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eriving some fun out of it; consequently, Port Agnew had never been incorporated. And this was an issue it was not deemed wise to press

sired to change. As these few developed and The Laird discovered them, their positions in his employ, were forfeited, their rents raised, or their leases canceled, and presently Port Agn

in which children were forbidden to play or which mothers taught their daughters to avoid. Once an I.W.W. organizer came to town,

t-and-power plant, and with the profits from these enterprises, Port Agnew had paved streets, sidewalks lined with handsome electroliers, and a sewer system. It was an admirable little sawmi

at a dinner and make formal announcement of the change. So he gave a barbecue in a grove of maples on the edge of the town. His people received in silence the little speech he made them, for they were loath to lose The Laird. They knew him, whil

s and trust me as you have trusted him, I'll never go back on you, for I expect to live and to die in Port Agnew, and, while I live, I want to be happy with you. I would have you say of me, when I am gone, that I was the worthy son of a worthy si

cry it. "He's a chip of the old block!" cried another, and there were cheers and some tears and

ed boots and, with a whoop such as he had not emitted in forty years, entered the lists against the young fellows. In the old days in the Michigan woods, when burling was considered a magnificent art of the lumberjack, he had been a champion, and for five minutes he spun his log until the water foame

the house, and, stirred by some half-forgotten memory, he glanced across the bight to the little white house far

"The old order changeth," he soliloquized, and hauled it do

fire the

the button and t

e been away," he remarked, as Donald entered the

father's binoculars and went out on the terrace. It had occurred to him that he had not seen old Caleb Brent and Nan at the barbecue, and he wonder

Donald soliloquized, and waved his arm at her.