I maintain that he is as true to them as any man in spite of anything that may have happened. He is not a tough in any sense of the word either in speech or habits and he can claim the admiration of the sternest of his accusers simply by his personality, polished manners suavity and ready flow of well thought out conversation. So much for Q & D, as for old Tobe he has "just plugged along through it all not a mile away from the high board fence of the old garden, a farmer just as he always said he would be, proud of the name and loving the profession, enjoying the music of the north west blast of January and the song of the first Rosingnol of Spring and the poetry of an aching back at sundown as well as a fresh cut meadow in the morning.

I think that his what behold shim to it, the music & poetry of it all certainly not the money he has made, although even tnhetre he can;t complaiun he has always ahd plenty to eat, plenty to wear and a hus eover him which is more than the ther two have had always. It is gtrue of cours ethan when his old pals were on the march to the call of the bugle, he often straine dhard at the bit, but never kicked over the traces, but it is also true that while in the trenches of France or the barracks of Siberia the other boy's hearts were being excited by the