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the song that touched BING'S heart
Bing Crosby wanted happiness for one, disappointed little boy. His reward was a memory he'll cherish always
By JOAN MAXWELL
With all outdoors calling, there was a promise Ding had to keep — even if it meant "going back to school."
The boy stared longingly out the window of the little country schoolhouse into the winter sunshine. He could work up no enthusiasm for his classroom work. Not this morning. School was all right, usually. School was okay. But the boy hadn't meant to attend today. He was going pheasant-hunting instead. For days, he'd been telling everyone how he was going hunting. What, he worried, would the other kids think?
Even as he worried, unknown to him, his two wouldbe hunting companions, Senator Herman Welker, of Idaho, and Bing Crosby, were in a caucus as to the ways and means of liberating him. The two older men had been friends since boyhood, "Herm" (as Crosby called him) and Bing. They were on a hunting trip together now as the guests of Chet Thorsen, an Idaho cattleman, and they'd faithfully promised Chet's twelve-year-old son, Freeland, he could go hunting with them. But, the night before, the boy had indulged in some ■ boyish breach of conduct and the
"top command" — his mother — disciplined Freeland by saying he couldn't go.
Now, by some odd coincidence, the Senator and Bing turned up hunting near the little white country schoolhouse — which numbered twenty students, one a very reluctant and heartbroken little boy. When the two men were almost at the schoolhouse, they stopped and leaned their hunting gear against a tree. This was a matter which called for careful deliberation. Freeland's mother had said he must go to school. Well, Freeland had gone to school. On the other hand — Bing couldn't forget that look in the kid's eyes.
Putting Bing's thoughts into words, the Senator took the floor. "Think how Freeland must be feeling. We invited him to come with us, and there he sits in that schoolhouse. Why don't you and I walk on over there and see if I can get (Continued on. page 87)
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