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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-10-16, Page 8THE SWALLVit . 13y MARY RAYMOND SHIT :IAN ANDREWS. IV, "The Boches are good killing," he had elueidated to his officer. And finally; "It is well "m'sieur, the col - ere: 'ed a third. Hirondelle waved him on, and with that there was a fou- h. And a fifth, Behold a sixth. Abr',t then Hirondelle judged it wise encl. One failed to 'understand that to ve more orders to hie imaginary the colonel prefers a live Bodme'to a squ'.1 of eixteen. Hut such a panic dead one. Me, 1 'am ot'hemnvise. It had seized tile German mob that little appears a vermin to let live .such ver- acting was necessary. Dark figure lain. Has the colonel, by chance, heard followed dark figure out of the darker the things these savages did in Bel- night—arms up. They whimpered as giuin? Yee? But then— Yet I will they came, and on am,d on they Dame bring to rmi sieur, the colonel all there out of the shadows. Hirondelle stated is to be desired of German pr�!soners that he began to think the Crown alive—en vie; fat odes; en masse." Prinee'•s army was surrendering to. That night Hirondelle was sent out him. At dant, when the procession with four of his fellow Hurons to get, stopped, he—and his mythical sixteen if possible, a prisoner. Pretty soon marched the entire covey, without he was separated from the others; all any objection from them, only abject but himself returning empty-handed obedience, to the French trenches. in a couple of hours. No Germans The colonel, with this whining seemed to be abroad. But Hirondelle crowd weeping about him, with Hir- eoeid not return. ondelle's erect figure confronting him, "He risks too far," grumbled his his black eyes regarding the cowards captain. "He has been captured at with scorn as he made his report— last, I always knew they would kill the colonel simply could not under - him, one night" ; stand the sttu'at,ion. All these men! But that was not the night. At one What are you :soldiers?" he flung o'clock there was suddenly a sound of at the wretched group. And one ans- lamentation in the front trench of wered. "No, my officer. We are not the. French on that sector. The eel- soldiers; we are the cooks." At that tilers who were sleeping crawled out there was a wail. "Aeh! Who, then, of their holes in the sides of the trench will the breakfast cook for my genal walls, and crowded around the zigzag, al? He will schrecl.lich angry be for narrow way and rubbed their eyes and his sausage and his sauerkraut." officers' degrees the eolonel got the story. listened to the laughter of of and soldiers on duty. There was ILir- A number of cooks had combined to ondelle solemn as church, yet with protest against new regulations, and t;a ,.,i light in his eyes. There, the general, to punish this astonuding :amend him, crowded as sheep e a insubordination,bordition, had sent them out unarmed, petrified with terror, into shepherd, twenty figures in Germnan No Man's Land for an hour. They had uniform stood with hands up and wet there encountered Hirondelle. Hiron- tears running down pasty cheeks, And delle drew the attention of the colonel they were fat, it was notu•eable that to the fact that he had promised prix - el] of them were bulging of figure otters, fat ones. "Will my colonel re- heyoml even the German average. Burd the shape of these pigs," sug- They wailed "Kamerad! Gut Kamer- p"Ani eke ad!'' in a chorus that was Bickering etheyare twentylin number. Enough to the p;ucky poilu makeup. mi.- en masse for one man to take, is it e; iemh interrogated of /natty, kept not my colonel?" } s hnt til] rite first excitement The little dinner -party at the Fron- I,.:c i Them T revert to nmy col- tenac discussed this episode. "Almost (-eel he tstel, and truuly he and too good to. be true, colonel," I oh - as twenty were led batik through the jetted. "You're sure it is true? Brim dine trench, and the colonel was out your Hirondelle.' He ought to be welted to receive them. This was homwounded, with a war-eross on v hat had happened: Hirondelle had his breast. by now." r' d about.- mstiy on his stem- The colonel smiled- and shook his ' i n gh the amaeneee mid peial of head. "It is that which I cannot do— SNAP-SHO S Your roll developed 10 cents. Prints from 3 cents up. Enlargomente any size. Highest woi'lunansbfp, Post- age Paid, COODFELLOW & BALCOMB 10 Heintzman St. - Toronto gathered shape and power. '"I will show him to you, colonel," I took up the challenge, "]f You will allow me." I turned to the others. "Isn't it pes- sible for you all to eall a"truce and come up to -morrow to my club to be my ,guests for as long or as short a time as you will? I can't say how much pleasure it would give me, and I believe I could give you something also—great fishing, shooting, a moose, likely, or at least a caribou—and Ra- fael. I promise Rafael. Itis not un- likely, colonel, that he may have known the Iiirondelle. The Hurons are few. Do •come," I threw at them. They took it after their kind. me Englishman stared and murmured:' "Awfully kind, I'm sure, but quite impos lible." The Canadian, our next bf kin, smiled, shaking his head like a brother. Fitzhugh put his arm of brawn about me again till that glor- ious star gleamed almost on my own shoulder, and patted .me lovingly as he said: "Old son, I'd give my eyes to go, if I wasn't up to my ears in job." But the Frenchman's dark face shone, and he lifted a finger that was Bike a sentence. It spoke reflection and eagerness and suspense. The rest of us gazed at that finger as if it were about to address us. And the colonel spoke. "I t'ink," brought out the col- onel emphatically ""I t'ink I damn go." And I snatched the finger and the hand of steel to which it grew, and wrung both. This was a delightful Frenchman. "Goodl" I cried out. "Glorious! I want you all, but I'm mightily pleased to get one, Colonel, you're a sport." "But, yes," agreed the colonel hap- pily, "I am sport. Why not? I haf four days to wait till my sheep sail. Why not kip—haw you gay?—kip in my hand for shooting—go kill moose? I may talk immensely of zat moose in France—hein? Much more chic as to kill Germans, n'est-ce-pas? Every- body kill Germans." At o'clock next day the out -of - breath little train which had gasped up mountains for five hours from Quebec uttered a relieved shriek and stopped at a doll -house club station situated by itself .in the wilderness. Four or five men in worn but clean. suddenly show you my Hirondelle. Not here, clothes—they always start clean— tt.•• v. hr n y and not in France, by malheur. For waited on the platform, and there was 1 n . , ant m mans and he rentured once too often and too a rapid fire of "Bon jour, m'sieur," as „tasif - lea! had 00 far. as the captain prophesied, and he we alighted. Then ten quick eyes took riga e m eer •°re tiara That is dead, Gad rest the brave! Also imm my colonel in his horizon -blue uni- tl:d not mearh. hire. He eq'laine.m to a Croix de Guerre is indeed his, but form. I was aware of a throb of the ..oloneI that he felt. "more free.' no Hirondelle is there to claim it." interest. At once there was a scurry Abe that if he pulled off a success The silence of a moment was a for luggage because the train must be he would have -more glory." After salute to the soul of a warrior passed held till it was off, and the guides two hours of this midnight amuse- to the happy hunting -grounds. And ran forward to the baggage -car to ment, in deadly danger every second, then I began on another story of Ra -`1 help. I bundled the colonel down a llrronde'.le heard steps. He froze to fael's adventures which something in sharp. short hill to the river, while the earth, as he had learned from wild the colonel's tale suggested. smiling,- observant Hurons, missing thim g in North Ameri t t forests The The colonel. his winning face all not a line of braid or a glitter of but - step . carie ne t c.r. A stn ..hull away a -smile, interrupted. "Does one he -1 ton, passed with bags and pacquetons down the line lighted the scene so that !leve, then, in this Ra'ael of m'sieuras we descended. The blue and black Ilirondclle, inetienless on the ground. who caps me each time my tales of. and gold was loaded into a canoe with :II keev eyes, saw two Germans eons- my Huron Hirondelle? It appears to an Indian at bow and stern for the ir.F; toward him. Instantly he had a me that m'sieur has the brain of a three-mile paddle to the club -house. s,henmm•. In a subdue:l growl, yet dis- story -teller and hangs good stories on He was already a sehoolboy on a holi- tinetiy, he threw over his shoulder an a figure which he has built and nanmedday with unashamed enthusiasm. order that eight men should go to the so—Rafael, Me, I cannot believe there} "But it is fun—fun, zis," he shout - right and eight to, the left. Then, on exists this Rafael. I believe there is ed to me from his canoe. "And lequel, hie feet. he sent •into the darkness a only one such gallant d'Artagnan of,m'eieur, which is Rafael?" stern "Halt!" Instantly there was a the Hurons, and it is—it was—myRafael, in the bow of my boat, sputter, arms thrown up, the inevit- Hirondelle. Show me your Rafael, i missed a beat of his paddle. It seem - able "Kamerad!" and Hirondelle erd- thenl" demanded the colonel. I ed to me he looked older than two ered the first German to pass him, At that challenge the scheme which years back, when I last saw him. His then a second. Out of the darkness had flashed into my mind an hour ago shoulders were bent, and his merry ___..-.._ and stately_ personality was less in evidence. He appeared subdued. He dill not turn with a smile or a grave glance of inquiry at the question, as I had expected. I nodded toward him. "Mals oui," cried out the colonel. "One Inas heard of you,,mon ami. One will talk to you later of shooting." Rafael, not lifting his head, answer- ed quietly: "C'est been, m'sieur." Just then the canoes slipped past a sandy bar decorated with a fresh moose track; the excitement of the colonel set us laughing. This man was certainly a joy! And with that, after the long paddle down the wind- ing river and across two breezy lakes, we were at the club -house. We lunch- ed, and in short order -for we wanted to make ramp that night—I dug into my pacquetons and transformed my officer into a sportsman, his huge de- light in Abernethy & Flitch's crea- tions being a part of the game. Then we were off. One has small chance for assoeiat ing with guides while travelling in the woods. One sits in a canoe between two. but if there is a wind and the boat is charge their hands are full with the small craft and its heavy load; when the landing is made and aeaaameaesems's' the "messieurs" are debarques, in- ".ease—"mas"es 9' stantly the men are busy lifting can- oes on their heads and packs on their backs in bizarre, piled -up masses to i... r be carried from a leather tumnp-line, n; a 'strap of two inches wide going around the forehead. The whole length of the spine helps in the carry- ing. My colonel watched Delphise, a husky specimen, load. With a grunt he swung up a canvas U.S. mail bag stuffed with butin, which includes clothes and books and shoes and to- bacco and cartridges and more. With a half -syllable Delphise indicated to Laurent a bag of potatoes weighing eighty pounds, a box of tinned biscuit, a wooden package of cans of con- densed milk, -a rod ease, and a rain- coat. These Laurent added to the spine of Delphise. "How many pounds?" I asked, as the dark heart bent forward to equal- ize the strain. Delphise shifted weight with an- other grunt to gauge the pull. "About a hundred and eighty pounds, in'sieur —quite heavy—assez pesant." Off he trotted uphill, head bent forward. The colonel was entranced. "Hardy fellows—the making of fine soldiers," he commented, tossing his rigazette away to stare. (To be continued.) Much of the high eost.of liviing is due to the fact that many folks de- pend on others to do things that might better be done by themselves. i3iaard's velment rer -sale ".c.y.. rABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD 01, Thrift In the Schools. Increasingly insistent is- the demand that the schools of this Dominion teach citizenship—that they equip the child to do the frill dusty of a good citizen.. 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"You're late, John," said Millie. "Yes, dear; I miesed the flve-forty D.H.from the ' Battersea Park take- off, Jones brought me Nome on that neat little Itmiociiabont space he's just. bought. Smna11 two -neater, you know. Then I walked from the ''theme just to stretch myself. Those planettee em'anmp YOU ,901." "Oh, I'd just love to have an steam - Nanette like that!" exclaimed Millie. "Mrs. Smith says she simply couldn't- do without hers, now, She can pop- up to town, do her shopping and get back in an afternoon." "Um—that pilot of theirs," went on Millie, "seems just as safe with the: 'pup' as he is with their great twin - engined bus." Yes,' said John; "dust be quite an undertaking getting Smith's tri plane on the sky way. It's useful for a fancily party. I hear he packed. twenty or thirty into it for the .picu'ic: at John -o' Groat's last week. By the ay, aren't the Robinsons coming to wdinner?" "Yes," you'd better hurry up and change," said Millie. The Robinsons wore very up-to-date people, -John decided, as they at down to the meal. Iie had not met therm beforere "Very glad to know such near neigh- bors," lie said cordially. "Why, it can't bo more than forty miles to your place, I should think," "It is just forty-seven kilometers, to bo exact," Robinson volunteered. "Wo did It without any trouble at all in something under twenty minutes." "Quite toed flying I call that," said John. "We came by time valley route, too," put in Mrs, Robinson. "John was good enough to consider my wretched air - pocket nerves rather than his petrol" "It's a couple of miles farther," ex- plained,Robinson, "but my wife isn't such a stout flyer as her toolbar, though the old lady is over seventy. My pilot was bringing her from town last week—took the Dorking -Leith Hill airway, you know, always bumpy over there—and I euppoee from all :ac- counts he must have dropped her a lima dred feet plumb, side -slipped and got into a -spinning dive and only pulled the old bus out again wizen they could count the furrows in a plonghed 11010. Tho old lady just leaned forward in her seat and, when James hors adjust- ed his headpiece, she tapped hint on the shoulder and coolly reprimanded (tint for stunting without orders." With the dessert camp letters by the late poet. "Oh, please excuse me," said Millie, es she tool. them from the maid. "I see there's a reply from auntie --the Edinburgh aunt, you know," she ex- plained. 'I wrote her this morning, Imploring her to come over to -morrow for the bazaar." "What niy wife's aunt doesn't know about flying isn't worth knowing," re - marled John, "and she'll never see forty again. How's that for an up-to- date aunt?" Just at that moment a peculiar noise, evidently very near the house, arrested the, attention oi' the Marty. "Sounded like something breaking," said Millie. John had already gone out to investigate, In a minute or two he reappeared, ushering in ti jolly old gentleman/ln a flyst. "Aing thousand pardons, Mrs. Green," Said the new arrival. "John collected me in the paddock. Iia! ha! You know my theory about the paddock." "Well, the theory's smashed, any- how," said John decisively, "and sols my fence" "Nol No! I won't hear it," laughed Brown; "I admit the fence, but not the theory. You see." he went on, turning to Mrs. ttobinsan, "I've always insisted, as Green Knows, that there's plenty 00 lauding space in his paddock, provided you do it up wind, The fact is I was a couple of points out in my reckoning and so failed to stop the old bus short of time fence. You know,, Green,' he added, with an injured air, "you ought to have a wind -pointer $o there'd be no doubt about it." "Just to encourage reckless old gentlemen to smash up my premises, I suppose," retorted John. "But I ad. mit I found some consolation for my smashed fo me when I observed the pathetic appearance of. your under carriage after your famous landing. A Prayer For Little Home. God send us a little home, To come back to, when we roam. Low walls, and fluted tilos, Wide windows, a view for miles. Red firelight and deep chairs, Small white beds upstairs— Great talk in little nooks, Dim colors, rows of books. One picture on each wall, Not many things at all.. God send us a little ground, Tall trees standing round. Homely flowers in brown soil, Overhead, thy stars, 0 God. God bless, when winds blow, Our hone, and all we know. When arranging ;pillows far an in- valid nvalid try putting two lengthwts:e with one crasewise at leap for the hears This arrangement will give a good deal of comfo:ct.