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UP IN MICHIGAN

Jim Gilmore came to Hortons Bay from Canada. Hebought the blacksmith shop from old man Horton.Jim was short and dark with big mustaches and bighands. He was a good horseshoer and did not lookmuch like a blacksmith even with his leather apronon. He lived upstairs above the blacksmith shop andtook his meals at A. J. Smith’s.

Liz Coates worked for Smith’s. Mrs. Smith, whowas a very large clean woman, said Liz Coates wasthe neatest girl she’d ever seen. Liz had good legsand always wore clean gingham aprons and Jimnoticed that her hair was always neat behind. Heliked her face because it was so jolly but he neverthought about her.

Liz liked Jim very much. She liked it the way hewalked over from the shop and often went to thekitchen door to watch for him to start down theroad. She liked it about his mustache. She liked itabout how white his teeth were when he smiled. Sheliked it very much that he didn’t look like a blacksmith.She liked it how much A. J. Smith and Mrs. Smithliked Jim. One day she found that she likedit the way the hair was black on his arms and howwhite they were above the tanned line when he washedup in the washbasin outside the house. Liking thatmade her feel funny.

Hortons Bay, the town, was only five houses onthe main road between Boyne City and Charlevoix.There was the general store and postoffice with ahigh false front and maybe a wagon hitched out infront, Smith’s house, Stroud’s house, Fox’s house,Horton’s house and Van Hoosen’s house. The house

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