It helped him to forget other things.
"Jule," said he, walking up to her as she sat alone on the porch, "I'm ashamed of you.

To go and fall in love with a Dutchman like Gus Wehle, and disgrace us all!" "I wonder you didn't think about disgrace before," retorted Julia, "I am ashamed to have August Wehle hear what you've been doing." [Illustration: NORMAN ANDERSON.] Dogs that have the most practice in cat-worrying are liable to get their noses scratched sometimes.

Norman took care never to attack Julia again except under the guns of his mother's powerful battery.

And he revenged himself on her by appealing to his mother with a complaint that "Jule had throwed up to him that he had been dismissed from school." And of course Julia received a solemn lecture on her way of driving poor Norman to destruction.

She was determined to disgrace the family.