bellums in the Front Room
looking at the New Books and eating Peppermint Wafers, while he and
the other Comanches would be out in the Dining-Room trying to make
their House Rent and tossing off that which made Scotland famous.
Sometimes it would take half the Night to get the Smoke out of the
House.

Although she feared that she had turned up the wrong Street while
searching for her Affinity, the Partnership Arrangement had to stand.

They came to the Conclusion that Married Life is a Series of
Compromises. If he did well while sitting in with some of his Friends,
he would divide up with her and she would take the Money and buy Art
Pastels.

He would spot the Afternoons on which the Ethical Researchers were due
at his Premises and he would go to a Dutch Restaurant.

She permitted him to have a Room and call it his Den, so that he and
his Friends could do the Escape in case somebody in the Parlor started
a Reading.

He put up the Coin to enable her to attend State Conventions, and when
she was elected Recording Secretary of the Society for trying to find
out what Browning was up to, he took her Picture around to all the
Newspapers and told every one that he had a little Woman up at the
House who was as Keen as a Hawk, as Swift as an Eagle, and Sharper
than Chained Lightning.

[Illustration: _The Comanches._]

He fumbled a great many of her In-Shoots, but that did not prevent him
from admiring her Delivery.

Finally they arranged their separate Schedules so that they did
not see much of each other and they began to get along all right.
Occasionally they had a slight Difference, but they could always patch
it up. For instance, she selected Aubrey De Courcey as a Name for the
First Born, while he held out for Bill, so they had to compromise on
Aubrey De Courcey.

Aubrey is now ten years of age. Mother is teaching him to Crochet and
Father is showing him how to Draw without tipping off his Hand, while
all the Friends are sitting around, waiting to see Aubrey's Finish.

* * * * *

MORAL: The Two of a Kind is not always the Strongest Combination.

* * * * *

_THE SAMARITAN WHO GOT PARALYSIS OF THE HELPING HAND_

Once there was a moving Target who was strong on the Brotherhood of
Man. He ran a little Sunshine Factory all of his own. When it came to
scattering Seeds of Kindness, the Farm Drill was a Poor Second.

Every time he started down