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In trying to climb upon a heavily loaded wagon while there he put his foot before the wheel just as the team started and it was run over. Every one who saw the accident supposed of course his foot was crushed and ruined. A gentleman standing near caught him up and carried him to the house, where an examination showed the foot only slightly injured. There must have been a depression where his foot rested, as the wagon passed over it, and for once good luck counted for more than bad management.

Guy has always felt perfectly acquainted with every person he has come in contact with, or at least appeared to possess that happy faculty, and has always made friends readily. He has a great liking for bright colors, and if possible would wear a bandmaster's flowing plume, gold lace and braid, and other insignia of office, at all times, and be perfectly happy.

He is a most distressing rustler, doing whatever he undertakes with a rush and hurrah that sets more deliberate people's teeth on edge. He can do as much work as most boys, but is decidedly interested in knowing who is to receive the pay for his work. It can hardly be claimed that he likes work for work's sake, though he has planned more different ways to earn spending-money than any other boy known to the writer. And he never seems to have had a doubt of his ability to make his way in the world under any and all circumstances.

Guy learns readily enough, and might easily have been at the head of his classes, if his ambition had taken that direction; but he has experienced considerable difficulty in keeping his features composed enough to escape an occasional reprimand from his teachers, and he would much rather learn from Nature's great book than by steady application to school-books. If he was ever, before the last term in the High School, entitled to rank one in his classes, or if his activity permitted his deportment to be graded one hundred per cent., that fact escaped the notice of his parents; but he is quick to comprehend and has confidence enough in himself to do almost anything that comes his way, and if he does not develop into a hustling business man, when once he settles down to some line of life-work, it will prove a great disappointment to his friends.

Guy has so far shown a decided liking for fine, high-headed, swift-moving horses, and when he holds the reins a current of magnetism seems to pass from driver to the team and they are up and going. He is much like his uncle, James H. Seaton, in not wishing to be on the road between two places long enough for team. or driver to suffer from hunger.

Guy has just graduated from the Jewell City High School, at the head of his classes, having been declared valedictorian for the class, and it is to be hoped he will ever be an honorable gentleman, whatever his calling in life may be, for as Pope said:

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Honor and shame from no conditions rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

Guy is a member of the Epworth League, which he attends quite regularly, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Jewell City.

SADIE GLADYS, the second daughter and fifth and last child in the writer's family, was born at the Jewell City home on February 13, 1890. She is a bright, active, light-haired girl in her teens. She has never missed a day at school, except on account of sickness, and stands well in all of her classes, having received more times than any other pupil in her classes the honor of being rank one. She entertains a great liking for her teacher, Miss Mary McCoy, and will do all that is within her power to please the object of her admiration.

Her affection for Miss McCoy has prompted Gladys to write a number of "poems" in praise of her beloved teacher and friend. These "pieces," with several on other topics, Gladys has written. in a little book for Miss McCoy. Gladys has the poetic temperament, and delights in expressing her thoughts and feelings in rhyme. She comes naturally by her talent for rhyming, and it is yet rather a natural than cultivated one, for among the Fergusons, from whom her descent is traced, there have been many poets, among whom Sir Robert Ferguson, the Scotch poet, a friend of Robert Burns, and Sir Samuel Ferguson, were perhaps the most widely known.

Gladys is easily the best musician in the family, readily playing

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any ordinary musical composition, and she sings quite well for so young a girl who has had the benefit of no more instruction, evidently inheriting her musical talents from her mother, or farther back in the Seaton family than her father. She accepted an invitation to preside at the instrument during the commencement exercises at the Ionia schools in the summer of 1903, and Professor Durett and several others expressed their approval of

the manner in which she filled the position. And she has more lately officiated as organist at the Epworth League and at the services of the church and at prayer-meetings.

Gladys is also an elocutionist of some merit, considering her age and limited training, her services being in demand when there are any entertainments on the tapis, either at the public school or League.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE CHILDREN OF JAMES H. AND FRANCELIA

SEATON.

HATTIE MAYBELLE SEATON, the first-born in the family, was born on Independence Day, in 1873, at Floyd, Floyd county, Iowa. She was given as good an education as the circumstances allowed, but was not so well instructed in the blessings of single life as to persuade her not to give herself in marriage to the man of her choice. She was married to John Conger, a broom-maker by profession, who at the last account was running a creamery station for the Beatrice Creamery Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, of which his father-in-law, James H. Seaton, is the Superintendent. The children of these fine young people are Guy, Fay, Harold, and Joseph.

CHARLES ANDREW SEATON was born January 13, 1875. He was educated for a teacher, and was quite successful in that calling, but later he was managing a station for the Beatrice Creamery Company in Nebraska. He was married to Nettie Simmons at North Platte, Nebraska, November 8, 1905. They live at Wallace, Nebraska, near which place they own three hundred acres of land, which is devoted to raising horses.

GERTRUDE ALMA SEATON was born March 11, 1877. She was a very sweet child, too lovely for this world, and was called home to the other and it is to be hoped better world, on October 27, 1880, her death occurring at Floyd, Iowa.

LAURA PEARL SEATON, evidently named for her grandmother, Laura A. Seaton, was born December 14, 1879, at Floyd, Mitchell county, Kansas. After her school days were over she taught for some time near Wallace, Nebraska, where the family had located, with admirable success; then she established herself in the millinery business at Wallace, in the State of Nebraska. She was