CHAPTER XL.
FATHER TOOK ME SERIOUSLY There was an interval of nearly five months between the time of my election, which was in May, and the date of taking office in September.
I decided to use this time to improve my qualifications for the job.

I returned to the old home town of Sharon and took a course in a business college.

Again I walked the old familiar paths where as a boy I had roamed the woods, fished the streams, brought the cows along the dusty road from pasture and blacked the boots of the traveling dudes at the hotel.
There is a great thrill for the young man who comes home with a heart beating high with triumph, to see the love and admiration in his parents' eyes.

Father shook my hand and said.

"You're a good boy, Jimmy, and I'm proud of you.