"ONE THAT RULETH WELL HIS OWN HOUSE" The news of the school trouble ran through the section like fire through a brule.

The younger generations when they heard how Thomas Finch had dared the master, raised him at once to the rank of hero, but the heads of families received the news doubtfully, and wondered what the rising generation was coming to.
The next day Billy Jack heard the story in the Twentieth store, and with some anxiety waited for the news to reach his father's ears, for to tell the truth, Billy Jack, man though he was, held his father in dread.
"How did you come to do it ?" he asked Thomas.

"Why didn't you let Don begin?
It was surely Don's business." "I don't know.

It slipped out," replied Thomas.

"I couldn't stand Jimmie's yelling any longer.