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Nothing definite was said on the subject, but it was pretty well understood between them that she was, henceforth, to be his girl. It was toward the redheaded young lady's chair that Jim always hurried at dancing class and it was to Jim she turned when partners were chosen for parties at the school.
All through the spring, young love ran its course, undisturbed by anything more serious than an occasional hair pulling, until the fateful day that John Blair's father gave him a pony.
Ah, the fickleness of feminine fancy! Just twenty minutes after the redhead saw John Blair's pony, Jim had definitely returned to the ranks of the unattached males.
But if the redheaded one was lost, there was solace to be found in the fact that next-doorneighbors, Jean Prothero and her sister Agnes, also had recently acquired a pony and welcomed the mastery of a man's hand on the reins.
The Prothero pony was a much faster animal than John Blair's and Jim exulted in passing the Blah cart, with its beribboned redheaded passenger, and flicking his whip with a nonchalant disdain that must have been both a reproach and a reprimand to the unfaithful one.
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Such Ignominy! To be cast as a lowly spear carrier In the commencement play while his best friend, Joe Davis with the beard, took the leading role
Graduation from the Model School and his first pair of long trousers were thrills that fell to fifteenâ– old Jim Stewart
The Stewart hardware store, the heritage Jim deserted for Hollywood