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CIIAPT XXXV1I.--(Cont'd)
Swanhild, already dressed in her
'white cashmere and pretty white
beaver hat, {lancedin and out of
the room fetching and carrying-,
and before long the bride, too, was
dressed, a;rd with her long tulle
veil over the dainty little wreath of
real orange blossom from Nine
"They aro late this evening,"
said Sigrid. "1 wonder whether
Herr Sivertsen has caught Frithiof.
I hope not, for the tennis does him
so Much good."'
',Is he working very hard?" asked
Cecil.
"He always works furiously; and
just now I think he has got what
Leehertier's green -house, and the some one called 'the lust of finish -
hope -made dress which fitted ail- ing" upon him; we see very little of
mirably, she walked into the little hint, for when he is not at business
he is hard at work over Herr Siv-
ertsen's manuscript. But it really
seems to agree with him; they say,
you know, that work without worry
sitting -room to show herself to Fri-
thiof.
"1 shall hold up your train, Sig-
rid, in case the floor is at all
dusty," said Swanhild, much en- harms no one.'
joying the excitement of the first "A very moral precept," said a
wedding in the family, end deter- voice behind her, and glancing up
mined not to think of the parting she saw Frithiof himself crossing
till it actually came. the little lawn.
"Gwen is to meet us at the. The two years had not greatly al-
tered him, but he seemed more full
of life and vigor than before, arid
success and hope had entirely ban-
ished the look of conflict which for
so long had been plainly visible in
his face. Sigrid felt proud of him
as she glanced round; there was
something in his mere physical
strength which always appealed to
her.
"We were just talking about
you," she said, "and wandering
when you would he ready to play."
"After that remark of yours
which I overheard, I almost think
I shall have to eschew tennis." he
said, laughingly. "Why should I
gfve a whole hour to it when Herr
(Sivertsen is impatiently waiting for
the next installment 7"
"Herr Sivertsen' is insatiable,"
said Sigrid, taking off her garden-
ing -gloves. "And I am not going
to allow you to return to your old
bad ways; as long as you live with
church," explained Cecil. "Do you
know, I think the carriage must be
waiting, for I see the eldest little
Hallifield tearing across the court-
yarrl "
"Then 1 must say good-bye to
every one," said Sigrid; and with
one last look round the little home
which had grown so dear to them,
she took Frithiof's arm and went
out into the long stone passage,
where a group of the neighbors
stood waiting to see the last of her,..
and to give her their hearty good
wishes: -
That chapter of her life was end-
ed, and the busy hive of workers
would no longer count her as queen -
bee of the establishment.
She was quite silent as they drove
through the busy streets, her eyes
had again that sweet, dreamy look
in them that Cecil had noticed ear-
lier in the morning; she did not
seem tosee outward things, until
after awhile her eyes. met Frithiof's m
and then her face, which had been
rather grave, broke into sudden
brightness, and she said a few e
words to him in Norsee which he re- 1
plied to with a look so full of lov- s
ing pride and oontentment that it
carried the sunshine straight into
Cecil's heart. i
"This marriage is a capital thing p
for him," she thought to herself.
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not take them. away for a few days,
but you had better bringthem
down to see him."
"He is out of prison 1" exclaimed
Frithiof, "But surely his time is
not up yet. I thought be had five
years 7"
"The five years would be over
next October, I knew it would
come some day, but I never thought
of it so soon, and to take them away
in a few days !"
"I remember now," said Frith-
iof; "there is a rule that by good
behavior in prison they can slightly
shorten their time. I am so sorry
for you; it will -be a fearful wrench
to you to part with Lance and
Gwen."
She locked her hands together,
making no attempt at an answer,
"How exactly like the world,"
thought Frithiof to himself. "Here
is a, girl passionately devoted to
these children, while the mother,
who never deserved them at all,
has utterly deserted them. To have
had them for five years and then
suddenly to lose them altogether,
that is a fearful blow to ]ler ; they
ought to have thought of it before
adopting the ;children."
"Is there nothing I can do to
help you?" he said, turning toward
her.. "Shall I go and fetch Lance
and Gwen 7"
With an effort she stood up.
"No, no," she said, trying hard
to speak cheerfully. "Don't let
this spoil your game. I aria better,
I will go and find them,"
But by a sudden impulse he
e you will have to be something sprung up, made her take his arm
more than a working drudge." and walked to the house with her.
"Since Sigrid has begun baby's "You are still rather, shaky, I
d
ucation," ,said Fritltiof,turning_ think,"he said. "Let me come
aughingly to Cecil, "we notice that with yeti, I can at any rate save
he has become very dictatorial to you the stairs. Howstrange it was
the rest of us." that you should have known be -
"You shouldn't make stage asides forehand that this was dttnei ag 7 Didn such a loud voice," said Sigrid, yoit ever have , presentiment of
retending to box his ears. "1 amJthn'c - i over anything else V'
going to meet Roy aead,„,tet tetch'•isle "Never," she said. "It was
s;. liti-y`uu take him into the such an awful feeling. I wonder
arden Cecil, and make him .be- what it is that brings it."
13y this time they had reached the
church; Lance, in the dress he had
worn .at Mrs. Horner's fancy -ball,
stood ready to hold the bride's
train, and Gwen came running up,
eager to take her place in the lit-
tle procession. r
A few spectators had dropped in, s
but the church was very quiet, and
up in the ohancel there were only
Roe, and his best man, Mone. Lech- h
ertier, old Herr Sivertsen, and the
father and mother of the bride-
groom. Charles Osmond read the
service, and his pretty daughter-in-
law had begged leave to play the
organ, for she had taken a fancy
not only to little Swanhild, but to f
the whole family, when at her fa- hl
ther-in-law's request she had called
upon them. After the wedding was p
over and the .procession had .ince y
more passed down the aide, she still
went on playing, having a love of
finishing in her nature. Charles
Osmond cams out of the vestry and
stood beside her.
"I am glad you played for them,"
he said, when the last chord had
been strnek. "It was not at all the
sort of wedding to be without
music."
"It was one of the nicest wed-
dings I was ever at," she •said;'
"and as to your Norseman --he is
all you said, and more. Do you
know, there is a strong look about
think
mademe
somehow
which
him
of my father 7 Oh 1 I do hope he will
be able to pay off the debts."
"There is only one thing which
could hinder him,". said Charles
Osmond!
"What is that?" asked. Erica,
looking up quickly.
"Death,'' he replied, quietly.
She made no answer, but the
word did not jar upon her,,for she
was one of those who have learned
that death is indeed the Gate of
Life.
Silently she pushed in the stops
and locked the organ.
11
e
ave properly." He left her in. the hall and ran
"Are you really so specially busty upstairs to the .nursery, where -he
ust now?" ask•cd Cecil, as he open- was always a welcome visitor. Both
d the .little gate and joicei her; children rushed to meet him with
'or was it only your fun?" cries of delight.
"No, it was grim earnest," he "Cecil.has sent me up with a mes-
eplied. "For since Herr Siv':rt- sage to you," he said.
en has been .so infirm I have had "To say we may come down,"
most of his w•'rk to do, But rt is shouted Lance. "Is it that, Herr
well-paid work, and a, very great I'rithiof 7
els toward the'ttebt-fund.' In ten "No," ;cried Gwen, dancing rotund
years' time I may be free." him, "it's to say a holiday for to
-
"See I" exclaimed Cecil, "there morrow, I guess."
is the first narcissus. How early it "No, not that exactly," he said;
is! I must take it to mother, for "but your' father bas come, and
she so fond of them." Cecil wants you to come down and
He stooped to gather the flower see him."
or her, and as:she took it from
"m, he just ;lanced at her for a
+moment; she was looking very
retty that evening, her gray eyes
vere unusually ,bright, there was a
soft glow of color in her fair face,
an air of glad contentment seemed
to hover about her. He little guess-
ed that it was happinessin his sue -
cess which was the •causeletf all this.
Even as he watched her, however,
her color faded, her lips began to
quiver, she seemed to be on the
point of fainting.
"Is anything the matter 7" he
asked, alarmed by the sudden
Change in her face. "Are you ill,
Cecil 7"
She did not reply, but let him
help her to the nearest garden -seat.
"It is the scent of the nareissas;
it is too strong for you," he -sug-
gested:
"No," she gasped. "But a most
awful feeling came over me..Some-
thing is going to happen, I am sure
of it."
Ile looked perplexed, She drop-
ped the narcissus from her hand,
and he picked it up and put it on
the. further side of the bench, still
clinging to his own theory that it
was the cause of her faintness. Her
face, which •a moment before had
been so bright, was now white as
the flower itself, and the look of
suffering in it touched him.
His heart began tobeat a little
uneasily when he saw a servant ap-
proaching them from the house.
"She is right," he thought to
himself. "What on earth can it
bel
"Master asked me to give you
this, Miss Cecil,'' ;aid the maid,
handing her a little `penciled note.
She sat up hastily, making a des-
perate effort to look, 's if nothing
were wrong 'with her. The servant
went back to the house, and Frith-
ioff waited anxiously to hear what;
the note was. about.She read it
through and then handed it to him.
It ran :ze i"olloyys.,
"• Grantley hag cone, and
"Mr. Gfr» y
wishes to see psi, children. I: Te will
CHAPTER XXX.VIII.
One spring evening, rather more
than two years after the wedelin.g,
Sigrid was working away in the lit-
tle back garden, to which, now that
her household duties were light, she
devoted a good deal of her time. It
joined the garden of Rowan: Tree
Rouse, and, for greater conveni-
ence, an opening had been rnacle in
the hedge, and a little green .gate
put up, Upon this gate leaned
CcciI, chatting comfortably, her
tennis racket under her arm, and
with
a
F1exsnt
Co
n.arous s
that
the work of the day was over, and
that )toy and Frithjof might soon
be expected for the nightly game
which cuing she Mason, they rel.
(Ise: c;t 2'es,.l to nliaa.
(To be continued.)
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Care of the Farrowing -Sow.
Special farrowing pens are pro-
vided onlywhenmany breeding
sows are kept, but where there is
to be a removal from the ordinary
quarters to a special place it should
be done ire good time, so that' the
sow may become thoroughly accus-
tomed to her new surroundings,
writes Mr, W. It, Gilbert.
There is considerable difference.
of opinion as to why sows kill and
eat their young, and no doubt the
causes are, as diverse as the theor-
ies advanced to account for it. One
of them, however, and not the least
common, is insufficient space.
A. sow, when she lies down in
close quarters, is apt to catch an
unfortunate youngster between her
carcass and the wall against which.
she generally places her back when
suckling her pigs,
The farrowing -pen should, of
course, be, regulated to some ,extent
by the size of the breed kept, but
generally the space allowed is too,
limited, and we frequently see big
heavy sows with hardly room to.
turn around in the diminutive
'apartments that, previous to far-
rowing, served them as sleeping
quarters.
Small breeds should be allowed
a. space of not less than eight feet
by eight feet, increasing in the case
of the larger breeds up to twelve
feet by eight feet, or twelve feet by
ten feet; and to prevent the young
pigs from being crushed against the
wall, it is a good plan to fix a
strong rail' around each side of the
farrowing -place, at a height of from
seven to nine inches from the floor,
and a similar distance from the
wall.
This will prevent the sow flound-
ering down with her back against
the side of the pen and provides a
refuge for the youngsters who can
get under the projection.
It is a great mistake to provide
the farrowing sow with a large
quantity of bedding. Under ordin-
ary circumstances there is no bet-
ter bedding material for pigs than
good wheat- straw, but. for the far-
rowing sow a moderate quantity of
short stuff is preferable to -the long
materials .joe which. -pig eete -apt to
g`t • tangled and unable to escape
quickly out of the way of a clumsy
mother.
The question whether at farrow-
ing time the sow` should be left to
her own devices, or assisted in any
way in taking charge of the pike,
until the birth is complete is much
debated by pig -breeders.. She
should certainly be watched.
In many cases the sow farrows
during the might and is found with
her pigs all right and comfortable
in the morning, but it is not always •
so, and not a few sacrificed sows
are the result of a want of a cap
able attendant.
If the sow has Marrowed all -right,
she should be fed in much the same
way as during the closing days of
gestation. It is a great mistake to
feed for milk before farrowing, and
equally an error to begin to stuff
the sow with heating or milk -pro-
ducing fooddmmediately afterward.
The inexperienced breeder thinks
he must brace up his sow with
plenty of good food to meet the de-
mand on her system and produce
plenty of milk on ' which the pigs
can grow and thrive.
In theory this sounds well, but
experienoe goes to aho'`w that it is a
poor sort of sow, and one that
should not have been bred from,
that does not, at the start, produce
enough milk for her" pigs without
an extra or special feeding.
The time forthis is later on when
the pigs are growing and require
a large quantity of rich milk to sat-
isfy their 'requirements, and in°pro
viding which, if not assisted by bet-
ter food, the sow is dragged down
in condition. ,.,_
To commence this high feeding
directly the pigs are born is not only
unnecessary, and therefore waste-
ful,- but it is injurious. It really
defeats the object of view, or it
overstimulates the milk -glands and
inflames the udder while the effect
on the little pigs is to sicken them
and cause scouring and liver de-
`rangement,to which young pigs are
prone. . .
The majority of cases of so-called
milk fever in sows in which the se-
cretion disappears altogetherand
leaves the youngsters practically
motherless, are due to high or
overfeeding prior to and immediate-
ly after farrowing.
The diet of the sucking sow should
be gradually increased in quantity
and richness, and as the pigs grow,
a little meal composed of wheat,
barley or oats may be added to the
shorts and bran, which is about the
best diet at this period, and the num-
ber of times of feeding iecreasee.
An important feature in the ,sue-
eess1ul management of the sow and
litter is too get the youngsters to
feed as early as possible, This pays
in two ways --it saves some of the
drag on the sow, aid it gets the
' releasing
g
pigs fit to :wrap earlier, releasln,,..
r' ... duties.
the soul .from Iter maternal
Moreover; when the pigs are t+e-
rttoved from the sow, w hien is gen-
erally a iortnig t too sofin, they
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her milk, and also much less liable
to the convulsive attacks so cone-
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Indigestion, constipation and fits
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The best way to teach young pigs
to pat is to provide a run or creep
into an adjoining pen to which the
sow cannot obtain access, or to feed
them while she is turned out to get
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