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TfiuNDERBour s MATEI
In' K. W. HORNI'NO.
CHAPTER. I,
at:lopit Isms, muttering front the weed-
s/led to he 101111e.station hi the red light ot
ii.Riveriett outset, Wail, heyfliel it ilelllit, the
piek of n.It t h errydoeitine, t.k haired,
3.3lue-eytitl clinxes in the eoluity. 11 is
true that there was not anether minx (.1
eaty desert/mon withei fifty tulles cif the
boundery-fenee but thot•e WilA1 uot
eecona Penelope in New south Wales ; at
all evente, not tam to compare with the
Penelope that camera.' home in briskly this
evening. after a long flay out at the shed,
Her rmitits were not always 80 high, Iler her
Rieke so jaunty and engagiug. It was a
n peciel et tion ; the day now tlying heel
been the happiest any of Penelop's life : it
-was the fleet day of the shearing at Bilbil
Station.
All day long little Miss Pen, on her pie-
hald pony, had been helping with the sheep
-really helping, not hindering. It wns not
the first time elle had helped witlt the/cheep:
she could "muster with the beet, and the
mysteries of " yarding -up" were net mys-
teries to Pen ; but it was the first tinie
alio had been allowed out at the shed
e inring shearime. Last year she wee too
young ; the peivilege hal /roan promised her
when ehi should have entered " double
figures." And now that Etibicon was pass -
ea the ,hila wait tett and throe thnes a
week. while shearing lasted, Pen was to be
one •;' the regular hands for mustering the
wooly siteep and driviug the shorn mite, back
to their paddocks. The lirst any cd this
stirring work slits at au end, and it hal not
•dieappeinted her. This Arlts why her blue
eyes were so full of light, end bee bream
little face full of animation, This was why
ahe was pleesed to imagine herself a real,
big, bearded bushman ; and why she
xnust needs ride in the thick scrub, a mile
wide of the traek-the very thing a real
bushman would Mt have done.
Not that there was the least fear of Pend
lope. She was the very last person to lose
her way on Bilbil rim. She knew every
mile of it -particularly those few between
the homestead awl the wool -shed -too well
for that,. But it was good practice to strike
it straig It line through the sesub when op-
portunity offered ; and Pen wan now in one
of the .ltickest belts of scrub on the run,
-which WM it1111011$ for its small shame o; use-
less tintheted coantry, and for the extent of
its fertile salt -bush plains. Ilere and there,
where the short tt•ees grew eparaely, peols
of lingering sunlight lay mooed the pony's
path ; onee a greet carpet -shake --thick as a
strong nuas arm, end exquisitely marked
-glided into its hole :limpet under Ins eat!.
tering hoofs : tiod more than once huge lett
kangaroos boutelsel nolealesely past, in flout
of his nose. 11hopenydninet
bred, and need to the swhe, Silent move-
ments of its denizer.s. The silotee, indeed,
was exteaordinary ; it always is in it belt ot
scrub. Even the potty's: eater WilS M1.11ihirl
in the soft sandy soil, Petielope apparently
grew tirea of the silence all at once for
she uncoiled the long lash of her stock -whip
—hor real buslimauttsteek-whip--end crack-
ed it amartly. With the toms, lash swing-
ing io the air for a eeeond shot, she sudden.
polled np the pony. She fancied she ha I
heard a human cry. She cracked the whip
again: this time it was no fancy ; a manta
voice was calling faintly for help.
Penelope Ives startled, end for an instant
greatly frightened. Then, as she could
nee nothing, she took about the wisest course
open to Iter: she marked the apot where
he had first heard the cry-whieh was be-
ing repeated a short intervals -and took it
for the centre ot a circle which she now
proceeded to describe at a slow trot. The
immediate result of this mancenvre was
that she almost rude over a man who was
sitting on the ground in the shadow of a
hop -bush with his two hands pleated firmly
behind him, and half his weight upon his
ntraightened arms.
The pony shied ; kangaroos it knew, anti
snakes it knew ; but a solitary man equatt.
ing behind a hop -bush in the heart of the
scrub was tt distinct irregularity. The
next moment Pen leapt lightly from the
saddle -and the man uttered one wordand
that indistinctly " Water 1"
Pen tore from her saddle the canvas
-water-bag, which was another of her "seal
bushman's" equipments. " There's precious
little in it, hut there's a drop or two, I
know," she exclaimed nervously; and she
was down at his side, wrenching the cork
from the glass mouthpiece.
" Take care of that leg, for God's sake!"
*ejaculated the man.
" Why? Whatever's the matter ?" She
had noticed that his left leg was lying in en
odd position.
"Broken," answered the man ; and his
lips closed over the mouth•piece.
It was no misfortune that there was not
more water in the bag, Their was enough
to moisten lips and tongue and throat, ana
a mouthful or two beehles. Had there been
more, the man might hnve done himself
harm, as men have done before on obtaining
water, alter enduring the pangs of prolong-
ed thirst, Though iar from satisfied, how-
ever, the man was relieved. Moreover, he
knew now that he was saved. He sank
back and °Medi his oyes with a look of
weary thankfulness.
Penelope gazed down npon him, not lilt-
ing to say anything, and uncertain foe the
moment what to do. ita was a man, she
vented, of about her father's age -between
forty and fif1.31 ; but his long black hair was
not yet grizzled, nor was there tesingle gray
strand in the bushy black betted and
whiskers. Below the lino of black hair, the
forehead was ghastly in its pallor; and the
deep bronze of the lower part of the face
bad peled into to sickly, ye/low hue as of
jaundice. The features were pinched and
drawn ; the olosed eyes like deep-set
caverns. The limbs were large and power.
Id, and had all the grace and simpleness of
'vigorous life -all but the left leg. That
limb had the hard and motionless outline of
death, and lay, besides in an unnatural
position. The man had neither coat nor
-"swag," but he Wore long riding -boots anti
emirs ; and this led Penelope to the °oriole.
sion-whieb turned out to be correct -that
he heel been thrown from horseback. She
also named that his right hand rested upon
his wideawake, which was on the groend by
bis side, ae though he feared its being b'own
away ; and this struck her as odd, seeing
than the day was closing without a breath
al ev'ml,
Al length he opened his eyes. "Hew far
is it tothe homestead, miesy ?"
"From here? Aboub two miles," replied
Pan.
"Do you think," asked the fallen man,
half shyly, "they wouM soed -if they
knew?"
'Think ? I know they would 1 why, of
course. Only, the worst of it thoro'o hard-
ly any ono ai the homestead. ' Thereat only
mother, and Sid tho binder, end Saereny
the Chine° conk, T. don't slime.° the
groom's got hi yet; he Was inueteeiegt-and
,
SO Willi. i 00 rrsi itre ont in 11,••
Th,,he began peday, yeti lenow."
" Dew it ein i. 11110.1, 111011
"ltd 11 SiX tittei ront the imine•
etem1,- til Peu thoughtfully " so it lutist
1.I, .1 four from here. ien certain it .
ien I. a edttel loss than fout• mile from here
1.1*0 just eome from there,"
''1)- you think they would Flail? •My
leg's insIten. I've been le•ing here twenty.
four 10111R, But for ssou, little missy, hi.
night well.' have tinished 1110, Straight ;
though Mr that maticr-----13/ess me, missy,
you're smart at mounting dull 111 11 pony uf
pier.) 1"
Ponelepe luta vaulted back leto the sad -
ale. Iler red little tvere tightly prese
sed. 1/11/1 teeth eh -milled. And there wino
no more ettnraye anywhere to he seem Ina
only a pal.', pitik reflection in the western
sky,
• 1 Aro yeu going to ride back to the shed,
little miss -aloite-cm ?"
" Y i!,31 ote. They'll be here with tl:e
buggy iit diether hour,"
Tie man muttered a blessing : ib WAS no
geed blessing her Motel, for l'on and her
Pope' Were to dyed tIeente :divas away : the
re to and their shadows closed over them,
Before tho tweed, of the galloping hoofs
died nwey, the broltemlegged bushman lift.
ed bit wide-awake ft -stn the ground ; and
ender it toll the while had lam to brace of
revolvers.
Before the sound of hoofs returned, and
with it that of wheels, the revolvers had
disappeared. No one would have guessed
that they ivet•e ten /echee under ground.
But the titione linger -nails were torn and
bent, mut the sand Med peneteded to the
quiek.
11.
The boss of Bilbil admitted that evening
that there WiLS something after all in the
Ambulance Movement. The admission was
remarkable, because for yeers he had vowed
that there was nothing in that movement.
During his last long holiday in 'Melbourne
he had attended 0 course of ambulance
elmeses, 10 pacify his wife, who worried him
oto it, and to convince her out of his own
experience thet there was nothing in
those classes : and he accepted tho curtife.
oath which was duly awarded him as a
conclusive proof that Butt certificate
was within any focil's retteli ; thus dispar-
aging himself 10 disparage the movement
of 11•111:11 he had beard too much. The
Philistine waa converted new. A slmple
fraden•e 11,1,1 i•011111 in Ide way, a few simple
direetiens, linel come back to hie mind :510
his great surprete, lie Miele all about it when
the 11100 10.11/0 : To itis greater delight,
the 'melee, lee seemed to het 11Self, Litt° 0
11110 that Bight -RS late hours go, la the
ti1
TH.-0 BRUSSELS
Ming hill alone, it emetically Mono, free
dientley till Saturday, Mr six long weeks,
with this stranger within tho ;mime But
Itt remembered how heavily her huelmet
Ited paid, the provicies year, Gametal no
giving to 1 lie itheming tied persettel super
%deice which was of 1111 1 tiet 111110Ss it be.
gen with the first al•ift iti itto early mornieg,
She kziew that thi• ovine, er se te ung
a elan to mintage thirty-eix elieereve, and
halt that numb, r of " roue dome," engle.
hended, she also kta'W Oat at a word from
her, husltaiol would tilro tip eleepieg
out at 1110 Shoil : Wel thiS Wits 11,elfst0no of
all 01.11111R why sh, hem her tongue,
Nevertheless, William Lees dia le•eeilel a
hint as to tlto doubtful wisdom of leaving
his wife alai ehihi atone et the hemesteall
without protestien during the inside of
eveey week. 1: 0,0110 1'00111 Iti; outsider ; itt
Met, from no other than the objeet of
dirs. LOVSIS feminine mispivions. It was
Seturday evening, the man Moving been
In•ought in on t daft tersclay thesquet tar ha s
returned from the wool•shed for the woole-
d ; end Ins very first retro 51115 to see how
the broken leg was mending.
The man lay in a room itt the " barracks"
-a superior sort of hitt with four zotnrs,
snored to the bachelors of the station.
" Now, Brown," said the squatter, bustling
in -Brown WEIR the name the man had given
"let's have a look et the leg,"
1 he brief examination that followed was
eidirely eatisfeetory to the amateur bone -
setter -there wee 110 professionel Inc with-
in seventy miles of MIMI. The starch
baudages were halt"( as Ilint ; the them of
the leg was perfect ; that the snap lied been
really as simple as it seemed, there couli
bo no longer any doubt. What was far less
satisfactory WM the patient's face.
" I like die leg ; its doing very nicely,"
saM Lees, sitting down on the edge of the
bed. " But I don't like year looks : yon
look like (loath, lean. Aro yott eating any-
thing Brown ?"
" Plenty sir. thank you. Sanuny's a first.
rate attendant."
"Bat nut first -vete company, eh
Come, my good fellow, I'm afraid you'
moping. Mrs. Lees tells me you seem
prefer being alone from morning till night
indeed, you've as good as told her so,"
The petient smiled Wilily, sod gazed
Lees with a strange expression in his en
et -nous eyes. "Shall 1 tell you, sir, wl
mopes more at this station than I do ?
13y all means -if there is such a pc
Ban,,,
" And I don't want te give offence"--
" Then none shall be takee, Who is it ?
"The missis."
•' 'The mistress ! What on earth do yo
mean, man?"
Titers • 1 knew yon unit tilt likel
1111 it's a fact The ;Mesh, numee moreen
lo. Its itervoes work for lonely women a
t station of nightd tine. eirs. Lees, beg
-.our pardon, Kir, is nervous, and we
he may be. '
'• \N'el elle tent" 1,0 •Nfe- Food fellow
POST.
I SPB,Ill Cr SMILES.
80 yen tlo mit t•lierieli any sepereti•
lions, dear t" " Ne, itolosti, Wily, 1 hare flow Bthly Escaped the Baby,
i 1 1 i
Apun. 15, 1892.
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YOUNG FOLKS,
:Owns I mole t poiti to nuttlice n
)11111 halal be..11 hisky every thus,"
,
.' Ito you guarantro thou eggs ?" Yee,
meenit. If tinned:, one o' eggs 2IS
10 or Ailed it ain't ellellial, Nri1.11
1A1.110 it liadr,"
Sf'W 11118111l101--" 1.i ill f1011t call HIP
tiny more, my dean." Young Wilt.
• • -'11to 001, 11101.11114 11011t
seethe, drink and SWiiitr, yall know."
o Whet stupid thing that Miss Chat ter•
ton is ! fer whole evening with.
od flaying m win d." " Oh, MIL yen nevtr
Moments,' to see her( et the °pent."
The relit may have their nut:mime) Imre,
-Vet p men, when they die,
IViti Illlee their pull, $0 we 101tl,
(111 the nianelons in the nky,
A Nevada hunter spent thee° -months
lonain for a ?rivet beer, and t he man' •
relatives have spent three months looking
for him. They think be must Move found
the beer.
"Now that 1 have my brand•new train,"
She said with joyone mnile:
"I think I'll take a little walk
And clean the streets awItile."
"Did yon break this wi»dow, Charlie?"
said the schoolmaster, " Well -1 helped,"
suia Charlie. d no r How helped?"
ed "it was a snowbell broke it -but 1 throe
the snowball.'
Walter.-"Ilow tin yen like your eggs t"
Customer -"Not hard; about three minutes
boiling will do, but as gillek as you can."
Watter-" All right, sir ; you shall have
them in half a minute."
" My daughter delicate ?'' exelaimed Mr
Money Bags the othet day. "Who coulsd
have started that story? You just tell peo-
ple she's vete? iodelicate, ana tell 'tin her
'nether says so."
Mamma -"Are you getting along nicely
at school now, Freddy ?" Freddy-" Yes,
re indeed, mamma. I have the best position
to in my class." Mamma,-" Yes? what is
; that ?" Freddy -"Near the fire."
"13e mine 1" he cried in PA VO1e0 suroharg-
at
v. ed with anguish, "If you refuse me I ehall
instantly die 1" But the heartless girl ye-
w fused him, That was twenty-six years age.
v. lie died lase Wednesday 1
Some :miners at a chureh concert were
, somewhat startled the other evening by
finding that the selection " When Wearied
Wretches Sink to Sleep" had been printed
u on the programme, " W hen Married Wretch-
es," etc.
t. " In your thavels through Japan, Mi -
1
Allover, did you not often observe thintei
t that elmeked your -your sense of propriety?'
" tt 1'ety seldon),Do Prewcl. I was (
never on the lookout foe things of that
, tint ,
It WitH 011 1100011.11t LIM
that it 11100 011iStA lieby, nor tit: ugly Inthy
nor II dirty dkagrecabli, lathy, deur, lie
011 the eoutrary, as 13,1.1e himself weul
have 1.1,1 you, ordinarily,. it 01.1m lust th
mwool.'st, inertheit baby any feeed•en,
eld hey ever lettl fee a taster, But ther
eertainly was 0110 (Mug ithone It that 1,,t1,1
,Mirstri) to -It bud t.) taken 0,100 fif
.1 til 1113 Mamma lirown was a very bite
woinne, who Ma lest• own housewor
and sowing, dui Papa Mown 5105 IlWay al
day 0111111ing bread and butler for his fitinily
it 301011111»00 I/00114110 nocessery for eehly. •
W110 WW1 the only brother of One belly tell
heel Ito sister -to help take earn of lime
And so it Minimum!, ono day as Eddy wit
leaving the table that 'Mamma Browt
said :
" ltddy, get home !vont school as soon 0
you can this aftemicion ; want to laity
tho baby, with you while 1 1.1111 down tow'
I I b.
'Plum the troubie began. Eddy didn't say
enything, lie tim well taught for lett
lint It horrible imowl oitma rivet. his fame •int
snatching hie cap he slammed out th
tired, hungry boy to eat, and wiwn thee WIIS
U11181014 ro a hell for IA1111 011 bellell
1/011i1111 1110 flOSIC, Where, ill Spite Of Ilis
stistigee mei (tending% end ell tlio exoitement
tit it I o icl, 108100p.
t The 110\t inoening pithier tech him um
hriet!i fast, and then put him abotutl
I pasemiger tralu, li•Iling the moulded, 00
.1 " rollost at 1 ho mho.. roil tho line, where
L' 1114 fil1110111 meet him,"
•• :ett hone later lie war et 10103, nitil baby
O was in tho adlo awl Carlo moire tho table,
,Y best let hi: hail left them : and tbough ho
was nutile to feel his sin, how glad 110 WW1 to
y thew how pert -burials. ho kissed
• 0001 all ever and ever again, and promised
I lower, never to behave so badly tigain, Anil
Ls fie, the (leer baby Slater, Al ell you May
110 Slitiv 110V011 tt to 'He t 1
• eitre of hes agnin after swell leseon.
Care of Ewes,
A sheep beetelee gave the humors; at a re -
e cent meetitig, some gond insteuctIons, tug.
C ing aiming other things that, a good udder
of milk is the ell- iminn•tant thine whet; the
lamb is dropped ; without thin, success is
tiow's milk can he esea to help
, out, but there is nothing equal to the milk
1 front the lamb's own mother when : he ;note.
O tor is herself in a healthy ',audition.
' time was wheel the life of a young Meth
house, e slammed, tor Itt
banged the door open fiercely, and bmigm
It shut again after him, making sitch
raeket that baby wakened frott, her unp will
it frightened ere-. ttud Carlo, dozing iintlet
the titble, wits so startled he quite forgo
his table manners and 1e11 1,,hotriting raviolis
ly. Away went Eddy hem) the street, Mil
serowling foul =Betted angrily :
" l'hat e always the way ! Don't see why
I've got to take ease o' the baby the whole
time. Can't go any place, just Oil heraCCOUnt
Vire flitIll't have any lathy, to I just
tlo
Ho looked a little ft ightened at his OW11
wicked wish then. In his heart he knew
vet•y welt that Ile didn't wish anything of
the sort, and that em would be es sorey as
any one could be if the baby were to die,
tut he was too angry to admit it, or recall
hie ugly aimed), He Wfts more quiet though
after chat outherst, and fell into a brown
study evith the acowl still on his face. When
he reached the sehoolhouse gate lie drew
his alenehed fists from his pookots, where In
had Unmet them firSti, and slapping one upon
tho other he Sala 11(3101101001lly, 111 show
'em ain't going to take due of thc, baby
all the time," Anti with resolute Molt he
marched into the building with the est of
the pupils.
11'11011 school was out, contrary to his
usual custom, 'Eddy avoided the boys with
whom he generally went home, and taking
1 1 ,
the yards of the railroad -whieli Was hiS
thjective point -without being seen by tiny
me likely to know him. This was what he
vented, for it or as 1.are of hie plan that 310
ne should Iciudv where he W0111 ot• fey what
1 rims of small account, ; but e have paseed
t that, day and caul, althea to low them as
1 our fathers did. ll'hen °woe have no milk
f or thei 1) biotite and 1 he lima) has no vi tali Ly,
t or is of small size, or ie bound up, as some
; oall it, or lie bowels are too loose, don't tall
it heel luck I just doll it the result of impropt
or feeding of the OWO during the iein ter.
loly own experience hits been that it mixed
hay, composed of clover, timothy, ended Isike
clover, or white clover, is a hotter food for
the lit•eculing dim than clone clover hay.
Straw of verunet kinds ean be fed once pee
day to the liceet ; also cornstalks. But
never be so unrvise as to try to make the
fluek wholly subiest upon either straw or
snake Joe any number of days during the
winter. The flock will live upon it; hut no
milk, weak lambs, and a large per tient. of
deed ones, will bo the reetilt, 11 10015 eon-
thlknellio'cik may produce a fait) crop of lanais
win•n fed exclusively upon clover or mixed
hey. 13ut a much better crop of lambs can
be raised Ilt'. daily feed of oats and wheat
bran is fed to the flock all winter ; end if
the owner will furnish from one to two
prminis of eat turnips or inseigolds per (My,
in addition to a daily feed of one half pomul
01 11)1 ode and bran enceess is almost sore.
If 1 could have good sweet mixed clover,
timothy and ailsfice hay, that had grown
In 0 mixture anti been not When the ()lover
was in full bloom, so that the ennothy wee
seareely headed nut, to feed one,. pee day
all the atiok woula eat, \ (Ott ot• barley
etraw to feed onee per y, mid a deity feed
tif two pounds of turnips 01' mangolde 11101
0110 halt poen,' of (tee mid wheat bran
eiteed eyed ;mete, I would hey,. no fea IR of
ley tioek net having milk fee their Iamb:: or
nev lambs being weak or undersize when
boris • mad er won't/ 1 • • .•t • • I I
whose howele were itet regular whim born
11 either ovoid.) they become constipated
when a few daye 0111, providing the mem
Otto peoperly looked after at lambing time,
ehat are you drivels.; alt'
Brown tilosed his " Yrin'vo hear,
f Thunderbolt, sir 'el
,1 I've heerd of a villain know), by tha
tome. What about him 1 Ilet'a in Queens
and, isn't he ?"
" ITe's goca .leal nearer home, sir,''
replied Brew., ,•ardetly. "if I'm not tills.
tettere 10150 ItI,l 1 very little while ago. I
don't think 1 am mistaken : I know Mtn :
have vary good reason to know Min well -
by sight," A dark look ceme over the white
face. Brown gronn.t his teeth savagely. "I
was once stuck up by hint," lie coottutiecl
in a lore voice. " I shell Dever forget him.
m
And I saw hias plain as I see you, Mr
Lees," said Brown impressively, openiu
Itis eyes agitio-" the day I broke my le
-in the paddock I broke it in 1"
" In nty paddock?" cried William Lees
Brown raised his head an inch from th
pillmv and nodded. " As serene I lie here
sir, Yoe heard of Moolah Station, twenty
milee south o' this, being stnek up las
Yi'ednesday 1"
"Just hoard of it to -day ; but that was
never Thunderbole?"
" It was never any one else, sir 1"
" Then why should he leave ex alone ?-
Are you quite certnin you aren't mistaken
Brown And -what the deuce is there t
grin at, my man ?"
" Nothing, sir. I beg pardon. Onl
Thunder•bolt and Co. never did do two job
running, with only twenty Mika betwee
them. Seriko, anti show clean heels ; that'
their line. I know them -I tell you rt.
been stuck up by them. Now, if you wa
to hear of them twenty miles north'
"Has he a mate, then
" He had. But he wag alone on Thnsaay
-curse him ! As for being misteken, I know
I'm not was in the sands ; he was in the
open. It Was just before my horse fell and
smashed me -the home that's never been
seen since. Yon can guaes n„ow who got it
Thunderbolt hue a sharp eyo for horse-Ileeh
m •
The boss juped up from thb''e ed.
wish to Heaven you'd told me ehis before,
Brown I"
" My leg was that bad ; couldn t think
of things.'.'At this moment a hum of voicree came
through the open 01111100 from the long
ng
oppoeite, The squatter looked
net. hastily. " The Belton boggy 1" he ex-
claimed. " Young Reaper 101,1 .Miehie 1"
e hurried otte, Brown closed Ills eyes
earily. But the buzz of voices outside
ow louder end louder :anti presently,
alt rushed Lees to the sielt.roote, Mu face
ming with excitement. " You wot,e right,
sown 1 1 couldn't: have believed it 1 It was
at villain you sitry 1"
Brown raised himself upon ono elbow.
"Yon don't moan that -that -they've
caught him?"
"I do I He was taken at Belton this
ternoon ; old Hooper tea got hint there
o' • luta young Hooper and Michie are
elleir way to Oho township for the police,"
A gtin of exeltation apt•ead over Brown's
wan features -to fade tepidly into to peevish
smile of unbelief. Hie thoulaore sank back
:feebly upon the pillows ; he shook his head
slowly from side to side,
" They'll never keep him -never, never,
though they'd might him twenty billleS
over 1 A slippery gentleman is Thunderbolt
know him well ; he stook me up, I tell
you -he stook me up I"
(To nit noNTINnaln)
Atillapprehension Obildren.
A little boy, hettring his fathot• speak of
ail on toned, declared that the quail was
very naughty bird. He insisted that it
ist be so he had heard it, in thereto,
len the clergyman said : " The wicked
ail."
Another boy thought that it waft the 5115'
10)11 in aneiont timee to hang all lawyers.
That was the way ho undeestood the tog,
Ott thew two ootranandmente hang ail the
law and the prophets." •
A little girl, in reply to a. questott Amp,
fier goiltat here mid gochnothere, answered
that they " thenned for her," The cantle of
this otimindeisi elicited was friund in, Bee
onion in the cal 11501 of the (hutch ot
Tatted, " Went en; )'Ont' dna father» and
ernothere then foe you 1'' -( Kele elehlts
ashintom
bUS11-\‘110:1311 Lees Altunipetw
tt up el dwn
o
hie wife'e sitting 1100111 ecstasies; delight-
ed with himself, cleliaiitt,1 with the ambul-
ance elassee, aelighted with his wife, who
has goaded lihn into attending them, Hte
delight might have been less bad she taken
her triumph lese gently ; but as to matter of
fact, she wag doing her very best to read a
boon, nod totild not for his chatter.
" I never 50.0 a neater break M my life,"
Willham Lees reported for the twentieth
time-" plain as a pike -staff and clean as it
Anti I do believe I've set it safe
and sound. He's sleeping now like a top,'
Mr. Lees was hard-working, open-hand-
ed, and kindly, and as papillae among the
statioa hanas as any squatter eeed wieh to
be. He WILS of prepos..essing looks, with
eyes as tnerry and good•netured and almost
as blue as those of his small denghter ; and
he joined a schoolboy's enthusiasm with a
love of personal exertion which no sohool-
boy was even yet known to exhibit.
I am glad you towel been able to make
the poor man so comfortable," remarked
Mrs, Leen -not for the first time, either -
without looking up from her book.
"Comfortable ? I've fixed him up ; you.
should just see. He's in young Miller's
room. I'll tell you what I've done ; first of
all, I've ehifted' -•-
" I don't at all know how I shall get on
with hint upon my bands while I am all
alone, as I am to lie this shearing."
There was some slight petulence in her
tone ; she had been obliged at last to shut
up her book in despair, It was not thatshe
was an atom lose kind and good than ber
husband, in her own wey. But it WfLa FL
very different way. Ail% Lees wtte robust
neither in health nor in spirite ; in appear-
anee she was delicate and prole, in her man-
ner gentle; but there were ?egos of determin-
ation in her thin sweet face -particu-
larly aboat tho month -which oven not Mi.
flcult to read, and which, by the way, were
rept:educed pretty mainly in Penelope. She
lay in one of those long, wickerwork er-
ring:meets which are more like sofas than
el s,* e as her Intel/awl paced the room and
puued his pipe ; she disliked Lite smoke no
less than the inceseent tramping to and Inc ;
but she complained of noithen
" Why bother your head aboet him, my
dear? said the boss, dill /moulting up del If
dowo. ''lf you just look him up now and w
then, and sea thatmm
Say feeds him proper• gr
ly -be must Hee Ifice a fighting -cook, you lia
know -that'll be ell that's neeessary• I fie
don't fancy, from what see of him, that 33
he's the one to talk much to anybody ; but th
if, for instance, he oared to be read to, why,
you -or even Pen• -could do that for him ;
though not, of course, to any wettrisome ex.
tenb."
For to while Mrs, Lees remained silent af
and thoughtful. " HOS he told you all no
about the accident, Will ?" she asked at on
length.
" He fell off his horse."
" But the eiroumstanees-Wee be alone ?"
"1 ghoul(' thinIc is ; I didn't ask," and
Will Lees shregged his shoulders, as much
as to say that that was no business of hie
" Then what happened to his horse 1
And where was he bound for ?"
"1 eeally didn't ask, " answered the bose
" Well, I think you ought) to know some-
thing of tho man, Will, dear,"
Lees stopped in his wall, and pointed at
Itis wife the pipe -stem of masculine norm
" You ladies are so horribly stumicione 1"
he said. " What business of mine is itwhe
he ie What business or mine -or yours- qu
whether the man is a humbug or not, sinoo 10
that's white you're driving et? There wait Ini
no litanbug about the broken leg; that's wl
enough for me, It ought to be endigh for 1111you too ; for he °aide get at you)) silver
spoons, my lady, and good ola familyplete,
and pricelese old ancestral jewels, and closets
full of golden guineas -he can't got at any
of them just yet it bit.
The hoes laughedlonaat his pleasantry,
being pleased with lihnself in every way to -
"No, hilt," --Urs Lees began earneetly,;
uhe broke off: '' Dear MO, how lale it Ell ger
1 inn going to betIt'•
8he went. 11, Intil been on the tip 0111,1' g'i
tongue to express the objection sho felt to W
The Visitor-" But why become engaged
1 1/ 1>11 neyer meant to marry him 1- In tl•e
Hanunock-" Betentse he is so teneitive.
• Yen know it inoctities a limn much 1»ore 1,t
•
It 110fllarld titan behave an engitgentent bro. a
ken."
11111018, lie 50101101110 at homn
e it•lie
yards " 100101)5 the earR, l'or it WAS 0 Ms
'0111110 resort for the imp:, partiettlerly
hose who, like Eddy, lived in that vicinity,
di passed littelt mid forth every day on
heir way to eml 1 rem school.
There were care of all kinds standn
ig
platy on the tracks -passenger coaches,
reightman
rs, cauand
oses box -cars, single
and m trams, Jed, as they had been Moonlit,
in or were being made ready to go out.
Eddy, passing hurriedly among them, fin -
11.1135 eelected a freightwar RR best suited for
his purpose, and climbing in at the open
door 011 the side, he curled up snugly in the
farthest corner out of sight of any one who
might peas by.'' This ts a hrst-rate place,"
thought lie, ''nobody'll know where I 0011
end I'll just wait lint il its too tato int) mam-
ma to go down town, 111111then Ph sneak
home." And he elniettled at the theught et
his mother's discomfiture. 13ut the dark
corner of the freightmar was a very quiet
piece, anci curled up there comfortably with
nothing to do, it wasn't long until Eddy
tell asleep. 11 11 hadn't been for that, his
plans might heve worked admirably, but
that nap interfered with them very serious-
ly,
eYheu he awakened everything was dark,
and, to his terror, the ear ri'11.4 no longer
standing still, beli was moving, and moving
rapidly too, He scrambled to his feet and
made his way to the dome It was shut and
fastened, ana through the openings below
and above lie could seo that it was dark out.
side as well as in the ,or, then tho startling
trueh broke foreibly upon tho boy's nimd.
It was night, and he 15115nn Si1111 itI011e 10 a 1
freight -oar and being carried rapidly stymy I
from home ! Whei•e or in what direction
England and the United States.
Alfred Austin, the English poet, utters
some frank and generons wortin concerning
the proposition to erect a. Lowell memorial
in Westminster Abby, "I cannot undee-
Anted, he says, "01135 one objecting to Its
gates being opened 10an American on whom,
g had he been ton Englishman, they would not
e have been closed.'
England and the United States are drawn
e' 1
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; d
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a
✓ 0
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1)
1,
oward each othet) by the teiple link of blood,
anguagedind literature -the strongest bond
naginable. Does toy Englishman feel that
e is in the sodety of a foreigner when he is
onversing or travelling with an American ?
Ye ere juet as much members of ono family
s are married brothers or sisters, though
hey no longer live under one roof. Ample -
11.118 ViSIR us whenever they can do 50 1 de-
ghting ns by the unaffected simplicity of
heir manners, the cheerfulness of their
isposition, the inquiring alertness of their
Uncle, and their readiness to mike them -
elves agreeable to everbody and on evoey
tleASi011• With Whitt hearty hospitality
ley entertain Englishmen who crosa
he Atlantic, every ei)aveller who re.
urns front visiting them is eager to ro-
ord. The pilgrimages they make to every
pot in the British Isles associated with the
irth, death, or intellectual activity of de-
arted men of genius, are inspired, in great
masure, by the feeling that they are ren-
dering homage to their own ancestors, sod,
moreover, are thereby acquiring, roost just-
ly and worthily, credit and honor for thole,
selves. 'Po this motive must be added that
demodatio sentiment which with them is a
native instinct, while with us, it ts es yet
hardly tnore than a reluctant political epee -
tattoo, and which urges men who have it to
pay honor where honor is really clue,
If, then, Amerien be willing Viet the mote
eminent of her children should 'tie honored
after death as though they had boob Eng-
lishmen, surely we ought 10 11 (deo 0111•
this fresh evidence of 1 heir scum of kinship
with no, 'l'o foster this feeling as Ale.
Leslie Stephen and those who agree with
him are manifestly trying to do, is the duty,
and I should think must Inc the delighe, of
every American and every Englishman who
values the dignity and desires the well -be
tig of his race."
it
02 A STATISTICAL TURN.
Spiders aro seven times stronger m pro.
portiou than lions.
Less than eight hundred parsons own
1 alf the soil in It•eltuad.
The Prince of Wales's collars are:size 181,
three siees above the average.
The total income of the Church of Eng-
land is about 51,000,0000 week.
The Atlantic) ooean is ?mid to belhigher
than the nicifie by six mid one halt foot
Anima life 0010005 to exist in the ocean at
a depth of one and Retell/ miles.
The pig bits forty-fotir teeth, the dog has
forty-two, and mankind only thirLeetwo.
The density of population is greateet 100
Europe, whore it averages ninety-seven to
the square mile.
There aro about 1,500,000,000 people in
the world, with very nearly an squid divist
ion of sex,
Three times as much /spirits SAM consumed
In Scotland, acoording to the population, ts
is England.
Berlin University is the third largest
tho world, Paris, with 0,215 students, to
V1011110,, with 0,220, aro larger.
What sort of a piece it that, pa risked
a little boy or his male remit, IVhilo they
were out walkieg, " 'Plots it beer velem"
" T didn't Icnow beer grew in cfardelis."
" he r•o is it ;mitt deal of it raised in gar-
dens, my 500, I've seen it."
I)
long he had been trevelling nor how far,
but he Mom enough to terrify hint and
make hint miserable.
1To pounded on the closed (Moe and &mut.
ed for hem, but the it aide of the train drown-
ed the sound of him twice, and Mows, and no
1 1 1 1 I i I
chanoes tar OV01. getting Winn wom very
small, and as he thought of hiu father and
mother and how detious 00111 worried they
would be at his Ossetic; and how they
would search for him, the groat hot tears
filled his eyes end rolled down his face.
}row he repented his ill -humor. How con-
temptible it seemed now. Why, ho
od hw
e oncl beIwilling to take care of the
beby day, end ovary day of 1111 life, if he
only might got home.
Then MI itt mice the train stopped, and
be heard voices outside and saw lights glint -
meting through the cracks of the door, Eddy
knew they must be at a station, end gather.
ing all strengeb he made another frentic ef-
fort to make himself heard. This time Ile
was successful,
" 1V hat's that ?" demanded a loud voice.
" Must be eamebody in there, It comes
from the car," said another.
In another moment the door WAS Opellad
allel Eddy found lihnself standing on a plat-
form in the open air, with et gronp of men
about him, plying lum with questions, Ali
grab he &meta only sob, the reaction was so
great; but at last he managed to answer
thin, end in return learned ho was twenty.
five miles from home,
Presently the freight trein moved on, and
Eddy was left on the platformoh
, in arge of
the switchman, Who did not know just
what) to do with him as ho Gould not leave
lois post of duty, and there wits no ono else
Rhona Forteinately police offieer owe
along a few minutes latete teed when he
learned the facts ho told Eddy 10 00100 with
him, Eddy wont very ; ha was
glad to be taken WO of, even though It
Was bye, policomao, But he quaked -when
they reached the station-houee and the ofti.
oer in charge looked at him sternly over his
desk and Said :
" Boon running away, have you, 117011. I
guess we'll have to lock rot op, Maybe ib
will teach you to appreciate your home a
little hotter,"
13ut when ho honed the whole story he re.
looted and 50105 5013' kind, First Of all he
genii a telegram to Mr, Brown tolling of
leddytt safety and tvlietwthouts, for fts bit
seed
"They'll he worried enough about, you,
P1111v"tgArem
'"
',1eIitul soe supper brought to the
didn't know, neither could lie tell how
050 1041,( 1 ni, e mom to t his
A BritishilWarship in Danger.
Tho now -war -ship °Massy, which left
Eegland recently for served: en the East
Indies Station experienced terrific) weather
after passing Cape Finieterre, and lunch
clanmge WaS ;lona to the vessel. A feed -
pump teas first broke down, and two or
three 110111R later another feed-ptonp gave
out. The elfin was then headed for Vigo,
but heavy rain pow set in and quite obedie-
nt' the laud, and as the wind had veered
from south to west !maim:lemma in violence,
it was deemed imprudent to approach a lee
ahore, Accordingly the ships head WOR
to tI10 wind for the night, with the
view of riding out the gttle. Just as it was
getting dark, however, theschief engineer
reported that the steam pump bad broken
down, and that eviller was rising in the
etokeholde. The hend.pumps were at onee
manned, did men were told off to bale the
water out with buckets. But this proved
of little use as the bunker lids had started
owing to thm working and vibretion of the
ship, and evet•y sea that broke over her
rushed into the bunkers • the plates in the
stokeholds were sl Mine about, and the floors
were it foot deep in water. Two hours
later the engineer reported that the water
wns gaining and that it was difficult to keep
the fires in. Shortly after this soundings
were obtained, and it, was found tittle the
ship woo in perilously shoal watee. Duriug
the night, the force of the wind was logged
" eleven," and 1 he antrboard lifeboat was
washed away. This was followed by a re-
ptile teem the alighted: that he could not
gel, "walor into the boilers. This state of
things continued. until 110011 the following
day, when the sun shone out and eights were
taltem by whieh it wee ascertained that the
Plum, was about forty miles off Vigo, Soon
afterwards the wind and sea -rapidly moder.
(Bea, land was sighted about five o'clock in
the afternoon nod two hours Inter the vessel
en terea Vigo Harbor, where sho was expect t.
ed to remain about to week to make good
ber defects.
PEARLS 02 TRUTH.
Good. and bad men are each' less mo than
they seem.
The memory should be a store house, not
tt 'timber room.
Juggling with ourselves is the fleet step
in ahnost every wickedness.
An exalts° is worse and inore terrible than
a lie, for an exouse is a lie gtuteded.
The flights of the human mind are not
from enjoyment to enjoyment, but from
hope to hope,
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but
only a plaeo for good and evil ; it is a kind
of tragic comedy.
Who sells his neighbor's credits at, a low
rate, makes) n market for others to buy his
own at the one rate.
There is in every human countenance
either 00 htatot•y or m prophesy, which mos
sadden, or ab least soften, every reflecting
obseever.
Happenese 1010 baste and not in things ;
nod it 10 by having what we love that we
axe 110Appy, 110li by having what others find
itgromble.
Tho eyelid naturally closes when any.
object) is comieg against 111 so does the
heart of no practieed worldling eloso and
shut out oonviotions.
Yam happiness renders men stern amii
proud, and that happiness Is never dilemma -
dated. True happitiess reedere them kind
and sensible, and thee happiness is always'
glared,
elevation of mjnd does not take a
being out of tho obeile of those who aro bet
low him, but binds him Meter to them, awl
gives advaidogoe for 0 closer ettaeliment
and conformity to them.