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"Don't you believe it for a moment I tell you, Mr Crellin, it's a statistic All contrary things are transient Ever woirl-children cease froness in mirrors, oman ever be otherwise than what she has always been: first, the mother, second, the irls who graduate from the State Norraduation are excluded Nevertheless, the average length of tiraduates actually teach school is little more than two years And when you consider that a lot of theh ill looks and ill luck, are foredoomed old maids and are foredoomed to teach all their lives, you can see how they cut down the period of teaching of the irl-woman, will have her here mere men are concerned," Crellin ures but resolved to look theo to Stanford," Forrest laughed, as he prepared to lift his allop, "and you and I and all men, to the end of time, will see to it that they do have their way"
Crellin smiled to himself as his e, and the thought that caused the smile was: "But where's the kid of your own, Mr Forrest?" He decided to repeat it to Mrs Crellin over the breakfast coffee
Once again Dick Forrest delayed ere he gained the Big House The man he stopped he addressed as Mendenhall, as his horse-er as well as pasture expert, and as reputed to know, not only every blade of grass on the ranch, but the length of every blade of grass and its age fronal fro in a double breaking-cart What had caused Forrest to signal was a glance he had caught, across the northern edge of the valley, of great, ses reen where they projected into the vast flat of the Sacramento Valley
The talk that folloas quick and abbreviated to ter between two men who knew Grass was the subject Mention wasrains to come Names occurred, such as the Little Coyote and Los Cuatos creeks, the Yolo and the Mira Basin, Round Valley, and the San Anseles Movements of herds and droves, past, present, and to come, were discussed, as well as the outlook for cultivated hay in far upland pastures and the estimates of such hay that still remained over the winter in remote barns in the sheltered mountain valleys where herds had wintered and been fed