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`I' STORY OF A. LOST WILL
Monica, having thrown aside her
huge white hat, is sitting on a little
around, with her back against a beech -
tree. She has taken her knees into
her embrace, and just now is looking
at her cousin from under heavily lash-
ed lids, that seen barely able to sup-
port themselves, so languorous is the
hour, and so contented her spirit Her
companion can scarcely be said to. 'be
looking as free from care as she is;
there is a slight suspicion of wear-
iness in his eyes, his manner is some-
whattinged with a depression very
foreign to it, which as a rule, is of
the debonair order.
"Anything the matter withou ?"
arks Monica at last. y
"Yes, any amount of things."
"Weil—go on --say them all over --
it will do you good," suggests she
sympathetically.
"Not for worlds—at least, not for.
many reasons. It would bore you;
it wouldn't cure my ease, and besides,"
with a half laugh, "my worries are of
the kind difficult to put into speech."
"That means they are nothing but
fancies."
"Does it?" Then Ieaning back, and
placing his hands behind his head, he
turns his eyes slowly upon hers. "I
wish I had neiref come down here,"
he says deliberately.
"What!" cries she, leaning toward
him. "Has Julia proved unkind? or.
is it kind— Won't she marry you? Or
will she?"
"Nonsense!" said Mr. Norwood,
;ruffly. "I wasn't thinking of Julia.
"No?" Then why are you sorry you!
came to the Court?"
i
Norwood at this regards her fixedly.
"I wonder," he says, in a curious tone,
"whether you really don't know, or
whether you are an accomplished
coquette!" p th
"Don't know what?" asks Monica
opening her large, earnest eyes to a
their fullest, and. looking at hint with? h
such sweet and honest surprise as
awakes within his breast the deepest
self-contempt. How could he have s
doubted her, for even one short mo-
ment? "To be a soquette," she says
in a little dignified;tone, "requires, I
believe, practice. There is nobody
down here except the, rector and Sir
John Frere."
"Sir John Frev'e?" apprehensively.
"Yes. He is toothless and seventy-
five. The rector is hairless, and sixty-
one. With, this she very properly
turns her back upon him.
"Thank goodness!" says Mr. Nor -
I wood devoutly, He feels affect-
I tionate toward- both these old men -in
spite;, of their ` abbreviations, and in
spite of the fact that he' has never
I seen either of thein.: "I beg your.
pardon . very humbly," he says, after
a pause, full of eloquence.
No reply.
"Monica—speak to me.
'T will net," says Monica, giving
herself the lie direct.
"Oh! but you are speaking," de-
clares he. "I'm awfully sorry I said
that, because it was as absurd as it
was unpardonable.'
"As you acknowledge it to' be un-
pardonable, you can't well look for nay
forgiveness." -
"Nevertheless, I do," exclaims he
boldly..
"Well, then, say at once, I am not
a coquette." t
"`Certainly you are not. You 'are
an ang- You are all you ought to be,
You are—"
"That will do," says Miss Monica, 1
with a mischievous glance; "you` will s
overdo it if you _go on any further.
And now don't let•us quarrel any niore.
Tell me what you were doing all the
morning."
"Lounging after Julia."
"Happy enan! I do so love that old
Court, and''I suppose she took you
rough the gardens. If only my
grandfather hacl behaved properly,
nd left' it to papa! Instead of which
ere we are, playing second where we
should be first."
"Well, it's nearly'as bad for me,"
ays the young 'man,, moodily;' "I
was brought up in the belie!, that, as
your father was not in it, I was to be
the. heir, And see now where 1 mn."
"You will be ell right when you
Inarry Julia," says Monica, with 'the
.friendliest encouragement,
"Oh! Idare say," says Mr, Nor-
wood) ungratefo ly, and with inei ees-
flag gloom. ` y .Q . w p ��11tw+Yr
"'hut you can't be ball oft' ' You � - �. "'"'` ,�-. � ,�
ewNw. • r, .�
ng, they have been drifted over, knows
must Ileac money now, too;", says his '. 1r, +kl" ^'" ;� ea
cousin, with a swift glance at It
clothes, which are irreproachable,
"Not enough to keep me decena
My mothor left me £700 a year."
Seven hundred a year!"" said Illis
Norwood, severely, "I think no yowl
loan could possibly require more that
that. You have only yourself t
think of•—no other expenses --no growl
up daughters to dress and keep,"
"Well, 1 could hardly have that, yo
know," sa.vs. George Noeswood, apo!
geticelly. `won't be twenty-si.
until next month."
"I was 'thinking op papa—if be:Iii
n700 a year, how lrappy we should both
be!"
"No—you r. ould instantly want
more."
is • The nest !lours for. Winter reed'
Considerable has been written
garding the feeding of horses i11 se ,
s' as hours of feeding are concern
g. Some would feed twice a day, so
r three times daily, others would g
o the regular daily allowance in fo
a
different lots. We `mast, in ho
feeding, always remember Haat
ea, fully the satisfaction efrorder'by hay -
far ing his work up-to-date every evening,
eel, ! If more, than one 'man is to work
nee on the pruning job let it be decided
ive beforehand which one is to be the boss;
ate• this sages time, ata;, goes sortie way
hot
u horse's stomach is rather a small
°- fair, and that the horse's digesti
system is not 'equipped to !meld
1 large quantities in a short time su
Relent to hast for many hours th„ r
after. The nature of the hors
digestive tract i5 such as to indict
that smaller feeds and more fr•eque
would but always . given with regularit
be move desirable at more wit'
ly separated intervals. On the ave
age farm during the winter seas
the feeder does not rise very earl
land it is sale to eay that the hors
in the average farm"s' g
their first feed before seven o'cloc
in the morning; get their second fe
around about twelve, and either or
or two other feeds later . in. the day
Where three feeds a day are relie
upon, we would favor giving one -hal
the hay in two feeds; one soznewher
around six or seven o'clock - in th
morning, the other at noon, "the" othe
half of the hay to be fed when chorin
up for the night, which may:be don
some time between six and eigh
o'clock. The; grain ration. could very
well be divided into two feeds; on
in the morning after watering, and th
other at night, after watering. A
noon a turnip, a couple of carrots, or
a inangel might be given to good ad-
vantage.
But we believe there is a better.
method of feeding than this. Where
the horses get their morning feed
about seven o'clock and a noon feed
about twelve, both representing fair-
ly small quantities of hay, and where
they are watered in the 'afternoon
around four or five o',clocic, t is
usual on these short days, we believe
they wound do better to have a very
small allowance of. hay just after this
evening watering and °sufficient to
keep them quiet until seven or'eight
o'clock at night, when they can be
very we1I fed a regular night feed of
hay, composing the bulk of the hay
ation for the day and their oats, and
be bedded down for the night. The
horse is a restless animal, and the
ureter he can be kept the better. We
would favor this latter systemoffeed-
ng, with the roots at noon as pre-
viously mentioned. We' would water
vice a day,; and the late feeding at
night takes the attendant to the barn
where he can "see that everything` is
all eight, and tends to keep the horses
quiet until morning:-Farmer's:Advo-
cate.
toward "ensuritrg tut even appearance
rho of the orehard when the work is
Iris aeC; With !!!free or rnora3 waren it •
ve pays rave e ass ou t e ground
le all the time, so that he can see that
- is •a -era ideas are introduced by
c:. the workmen.
� A reasonably fine sew, in good shape
to and of the i•eg'ular carpenter style„
t. with a handle that will not cramp the.
y, hand of the worker, is about the only
e. tool needed except eheru's, which can be carried in a
on pocket. A long -handled pruner slay
y, prove useful and can be used all the
es time by a man on tha ground, but the
et saw and shears are sufficient on a
k one-man job where a ladder has to
ed be moved about anyhow.
ie ; The good condition of the saw-
'. teeth is the most important matter in
LI regard to the prunieg• tools, and a
f mall who can file his saw properly is
o worth as much more than another, as
o it will cost to' hava' the saw filed every
r day.
g A green . hand 'can be put to work
e on the removal of dead branches until
t he begins to ,uinder•stand the practice
• of a more ea.perienced 'worker; the
c points to be emphasized In giving him
e first instluutioii being the making of
t clean cats and the avoiding of leaving
stubs: Where heavy branches have
to be taken out because of their being
dead or having received severe injury
' it is better to make two cuts rather
than run the risk of the heavy branch
splitting and carrying the spilt dower
of f 1 i W' '1
"I am sure not. That would give
him all he requires—'a house .full o
books and a garden of flowers.'" 'Sh
makes her quotation with a sweet,
wistful smile that goes to his heart.
"And you—what would it give
you?" he asks earnestly.
"Me! Oh, I should' be happy en-
ough in his happiness," replied she
lightly. "`The garden of flowers,
you see, would be as much mine es his
Now," she -says, with a little irrepres-
sible sigh, "lhe.hasn't enough money to
buy some of the books in which his
`?;oil delights."
• ""haat are they ?-1 mean, their,
names?" asks he eagerly, too eagerly!
She raises her soft eyes to his; there
is gratitude in them, but stern resolve,
"No, no," she says. "Remember'
what you said a moment since—your;
inconxe is not 'sufficient for yourself i
too,
You shall not' waste it upon us."
"I don't think it is quite a civil thing
to remember every word a fellow
says";: returns George, reproachfully.;
"Well, we won't go into that," ;re
plies she quickly.Then as though
some hidden force "compels her to re -I
turn to the subject, she says, "Tell
me how you get on with Julia!"
"Very well!" impatiently. "She
will look all that is' satisfactory at the
head of one's table. There is console -
ion, on doubht, in that thought, as,
bitterly, "I suppose I must marry her."
"Oh, why say must?" gently, and
with a glance at him from under her
ong lashes. "It is not a hardship,
urely ?" ,
"Perhaps I shouldn't have thought
it so a month ago."
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"She is young, handsome: that is I
all one requires, is it not?"
"Not quite! There is something else,
I
think—many other things; but above
and beyond all, the essential` grace r
that .hakes life—that is,<married life'
`'sweet' I mean sympathy."
"She, hardly knows ` you yet," says q
' onica,, deep but suppressed pity in
er eyes. "By and by it may be dif-
rent."
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settled," says the young man, rest- t
lessly ,
"You are sure she will accept you?"
"I am afraid -I mean," coloring hot-
ly at his mistake, "I think she will do
me the honor to be my wife."
"You think rightly. She will not
resign the property. Only yester-
day she told me she could not live
without it. In sir months, then, she
will still have . everything, and—you
into the bargain!" of
"I am not so sure of that," says Nor-
wood,
unsteadily. "Monica,' look at so
ane. Nay, you must," trying to coin'- wi
pet her to return his gnze, which has ti
grown impassioned. th
He has taken one of her hands in; kit
his, and is trying to draw her nearer' ed
to him. •
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"Release my hand," she says s in a, f
low tone, yet with so much authority' gi
that he at once obeys her. There is
a strange flash in. her beautiful eyes rad
that warns him,`' to dare nothing fur-, or
they, and yet makes his pulse throb'` re
madly. - zn
"I am tired," says the girl, wearily. I pec'
"I will go home—yes,, you may come the
with me, but for the• future"—she tea
pauses,,' and resolutely, but with evid- her
ent difficulty, forces herself to Took at
him—"for the future you must pr
ase are never, again to forget "
"I promise you faithfully," interrup
he, quickly, "I shall •never forget!"
She sighs.
Presently, turning to' her almost
they reach the cottage, he says, "A
you going to the ball at the Gran
to -morrow evening?"
o."
"But you told me you were asked
"So I was. But I ani not going."
`'Why?" There is terrible dila
pointment in his tone.
"If you .must know," she says, gen
Ie-, "it is because I haltCe not got
gown good enough."
"That dress you wore at the Cou
last evening—
"Is a fossil—almost ' an heirloo
The. whole county knows it by heart b
this time.' No! pride forbids my e
hibiting myself in it again."
"If you asked your father--"
"I should have one at once -at th
expense of his being even duller tha
usual for a• month afterward. H
would give me every penny he posses
see, would probably sell some of hi
dearest possessions- boole--.to get m
a few yards of muslin, in which to en
oy myself' for an hour or two. D
you think I should enjoy these tw
tours, knotting that? What purge,
trey they would mean!"
"They would, indeed!" he ways, rev
rentty gazing et het fait;. 'teeing. Inc
with unaffected aclmli.ation , He doe
ear full justice, and understands per
ectly the loyal affection that emel
nd eo happiness in a pleasure se
mad et-t'he expellee of belayed ob
"In six months more it must all be
Start Pruning Now.
It is necessary to start the pruning
the apple' orchard some time in
ebruary at the latest. There are
are other jobs for which the farmer
shes to pick, good days about this
me of the year, such as' drawing
e ice, sawing up the woodpile and
ling hogs, and with' all these attend -
to there is not too much time left
✓ pruning before Spring's mark he-
ns to crowd in.
No matter what the system of pram -
b, or whether the cutting be heavy
light, one' thing should always^:,;be
membered when pruning in Winter
a country where snow is to be,ex
ted frequently, that is, to pick up
brush as you go; only :a person
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"You must come to see me the day
after the ball, and tell me all about
if,"' she says, lightly, "Second-hand
to heal of it will be better than no_
ng."
"Yee, I will come" he says, absent-
ly ---but it is plain his thoughts ate
roaming, and that he 1', thinkilag of
something far "removed from the ',oft
evening ,9Celae that surrounds lain,
(''lo be continued).
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Its purity and `rine"
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