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Zurich Herald, 1923-02-01, Page 6' Asketa, • • ,,,•-xt he .Pioneers.: BY KATHARINE SUSAMAI-I PRICHARD 4r, Arm'. • Ann Hegarty's, Davey Made hia way! She, had not told him what had hap-- te 1,vhere on an oPerk epace of land the ' pelted while Oonal 'and he were away •ehnrch had ben builVirreeford had —how the ,Schoolma,stee had, aai d to lent its lights--garigh ten three and her one des', audslenlY: rush etindles—ann the little fires •ight- "It's very dark, Deiedre, Is there •led before ,the dews "foj„. the houees to goieg 'to be Storni ?” ' keep off sand flies. 4,0(k: piasquitoee, The nenshine was blank and golden smouldered in the iitisk„ sending up 014 of doors. wreaths of blue smoke. "No," she had said, laughing. He had made tlp- his Mind as to what walere's not a sign of one." he Was goirlg to do. During the week • "Where are you?" he aelted, his Corial had been mustering and brand- voice trange and etreined. Mg the eowe and calvee drafted from "Why,. I'm here just beide you," the scrub mob. Davey had worked ,ehe replied, with him, • and' nany of • the calves he He put out • his hands. had starred with Maitland's double M. "I can't see you," he said. "It's the were the progeny of his father'a eat- dark, Deirdre! JNly God . . it's the tle. 1-Irt1f a dozen eQW,S beee the D.C. clerk." C brand under their thick hair. onal For a long time'he bad sat staring Copyright by HOddieize sued Stoughten. CHAPTER WIV, I gossipe said, • how moral and church - Davey was on his way to Steve's going he Might not make Wirreefeed when he saw that the wooden einatch' before he was done with it. with a zineereof had just been Davey waited and watehed. built in Wirreetordt was lighted, and that people were going into it, It was early evening, the sky cleat above the sharp outlines of the build- iegea few stars quivering in the lim- pid twilight. • Davey pulled up his horse to stare at the church, The his, had been building a long while. This was the were talking about the gateway when first time he had seen it up and Mary Cameron came out. finishech Davey saw her face under. the light In the paddock beside it was his for a moment, There was a shine of father's carry -all, and the grey horse tears on her cheeks,. Her figure, in beside it was Bessie, old Lass's cliugh- the grey dress he knew so well, seem - ter, A vague heart pain ,caught his ed thinner than it used to be. Her lit - breath. The wind brought the strain tle straw bonnet . was grossed down . of a• plaintive hymn. They must be close on her head, her shawl 'drawn inside, his mother and father, he told over her shoulders. She hurried, from himself. He got off his horse and led the church without speaking to any - her into the deep shadow the paling one. He saw hex, hand flutter out to • fence threw. A longing to see them the post by the door as she felt for seized him. He stood there trying to the step. hear their voices. "She's been ming and saying her After a moment he thought he could prayers for me," he told himself :with hear his mother's voice, frail and pain and self-reproach. sweet, in the singing. He remembers, He waited to. see Donald Cameron ed how she had sung to him once, how come from the church and join her. she had, sung over her spinning wheel A girl—a fair-haired girl—detached and the quaint little song it was. The tune of it went flying through his brain with the tap -tap of the spinning wheel. How gay and dear her voice had been. He remembered how he used to love as a child to sit clutching at her dress when she sang like that. And the old man! In that moment of ' loneliness he forgot the hard speaking and bitterness there had been between him and his father. A wave of tend- erness overwhelmed him. Pride and a longing for their love struggled in When the people came tiling out of had wanted to pay him off. He had while 1ie knelt beside him, crying, the deorwey, he edged along the fence told Davey- that there wee no need for murmuring eagerly and tenderly, try- st) that he could see their faces as they him to burn hisfingers with this bust- ing to soothe and to comfort him. But passed under the flare ef an oil -aa nese, and that he could run the mob from that time the dimming and °h- over the door, to the 'border, or to Melboorne, across literating of the whole world had be - There were not many of them, two the mann), if the south-eastern rivers ' gun for him. or three women and, children, and an were down; but he was shertohanded,1 The heavy darkness had passed. It old man or two. They gathered, and Davey knew; a sense of obligation :was not all night yet, but a misty twi- urged him to stick to Conal until the light. He had forbidden her to speak whole of the mob they had moonlight- of It, so that Davey aid not know. ed together was disposedof, Conal and Steve had guessed, but Conal had insisted on ,getting the' Davey's mind, busy with its own prob- cows and calves into a half-timberedllems, was slower to realize what was paddock below Steve's, the day before, going (m about him. It had' roused and had run a hundred of Meitland's every loyal and fighting instinct in fattened, beasts with them. He meant him to see his mother with that look to make a start ,and have the niob en:of suffering on her face; his father the road e _early next moaning. in the,way of becoming McNab's prey • There was a race -meeting in the ' —losing all that he had gained long paddock behind MeNab's that 'through years of toil and harsh integ- Friday. linty by falling into the pigs' trough Conal and he had come into the Wir-IMcNab had set for him, ree to show themselves before starting It was that etern righteousness of off 011 their overland jot -alley. .A.Imost hie, his sober, stolid virtue, which had every man in the countryside was given Cameron the place in the respect there. . and grudging homage of the country - Davey wonderd why the School- side that his wealth and property master had not come down to the alone would not have won for him;- herself from the little gathering about township with Conal and himself. He they had cloaked even his meanness the gate and went towards her. "Oh, there you are, IVIrs. Cameron, dear," she said. "I was waiting to help you put Bess in!" Davey knew her voice. It was Jessie Ross. His heart gave a throb of grati- tude. The young parson came out and slammed the church door behind him. Davey's glance 'flew to the paddock. He could see his mother's grey -clad figure moving about among the ve- him witha physical hurt beyond en- lucles and the horses. • "The old man's not with her. She's harnessing upherself," he thought. "Where is he, I wonder? She wouldn't have come ,clown alone." He saw the heavy buggy, his mother sitting erect in it, go out along the road. He followed at a little distance, The buggy halted before the Black Bull. A dozen horses, dogs lying Env and silent at their heels, were tethered to the posts before it, The bar was open and noisy with men drinking. They were gathered' about its narrow bench- es like flies. From the gaping doors a garish light fell. But it was, out of range of the light that Mary Cameron had drawn up her horse. She sat very still. The outlines of the vehicle were • ruled black against the starlight which • restedwanly on her figure and on the sturdy, .grey horse. "What on earth is she waiting for?" Davey asked himself. durance. He determineci to stand there and wait to see them come out of church. Friday night services after the cat- tle sales were an institution as new as the church. They had been organ- ized so that christenings, in"arriages, and some soul -saving into the bargain, might be done while the hill folk were down for the sales. McNab had done his best to move the parson who had accepted the Wirree as his cure of souls, but the young man stuck like a limpet, and there was no telling, the NVENTORS Manufacturers always consider good inventions. Fortunes are made from New Ideas to suit modern times. Sand for free list of Ideas and Ciroula.rs. 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The clear sweetness of his,mother's voice came to 'the boy's ears. "No," Donald, Cameron said un- steadily. "There's no woman living will drive me while I can lay hands on the reins." The four -wheeler moved away over the long winding road to the hills. Davey was stupefied. "So McNab's got him," he muttered, glancing at the ramshackle shanty. The sign -board of the Black Bull, with red eyes on its dingy white ground, was just visible. The glare from the bar lighted it. • "That's why she goes to •ehureh alone. The old man's drinking," he thought. He turned to look after the buggy, It was bumping and jolting over the ruts and barking the road -side. Dafey • held his breath; he saw the mare buck and then take the leg 'culvert over the creek two or three hundred yards from McNab's. "He's not fit to drive," .he told him- self, and -swinging into his saddle, set off down the road. "He'll turn the wheel on a log, or drive off the -road. She knows. That's why she *wanted to c1 rive.' He followed at a little distance all the way through the hill's. Sometimes he heard his mother's voice, patient' and. yet edged with a weariness and despair, exclaiming: "Mind there's a bad rut to the left!" or "You're driv-I ing too near the edge of the road, Donald!" But steadily, without reference to either of them, the little horse kept to the track. Davey followed' them all the way home, to the very gates of the house in which he was born. Then he turned back into the shade of the, trees again. Once hie mother had , looked round and seen the watchful horseman. She had not been near 1 enough to see his faoe. He rode in the shadows. But he had seen her face, had been a different man since their with a sombre dignity and brought return, very silent, scarcely stirring .hirn the half -jesting title of the Laird from his their in the back Tome, while of Ayrmuir. 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By asking the miller to give oven. their own instruments Eke the primi- your wheat what is called "the first Raisin ioaf is combineci the same as tive peoples, they would love playing crack" you will have a iii tioua. and plain loaf with one cup of chopped highly delightftd breakfast id Cook raisins added. this the same as :cream of wheat and Boston brown hread-1 qt. good but - you 4,11 ask for nothing better. termilk, Se cup melted :shortening, 1 Hot graham -gems are a welcome ad- tspn. salt, 2 tspns. soda and 1 tspn. dition to the bre.akfast table en a cold baking powder, 1 --cup molasses or morning. In one family where the sorghum, 1 cup white flour, 1 cup cern mother was a splendid:cook theswriter meal, 1 cup rye meal. recalls that when winter epproached One egg and enough graham flour to the main part of the Sunday morning make stiff batter. Steam three hours breakfast was always baked potatoes, in pudding basin er baking powder and graham gems. When you have cams and bake twenty minutes in me - baked beans for supper try serving dium even. hot graham gems or Boston brown bread with. them. Educational Value of Music to Little Sandwiches from grahan loaf and , • Children. filled with cold roast pork, cheese, or With a profound belief in the educe - jelly, are ideal for the school lunch tional value ef music to .little children, box. Mrs Statis. N. Coleman of New York For those troubled with peer diges- thought that children should first be tion the best bread is made.Veith yeast taught music without note reading. sponge and part or all ,grsihern flour. "Why not," she said, deliberately, "em - The following are a few recipes for ploy the child's natural way of learn - various forms of graham 4.eeed, for a ing until the physioal process becomes family of six: easy?" Plain graham loaf -1 qt. ,g od but- Mrs. Coleman says initiative singing termilk, 1/4, cup melted shortening, 2 may begin as soon as a child ,begins to tsps. soda and one tsp. bakingsPowder, talk, or even before. Simple dancing eup molasses or sugar, 1 ctip white at three or four results in the °Alva - flour or one egg. est. tion of rhythm. Mrs. Coleman then Add one tsp. salt and eriagh gra- had the idea of treating her ,children ham flour to make a batter that will as little savages. They could, under- Eiven a sick child loves the "fruitY" taste of "California rig Syrup." If the little stomaoh, is upset, tongue coated, Or if your child is crose, feverish, fula of cold, or has colic, a teaspoonful will never fail to open the bowels, In a few berme you can see for yourself how thoroughly it works all the constipa- tin poison, sem, bile and waste from the tender, little bowels and gives you a well, playful elhild again. • Millions of mothers keep ""California lPig Syrep" handy. They know a tea- epoonful to -day saves a sack child to- morrow. Ask your druggist for gen- tile "California Pig Semi" which liar direethme for babies and children of all oges Printed on bottle. Mother! You must say "California" or you Mae get an imitation fig syrup, and it was a revelation to him. A woman must have a good deal of courage to drive beside a drunken maw in the hills at night, he knew. The look o» her face hurt him. There were' death gaps at a 'dozen places on the road; and, Donald Cameron was as stubborn as a mule. Neither the mare, nor his wife, could have saved him if ho had taken it into his head to drive m any given directioe. Davey wondered how nten his mother had driven like this before. He vowed that she weuld never do it' egain—if be could help it. CHAPTER XXXV. Aftee the sales on the following Fri- day, when the (lest of the yards was heavy in the air, and the stock horses' stood in irregular, drooping lines out - d th 131 k 13 11 au Ili "/ , 4, • •,N,1 , „.i o neg., , "•es, see s •-• them. • From the child's own savage level, she Would gradually lift him to . higher forms. He svould understand each stage as he reached for it, and his work always be at his own level. Mrs. Coleman believes that it is pos- sible for a child to reoeive from his mother and father in the home in the first seven years of his life musical training without set lessons or 'prac- tice hours that will be of greater value to him than twice seven years' study in any conservatory after he is grown. Mrs. Coleman's tiny pupils began at. the drum and rattle stage, played Pan pipea until they found out the principle ,of the flute, made the shoul- der harp of the Egyptians until they discovered how resonance could be found for ,strings, strummed the lyre and primitive harp, and learned how one string could be made to play mare than one note and so made and played upon primitive fiddles and lutes and Dye Any'Garment or Old Drapery in Diamond Dyes Buy "Diamond Dyes" and follow the simple dire,otions in every package Don't wonder whether you can dye oi tint successfully, because -perfect home dyeing is guaranteed with Diamond Dyes even if you have never dyed be- fore. Worn, faded dresses, skirts waists, coats, sweaters, stockings, draperies, hangings, everything, be- come like new again. Just tell your druggist whether the material yon wish,to dye Is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never 'streak, spot, fade, er ran. • Seekers. 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