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AUNT JULIA'S BAND
BY FLORENCE B. HAS LOWELL.
S�Whedare did those
six gir a go every
"Don't be too sure of that," replied
} ? Ed. Go softly now. We'llet a look
question none of the boys of the Pine inside, anyhow," g
Hill School could answer, and theY They approached the cabin cautious
lcl have given a good 'deal to know. ly, expecting every lament to 'see the
The
y questioned ,the girls separately leer open, and .the gaunt old dame
in the most adroit leanest., but failed
to make any discoveries. And the rash out not theist. They were net
most persistent teasing and 'ridicule eueh au eventet I'. venture ld say that in
had no effect upoh them. They smiled sueln au they 'veal(' have taken
and kept their secret, to their heels with all possible speed,
"If we should tell where we go and But the dooryatd was reached in
we'd safety, and now they were sheltered
what we do every Saturday,
never hear the last of it;' said Parini by the tali, rank -smelling weeds,
Barrows, ono clay "S.'ot boys would Suddenly they all stopped with one
talk of nothing. else, and you'd do all -mord, and looked at each other with
startled,' curious eyes, They had heard
you could to worry us,"
"Try us and see," said Ed' Bowen.
"No. We're not going to run any
risks," replied Fannie, shaking her
curly head. .
"And you'll items- find out, no mat-
ter how you try," said Milly Andrews,
with sparki'ieg eyes.
"Don't -be too sure of that," said Ed.
"The day will' come when we'll make
you sorry enough that you didn't tell
us straight out,"
The girls only laughed in response.
They were rather pleased than other-
' wise that their secret was thought of
so much importance. They whispered
more than ever at recess, and grew
stilt more mysterious in their move-
ments. But listen and watch as they
might, the boys never heard or saw
anything that gave them alt inkling
of the nature of the secret.
One Thursday, Ed Brown issued in-
vitations to a lawn tennis party to
take place the next Saturday after-
noon, and let it he generally under-
stood thathe intended to have first-
class refreshments; yet, to his great
chagrin and disgust, he received six
little, deliciously scented notes of re-
gret from the six girls who held that
important secret,
From that day it became a matter
of pride with Ed to discover the na-
ture of that secret, and he was more
on the alert than ever for something
that would give him a clew,
But weeks passed before "he learned time to time sought the butternuts on
anything, and then he stumbled upon the great tree before her door, were
now sunken and dim.
On a stool close beside her sat Milly
Andrews, reading aloud from a large
and profusely -illustrated book. Near
lier was Fannie Barrows, industrious-
ly sewing on a flannel petticoat. At
a small table on,one side of the room,
stood Geetie Hazelton'
breaking eggs
into a big, yellow bowl; and some cups
and saucers she had taken from the.
cupboard in the corner.
Mabel Forrest was putting wood on
the fire in the old, cracked stove, and
Linda Manning was tacking a lambre-
quin of gay cretonne on the little shelf
that did duty as a mantle.
"There, Aunt Judy!" she said, in a
voice of supreme satisfaction, as she
moved a little away from the shelf to
inspect her work to better advantage.
"What do you think of that? I de
claie, no one would ever recognize that
horrid old shelf! Isn't it pretty?"
"Pretty enough for a queen,
dearie!" answered the old woman
feebly. "Dear only knows how I'd get
along without you children!"
"It was lucky you groaned so loud
"Come on; then,;' said Ed. "Ten that day we girls were out after
chances to one she's out in the woods ferns," said Linda. "This- band
something -the sound ofa girl's
s
happy laugh, love and sweet.
What could it mean?
"There's a big crack by the chim-
ney," whispered Ed.'"Don't make any
noise now."
The crack afforded a small but ex-
cellent view of the interior of 'the
cabin, They looked in eagerly, .and
then turned to each other.
On Ed's face was a smile of tri-
umph. lie looked again, then, draw-
ing back from the crack, deliberately
turned a somersault among the tall
weeds.. He felt like uttering a wild
whoop of joy, but didn't dare,
No wonder he was jubilant. He had
found out that mysterious secret at
last.
This was what he had 'seen: In an.
old but very comfortable chair, which
he recognized as having once belonged
to Milly Andrews' grandmother'; sat
Aunt Judy, her head supported by
pillows, and a small gray shawl over
her feet.
She looked as if she had ,recently
been sick, and the withered brown
hands Iying on her lap reminded' Ed
of the claws of some wild animal. The
dainty, white muslin cap, which cover-
ed her scant gray locks; did not make
less sallow her pinched and wrinkled
face, and her large, black eyes, which
had often flashed dangerously upon
the adventurous urchins who had from
the discovery when least expecting' it.
with four of his most particu-
1 r friends, were out. in the woods
after butternuts one Sliturday after-
noon, and, finding that others had
been before them in their accustomed
haunts, he proposed that they should
go down the Old Mill Road and "clean
out" the big tree that stood in front
of Aunt Judy's cabin,
His proposition was received in
dead silence, for Aunt Judy had the
name of being a witch, and with her
stout oaken stick had been known to
chastise more than one youthful in-
truder upon her domain.
The farmers who were detained in
town until dusk when buying or sell-
ing their produce, seldom went home
by the Old Mill road, having a super-
stitious fear of the withered old crone
in the dilapidated. cabin, and all sorts
of improbable and ridiculous 'stories
were told of her.
"There are five of us," said Howard
Tolman, after a long pause, "and that
tree must ba full to the top with but-
ternuts."
gathering herbs." wouldn't have been in existence except
The road was a very lonely one and for that. Hurry up with that omen
the grass and weeds growing thickly ette, Gertie. It's growing late, and I
in the middle of it gave evidence that am so hungry I can't wait."
it was little used. Ed concluded that he and his coni -
The boys, whistling ---perhaps to Patient( had stayed long enough, He
keep up their courage—walked brisk- walked away, beckoning for them to
ly along, their bags, hung on stout follow him,
hickory sticks, over their shoulders, When they were out in the road
and soon carne in sight of Aunt Judy's again they al1 stopped and held a con -
cabin, su tntion. It was agreed without a
It stood a distance of probably sixty dessenting voice that the girls must
feet from the road, and was surround- be Punished.
ed by a broken fence. The gate hung - "We won't do anything 'to -day,"
on one hinge, the garden was choked Said Ed, who was always the leader,
up with tall,' coarse weeds, and there and was looked to as. authority in
was not a whole pane of glass in either every vexed matter.: "Tho old woman's
of the windows. been sick, and we might make her
On one side was a small lien house, worse. But, in a weeks time, she'll
the roof of which had fallen in, and be all 'right, I think, and them we'll'
in the back yard was a pile of brush, get about a dozen of the other fellows
evidently intended for fuel. From the and have some fun. There'll be a war
ono chimney rose a thin cloud of dance about that old cabin next Sat
smoke. urday afternoon, that'll make those
"She's hone," said Paul Renshaw, girls sick..
speaking in a whisper,
Grand 0
Earth's scenic wonder is located in A
ne to view its marvelous beauty, its mag,
gone. It is over 200 miles long, from ni
to thirteen miles wide, andin many plac
more then a mile deep; colored with rain
bow hues—an ever-changing—a moo
—fascinating gash: in the Earth's surfs
The Indians in their days worship
at the Canyon, but today the white m
ri goes there in ever-increasing numbers
es' ni0cent spaces and to ride down the easy
trails toa river which from: the rim looks
fly Like a siiver ribbon, but which in reality
ce, is the mighty Colorado,
Ton can go to the very rim in a Pull.
ed man. Two of the Santa I"e's California.
an trains carry Pullmans via Grand Canyon.
cautioned to say, nothing of the dis••
covety,that had been made. The girls
on eo account must 'have • it hint
that their secret was'known. They
were to be taken completely by. sur-
prise. •
"The fellow who tells what we are
going to' do next Saturday .will lose
his head. Remember that," said Ed,
as they reached town, and separated
at the corner of Cedar street.
And yet, within half an hour u after
making that speech, Ed had told his
mother.
Mrs. Bowen was sitting in the twi-
light in the parlor•, when Ed reached
home, and on. her lap was' a. letter.
"Hero's an invitation from grand.
pa, Ed," she said. "He wants us to
come to spend a few ,days with him.
He says the nuts are waiting for you
by the bushel. I don't want you to
miss 'even one day of school, so/ wi
write him that we will leave here Fr day evening. That will give us all
day Saturday to go- nutting, and we
can return home on the early train
Monday morning. I think one leaves
the station near grandpa's at six
o'clock."
Ed hesitated, grew very red, began
to stammer something about another
engagement, and ended by telling his
another all about the discovery of the
afternoon and the revenge which had
been planned.
Mrs. Bowen listened attentively,
laughed, and then drew Ed down on
the sofa beside her,
"What kind of a war dance aro you
,going to have?" she asked, "Now, in
my opinion, you have a glorious
chance to pay the girls back in their
own coin. Go to the cabin right after
breakfast, next Saturday, ten of you,
at least, and begin work on the gar-
den. The girls have attended to the
inside of the cabin. You can attend to
the outside. Mend the fence, hang the
gate, dig up the weeds, and put in the
panes of glass. By noon you will have
accomplished wonders. When you hear
the girls coming, hide yourselves and
hear what they will say."
Ed was a little doubtful at first as
to the "fun" of this kind of a revenge;
but he had a great deal of faith in his
mother, and she spoke with so much
spirit and such keen interest. that he
at 'length inclined to her idea.
"That will be a war dance worth
something," she said. "Gall a meet..
ing here for Monday night and let's
talk the matter over."
The meeting was called, and Mrs,
Bowen was present, of course. When
the idea was proposed it met with an
enthusiastic reception, and "ways and
means" were eagerly discussed, until
Mrs, Bowen's stout servant introduced
into the room a big freezer of ice
cream and two enormous jelly cakes,
"made expressly for the occasion,", Ed
emarked, smiling affectionately at his
mother. -
By eight o'clock the next Saturday
fourteen boys, every one of whom had
swallowed a hasty breakfast, were
on their way to old Judy's cabin, laden
with all sorts of implements of toil.
Ed wont on a little ahead, when
hey came. in sight of their destination
and interviewed Judy, who was
trichen almost dumb with surprise
hen she heard what was going to be
one for her.', She had alwaye looked
upon the town: boys as her natural
nemies, and it was hard for her to
believe they were actually about to do
her a service,
It is wonderful how much work
fourteen stout boys can accomplish
within a given tune when thoroughly
interested in what they are doing.
By one o'clock the dilapidated fence
had put on a new appearance; every
weed within twenty-five feet of the
cabin had disappeared'; the `hen house
was nearly as good as new, and Ed,
who' had made a fortunate geese as
to the size of the panes, had put new
glass in both windows of the cabin.
Oid Judy, in her easy chair, looked
out at the busy workers until her eyes
fairly ached, and laughed to see her
hens walking in and out of their neat
house with evident appreciation of its
comforts.
Soon after one o'clock Paul Ren-
shaw, who was sentinel on the road,
hurriedly announced the approach of
1I the girls, and the little army of work-
1- ars fled into concealment.
How thoroughly those boys ehjoyed
the surprise and astonishment of the
members of Aunt. Judy's band! With
what piercing cries they rushed out at
last and danced• about the old cabin.
"It was the biggest war dance on
record," Ed said, when telling his
mother about it.
,When Mrs. Bowen reached the cabin
at half -past one, there was so much
talking going on that she called "Ed-
ward" .five times at the top of her
voice before she made herself heard.
But there was plenty of attention
paid her when it was perceived that
she had come in her car, and that
there were two big hampers in the
bacic,
That was a picnic worth remember-
ing, and before it ended, Aunt Judy's.
band received fourteen new members,
all solemnly pledged to "law, order
and hard work."
And for years to come the buttes.
nuts on the tree before the old cabin
door were distributed equally among
those twenty boys and girls,
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Of course, each one of the boys was e
In `Alphabetical Order.
The interviewer—"Does yOnr aalne
still lead all the rest?"
Abort Ben Adhem.—"'Nape, not now
any more. Fellow named Aaron got
on the list,""
We've Seen Something Like it
On Flour Sacks.
On his tour of the. district, an in-
spector
of city high schools came be-
fore a class of girls. Ile wrote upon
the blackboard, "LXXX." Then peer-
ing over his spectacles at a good-look-
ing girl in the front row, he said:
"Young lady, I'd like you to tell me
what that means."
"Love and kisses," said the girl,
Repairing a Door Knob.
If a screw holding a door knob In.
place breaks off in .the squared rod,.
drill out the imbedded, piece and re-
pair with ase ordinary cotter pin, A
cotter pin when spread will hold in-
definitely.
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BELLS AND THEIR
HISTORY
By P. II. Stauffer,
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Bells aro of very 'ancient origin.
They acre mentioned as, worn on the
high priests, robes, (Exedus xxviii:
83). The prophet- Zechariah (xiv:
20), speaks of "bells of the horses,"
which were probably hung on the
bridles of War harms to accustonn
them to noise.
Bells were used by the Greeks and
Romans in private houses and in
Camps and garrisons. The hour of
bathing at Ronne was announced by the
sound of a bell. The'priest of Proser
pine, at Athens;,' rung a bell to call the
people to sacrifice. According to
Pliny, the monument of Porsenna was
decorated with bolls. Sheep -belts of
bronze were used in ancient Italy, and
are yet preserved in the museum of
Naples.
Belle were brought into use for
churches by Patenus, Bishop of Nola,
In Campania, about the year 1400.
Tliey are first mentioned in England
by Bede, toward the end of the seventh
century. -
Chimes, or peals of bens, are of au-
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dent date, the first chimes imtrodnieod
into England having been put .up at
Croyland Abbey, in 960.
In the cathedral of Limerick, in Ire-
land, ie a chime of bells about which
an'affecting story is told. They were
nead•e by an. Italian for a monastery in
Italy. A revolution swept the lanai •
hie became a refugee and -an exile; th
monastery was destroyed; the be
were carried orf, After many years
wandering he came to Ireland. As
vessel which carried him sailed ale
the placid Shannon, the sunset aim
rang out from the cathedral, anal
recognized the &meet sounds. Th
came from the belts which he ha a
made. He leaned against the rail! e
of the deck and listened in silent ra
tore to the well known long-unhe o
mule. The boat reached the what,
the sailors epake to him, then tough w
him --,he was dead. TIM spirit had d
parted while listening to the ravis
every direction, Its note vitae like the
chord of A upon a full organ. It fell
from its support and was destroyed.
On the largest of three bell's placed
by Edward 118. in the Little Sanotuary,
'Westminster; are these lines:
"hing .Edward made inc thirty-
tho ttand weight and three;
Take me down and weigh me, . and
more you shall find ane,"
Ou the famous alarm bell called leo
I'a,nd, in a belfry -tower, in the once
powerful city of Ghent, is engraved
the subjoined inscription, ill the old
'Walloon or Flonrtsia dialect:
"My tame is Roland; when I toll there
is fire,
And when I ring, there is vicory in the
land!"
l'he bell known as the Liberty Bell,
which, on the 4th of July, 1776, an-
nounced the '.signing of the Dela
tion of Ind�epenclenee, in Philadelph
bas upon it the following inscriptio
taken from Leviticus; xxv: 10;
"Proclaim liberty throughout t
land:, unto all the inhabitants the
of."
Sell of Holland.
The Hollanders exhibit the m
enthusiastic fondness for bells. Ev
chinch and public building
hung' around with them in ead•le
variety. In Amsterdam, not ,less aha
a thousand bells are kept constant
ringing, which creates a din. that
almost intolerable to strangers.
It is recorded of a friar, that, aft
the destruction of the monasteries,
regretted nothing so much as the to
e of ' a favorite bell. After diligent
lis sosa^ch, he found that it had been re-
ef moved to a village church. Be lived
the as a common laborer in the vicinity,
ng that he might end hie days within the
hearing of the bell.
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S . PEtlE BURG
ONCE PROUD CAPITAL
OF RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
Unser Reign of Bolshevism
City of the Czars Has Faded
Into' Insignificance
When the Soviet. government of Rus-
sia changed- the naino of Petrograd.
the, St. Petersburg .of -an earlier day,
into Leningrad, it did sontetlrieg' more
than kill a ;name, ft at the same time
eilie4 a atty. St. Petersburg had been
known Mum Peter the Great eat
a 'a- Lhousands of his serfs to their death.
la, In the manufacture of a T3altio sea -
n, port, and even Petrograd was a to
miller imam in the Western world.
he but Leningrad was born dead. It. was
re• slight honor_ they did their leader tri
naming after him a city whew raises)
d'etre no Tenger existed.
est The transfer of the government to
Eve Moscow, the old !tome of the Mimeo -
is vitas, left Petrograd but the empty
ss shell of the former capital, and while
it still has a population 01. 1,200,000 it
y has ceased to bo e great city. Only
is the Winter Palace and the museums
remind the visitor-: at the capital of the
er mem
he A Dead Metropotls:
se Describing a recent visit to "Lenin-
grad—Ville MOrte," Lucien I3ourgues,
writing in "Le Petit Parisian," said;
"Leningrad presents a complete con-
trast to Moseow. The latter is a city
of winding streets, whereas the former
is laid out on the rectangular plan.
14ioscow is crowded from root to'col-
g lar. Leningrad is empty. Once again,
Win
Moscow represents the present; Len-
e- ingrad, for the moment, represents but
1 the past. ft was in vain that too city
!t was called Petrograd, for patriotic nea-
t sons, then, later, rebaptized Lenin-
, grad, to satisfy the zeal of the Dolehe-
Id viki, for It will always remain Peters-
. burg—Russet's window on the shores
of the Baltic which Peter the Great
opened out to the Ve,stern world.
"To -day this window, after five Mug
years kept jealously close;.. begins to
open once more, though ever so little.
But if the great granite city 11111 live
it must open wide its window and let
in rapidly the needed drtifts 90 invig-
orating air, for In her isolation Peters -
t burg has almeady been near the point
of death,
"It is to this window that we nnist
come 1f we will understand to what
extent Russia has receded, and how,
, by political fanaticism she has detaoh-
ed herselt from the Occident pne
everything that is civilized, cultured,
human, renewing back to her barbaric
and Asiatic sources.
Big' Factory Centne.
According tb the latest statistics,
Leningrad has a population of 1,200,-
000, which is about a third of the num-
ber .which Petrograd counted eight
years ago. But this.- millionofbeings
is scarcely noticeable in the city's im-
mense streets. The reason Is that,
apart from a few thousand students,
a few hundred savants and professors,
some few shops, Leningrad contains
only 200,000 workmen and their fami-
lies. These people inhabit the out-
skirts of the town. while the centre,
which used to be peopled by a crowd
of aristocrats, now is empty and de-
serted, Leningrad has not only ceased
to be one of the two capitals of Russia,
but it has ceased even to be a great
city. To -day it is a big factory centre,
with a few vessels 10 theportduring
the summer.
"Except for its workshops Lenin
grad Is only Interesting for Sts mus
earns, most of which are still intact."
rock, who was cbarged with sleep's)
t his post on the rampart of W[
o" Castle. His life was spared, b
cause he heard; at midnight, the be]
n St. Paul's strike thirteen when
should have struck twelve. The nae
as proved by several witnesses
though the ditstancc, apparently, won
have• -rendered the circumstance it
possible. The courage of the river and
the stillness of the night assists(' in
conveying the sound from the tower
to the castle,
ing sounds. -
Christening Bells.
Some writers say that the custom
christening bells was introduced b
Pope John XIII., who oecupied th
pontificial chair from 965 to 972, an
who first consecrated a bell in th
Lateran church and gave 1t the nam
of John the Baptist. But it is evIde
ly of an older standing, for there is
express prohibition of the practice
a capitular of Charlemagne, in 789.
Pope John Ili. ordered bells to b
rung as a defense against thunder an
lightning, in the year :900. All th
belle In Europe were ring in 1466,'b
order 00 Pope Calixtus nr., to scar
away Halley's comet, which was ant
posed to be in Sonne manner indent
fled with Mohammed II., who bad Ate
taken Constantinople. The come
left, but Mohammed atayed.
It was an ancient custom tering bel
tor persons about to expire, to nota
the people to pray for them, fr
wilich arose the nacre et "twain
bells." It ('move away evil spirits. Th
wealthy v were induced to bequeath pro
petty for the support of favorite bells
which were to be rung at their funer
ale,
During the thirteenth century, large
bells began to be cast, The "Jacque-
line" of Paris) oast in 1300, weighed
16,000 pounds; ono cast In Paris le
1472 weighed 16,000- pounds; the belt''
of Rouen, cast in 1501, weighed over
36,000 pounds.
The great bell of Moscow, Cast by
order of Empress Anne, in ' 1734,
weighed 193 tons. It remained sus-
pended only until 1737, when it fell,
in consequence of a the, and remained
partiaily buried in the earth until 1837,
when it was raised, and now forme the
dome of a chapel termed by excavat-
ing the earth underneath. Some deny
that the bell was ever suspended,
while others insist that it was, and
that, when in motion, it agitated the
air of the surrounding country for
forty miles.
The great bell of Burmah, at a tem-
ple in the environs- of Anratvnpoora,
weighs 260,000 pounds. I{laprath
states that in an edifice before the
great temple of Buddlab, at.Ieddo, is
the largest bell in the world. It weighs
1,700,000 pounds, four times greater
than the great bell et Moscow, and
fifty-six times larger than the great
hell of Westminster, England,
Great Tom of Lincoln.
The finest bell lin England was the
great Tom of Lincoln, considerably
older then St, Pauly. Its elevation
gave it an horizon of fifty miles in
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Paradoxes.
A Rhyme to Remember.
oh1e have eyes who cannot sea,
And some have ears who cantle
hear,
And some, who boast of liberty,
Are hopeless servitors of fear.
lid soma are blind who yet are seers
And visions rapturous behold;
11 some . are '•deaf to whom the
spheres
Their magic harmonies, unfold,
And some are slaves to circumstance
Whose souls have never bowed the
knee,
But walk abreast the world's advance,;
In thought's broad realm forever
free,
Defects of body, bonds of :steel
Can neither hinder nor control
In the wide empire of the real
The sense and freedom of the soul!
—S. .1, Duncan -Clark in "aucoess,"
leo Time to Celebrate.
Night descended over the sea. The
me gathered force, Some of the
ok fittings had already been swept
erboard. The captain, who had been
owing steadily more and more anxi-
s, decided to send up a distress sig -
1.
The rocket was fired oft: Some mo-
nis later a. solemn passenger, who
ad been roused front sleep by the
se, and had seen through a porthole
the burettes of the rocket, made his
way up to the captain,
"Captain," he said, "I tope I'm not
a kill -Soy, but it seems to me that this
is no time for letting off fireworks."
A Joke From Beeville.
"What are you doing??"
"Oh, I'm just rolling in wealth."
Where Ivory is Mined.
Ivory Lan bemiued in the islands off
the cottst of Siberia as the ground is
tilled with tusks of mammoths and
the bones of other prehistoric animals
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Pop Solves the Difficulty --By C. M. Payne.
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Pleasures of the Imagination..
Imagination, like the consciousness
of being well and fashionably dressed,
has a singular power of importing
warmth to the frame. If you -thick
you are warm, you really are, So at
least the following story from the Tat-
Ier wouid seem to prove
The late Charles Brookfieid used to,
tell a story of a miserable railway Jour-
ney
ourney that he had to undertake with
some friends. in order to get to a.eet--
tarn country house. It was bitterly
cold, and by the time they got to the
end of their journey it was pitch dark,
and they were nearly frozen. A pri-
vate omnibus had been sent to meet
then, and they trooped in and pulled
up the glass window.
"I hope to: goodness they've remem-
bered to put in the foot warmers:" (m-
e -Mimed one of them, meconnoitring
with itis toot. "Oh, thank gooditesal
X esy • they're . there,"
Sure enough, they found, stored un-
der the seats, two heady contrivances,
which they hauled into line and grate-
fully rested their feet on. The effect
was instantaneous. Immediately a de-
licious warmth psnmeated the soles of
their boots and thawed their icy feet,
and seen their whole bodies were in a.
glow.
"Hang it:" one of 'their remarked,
perspiring freely, "This is almost too
much of a good tiling. Letts- have the
window down."'
,They were thoroughly warm and re-
freshed by the time they arrived at the
house, where they wore met by an
apologeticbutler, who expressed regret
that the omnibus :he.cl been sent off
tvitltout foot warmers. It. then turned
out that the objects an which thoyhad
been se cosily resting their fact were:
two of their own gut: Cases. Their
own imaginations had warned their
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