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One Oct. morning in my last months of college as I sat studying at home, my mother read from the evening paper the list of students that had been elected to the [[OH/CH]] Zeta Kappa Honorary Society for Scholarship and my name was among them. "Go tell your father" she urged, and I hurried down to the village to his store. As usual, the country store was the gathering place on Saturday of my father's acquaintances, [[some/even whom?]] I had known from childhood. He silently extended the newspaper clipping to my [[vater/father?]]. "Good enough, miss," he said, and handed the slip to [[Henry Zuvill?]]. "Put on your glasses, Henry, and [[read?]] that." The ---nth? of old Henry's congratulations has always lingered?. * After shaking hands with [[him?]], he turned to my father, "I knew she'd get it. I've been telling your father right along that his daughter would make her mark. Them's ? [[?- ---?]] it out, Arthur Polmer", and Haverill went on, while he stumbled out [[into?]] the [[front/back?]] of the store and [[put?]] my [[head?]] down on the potato bags and [[bawled]] comfortably. I could hear my father and the others talking it over [[Zuvills?]] [[sorrow?]] ? was informing the company that John H. Long, one of [[Zuvill's?]] most admired politicians was a OH Z.K. ? said that he was ex---ting, not at all. "She did mighty well," He kept saying with astonishment still in his voice: [[This is?]] [[heard fun?]] out in the ? + ? telling ? Rose, my old school teacher, about it. [[She's?]] the open door the [[late?]] ? shin [[steamed]] in over the [[fifty?]] potato bags and molasses barrels, golden and [[---phs?]], the [[frogs?]] [[ever/even?]] ?, and [[---ins?]] softly ? in, she ? as if a bit ?, [[Arvis?]] had been a perfect scholar in the [[7th/9th ?]] grade. * These are some generous souls that do not begrudge or belittle one's attainments, but by lavish praise bestowed at the right moment so encourage us that we are uplifted and carried on to ? heights.
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