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,;Lits object ,o.oms "or inonsem ie .Ste no's givut to Clay a:reams; and he
the air and 01e11 die tppsar•s! : 'o o'. the facts of life - with much
"iierud!" be says to himself -with ;ynauhnity; and when he l?a:1 writ -
'a kind of sigh of satisfaction. as if he ten s.mle lines about Meenie that he
had himself taken part in the struggle regarded with a little .affection -as
and captur0 suggesting. let 00 say, something of
_The next instant -for the glass is the glamour of her clear Highland
stillleveled- the little group so far oyes, and the rose -sweetness of her
away -'from hiiil-there is a moment nature, and the kindness of her heart
of keen disappointment. The silver- -and when it seemed rather a pity
white Object is Seen to .be put over Clint'she should never see them -if
the side of the boat. A kelt, then? only a tribute of her gelttleness of -
And he is almost sure. that, they ,gaf- fered by a perfectly unbiased specta-
ted him -a salmon wantonly destroy- for - he 'quickly reiwinded 'himself
ed through the ignorance or stupidity that it was 110't his business to write
of the new Ulan Frazer! Batt no; he terse0 brit to trap foxes and train
t
is presently reassured. The Billie has logs anal shoot boodle -craw He was
put the 'fish over the side only to not vain of his rhymes -except where
wash it clean; it is taken. into the )1eenie's name cause in. Besides, he
003tle again; doubtless -tor the Rio- was 0 very hn sy 'person at most sea-
erlcan gentleman has learnt the ways' ;ons of the ye01; and men, women
of the country now -they will prey- 011(1 children alike showed a colsider-
c'ntly he drinking "Better 1ne.k, sir" able fondness for hint, so• that his life
as again they 'light the boat through was full of swnrpathies -and interests;
the stili wind and waves. and altogetherhe cannot •be regarded,
,Row peacehd looks the little ham- as a broken-hearted or ibligltted 'he -
tet of • 1letvers,S10110.11 The wild elo•rni- 'tug. His temperament was •essentially
clouds, and the bursts of - samligh't, joyous and healthy; 'the passing mo -
and the 10(1hng winds seem to sail meat 'was enough; nothing pleased
over it unheeded; clown in the hollow hint so numb as to ]lave a grouse, or
there surely all is quiet and still, And a horse, or a ptarnii'gall, or a startled
is )deeni0 singing' at her work, by the hint] appear within. sure isn4 easy
window; or perhaps superintending range, and to say "Well, go on, Tatke
llaggie's I050011S; or gone away on your life with y:ou. Rather a pleasant
one of the lonely wa4lks that she is day this; why shouldn't you enjoy it
fond cif ---up by the hanks of ,the Mu- as well as T?" • -
dal' Water? 11t is a hleaic and a hare H00 00er, on this blustering and
-stream; there is scarce a bush on its brilliant •morning he had not come all
banks; and. yet She knows of .no other 'die way en) hither merely to get a
river however hung with foliage brace of •hares 'for )'lrs, Murray, nor
and Iflotwers-that is so sweet anti s0- yet -to be a -distant spectator of the
cred .and beautiful, What ryas it he salmon -.h hing ,going;' on far below.
wrote in the (bygone yea's- one suns- Under this big roils there was a cou-
nter day when he had Seen ,her go Ib9' enterable cavity, and 'right at the back
-and he, too, 'was near the water, of that he had wedged in a wooden
and could hear the soft nlornluring box lined With tin, and fitted 03111 0
over the pebbles.? He called the idle lid and a 'lock, It was useful in the
verses autumn; he 'generally kept in - it a
bottle of whisky and a few bottles of
SfitT•I)I:VM, IN Jt1PNIIt soda -water., lest any of the gentlemen
)ludo1 that comes from the lonely should lin themselves thirsty on the
mere, way home from the stalking. L'ut. nn
Silent or whispering, vanishing this occasion, when he got out the
ever, key and unlocked the 'little 'chest. it 1 "Where?" said 'Ronald - but he
iKnow• you of aught that concerns us was not any reft'eshntent of that 'kind knew well. enough, and was only
here?- he was after, He took out a copy- 'seeking time to make an excuse.
Pott, youngest of all 'God's creat- hook -0 cheap, paper -covered thing' "'1'o Nitre. D'oug'las and the young
Ives, a river, such as is used in juvenile Se'11nu11 in lass; and tell] them we will he glad if
• Scotland -and - turned to the first they will conte with the others on
born of a yesterdays sumnut shnly-
page, which was scrawled -ower with Monday night -Tor the doctor is
eagle fell 11, and stuam111,, er, pencilled lines that had apparently away from home, and why should
twice ere. it 1111could get its great wings And harrying on with •your -rest- 110c11 written • in fmr of rain, for 'there they be ]cit by themselves? Will you
into plus.; and thea. instead of trying less motion, were plenty of smudges there. It lied tek the message,: (Ronald?"
to e, tar upward, it went away flap -,Silent or whispering every hour, hccoliu• a habil of his That, when i11! "How could I sin 'that?" Ronald
pin¢ 'horn wind --increasing in speed, '1'„ lose yourself in the great lane these lonelyrambles :uuuiig the hills, said. ''1fs you that's giving the. party,
:ntil he could see it, now rising some- ocean.
he found some further rhymes about Mr. Murray."
Birt that was not the message that in Sutherlaladsllire, though the keep-
'Ndly went to deliver. She wanted ']herl
ers0•are no longer a'lilo:wed to kill them
au horny before all] these half -critical -
and, despite himself, looking at the
11a)le creature, Ire 'began to ask him-
self casuistical! questions, Would not
his make a handsome gift .for 11een-
ie? II•I-e cosuld send the bird td Mac -
lefty at Inverness; and have it stuf-
fed and returned without anybody
knowing, )Moreover, the keepers were
only . charged to abstain from shoot-
ing such golden eagles as they might
find on their own ground; and he
knew fromthemake of the trap that
Ole one must have conte front a dif-
ferent shooting altogether; it was not
a C:lebrig eagle at all. But he looked
at the tierce eye of the beast and its
undaunted stein; the knew that, if it
(could, 1t .would fight to the death:
and he felt a kind of pride in the
creature, and admiration for it, and
ill S, and also, as a .good-looking
lass, her independence and her mas-
tery over men -folk.
• Ronald," said she, at the door of
the inn, "1 think• you might fuel as
well be going up the ]till and bring-
ins
rinein}, ns down a hare or two, instead ai
sta'ding about here doing nothing.,'
'Is that Highland planners, lass?"
he said, but with perfect 'good hum-
or. 'I'm thinking ye plight say `if ye
please.' But 1311 get ye a hare or two,
sure enough, and )'gall keep the first
dance for me on Monday night
"Indeed '1 am not sure that I will
be at the dancing at all," retorted the
pretty ,Nelly; but this was merely to
cover her retreat -she did not wish to
have any further conversation before
that lot of idle half -grinning fellows.even a sort of sympathy and fellow-
As for 'Ronald, he bade them good- feeling,
morning, and went -lightly on his way "\ly good chap," said he. "I'm
again, He was going up the hill. any- not going to kill you in cold blood -
.way; and he might as well bring not me. 'Go 110k to your wife and
down a brace of hares for )Mrs. Mnr- weans, wherever 'they are. Off!"
ray; so, after walking along the road And he tried t„ them, rite big
'for a mile or so. he etruc'k off across beast into the air, But this teas nut
Sonne rutfgh 11101 partly marshy like flinging nit a released pigeon, The
ground, and presently began to climb
'the lower slopes of Clehrig, getting
-ever a wider and wider view- as he as-
vended..and always when he turned
,finding beneath him ?lie wind -stirred
water of'tlie::;l'och, where a tiny dark
object, 'lob -moving near the shores, 00oat, ct•o<s the: 10000 Watling, 01
r,,lrm :where the salmon -fishers loch Natter, asll
and me aay for the \' uu hark, remain; but you go hv, )leenie curare into hld:
lois head, he would "(int they -know you so ferry wellto'i,i
'patiently pursuing their spurt, northern skies: '1'hron,ah day and through darkness 3,11 0110111 down in this Copy -book, dc- --and'--1111(1 thele will be no Harm if
were
'I uifily ,ailing posit 11 in the little cheat, and prob they comeand eee the young lads and
NortSthere were no more unsettling "It's a clod', mercy," he was say-
notin s in his ,. ain; here 'he was mas- i1r= to himself, as he went 'hark to • et sups do 1'' heal the curlew cry, 11111y mot vee them again for twe0.1 lasses having a 1111 t11 1(1r•r -a v, and
u. hr
'ter and monarch of all he surveyed; Itis gun, "that 1 ntet the crea11100 n' \ltd the snipe in tltr night-time and week , 0hen, as on the pres0nt e song too, :111(1 if \firs. )0 11101
hoarsely waiting? occasion, he would conte with fresh could not be bothered, its' you that
and if he" 0080 profoundly unconscious the daytime: had it been at night, I eyes to see if there were any worth' could bring the young lady -oh, yes,
-of the ease with which he :breasted would hae thought it was the devi'L" Un you watch the wandering hind; „1. 0alm, in them, :Not that he took 1 know ferry well -if you will ask
this steep hill -side, at least '110 rejoic-1 Some two or three hundred feet in the morn; such trouble with anything else. 'Hi' 11100. elle will come,"
cd fn the ever -widening prospect --5(S still further up the hill -side he tante Do 3011 hear the grouse -cock crow rhyming epistles 't0 his friends, hist "I ant sure, no," .Ronald said, has•ti-
lochs and hills and stretches of stn- Ito his 00011 eyrie ---a great mass of in the heather;
praises of his trrrier'Harry, his Suits; 1>•, and with an embarrassment h0
du'lating moorland seemed to stretch I rock, affording slither from either I)o you see the lark spying up from for the Inver -)lural lasses to sing- son ght in vain, to conceal. •'11 \liss
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937.
rain, "1'111 thinking we must be
p 103ing up a hare now. if it's for soup
for the gentleman's dinner the night.
So ye were 'bauld enough to face an
eagle? I doubt, if both his feet had
been free, but ye might have had a
lift in the air, and seen the heavens
and the earth spread out below ye."
iHe .shouldered his guns and set out
again -making his way towards some
rockier 'ground, where he very soon
a
bagged the brace 0E )tare, he availed.
He tied their legs together, slung
them over his shoulder, and' began to
descend the mountain again -usually
keeping his eye on the minute black
speck cm 111e Poch, lest there might .be
occasion again for the telescope.
Il -le took the tt00 hares -they look-
ed remarkable, :by the way, for they
,fere ahnos1 -entirely" whine -into the
inn, and threw than on to the chair
111 the passage.
'There yon are, Nelly, lass," said
he, as 1110 fair-haired Highland maid
happened to go by,
"Alt right," said she, which was no
great thanks,
But Mr. Murray, in the parlor, had
beard the keeper's voice.
"Ronald," he cried, "come in for a
minute, will ye?"
)ir; Murray seas a little, wiry, grey
haired, good natured looking man,
who; w•hen'Ronald entered the .parlor;
05155 seated at the table, and evidently
puzzling his brains over 'a blank sheet
of paper that lay before him.
"Your sister Maggie wass here this
morning," the innkeeper said still
with his eyes fixed upon the 'paper -
"and she (05(50 saying that maybe
)leenie Miss would like to come with
the -others on Monday night --ay, and
maybe 1'l.rs. Douglas herself too as
well -but they would hef to be asked.
And R'ott pless me, it i5 , not a11 easy
thing, if you lief to write a letter, and
that is more polite than asking -it is
not an easy dung, I air sure. Ron-
• all " i1e said, raising his eyes and
turning round, "would you take a
message?"
PROFESSIQNAL CARDS
Medical
DR. E. A. M1MAISTIER-,Graduate
of the 1 acuity of Medicine, Univers-
ity of Toronto, and of the New York
Post Graduate School, and Hospital.
Member of the College of P'hysicia'ns
and Surgeons of 'Ontario, Office on
High street. Phone 27. Office fully
equipped for x-ray diagnosis and for
ultra 'short wave electric treatment,
,
ultra violet sun lamp treatment and
infra red electric treatment, Nurse in
attendance.
ever outward until, afar in the north, southerly or casters) w•utds, incl stir- the c„1.11, 'these things Were thrown off anyhow,
he could make out the Kyle of Ton- rounded with some - smaller stones: i .' H 10 .the radiant summer weather? and had to take _their chance. But his
gue and the faint line of the sea. It and here he sat contentedly down to O ]ludo] stream, how little you know solitary inter-ccnnmainings away amid
Haas a wild and changeable day; now. rook around him --Harry crouched at
but his eyes wattchfttl 'And this wide Inv0:; )ou ever;
stretch of country between Clebrig And .while to your •ocean home you dignity and repose from the very sit -
stretch
and the northern sea would bevel
11°w,epee and 51t•fnlness of the solitudes
She ;5()s good bye to her well -
al
there wee no idle and pastor -
formed a striking prospect in ally' sintging here, about roses in the
kind of weather the strange and' lover] river!
lane. 'He regarded the ,bhirred lines,
savage loneliness of the anoorlandst t) 0e you her now -she is coming stri ing to think of them as having
the solitary I tl es with never a sign of aniglr_ been written by sontehody else:
habitation along their shores; the And the Hower in her hand her aim
groat nmentains whose silent recess' discloses: 'I'ltrou;gh the long sad centuries (•le-
ges are known only to the stag and laugh, el „dal, your thaudcs as )oft're bei¢ slept,
the hind: but 011 such a morning a; hurrying hy- Nor a sound the silence broke,
this it was all as Instable and unreal, 1'„t' he flings you arose, in the
'fill 1 morning in Spring a strange
as it was wildly beautiful and 'pictur- i month of roses! thing
esquc;--far the hurrying .t•eatheri I Bestirred hits .and l e awoke;
male a 'kind of phantasmagoria of \\'011, that was written as inng ago 0s ,111(1 he laughed, and his joJ'ous laugh
the solid land; burets of sunlight that 1„,,,t mlidsunun0r: and was \leenie
was heard
strnek 051 1110 yellow slraths were ant -!,,till 1. .an' : arc irony flint 5(S then,
1oeed by swift grey cloud-t‘lcatlts
From 1srribol far to Tongue;
and is ;gnorann as ever of his mute .4nd his granite veins deep down
blotting out the world; and again and worship of her, and of these 000ses
•flied with gloom, again bursting forth h” feet, his nose between his paw•;, That Me -erne has -"0'5 Y011, you, and these Alpine (waste; were of amore
500101,0 east; insensibly they gat4er0d
into a 'blaze of yellow sunshine;
while ever and anon some flying tag
'of cloud would conte sweeping across
the hill -side anti engulf hint, so that
he could then discern was the
rough hard heather and bits of rocks
around ]tis feet, It was just as one of
(hese transient clouds was clearing
off that he was suddenly startled by
a ,loud noise -as of iron rattling an
•stones; and so !bewildering was this
unusual, noise in the intense silence
feigning 'there that instinctively he
wheeled .round and lowered lois gun.
And then again, the next second,
what he saw w'as about as bewilder-
ing as what 11e heard -a .great creat-
ure, quite close by, and yet only half
visible in the clearing` mist, with
huge out -spread wings, dragging
something. after it across the broken
rock The tnith Flashed upon hint in
an instant: it was an eagle caught in
a fox -trap; the strange Iniac was the
trap striking here and there on a
stone. At brace he put down his grit
on an exposer] knoll, and gave chase;
with the greatest difficulty s0hduing
the eager desire .01 the yelping Harry
to rush forward and attack the huge
bird by himself. It WES a rough and
ludicrous pursuit: hut it ended in cap-
ture -though here, again. circumspec-
tion was necessary, for the eagle,
with all his neck»feathers bristling,
51015013 at him again and again with
she talons that were free, only one
tfo0t having been caught in the trap.
Out the poor beast was quite exhaus-
ted; an examination of the trap show-
ed Ronald that he must have dawn
with this weight attached to his leg
all the way from Ben (Reach, some
half-dozen miles away; and now,
though there was yet an occasional
'automatic notion of the beak or the
claws, as though he would stli'l strike
for liberty, he sulbinittecl to be firmly
gripped, while the iron teeth -of the
trap were being opened. And then
[Ronald looked at his prize I(!bnit still
with a careful grip). lie was a splen-
did specimen of the golden eagle -a t movement on ,the part of the crouch--
bird
rouch=bird that is only .fond here and there ing Berson-aac1 behold a silver -
again the %Glint snow -peaks of the
hills 1con:lr1 melt away and 'become
int,:ihle only to reappear again sltin-
illg and gierioes in the sky of bril-
liant 'blue; until, indeed, it seemed as
if the earth had n5(, substance and fix-
ed . oninhetion at all, that was a mere
dreamt. an atrial vision, changed and
moved and controlled h_v :mute unseen
and capricious hand.
And then again, on the dark and
wind -driven lake far below him, that
small object was still to be made out
-!like some minute, black, era01ing
water -insect, 'He took 11111 his glass
from its leather case, adjusted it, and
placed it to his eye. \\'hat was this?
In the world suddenly brought near
-land yet dimly near, as though a
film interposed --,he could see that
someone was standing trop h1 the
stern of the -boat, and another crouch-
ing down by his side Was that a
clip. ,or the handle of the landing -net:
in other words, win it a salmon or a
kelt -that was fighting then there? -He
swept the (1111111 .waters of the loch
with his ;glass; but could make out
no splashing or springing anywhere
near them. And then he could see, Iby
the curve of the rod. t•halt the fish, was
diose at hand; there was a minute or
toe° longer of anxiety: ellen a sudden
than he had written about her? But
he indulged in iota day -dreams. )lee-
nie was as near to flim as he had any
right to expect -giving hint of an es-
surcd and constant friendship; and as
.worthy of her as he could, though he
1cne10 elle should never see them; pol-
ishing them, in so far as they alight
he said to have any poiis'h at all, in
honor of her; and, what is more to
the point, et once cutting and des-
troying any of them that seemed to
savour either of alleetation or of echo.
the rode rhymes should at least
he honest and of his own invention
and method; imitations he cook] not,
even in fancy, lay at 1fecnie's feet.
And so110111les, it is true, a wild im-
agination would get hold of h•itli---a
whimsical thing, that 'Ise laughed: at
supposing shalt life---thti actual real
life here 1t Ewer-\(udal-were sud-
denly to become a play, a poem, a
romantic tale; and that 1'feeni0 were
to fall in dove t0ith hhn; and :he to
grow rich all at :once; and the Stuarts
of +Glen'gask to he quite complaisant;
why, then, would it not be a elle
thing to bring all this .cojlection of
verses to 'M'een'ie, and say "There.
1100, it IS nal `mocli; but It shows
you that I have been thinking of you
all 'through these years?" Yes, it
0001(1 be a very fine thing -in a .ro-
mance. Rut,
omance.'Btt, as has been said, he was
were stirred,
And the great old mountain grew
young.
"('was Love •\leenie he saw, and she
walked by the shore,
And .he sang so sweet and 00
clear,
That the sound of her voice made
him see again .
The dawn of the world appear:
And at night he s'pake to the 'listening
stars
And charged them a guard to 'keep
On the hamlet of 'Inver -Medal there
And the staid in her innocent sleep,
'1'111 the years should go by; and they
should see
1.4100 :Weenie take her stand
")Tong the maidens round 'the foot-
stool of !God -
She gentlest of all the 'band. 1
He tore the leaf out, folded it, and
put it In his -pocket.
"Another one for the little bookie
that's never to the seen," said he, with
a .k'i'nd of 'laugh; for, indeed, he treat-
ed 'himsel'f to a good dead of satire.
and would rather have blown his
brains out than: that the neighbor-
hood sliaa.tld have known :he was
writing these verses about :Meenie.
"And hey. Harry, tad!" he called
as 11e .locked"up the utile 'cupboard
DR. GILBEIRT C. JA'R'R:OTT -
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Un-
iversity of Western 'On'tario, Member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons.
of Ontario, Office 43 Goderich street
west. Phone 37. Hours 2-4,30 p.m,,
7,30-9 p.m, Other 'hours by appoint.
meat, Successor to Dr. Chas. Mackay
Douglas cares to come at all, it will
be when you ask her. And wily
should ye write, loan? Go down the
road and ask her yourself -I mean,
ask Mrs. Douglas: it's as simple its
simple, What Tor should ye write a
letter? Would ye send it through the
post, too? '('hat's ceremony for next-
door neighbors!"
"But 'Ronald lad, if ye should sec
the young lass herself--"
c'No, no; take your owns message,
Mr. :Murray; they can but give ye a
civil answer."
Mr. Murray was left doubting. Tt
watt clear that the 'mint shadow of
Glengask and 'Or„say still dwelt over
the doctor's honscholdt and that the
innkeeper was not at all sure as to
what Mrs, (Douglas-wn171d say to an
invitation that she and her daughter
)leenie-or \\'iliauni.na, as the mother
called her -should he present at a
merry -meeting of farm lads, keepers,
gi1110s land kitchen wenches,
Cl-11:\IP'TIl3l11 \' 111
Loud and shrill in the empty barn
arose the strains of the .\(hale
March, wanting the young lasses to
hasten with the adj.ustluent of their
ribbons, and summoning the young
lads about to look shanp and escort
them. The long and narrow table was
prettily -laid (Mt; two candelabra in-
stead of one s'he(1 a florid of light on
the white mover; tire walls were dec-
orated with evergreens and with
Meenie's resplendent paper blossoms;
the peat:v in the improvised fireplace
burned merrily, 'And when the con1p-
any began to arrive, in twos and
threes, some,lIash'ful and hesitating,
others merry and jocular, there .twos a
little embarrassment tehoet the taking
of places 'until Ronald laid down his
pipes and set to work to arrange
!bent. 'the (American '.gentleman had
brought in 'lire. Murray in state, and
they were at the head of the table;
while R'onal'd himself took the foot
in order, as he said, to keep ander-if
he were able -among the dtasses who
had 111051ly congregated there. 'Then
the general excitement and talking
was hushed tfor a minute -while the
inn -keeper said grace; and then the
girls -farm -wenches, some of them.
and (Nelly, the . pretty parlor -maid.
and IFenanualla, the cook's youngest
DR. H. I-I'UOli ROSS, Physician
and Surgeon Late of London Hos-
pital, Lon -don, England. Special at-
tention to diseases of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Office and residence
behind Dominion Bank, Office Phone
No. 5; Residence Phone 104.
DR. E. J. BURROWS, Seaforth.
Office and mesidence, 'Goderic'h street„
east of the United Church. Coroner
for the County of Huron, Telephone
No. 46,
DR. F. J. R. .F'O,RST'ER- Eye
Ear, Nose and Throat. Graduate in
Medicine, University of Toronto 11897.
Late Assistant New York Ophthal-
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefiield's
Eye, and 'Golden Square throat hospi-
tals, London. At Commercial 'H'otel,
Seaforth, third Wednesday in each
month from 1,30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Physician - Surgeon
Phone 90-W. Office John St, Seaforth.
Auctioneer.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Licensed
Auctioneer for the County of Huron.
Arrangements can be made for Sale
Date at The Seaforth News. Charges
moderate and satisfaction guaranteed.
F. W. AHRENS, Licensed Auction-
eer for Perth and Harron Counties,
Sales Solicited, Terms on Application.
Farm Stock, chattels and real estate
property. R, R. No, 4, Mitchell,
Phone 634 r 6. Apply at this office.
WATSON & REID
REAL ESTATE
AND INSURANCE AGENCY
(Successors to James Watson)
MAIN ST., SEAFORTH, ONT.
All kinds of Insurance risks effect-
ed at lowest rates in First -Class
Connpanies,
THE McKILL4k
Mutual Firelnsurance GP
HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH, Ont.
OF'FICE'RS
President -Alex. Broad•foot, Seaforth;
Vice -President, John E, Pepper,
Brucefie'ld; Secretary - Treasurer,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth,
AGENTS
F. McKercher, R,R,1, Dublin; John
E. Pepper, ,R.R.1, Brucefield; R. R. G.
Jarmouth, Brodlhagen; James Watt,
Blyth; C. F, 'Hewitt, Kincardine;
Wm. Yeo, Holmesville
DIRECT:OIRS
Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth No, 3;
James Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox,
Londesboro; George Leonhardt,
Bornholm No. 1; John Pepper, Bruce -
field; James Connolly, Goderich;
Alex. McEwing, Blyth No. 1; Thom-
as Moylan, Seaforth No, 5; Wm. R.
Archibald, Seaforth No. 4,
Parties desirous to effect insurance
or transact other business, will be
promptly attended to by applications
to any of the above named officers
addressed to their respective 'post -
offices,
sister, 0110 was ,but lately come`f'r•om
hist and talked' the quaintest English,
and Mr, 'Murray's two nieces from
Tongue, and the other young lasses
about the inn -ail of ithem became de-
nim -5 and 'proper -in their manner, for
they were a'bou't to enjoy the 'unusual
sensation of being waited upon,
This, of course, was` ;Ronald's do-
ing, There had been a question as to
which of the 'plaids were to ,bring' in
supper for so large a 'number; so h.e
addressed' 'himself to the; yloung fel-
lows who were standing about.
(To Be Continued)
'Mistress' "Why. Morals, 'only yes-
tertday 'ytont Isro'ice Lour cups! ,How
many 'willl you, break tomorrow at
this rate?"
Norah: "None, ma'am..Tomonro.w's
my day .off.,, _ .
