thought of those things. house since he left a year ago. He thought .....
Barry remained a week, then hitch- of the pleasant happy hiked his way to New York. gatherings.
Four like exploding days later he was on a tramp steamer firecrackers Things
on Fourth of July and Christmas Eve and the big turkey on good. He thought about his family. bound for South America. He felt Thanksgiving. Sometimes he yearned He thought about them the way he used to have them back again. Families were really great things. There was He thought of the friendly happy to never about the unpleasant things. a comfortable bond of dependability: in families. They were the backbone of the mation,
Barry was lonesome and homesick, and right then and there he decided to go back. He realised that, all the real, genuine pleasure he had had for more: than a year was thinking about his family. About home. About the thrills of his boyhood.
It took him two months to get home. He had to ship on three different tramps before he could get one going to New York. Then, because he didn't have much money, he had to hitch- hike his way-north to Vermont.
The day that he landed in Pleasant- ville the sun was shining brightly and there was warmth in the air and the emell of autumn. The hillsides were afime with colour. A drowsiness pon- séssed the town,~-
ing was as Barry remember- edit: Everything was good to see. His art quickened as he walked up Man street and came in sight of 'the white frame house with the green shut-. ters and picket fence. Ted wap out in the yard raking leaves, and when Barry spoke to him, he stopped raking and gepod. """""Well, I'll be figgered!" he
Barry!'
gatherings. It gave him a warm, com- forting glow. He guessed he had some- had a family to think about the way thing that most boys didn't have.. He he wanted to when he got lonesome. Newspapers.)
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