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About the House,
BY KAtti
NE SO SA NNAH PR!CkIAR.D
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Copyt•I by i:iod der .and Stoughton
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Again his voice, hoarse and impa-
Donald end • Mary Cameron' ere earn- tient, carie from the darkness on the
ing a home out of the AusLriiliatr wilds. edge of the clearing.
When little Davidwas four `months 'old Siie pulled back the belts and threw
his father set off to Port Southern for open the door.
fresh supplies. On rho cyan ,rth day "Yes," she called.
two gaunt and ragged glen, one of Donald loomed out of the darkness•.
them wounded, entered ,the hurt, Mary Across the clearing, by the swinging
offered them unstinted hospitality light of a lantern before the wagon,
F r;»�.� r✓ and heard the story of tld i-.—capo she dimly saw its white shape, arid
Care of the Growing Child in big form of the :doctor appeared in the from the Island prison, •;rage the the moving backs of cattle.
treachery of McNab who had Premised, Her arms went out to Donald when
.Summer. doorway. „ „ to befriend them—at a 1�``ice , She gives he"Where's
stood before her.
The age from two to sax has been Good morning, laclies,r� he said. Is them some; of her husbeed's clothing. Where s the dog?"he asked.
• "Dead" .she said ricer .
childhood. The "batter babies'" cru- Go along with your Mrs Robinson, CHAPTER U (Cont d ? ace as she
fell.back, ,he learnt that ,someing
designated as the neglected age of 'Vire. Robinson a home? quietly. Y
„ From her eyes and
Field " Aunt Delia Davis replied
her f
sades of the past few years have re- Willy , , The tall man glanced from •Donald s unusual had happened.
-suited in the proper are of babies "Yoe. know it's buckwheat •c'akes, you're heavy boots 'to Steve's °brsesed and `"Then there has been trouble?" he
b th thoroughly scattete I believe he11 a gleamed, ed f t said.
broadcast, h le recent health surveys h 1
Dein • rather ter. ; e have can ernell aeken . ee .
mile away! I changed the day on "You had better put on allose Yom' She nodded.
win is
w r baht he smelled em out." self," Mazy said, folio g' g once,
in ,our schools have resulted in par- purpose, He �sw�p�t his hat off with a great
ents watching more carefully the "I didn't suppose that you were "Perhaps he could wear mine" sigh.
health of the school; child. capable of suoh ignoble trapping of She sat down and took ori; her Shoes. `But you're all right, you and, the
The child is laying the foundation Your fellow creatures, Aunt Dele. But W'hil'e he measured her -shoe against'�rairm?"
A since you ins'ist—T observe there is an Steve's foot, she slipped her feet into• ayes
for good 'heal :h m the pre-school yearsY a broken pair of green -hide -covers "When the deg did not fly out as
and must be watched carefully if the extra plate laid! Only three lumps, clamped with nails that Do' `Id' had we got near dile house I thought some
foundation; is to be well laid. Of please; I've sworn off." made. thing had happened. There are tales
course no child cangrow properly un- "]'irs•ten to ham! Aunt Delia ex- "They will be right for*` ;m," he in the Poet -of two men from Hobaat
' p Y claimed. "When I've lectured him an' said. ' "I'll waken hitn:.now' and we'll
less it has the proper food. However, • Town, escaped convicts,. having taken
food alone will not keep the child lectured, him about eating era moth geton
took the our breed that had' been to the hills. Their boat was' found in
growing properly unless other fluids,- sweet! Don't you touch those cakes, browning • on the hearth stfand the Wirree. I tried to get (back sooner,
mentals are properly adhered to. Wilily Field. I m goring to fry some fearing they might come this way, but
p' p hot ones"
put it on -the
table,•, The }reit was .he roads were •bad and th'n there
filled with the waxrn sweet `sin?evil of haven't hadan easy
There must be plenty of sleep in a Aunt Delia hurried into the kitchen were the cattle. I ha
quiet, well ventilated• room.• the newly�baked loaves. minute since I've been away. But we
ey
Quite often during' the hot weather and left file doctor and her niece smi1- "You can change in here while I can talk later. There's a boy come
my little lad of three has a bath be- ing at each ether, put Davey to asleep outside," she said: with ire,' driven' the cattle. 1 got a
fore dinner. Then after dinner I take "Hit's a terrible thing, Miss "And there's a pail of water and soap mob, cheap, from a man whose stock -
off
e Eleanor" the doctor observed,. "T can't there .by the doorway, it :, i]1 -do you reran had cleared out and left them on
th the xoom in the I rn a man. She thinks I m still a of his, adY, g
windows are
small barefoot youngster souring for of advice; womanl laugh its esseneepand .shed' now. You can ;get what you want
house far his nap. The w .�, , `y' • . � fromit. Theme's cornedmeat and oat -
^e over the habit
ofT ala clothing but underwear, or put
on a thin nightgown and put him on , re
all open,•permitting a circulation of the milk. She cant get �� delivered. with an .air of inateinal meal and flour for a year. We'll' put
air. During extreme hot weather the of fillpvg my pocket with cookies. He "s,01icituirle, touched a forgotten well the cattle into the rented paddock and
little fellow has another bath 'before helped himself from the plate in front B. Tin
yg of merriment. then Coins down. aYoune can clear out
gcnng to bed early in the evening. The
warm bath is restful and induces
Sleep.
The child should drink plenty of
water during hot weatiher. By all
means` avoid eating between meals.
Ice cream and the popular between
-
meal dainties may be given occasion-
ally at meal time, but are harmful be-
tween meals.
Children of this age are quite apt to
play too hard and 'become over tired.
They should be watched, and not ala chin to a modest beard, and shorn his
lowed to run around too long in the agreed. "Say, Aunt Dele, if you keep head of some of its shock of •hair.
hot sun. Devise sitting games in the on you'll be areal cook some day. "You have the air of a daffy young
But why, Eleanor interrupted; Englishman just arrived ie the Col
whale for a part of the time, especial''why `Mss Robinson'?" onies to' make your fortune," • she said.
ly during the hottesthadts of the clay. "Ma'am,isn't that what;1 ?''"
The doctors syrup jug in hand, look- , .
A sand' pilehth a shady place pend it in ly "Sure There was a blithe,reckles
ed across. art her P Yt �' y
d his voice.;,. He.sinTr,.her.tri,
boom for h p enough, you axe too young. Aunt Dele, ,considered Inc
earth. Our children spend
many hours playing,in the ,reek' not how does, the present generation exist' was gallant.
the1 Theyt n country
make that aunt of yours realize that
no harm to dowse with it." ' his hands. Get us something to eat
, The tall man laughed :It was a bay- I'll abrin the wagon up to the
e floor in coolest
of him. `But ail the name," he added Mary lifted D.ays into her arms, the wagon enough to put a sheepskin.
as Aunt Delia name in with a pile of and ;sang to him 'softly as she walked or two and a blanket in it for John -
golden -brown cakes, "the joke as on up and down in the sunshine. son"
you, Mrs, Robinson" A long,. straggling'figure came to He turned away and went back into
"Who's slink?" Aunt Delia asked. her a few moments later, clad in Don-
, -the night.
"No, the other' jug has the maple aldr's clothes. She smiled to see the Mary threw more wood an the fire.
As she put on her skirt and bodice,
she heard the wagon laboring forward.
She was out getting the flour and
bacon she wanted from it by the light
of a lantern, when, with a rattling of
horns and- a thunder of hoofs, the cat-
tle .beat.past her along the track be-
hind the sheds. The lantern light gave
a vie on of fierce, bloodshot eyes of
terror in a sea of tossing backs, of
Moving flanks,.; and branching. ,horns,
She heard her husband's: voice, hoarse
and yelling, the voice' of the strange
youth, and the cracking of whips and
elptng of doge _ for • nearly an hour.
•user ardS� -' their . ti,:ed , to,. get the
• beasts' into the fenced paddock. on the h
syrup. Who's sick, Willey?"
"Little Mamie Randall. Feld off the
chicken -house moor and broke her leg."
"Sakes alive, you don't mean it! The
poor little mite! You atop. in to -night,
and I'll have • a ;basket for you."
"You bet you will, the doctor
way they hung •short of''his, ankles,
hitched over 'the long, thin • legs. But
the dowsing of creek water had done
more than cleanse his .body; iii -an in-
definable way it had purified and
stimulated the inner man. He had
found Donald's shears, too, and had
clipped the shaggy growth -about his
fax from rause. pu °. without knowing its Swiss .Family?"
bathing suits and dig and splash in the 1a Steve appeared:..in• the doorv}
shady creek bottom and enjoy that' Oh, I know now. I m .better. edueat- "Are you going now? she d,
ed than you give the credit for being; He nodded, immensely., Dr. Field: You mean that Aunt Delia "But I must give you sono bread
One wise mother of pry acquaint -
has a magic bag!" and milk' to take with you," she said.
once, who was quite famous far ,her e :