Our Jim, Or, the Power of Example (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION Three days before the date of the second game, Jim Winters was walking alone on the outskirts of the college town, when he saw a span of horses coming toward him on a frantic run. The coachman in his panic had leaped from his seat, and the lines were dangling over the ground. Seated in the carriage was an elderly lady, helpless and in imminent danger of death. I am proud to believe that three-fourths of the students in Belmore College would have done precisely what Jim did, had the opportunity been theirs. He ran out in the middle of the highway, and, finding the animals could not be checked, seized the bits and hung on with might and main. He was carried a considerable way, but succeeded in stopping the panic-stricken animals and in saving the life of the fainting old lady. This was a creditable exploit, but the same thing had been done many a time before and has been done since. The lady was so grateful to her young preserver that she sent him a handsome gold watch and called at his rooms to present it. Jim was embarrassed, as he always was under circumstances of that nature, but kept his promise to call upon the good woman, whose next step was to write to his father and mother, and inform them of what he had done, incidentally adding that he was the finest young man that ever lived. "That's putting it rather strong," remarked Mr. Winters after reading the letter aloud, "but I don't feel disposed to contradict the good woman, Mollie." "I'm sure I don't," added the grateful mother; "but it's only what we might have expected of our Jim." "I'd like to hear any one say Jim isn't what she says he is," up spoke Jennie, with a warning shake of her head. But I am digressing. One result of this little incident was that Jim's r...