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CHAPTER IV.
Ina ripe civilization such a$ ours
there are formulas provided: to meet, the
requtrernents of every e{Agency that may
rossibly arise; but amongst there there
3s not one which teaches us how to
greet a person come back from the dead,
because it
is
held impossible
that such a
contingency can occur, Perhaps this is
"the reason why Jim Burgoyne, usually
e. docile and obedient member of the
'Society to which be belongs, now flies
In the face of all the precepts instilled
Into hint by that society's code. At
tight of Elizabeth Le Marchant entering
the room, clad in a very neat tailor
t=own, instead of the winding -sheet with
evlueh, he had credited her, he at first
stands translixe,l, staring at her with a
hardness of intensity whleb is allowed .to
vs 'in the ease of Titian's. "Bella," or
Botticel11's "Spring," but has never
been accounted permissible in the case
of a more living loveliness. Then, be-
fore he can control, or even question the
impulse that drives him, it has carried
hint to her.
"Elizabeth 1" he says, in that sort of
awed semi -whisper • with which one
would salute a being plainly returned
from the other side, fearing that the full-
ness of a living voice might striketoo
strongly on his disused ear—"is it really
Elizabeth ?"
1Jad Burgoyne been quite sure, even
now, of the fact; if he had his nits well
about him, he would certainly not have
addressed her by her Christian name.
But from the dead the small pomps and
ceremonies of earth fail off. \\'e think of
them Jay their naked names -must we
not then appeal to there by the satne
when they reappear before us?
The girl—for she does not look much
more—thus rudely and startlingly bom-
barded, drops her Baedeker out of her
slim gloved hand, and with a positive
jump at the suddenness .of the address,
Looks back apprehensively at her inter-
locutor. In her eyes is, at first, only the
coldly frightened expression of one dis-
courteously assailed by an insolent
stranger, but in a space of time as
short as had served him to note the same
metamorphosis
e
inth case of her par-
ents, he sees the look of half—three-
quarters—whole recognition down in
hr
e eyes, followed— alas! there can be
no mistake - about it—by the same as-
piration after flight. There is no reason
why she should not recognize him again
at once. He has fallen a prey neither to
hair nor fat—the two main disguisers
and disfigurers of humanity. I7is face
is as smooth and his figure as spare as
when, ten Years ago, he had given the
pretty tomboy of sixteen lessons in
jumping the Iia 1 Ha! And as to her
identity, no shadow of doubt any longer
lingered in his mind.
The violence and shock of his attack
have made her crimson, have matched
her cheeks with those long -withered
damasks in the Moat garden, with
which they used to vie in bloomy vivid-
ness. But even yet he does not treat
her quite as if she were really and veri-
tably living; he has not yet got back
his conventional manners.
"I thought, you were dead," he says,
his voice not even yet raised to its or-
dinary key, some vague awe still sub-
duing it.
It must be a trick ofhis excited
imagination that makes it seem to him
as if she said under her breath, "So I
am 1°'
But before he has time to do more than
distrust the testimony of his ears, Mrs.
Le Merchant strikes in 'quickly—
"We cannot help what Mr. Burgoyne
thinks," says she, with a constrained
laugh; "but you are not dead, are you,
Elizabeth? \Ve are neither of us dead;
an the Contrary*,we are very much alive.
Who can heip being alive in this hea-
venly place? And you? When did you
come? What hotel are you at? Ilatie
you been here long? Do you make a
long stay ?"
She pours out her questions with such
torrent -force and rapidity, as gives Io
her auditor the conviction that it is her
aim to have a monopoly or them.
After one look of unbounded aston-
ishment at his ,companion's onslaught,
i3yng has withdrawn to a discreet dis-
tance.
"You never mentioned her when I met
you in Oxford," says Burgoyne, di.sre-
gnrding her trivial and conventional
questions, and turning his eyes away
with difficulty from his old playfellow.
Mrs. Le Merchant laughs again, stili
constrainedly.
"Probably you never asked after here'
"1 was afraid," he says, solemnly ;
"after len years one is afraid; end as
you did not mention her -you know you
mentioned all the others -I thought you
had lost her 1"
A sort of slight shiver passes over the
wernan's frame.
"No, thank God -1. No 1"
During the foregoing IIlile dialogue
ehaut. herself, Elizabeth has stood with
her eyes on the ground; but at the end
of it she lifts them to smile lovingly at
beer mother, They are very pretty eyes
Mill. but surely they seam to have cried
a good deal, and now that the hurrying
blood has. left her cheek egain, Bur-
goyne sees that site looks more nearly
her age titan he had imagined al; the
first glance.• Ire has not heard her voice
yet; ,tike has not spoken, unless thot.lrst
•r;ltaken whisper --so much more likely to
Le the freak of his own heated fancy--
could •sound for speech. He must near
her tones. Do they keep nn echo of the
ether wield, as he still en:Iglnes that he
sees a shealo from 11 lying; lingeringly
arrese her face 7
"Do you .ever clirn;t a)rple-trees now?"
fro asps. abruptly, SIM Marts slightly,
and again, though with a weaker red
wave, her rather thin cheek grows
tinged.
Vitt i ever climb !hent ?" she says,
with a bewildered look, and speaking in
a somewhat tremulous voice, "Yes,"--
slowly,
Yes,'--
slo v1 > a s with an effort, of mei o --
� as f1 nr
y Y
,
"I believe I did."
"You have forgottenottet all aboutOrt it,"
,
cries Jim, In accentof absurdly
c
is -
proportioned disappointnnent, "Nave
you forgotten the " kangaroo, too? have
you forgotten evcrytmng?"
Perhaps she is putting her memory to
the same strain as he had done bis in
the case of her mother's name an the
occasion of their Oxford meeting,` At all
events, she leaves the question un-
answered, and the elder woman again
hurries to her help against this persis-
tent claimant of reminiscences.
"You must not expect us all' to have
such -memories as, you `have," she says,
with a touch of friendliness in her look.
"I must own that I too had quite for-
gotten the kangaroo; and so i fear had
Robert, until you reminded us of it In
Mesopotanile."
"How is Mr. Le Marchant?" inquires
Jim, thus reminded to put his tardy
query—"is he with you?"
"No, he is not very fond of being
abroad ; it is not"--smiling--"'dear
abroad' to him, but I think he will very
likely come out to Florence to fetch us."
"You are going to Florence?" cries
the young man eagerly. "So am I' ! oh,
hurrah! then we shall often meet."
But the touch of friendliness, whose
advent he had hailed so joyfully, has
vanished out of Mrs. Le Merchant's
voice, or, at least, is overlaid with a
species of stiffness, as she,. answers dis-
tantly, "we do not intend to go out at
all in Florence—I mean into society:"
"But I am not society," replies he,
chilled, yet resolute. "I wish"—glanc-
ing rather wistfully from one to the
other—"that 1 could give you a little of
my memory. If I could, you would see
that, after being so infinitely. good to me
at the Moat, you cannot expect me to
meet you as total strangers now."
In the sense of ill -usage that fills his
breast the fact of how almost entirely
oblivious he had a been of theer� n
p so s be-
fore him, during the greater part of the
long interval ,that tied parted them, has
such is human nature—quite slipped
his recollection. It is brought .back to
him in some degree with a twinge by
Mrs. Le Merchant saying in a relenting
tone, and• with an accent of remorse,
"and you have remembered us all these
years."
Fie cannot, upon reflection, conscien-
tiously say that he has; but is yet disin-
genious enough to allow a speaking
silence to imply acquiescence.
"And you are on your way to Flo-
rence, too`?" continues she, mistaking
the cause of his dumbness; the tide of
compunction evidently setting more
strongly towards him, in her womanly
heart, at the thought of the entire want
of interest she has manifested in the case
of one whose long faithfulness to her
and her family had deserved, a beeter
treatment.
"Yes."
His face clouds so perceptibly as he
pronounces this monosyllable, that his
interlocutor inquires, with a growing
kindness—.
"Not on any unpleasant errand, I
hope ?"
He laughs the uneasy laugh of an.
Anglo-Saxon obliged to ten,. or at all
events telling, some • intimate .detail
about himself.
"I am going to see my young woman
-the girl I am engaged. lo."
"Well, that is a pleasant errand,
surely?" (sinning).
"C'est selon 1 replies Jim, gloomily:
"I have a piece of ill -news to tell her ;"
then, with a half -shy effort to escape into
generalities, "which way do you think
that 111 -news reads best -=on paper or
viva voce?"
Sheshivers a little.
I de not know. I do not like it either',
way."•
Then, taking out her watch, with the
evident determination to be surprised at
the lateness of the hour, she cries, "It
is actually 'a quarter to two 1 Are not•
you famished, Elizabeth? I ant 1"
There is such apparent and imminent
departure in her eye that Burgoyne feels
that there Is no time to be lost.
"Have you decided upon your hotel in
Florence? be asks precipitately.
"We have decided •against them. all,"
is her answer. "We have taken a little
apartment—a poor little entresol . but
it is such a poor little one, that 1 should
be ashamed to ask any of my friends to
come and see me there."
She accompanies the last -words, as 11
to take the sting out of ,therm with as
sweet and friendly a. smile as any he
remembers in the Devonshire days. But
the sting is not taken out all the same;
it lingers, pricking and burning still,
after both ' the tall, thin,. black figure,
and the .slirrr, little grey one • have disap-
peared.
Tito lemm t that this is the case,
Byng rejoins his friend; a curiosity and
alert interest in his young eyes, wlrich
his companion feels' no desire to grati-
fy. He Is unable, 'however, to maintain
Che .entiresilence lte hod intended upon
the subject, since Byng after waiting
for what, to his impatience; appeers a
more than: decent interval, is constrained
to remark •
—
�,t`Dial I hear you tell that lady, when
first you spoke to her, that she was
dead ?"
"I thought she was."
"Had youheard it?"
•
""Did' you see it in the papers 7"
,Yo:"
A pause.
'"I,wonder why you thought she was
fleet?"
The ether makes a :rather impatient
movement.
"I hat no reason -none whatever. It
was an idiotic,irfer'ertee."
13yng draws long breath of satisicl¢
tion.
"Well, at all events, 1 em very glad
that she is not."
Jim :turns upon him with something
of the expression of face worn by Mrs.
Sarah Damp on hearing Mrs. Prigg ex-
press her belief that it was not by Afros.
Hanes that her services would be re-
quired. "Why 'should you be glad of
that, Betsy ? She is unbeknown to you
except by !tearing. Why should you be
glad?"
As Byng's case is a more aggravated
one than Mrs, Prig's, seeing that Eliza.-
both
lizabeth Lo Merchant is unbeknown to hhn,
even by hearing, so is the warmth, or.
rather coldness, with which his friend
receives leis remark not inferior to that
of "",_a
5 r r
e
y."
itaffects you.
I not aft see how
do a quite
Why are you glad?"
"Wily
am I glad ?
replies the younger
than, with a lightening eye. "For the
same reason that 1 amglad that Van-
dyke painted that picture"—pointing to
it—"or that Shakespeare wrote,e`As You
Like 11.' The world is the leeher by
then all three." ..
But to ibis poetic and flattering anal-
ogy, Jim's only answer is a surly
"Ilum.ph 1"
(To be continued).
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REQUESTS MADE TO PETS.
Provision For the Comfort of Favorite.
Animals.
The French fernier who died recently
leaving behind him the follows; will
written on a shirt cuff, "I hereby appoint
as my sole heir my red horse, and 1
wish him to become the property of my
nephew Jules," is not by .any means the
only testator who bas preferred a lega-
tee on four feet to, one of his own flesh
and blood.
Of a similar mind was the testator
whose will ran thus : "I leave to my
monkey—my dear, amusing Jackoo—
the surer of 850, to be enjoyed by him
during his life; • it is. to be expended
solely in his keep I leave to my faith-
ful dog Shock, and to my beloved cat
Tib, $25 apiece as yearly pension. in
the event of the .death of one of the
aforesaid legatees, • the sum due to him
shall pass to the aforesaid survivors,
and on the death of one of these two, to
the last, -be he who he may. After the
decease of all parties, the sum left
them shall belong to my daughter
G=, to whom I show this preference
above all my children because she has
a large family and finds a difficulty in
filling their mouths and educating
them.'
There was lice
more than a spice of ma
M the last testament of a Frenchman
who had . quarreled with his next•of-
kin—some cousins—and gave them good
cause to remember his displeasure by
leaving his entire estate, a substantial
one. to a youthful tortpise which he- ad
brought home from Mauritius, at whose
death only the money was to go on to
his obnoxious relatives. As the tortoise
was good for at least a century, the re-
version would probably have 'been dear
at afranc. Not long ago, too, a Mr.
Sibley left his fortune to his • cat and
parrot to the exclusion of his relatives,
to whom, however, the money was to
go on the death of his pets.
A VERY REMARKABLE WILL
was that of a testator of Ohio who, after
leaving minute instructions for the
building of an infirmary for cats, pro-
ceeded to direct that a certain sum
should be devoted to the purchase of an
accordion, "which shall be played in the
auditorium of the oats' infirmary for-
ever and ever, in order that the eats may
have the privilege of always hearing and
enjoying the instrument which is .the
nearest approach to their natural
voices."
How far posthumous solicitude' for
pets can go is proved by the following
clause from the will of Mlle.. Jeanne
Felix, a famous musician of her day :'
"I pray Mlle. Bluteau, my sister, and
Mme.Calogne, my niece, to take care
of •my cats. Whilst these two live they
shall have thirty sous a month, that
they may be well fed, They must have,
twice a day, meat soup of thaequaliiy
usually served on table; but they must
be given it separately, each having his
own saucer. The bread must not be
crumbled in t - .e soup, but cut, up into
pieces about the size of hazel nuts, or
they cannot eat it. \\'hen boiled beef is
put into the pot with the soaked bread,
some thin slices of raw meat must be
put in as well, and the whole stewed
1111 it is 11t for eating. When only one
cat lives, half the `money will suffice.
Nicole Pigeon shall take care of the cats
and cherish then. Mme. Calogn may.
go and see them."
Among the many curious and emigre -
missing bequests to the late Queen Vic-
toria were several of let animals whose
owners wished to provide them with a
distinguished asylum. Thus, one testa -
toe ;left
esta-toe;left to 'Tier Majesty threegoldfish;'
accompanied by his entire fortune; and:
that there might be no mistakes as to
Me identity of the fish, they are thus
described in the will :• "One is bigger
than the other . two, and these, Idler
could be easily recognized, one being.
fat, the other thin. If the fish on quar-
ter -day, when visited . by my solicitor
at Osborne, which I suggest as a suit-
able residence for them, are found to
answer this description, the money is to
be paid forthwith."
Even less desirable than the goldfish
were sixty snakes which another too
loyal subject bequeathed to the Queen.
"I have always loved sleekest" ran the
will of this eccenirio gentleman, "and
my only grief is that 1 cannot train
there to recognize me. Perhaps your
Majesty may be more fortunate."
Still another testator left £100 a year
to her Majesty on condition that she
book under her charge a favorite parrot
end poodle and sent them, tinder the es-
cort of a member of the Royal house-
hold, to Margate for a fortnight's hall-
day every year; while a tradesman not
only bequeathed his cats to Queen Vic-
toria, but designed a house for their
reception. "I am aware," he ,wro'e,
"that such, a building if erected close
to your Majesty's residence, would re-
sult in an increase of nocturnal noises;
so I would suggest that it be pieced in.
Windsor Park, but not mereWait a
mite from the Castle."
Bet, perhaps, the most remarkable of
thbequeso athat
Hinduese who retscenttly leftpets thirty ws rupeesof -aa
month for the support of a cobra,
through whose bite he had been freed
from an undesirable wife.
•
1E\\'ISd.I L .ND.O\VNEIJS.
In Europe They hold 248 Times as Much
as They Did 40 Years Ago.
The anti -Jew faction in Russia do
Glares that even with the present restric-
tions the Jews have managed to acquire
a large portion of land, for which the
following figures are quoted in tiro Jew-
ish magazine, the Menorah :
"Within the Pale the real estate of the
Jews advanced from 16,000' dessiatins in
1860 0 148,000 1 80
t in 1870,370 000 in 8
,
537,000 in 1800, and to 1,205,000 in 1900.
Poland ,
In the kingdom l of n the 3e\s
g.
do n d 3M
VS
held 16 000 'tat! 1 60 148,000 in
e less ns in 8 ,
1810, 870,000. in 1880, 537,000 in 1890, and
1,265,000 in 1900.
"In 'European Russia outside the Pale
Jewish landholdings is said to have in-
creased 248 times in forty years in the
following proportion : In 1860, 3,000
dessiatins; in 1870, 18,000 dessiatins; in
1880, 96,000 dessiatins; in 1800, 262,000
dessiatins, and in 1900, 745,000 dessia-
tnis."
According to these statistics the total
holdings of the Jews throughout the
,Russian • Empire, which only amounted
to 70,000 dessiatins in 1860, reached in
1900 the high figure of 2,381,057 dessia-
tins, out of which the dews own as their
property 1,445,000, dessiatins, while the
remaining 935,000 dessiatins are rented
by them as tenants.
PUTTING HOGS ON CORN.
When starting the hogs on corn .at
the beginning of the fattening season
care should be taken not to give the hogs
too much corn and thus injure their
digestion and destroy their appetites,
writes Mr. A. J. Legg. A sudden change
from grass and bulky feeds to such a.
concentrated feed as corn is likely to in-
jure the hogs and give them a backset
that they will not readily overcome.
A few years ago a lot of my shotes,
running on clover and getting a, small
allowance of corn, were _put up for fat-
tening, and I carelessly gave then too
much corn. As a result they would eat
only enough corn for a maintenance
ration. Tor several weeks and never fully
overcame the bad start. , I make it a
rule to- commence on a rather small
ration and come up gradually until the
hogs are on full feed. I feed an occa-
sional pumpkin or a few opples to the
fattening hogs. This 1 think is...a great
advantage. •
DECIDED BEFOREHAND.
In Cochrane, Alabama, the .affairs of
civil justice are administered by a judge,
who .is also a capable and enthusiastic
fnrzner.
One cloudy spring afternoon a Court
.was convened to try a peculiarly tortu-
ous and perplexing case. He listened
uneasily for a time, with growing un-
rest, every' now and then casting a
quick glance through the nearest win-
dow.
He was observed at last to seize a
slip of paper, scribble a few words,
place the document beneath a heavy
paper -weight, and reach for his hat.
"Captain," he called cheerily, "excuse
me for interruptin' you, suit; you go
right on with your argument, which is
a good one. It's suah gain' to rain this
evening, gentlemen, an' I got to set
out my potatoes right away. But you
go right on, captain! When you and
the major get through, you'll find my
decision under this heah paper -weight."
And the door elosed upon the aston-
ished orator.
FEED WELL..
Griggs': "Doctors fees to -day are sheer
robbery."•
Briggs:"Wouldn't it be better to call
them pillage?"
BUYING 011 SELLING?'
It is told of the son of a horse -dealer,
a sharp lad, when once unexpectedly
called upon by his father to mount a
horse and exhibit its paces, the little
fellow whispered the question, inorder
to regulate how he should ride :—
"Aro you buying or selling?"
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combines the best oil
with the valuable hypo-.
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FERTILIZERS FOR WINTER WHEAT.
The fertilizers suitable for winter
wheeat will depend almost entirely on
the nature of the soil and its consti-
tuents. In some instances farmyard
manure will be superior., to any other
form of fertilizer. In other instances
artificial fertilizers alone may be super-
ior, and in yet other instances the best
results will lie obtained from applying,
both farmyard manure and 'commercial
fertilizers.
Farmyard manure will usually give
the best results on lands more or less
sandy in character. These may pro-
duce an excellent sample of wheat, but
unless stirnulated by heavy manuring
do not produce extraordinaryields.
The proper manuring of such. lands may
greatly increase the crop, as they gen-
erally grow straw strong enough to
sustain the- head. AIamu'e from the
barnyard, on ' land which naturally
grows ample straw, is quite liable to
induce lodging, and this means reduced
yields.
The mode of applying the manure will
vary with climate and character of land -
On land with a 'heavy subsoil, the Best
results will follow from applying the
manure in the fresh form en fallow
land before it is plowed. On light land
and in a climate somewhat dry, the
sante plan will hold good, but on light
land in a climate of considerable rain -
fail, it would probably be better to ap-
ply the manure after the first plowing
and .incorporate it not far from the sur-
lam by the use o1 the cultivatoi, In any
event the manure should be in process
of decay in the soil so that it can yield
food for the wheat from the first.
Some persons still practice reducing
the manure by piling it and then apply-
ing it as a dressing just before sowing
the wheat. That is excellent for the
wheat, but.et is wasteful of plant food
in the manure, so much of the nitrogen
escapes during the
process
of fermenta-
tion.
ta
-
tion.
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. •
The nature of --the fertilizer to apply
will depend on many conditions. So
many that it will - not be possible to
discuss this part of the subject in a way
at all comprehensive. These conditions
include plant food in the land, nature
of the soil, and the manner of prepar-
ing it. Usually the ingredient most
wanted in soils sufficiently supplied with
vegetable matter is phosphoric acid.
But in some localities potash also is
needed.
One of the fine features of farmyard
manure is that it is a complete fertilizer,
furnishing nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash. On the other hand, if all
three ingredients are not needed in the
soil, in so far as they are not, there will
be waste.
Phosphoric acid may usually be .best
applied as acid phosphate in growing
winter wheat,.as quick action is wanted.
On many sails good results follow sow-
ing the fertilizer at the same time as
wheat with a suitable drill. Such an
application with some nitrogen is favor-
able to good growth at the first, a result
which is essential in the growing of any
crop , that is to produce large yields.
Nitrogen may be applied in the spring
to stimulate growth, and thus secure
the desired yields. This method on light
land, fairly well stocked with humus,
may be made very effective.
To apply farm manure in moderate
quantities and then supplement the ma-
nure with commercial fertilizers is
usually the most satisfactory way of
fertilizing lands so as to get extraordi-
nary yield. The manure puts humus in
the soil and furnishes a part of the fer-
tility, and the commercial fertilizers
may then be applied in a way that
brings the needed equilibrium in fertile
ty in the land. The action of comm..,
dal fertilizers Is much more perfect in
the presence of a sufficiency of vegetable
Matter In the soil, When thus applied,
the waste of manure s n from i�
levelling e�clttl'r
g f
s
reduced. Good results follow preparing.. •
the land in certain areas, in a certain
way,without fertilizers.
The
process,'
meantime, seems to be' purely a
mechanical one. It consists in summeit<
fallowing the ]and .one year and grow-'
Ing winter wheat on it tate next. The
preparation consists in plowing once owe
then harrowing often enough to clean
the land and to retatn in it enough 'o#
malsture to start the wheat when it .ie
sown in the fall.
In certain areas of the northwestern
prairies, artificial .fertilizers have fro
quently been disappointing. The relit
sons are not fully known. Even oat
worn land the mere supplying of the
land with humus and cleaning seems to
give it a new lease of producing power;
FARI1 NOTES.
Before you condemn your loci:; ox
blame others for ilieir shortcomings,
examine your own knowledge and cone
clition.
It is the seed, that mostly exhausts the
plant food from land. A grass crop
that is allowed to produce seed, takes
more from the soil in mineral matter
than two crops cut for hay while tbo
grass is young, .
In recent years the manufacture or
Portland cement has greatly increased,
and a consequent reduction in price has
brought that article withinthereach on
every farrier, so there is no longer any,
excuse for a man to feed hogs on tltex.
ground.
Much harm can be done with highly,
concentrated feeding stuffs. Peoples
.must use judgment in regulating the
quantity fed. Cotton -seed meal bas the
enormous amount of 47 per cent. of
protein. It can bo given safely only in•1
very small does and mixed with outer
grains or meals.
The most valuable thing the farmer or
his wife has is health. Bank stock
'countsnothing for of n bythe `side of it.
g
Everything they Gate do to preserve;
their bodily vigor is so much added to
the sum total of life. Sound health
means happiness, comfort in the hoax�.`"
and out-of-doors years •ears full of 'en
joyment.
Better seed is the universal need of
farming to -day. A very great improve-
ment can be glade in the farmer's yields.
by carefully grading the seed in a fan -i
ning mill, saving only the largest,
heaviest and plumpest and the most•
nature kernels. This, however, is not
sufficient for the progressive farmer..
IIe wants to use a more intensive me-
thod, and get a correspondingly better
grade and higher yield of grain.
There are off days on the farm, just,
as there are everywhere. Days where
everything seems to go wrong; but
sandwiched in between. there are days
that are as bright and as sunshiny nettle.
fairest June morning. But loneliness is
not here, kind friends of the city. That
is only a fancy on your part, due tat•l
lack of positive knowledge. Every day .
on the farm is crowded full of things la
employ the mind. f can tell you of mens
and women that have left the farm just
because it was too strenuous for them_'
They felt the need of quiet and a chance'
to think. So ,they sold out and went
away to the city to find rest. I feel cer-
tain that they made a mistake, for they
did not know what they were doing
when they made the change.
BOLD INVADERS.
There were some phases of coun<ryr
life with which the little city girl bad •
as yet only one day's acquaintenee,
but the rights. of property-o\vnere and
property -renters wore firmly fixed in hex
mind.
"Mother 1" she called, in evident ex-
citement, the morning after t'ho' family
had settled for the summer in Sunset
View Cottage, "mother t Just come iters
and look 1 There are somebody's hens
wiping their feet ' on our nice clean
grass 1"
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MISSED 111111 VOCATION.
"What didour mother tea
Weep
ch you, anyway', ,1 you dont know how
sweep a room?"
"0', my mother thought I'd get married!"