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THE SEAFORTH NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1937
Rose
Meenie
0 Glasgow town, how little mu
know
That Meenie has wandered in
To the very heart of your darkened
streets, -
1'hr;mali all the bustle and din.
A Sutherland b1„ssont .mining lair
:Amid all your clismai haze,
;Forgetting the breath of the stun -
mer hills,
And the bine of th e northern
days,
Prom Dixon's bre-wreaths to Rol -
lox stalk, .
Blow, south 'wind; 'and clear the
-.sky. ..
Till she think of Kett Clebn s sun-
ny slopes,
Where the basking red -deer lie.
Blow, south wind, and show her a
glimpse of blue
Through the pall of dusky
brown ;
And sec that you ;';ward her and
tend her well,
' 'You, fortunate Glasgow Town!
But then --bunt then—that strange,
impossible time=clpring which there
would' he no Meeuie visible anywhere
alotigthe mountain roads; and Mud -
al, water would go by dfitheeded; and
there would be no careless, cleat -
singing girl's` voice along Loch li'iiav-
er's shores—that ,strange time would
surely come to an end, and •li,e 'could
look forward and see how the ending
of it would be:
The clouds lay heavy •on Clebrig's
crest,
For days and weeks together;
The shepherds along Strath -Terry's
side '
Cunsed• at the rainy weather;
"I"!1't§y scarce could get a favoring
day ,
!For the Iburnin; .of the heather,
When sudden the clouds were rent
in twain
And the ..;Il laughed out to the
sun;
And the hinds stole up, with wand-
ering eyes,
To the far slopes yellow and
dun:
And the birds were Singing in ev-
ery hush
At a Spring anew begun.
0 Clelinig, what is it that makes
you. glad.
And whither is gone your drawn?
Are yon looking afar into the South,
'The long, wide ,strath admen?
And sec you that •Meenie is corning
hack—
Love :decile, f r o lit Gla gow•
1own!
He la'i hed. Not yet was Lnve
Mecnie taken away from them all.
And if in the unknown inure the
Stuarts of tilengask and Oroaay were
to carry her off and .ntoke a great
lady of her, and take her to see
strange places, and :perhaps marry
her to sone noble person, at least in
the meantime Ben C•lebrig and Ben
Loyal and the wide straths between
icpew they still held in the mighty
hollow of their hand this sweet flow-
er of Stitherlandahire, and that the
world and the skies and the woods
and lakes seemed fairer because of
her presence. And as regarded him-
self, and his relation's with her? Well,
Whet must he must. ,Only he hoped—
and ,there was surely no great vanity,
mhr self-love, nor jealousy in so mo-
dest a hope—that the change of her
manner towards him was due to the
counsels of her mother rather than to
anything he had atnw•ittutgly said or
done. Rose Meenie—Luce \deenfe—
he had caked her in verses; but al-
ways he had been most respectful to
tleerself: and lie could not believe that
she ehn,tght him capable 0 doing
anything to offend her, '
(TLAIPTF'-R X711,.
Very earls one Sunday morning,
while as yet all the world seemed as-
leep, a young lady stole out from the
hotel at T;airg, and wandered down
by herself to the silent and beavarft'1
whore, , f shin. Th 0 1- le .,f t
March it 'v.,. i o,' ;. and ,yet the n,•
around her was quite summer -i ket
and .she was a stranger from tery
far climes indeed. who had yent1 red
into the His~hiands at this ordinarily
•tnrocrard time of the year: so that
there was wonder as well .as joy in ler
heart as she regarded the fairyland
before 'her, For ;1 was certainly not
what she had been taught to expect,
'l'liere was not a ripple on the glassy
surface of the lake: every feature of
the bleeping and faintly .sn1111 world
w••as reflected accurately on the per-
fect mirror; the browns and yellows
of the tower moorland: tib faint
purple of the Kirch -woods; the aerial
blues of .the distant hills, with here
aiid there a p:atch of snow; and the
fleecy white masses of the motionless
^loads. It was a kind of dream -world
—soft -toned, and placid, and still; elle
only sharp bit of color being the scar-
let -painted lines of a boat that float-
ed double on .that sea of glass. There
was not a sound anywhere hitt the
wittering of small birds: nor any
movement but the slow rising into the
air of a tiny' column of blue smoke
from a distant cottage; summer seen -
ed to be here already, as the first
light airs of the .morning ---fresh and
clear and sweet—came stealing along
the silver surface of the water, and
only troubling the magic picture here
and there in long trembling swathes,
The y'oun'g' lardy was of middle
height, but looked taller than that 'hy
reason of her slight and graceful
form; she was pale, almost sallow, of
face, with fine features, and a pretty
,mile; her hair was of a lustrous
black; and so, ton, were lter‘eyes--
which were large, and soft, and at-
tractive, Very foreign she looked as
she stood by the .shores of this High-
land loch; her figure. and complexion,
and beautiful opaque soft dark eyes
perhaps suggesting more than any-
thing else the Spanish type of the
Southern American woman; but
,there was nothing foreign about her
attire; she had taken care about that:
and if her jet black hair and pale
cheek had prompted her to choose nn-
'rsual Inc,oof color, at all events the
articles of her costume were all cor-
rect—the warm anti serviceable ulster
of some roughish yellow and gray
material, the huff -colored gaiitteterl
glove•, the orange -hued Tam a' Shan -
ter which she wore quite as one to the
manner horn. For the rest, one conks
easily See that she was of a Cheerful
temperament; pleased with herself;
not over shy. perhaps.; and very
straightforward in her look,
However, the hest description of
.this Young lady was the invention ni
an ingenious youth, dwelling on the
-auf kern shores of Lake Michigan.
'Carry 1indsmn' lir observed on one
•
occasion, Is just- 0 real good fellnw,
that's what she is.' It was a happy
phrase: and it Soon became popular
x(110(1 1110 young ge'ntlein en wln'
wore Eieglis'h hats 01111 vied with each
outer in driving phantom vehicles be-
hind long -stepping horses, 'Carry
Mods011 —she': jilt the hest fellow
going, they would assure you. And
how better can one describe her?
There was a kind• of frank camarad-
erie about her: and site 'liked amass-
ment, and was easily amused; and
she labored under no desire at all of
showing herself 'bright'—which chief-
ly reveals itself in impertinent; but,
above all. there was- in her composi-
tion not a1 trace of alarm over her re-
lations, however frank and friendly.
with the other rex: she conies talk to
any 1)11(1) -old or young, married or
single—pnsfarely withotit wondering
When he was about to begins to make
love to her. 'For one thing, She was
quite ea.pa•hle of looking after her-
self; for another, the very rliarnl of
'ter manner -the delightful openness
nand straightforward»esn of it- seem-
-d to drive flirtation and sham senti-
ment forthwith out of court. And if.
en those young gentlemen in t'lii-
_ago called Mb,. Carry IIocdsnn 41
real good fellow,' they emild not help
•e nlenlherillg at the same time that
he was an exceedingly pretty eirl,
,erhaps they appreciated so highly
he pri ile:re ,.f Kenn on _good -e.'.14
rade terms with her that they were
content to remain there rather than
risk everything by seeking for more,
However, that nerd not he discussed
further here. People did, indeed, that
Mr. John C. iduysen, the editor of
the Chicago Citizen, was more than
likely to carry off the pretty heiress;
if there was any truth in the rumor,
at all events bliss Carry Hodson re
rnained just .as frank and free and ag-
reeable with everybody — especially
with young men who could propose
exneclitions and amusements.
Now there was only one subject
capable of entirely upsetting this
young lady's equanimity; and it is al-
most :a pity to have to introduce it
here; for the confession mast be made
that, on this one s•uIbject, she was in
the habit of using very reprehensible
language. Where, indeed, she had
picked up so much steamboat and
backwoods slang—unless through the
'reading of Texas Siftings—it Is im-
possible to say; but her father, who
was about the sole recipient of these
outbursts. could object with but little
show of authority, for 'he was himself
exceedingly fond, not exactly of
slang; .but of these odd phrases, sant'.
times Mali -humorous, that the Amer-
icans hymn from day to day to vary
the monotony of ordinary speech.
These phrases are like getting off the
car and running alongside a little hit;
you reach your journey's enol --she
meaning of the .sentence: .all the
:ante. 1.1 lever, the chief bugbear
and grievance of Miss Carry Hod-
snn's life w'as the Boston girl as dis-
played to its in fiction: and an violent
became her detestation of that re.-
markahle young pers011 that it was
very nearly interfering with her com-
ing to .Europe.
'But, papa, dear,' she notild say, re-
garding the book before- her with
some amazement, 'will the people in
Europe think i am like that?'
'They won't think anything about
you." he would say, roughly,
'What a halve --what •a shame to
say American girls are like thatl' she
w'oeld continue vehemently. '7e
self-conscious little beasts—with their
chatter about tone, and touch, and cul-
ture! Ansi the men, --my gracious, pa-
pa, do the people in England think
that our young fellows talk like that?
"Analyze ole; formulate me!" he
cries to the girl; can't you imagine
my environment by 'tire aid of your
ow0 intuitions: —I'd analyze him
fast enough: ' Nitie different sorts of
a horn fool; and the rest imitation
Engiish prig," 1'd immolate him if
he Caine to me with his pretentious
idiot•cv; d'd show him the kind o
:hipniun'k I am.'
'You are improving, Miss Carry,
her father wvonld say, resignedly. 'Yon
are certainly. acquiring force 111 your
language; when sooner or Inter yon
will be coming nut with some of it
when you least expect it; and then
tyhetlter its you or the other people
that will get fits 1 don't know, You'll
make them jump."
'No, no, papa, dear," she would an-
swer, good-naturedly; for her vehem-
ence wars never of long dnratfon. "I
have my company planners when if
is necessary, Don't 1 know' what I
ant? Oh, yes, I do. I'm real high-ton-
ed North Side society lady; and ran
behave as -ich --when there's anybody
present. Bait when it's 0111y you and
me, papa, 1 like 01 wave the banner
little—that's a14'
This phrase of hers, about waving
the banner, had conte to mean so
many different things that her father
could not follow half of them, and so
it was handy in %vinding up a discus-
sion; and he could only remark, with
regard to her going to 'Europe, and
her „read lest she should be suspected
of resembling one o1 the imaginary
beings for whom 'he 11011 conceived
co ';rung a detestation, that really
people in Eur„pe were as bust iI ;to-
ne(' elsewhere, and Might nil show-
too absorbing an interest in declaring
.what she was like; that perhaps their
knowledge of the Boston young lady
of fiction was limited, and the matter
vol one of deep concern; and that the
best tiring she could do was to remem-
ber that she was an American girl,
1101 that she had as good a right to
dress in her own way, and speak in
her own way, and conduct herself in
her ow -n way, as any ,French, or 'tier -
man, or E'nglis'h, or Italian person
she might tweet, All of which Miss
Carry received with touch submission
--except about dress: she hoped to
he able to study that subject, with a
little attention, in Paris,
1\ cis, she watt standing there tookinq abroad in the iaiiy-like picture of
lake and wood and lontitajn—.and ;'a-.
'her ammyed, ton, than:, now she was
-stonily in the .midst of scenes that
she had prepared herself for by read -
!no. she could recollect none of the
-eadine at all, int was w•hrelly and
simply interested in the obvious
'wanly of the place itself—when slit
ieratnle censcians of a slow and steal-
thy footstep behind her, a11t1, instant-
ly turning, she discovered that at great
hnicrclorerf dog, no doubt belonging
to the hotel, had ,come down to 1110kr
her acgnaintalee. He said as notch by
1 'brief and heavy gambol, a slow
wagging of 1115 mighty tail, and the
upturned glance of his snnall, flat, le-
onine eyes. •
'Well.” she said, 'who are you?
Would you like to go for a walk?'
Whether he understood her or aro,
he distinctly led the way ---taking the
path leading along the shores of the
och towards Inver -shin; and as There
dirt not .cent to he any sign yet of
anybody moving about the hotel, she
thought she might just as well take
advantage of this volunteered escort.
Not that the mastiff -was over-com-
Municative in his •friendliness; he
would occasionally tarn round to see
if she was following; and if she called
to hint and spoke to him, he wotild
merely snake another heavy effort at
a gambol and .go on again with his
slot' -moving pace. Now and again a
shepherd's collie would came charg-
ing clown on hint 'from the hill -side.
or two or three small terriers, keep-
ing sentry at the door of a cottage,
would soddenly bl'ea'k the stillness of
the Sunday morning by the most fer-
ocious ibarkin:g at iris approach; but
he took no heed of one or the other,
'Do you know that you are an ami-
able dog—h'u't not amusing? she said
to him, when he hall to wait for her
to let hint get through a swinging
stile, 'I've got a dog at home not a
quarter as big at 3011, ,and he can talk
twice as much. 1 suppose your
1hi,ught•s are important, though
What 110 they call you? Dr, Johnson?'
He looked at her with the clear,
Sion -like eyes, hitt only for a second;
seemed to think it futile trying to un-
derstand Iter; end T11111 went on again
with his heavy, shanthlieg waddle.
And she liked the clear freshness of
the nmorning, and the novelty of be-
ing all alone by herself in the Scottish
Highlands, and of going forward as
a kind of pioneer and discoverer; and
so she walked on in much delight,
listening to the birds, looking at the
sheep, and thinking nothing at all of
breakfast, and the long day's drive
before her father and• herself.
And then a sadden 'conviction was
flashed on her mind that soitle'tltillg
was wrong. There was a man -00111-
ing rushing along the road after her—
with neither coat nor jacket on—and
as he drew near she could hear him
slopes of heather, the snow -touched
azure hl'ld:s along the horizon --+all
these looked pretty, and were peace
Tally shining on this fair morning;
and even after they had got away
frons the last trace of human habita-
tion, and were monotonously driving
through mile after mile of the wide,
boggy, hopeless peat -land, the winter
:colors were really brighter than those
of summer, and the des'olatio'n far
from overpowering. 1'1 they met with
no human beings, there were other
living objects to attract the eye. A
golden plover—standing on a hillock
not half -a -dozen yards off would go
whirring by; a red -plumed grouse -
cock would cease dusting lhimsel'f in
the road, and would he off into the
heather as they canoe along, standing
and looking at them as they passed.
,And 'so on and on they went, mile af-
ter mile, along the fair shining Strath
ferry; the morning air blowing fresh -
1y about them; the sunlight lying pla-
cidly on those wide stretches of rus-
set and golden bog -land; and now and
again a flash of dark blase showing)
where some mountain -tarn lay silent
amid the moors,
'And- you thought I should be.dis-
appointed, .paps, dear?' said ?sliss
Carry. 'or frightened by the loneli-
ness? Why, it's just ton beautiful for
anything! e\nd so this is where the
Clan Mackay lived in former days?'
'Is it?' said her father, '1 wonder
what they lived on. I dont think we'd
give much for that land in Illinois,.
I(live for it? Guess you. couldn't get a
white man to trade for that sort of
land; we'd haveto atsic Wisconsin to
take it 'and hide it away somewhere.'
'What are those things fol'?' she
asked, indicating certain tall poles
that stood at intervals along the road -
slide,
'Why don't you know? These .are
poles to tell thein where the roar] is
in the snow tilde:
`Then it is not always May in these
h a pp y latitudes?' slit e observed,
shrewdly.
He laughed,
l heard some dreadful stories; when
T
was here in January—bub I don't
believe much in weather -stories. Any-
how, we've got to take what tomes
naw; and so far there is not much to
howl about,'
And at 'last they crime in sight of
the ruffled blue w'a'ters of Loch Na-
vel.; and the long yellow promontor-
ies running out into the lake; and the
scant birch -woods fringing here and
there the rooky short; with the little
Hamlet of fiver -Missal nestling (town
there in the 'hollow; and far away in
the north 'the mountain -masses of
Bert Hope and Ben Loyal struck
white with straw, .and she teas veru
enricnrs to see the kind .of .people who
lived in these remote salitnrles; and
the pretty sloe -black eyes were' all al-
ert as the wagonette rattled along to
ward's the two or three scattered
houses; and perhaps, as they drove up
to the inn, she was wondering whe-
ther Ronald the gamekeeper, of whom
she had heard so notch, would be any-
where visible, But there was scarcely
any one there. The Sab'hath quiet lay
over the little hamlet, ldr. Murray
appeared, .however—in his Sunday
costume, of 'course --and' an ostler:
and .presently loss 'Carry and her fa-
ther were in the Sitting -room that
had been prepared for them—a great
mass of poets cheerfully blazing in
the capacious tire -place, and the
white -covered table furnisher] with a
substantias luncheon,
`And what do you thick of your
future maid?* her farther asked, whet
the pretty Nell} had left the room. ,
i think she has the s'oftesj
)(lice 1 ever heard a. woman speak
trip,' was the immediate answer,
.',Fors Snell a pretty way of talking—
and looking at yon—very ,gentle and
friendly. Bill she won't do for my
maid, papa;; she's too tall; I should
want to put a string round her neck
and lead her about like a giraffe.'
flowerer, she was pleased with the
appearance and manner of the girl,
and that ww'as something; for, oddly
enough, 'Mr. Hodson seemed to ima-
gine that he had discovered this re-
mote hamlet, and Was responsible for
it, and anxious that his daughter
s'hnnid
think well of it, .and of the
people ,she might meet in it. 'T -Te call-
ed .her attention t0 the anent of the
peat; to the neatness .with which the
joints .an the table had been &Cora't-
ed with pauper frills; to the aanIg1l055
and quiet of the sitting -room; to the
spacious character of the views from
the w'indow's—one taking ill ('lehrig
and the loch, the other reaching away
op to Ben Loyal. All these thing;: he
had provided for her, as it were; and
it must be 111(1 that .slit' was a most
excellent travelling- companion, al-
ways content, easily interested, never
nit of humor. :So, when the proposed
tiler Iln•hcon, that they should gn
dont and call on 'Rona lis Strnnng, she
.reality eonsetvted; no doubt a keeper's
!welling in these wild's .would he
something,curious—perhaps of a wig
-
yam character, anri of course filled
vith all kionss of trophies of 'his Moil=
ng,
\\'efl, they wet along to the co
age, and Mfr, Hodson knocked light -1
'Ali, you rascai1 you rascal! bolted
again?'
He seemed to pay no attention to
her; he ran past her and made
straight for:the mastiff; and in -a cou-
ple of minutes had a muzzle securely
fastened a1 the beast, and was leading
him hack with an iron chain.
'Surely that is not a ferocious clot;?
said she, as they came up—aid per-
haps she ,was ,curious to know whe-
ther site had run .any 'chance of be-
ing caller.
'The toaster had to pay five pound-
last year for his worrying sheep—the
rascal,' said the man; and the great
dog wagged his tail as if in approval,
\1'Iry, he seems a most gentle crea-
ture,' she said, walking on with the
lnari,
'Ay. and SO he i1, miss=•g110tit times.
But' he's barely three years old, and
already he's killed two collies, and a
terrier, and 'worriers three sheep.'
'Killed other dogs? Oil, Dr. John-
son!' she exclaimed,
'He's reluctant to he.gin, miss; but
when he (loos begin he matin kill—
there's no stopping him. The rascal!
he likes fine to get slipping' away 0i'
one of the gentlefolks, if he's let otT
the 711ai11 for a few (minutes—it's a
Gori'' mercy he has clone no ,harm this
utnrniu4-.-it was the ostler let hint off
the, chain—awl he'd have lost his
plata' if there had been any nlair
worrying,'
'No, no, no, he 01111(1 not' she said
confidently, '1 took the dog away, if
any Mischief hart been done, I world
have pairs --why, of course.'
'Why, of cols,' was what she really
said; but all the man knew was that
this Anteriean lady spoke a very plea-
sant voice; and seemed goon -nattered;
and was well-meaning, too, for she
wvnuirl not have had the ostler suff(1r,
Anyway, the mastiff, with as much
rli;gnily as was com'pa'tible with a
intlzale and an iron attain, was con-
ducted hack to Ifs kennel; and Mks
Hodson went into the hotel, and ex-
pressed her profound sorrow t.liat she
had kept breakfast waiting; hut ex-
plained to her father that it was not
every morning she had the chance of
exploring the i1ighlnnlds all by her-
self—or rather a'ccompan'ied by a ledge
creature ap'pare'ntly of amiable nature,
bot wtitle really dark possibilities ,at-
laChe 1,
In tine ,course of tittle the wvag'on01-
te and horses were brought alines to
the door of the little hotel; their bag-
c,atge 511. put In; and presently 111ey
had set forth on their drive through
the Mill, sunlit, solitary conntrv.
But
this was a far more pleasant jrnitiley
than his first venturing into these
wibis, '11e had been warning his
tanghten'of the bleak and savage soli-
tude she would have to encounter;
hot now it appeared quite cheerful-
-1n a subdued kind of way, es if a sort
f Sunday silence hang over 111e land-
ape. Ile pale bine waters of Loch
-111111, the beach -woods, the russet
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• DIRECTORS
Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth No. 3;
James Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox,
Londesboro; George Leon:hardt,
Bornholm No,1; John Pepper, Bruce -
field; James Connolly, Goderich;
Alex, Mc1n'iieg, Blyth No. 1; Thom-
as Moylan, Seaforth No. 5; Wm. R.
Archibald, Scaforfh '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.
ly on the door. There was no ,answwver.
IIe rapped 0 little more loucliy; then
they 'heard some one within; and pre-
sently the door was thrown open, and
Ronald Mood before ahem—a book in
one hand, a pipe •11) the other, no jack-
et covering his shirt-slee011, and• the
absence ref any neck -tie showing a lit-
tle 1111(11 than vyas necessary of the
firm set of his stun -tanned throat. He
had been caught , unawares -as his
startled eyes proclaineocU in 'fact, he
had been reading aP'aradnse ltegainied,.
and manfully r0esfs ting the temptation
to slip ort 10 0116 gracious Melody of
Li-\llegro, and Ill 1.1?enserose, and •Ly-
ciclas; and when he heard the tapping
he fancied it was merly one of the;
lades cone for a cleat Or 'the hest news-
paper, and had itl1r)e no preparations
for the reception of visitors'.
(To Be Continued)