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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1877-09-07, Page 24.-ee _ QN EX,PC)SIT*0114 S PIPER: est nightands. R - tebusiness-most e Duke's' piper anal kejer were the best ey nevet met at the Gien- - butthey1had their " glass " when friends met, such wa astonishing how t led tit steps of both men ohitnn y-eheele of Betty lachan the glass had to pret often before the And a Betty knew ftd1 Came on the piper, and 'ravish the game -keeper, mers 1 the year round, pon.wh ra no adulterated could impose, Bette was hat :to thein at least nothing of w skey and stoup - urea -.erring, if tjey erred at all, on the roomy,eide-sho d be served. The resultnatural of su h companionship mutual cow ption of frequent gills was that !ohn 1 ed Donald like - inee4e-t " whil Donald. frequent- esserea john, as t ey stumbled over new together in the &timing, or often when the orned moon was that net one f his own eight as to be entioned in the th with olue.-0,e regard - game -keep r's, emotions to - en, were ataluoky Au Muni frora the t4t milk he twe friends 1 t, loud- & other g1ssstood the al es, -wi -oust gnarled saY interPr this bef ba -visaged reckoned half had spent thaast thr in' it bit o' aukL cany A Sluaigh, eleas bho'vedj her to be polite, apeaunt the liberal rent he or rbest roane. The gentleman iTt frie chair with a, tumbler of whis- Ole Ure their Betty's feelings, n evening on byre, where she solitary cow, to ;the midst of a outhed both, and across the table, cost empty teems - k expressions on. faces that could tation be terraed re a third guest, gentleman whom aft, seeing that he e weeks' "splash - ss wi' paint, and but to whora it _ era water before him, taking little part in the discussion, but smoking diligently with a broad. grin, as Betty noted indignantly as she went " ben " with her :knitting, soery to hear the voices of the disputants waxing louder and loader. Betty had a feminine dis- like of argument, arguments in the &when were generally the prelude to • blows. Her idea of a " good. cra,ck " ad.- mitted only of varying shades, not dif- ferences of opinion ---.softened by fre- qnent application to , the bottle -a good. story being not one -whit the less wel- i come because oft -told. But here were Man and Donald glazing at each other with knit brews, and John, who could, never brook contradiction, `' bringing s massive fist dorm on the tbable so that thestoup-measure and glasses swayed. - "Ye're wrang, Tortola, I tpll ye again ye're wrang-it wass lilted. !" The garae-keeper thus addressed only shook his bald head ewly trona side to • f4 side, remarking after a pause, with a smile of superior -, knowledge that seemed to fain the ft me of his friend's anger : "Na, • John., na, ; it iss nefer biled." "But it As biled, and iss aye biled. , lira telling ye, and biled in sweet milk I too. I'm not like Scane folk, Sir," said the piper, turning to address the atrazi- , : ger in. the arra-chair, "that talk a lot I & nonsense apoot what they kenenaath- ing apoot." - "Whether his oil -cake was boiled. or not boiled," said the stranger, "the bull ie as fine an animal as I have seen in the Highlands ; though I was not sorry, as 1 sketehed him., to have the stzett,ra arta a good. steep bank between "Note John, you are trying to impose on the ignorance o' the shentleman ; • that iss what ye are trying to do, John., i and. that iss no like ye. It is verra pad to let the Eng ish she tleman go away, and it jag savages tha, he'll pe thinkin' -we are in the Hielant, to be feeding oor young bulls" (prono nced bills) "wi." tiled oil -cake, as if oor teeing butte needet oil-dake whe they hef coed. green grass and plent. ; er, allooin' they do need it, to hef it b led, and them wit teeth that if they wanted. would erack whiestanee. Oh, but it iss a fine joke to hear ye talk o' Wed oil -cake, John Cameron" 1 "I'm telling ye, tie're wrang," said the piper, hotly, "and it iss nonsense ye'retellang apoot, T nald MacTEreish ! a -though, Sir," again appealing to the stranger's. intelligenc "ib iss not muckle that a gain -keeper can ken i apoot the rearing ,o.' young bulls; they i can tell a grouse from a partridge rn a stubble -field on a, da,rk nicht, PII aloo- that," in atone implying that he con- ceded the utmost; "but the rearing of yonne bulls iss oot o' their line; and for a rtaan that has alder been oot o' his ain country from the ta,y he wass born till the -key o' his death, to . teach maker Mail WhEt has peen roond the whole world moreofer with his Grace the Tenk -to tell hint apoot SRN -acres "- " 1 alloo," interrupted.Donald, with a friendly wave of the hand, having filled and emptied the glass while John was speaking- "I Oleo that there iss no patter piper in the ceuntry-no, nor in the whole Heilants moeofer, than• -your- self, John Cameron.; audit iss the 'Taut himself 1 hef heard say as muckle man' 's the time that; and Food 1 hef peen to g hear it; and I hope it iss this shentleman t and nee that ye will pe given a tune afore we pert for the nicht; but I can- na alloci that ye are etter acquaint wi' the subjeet on. hand. And ye can ask Sandy, the Teuk's gri ve yourse apoot • it, and hewass in the yre when the bull was oalfed, and he wi I "— "Teffte a, tune you get from me this nieht ; and it iss a obs4juate mule ye are. TenaldMacTavish. aid. always was; and asforSandy-MacInty-r athe Teuk's grieve, it iss all the parish -ltiat kens him for a foolish ignorant -liar.- i The two mea pushd. their chairs a foot or so arrespective ther apart, and • looked at eaeh other i no amiable mood. John, the.piper, was a tall, thin Celt with fiery eyes that flamed out fr.= a mass of tangled hair es brown as heath- er, ceverireg a low squlare brow, he was of a. much more miltemmahle temper - bones, wide surly =out than his friertrlwhose high cheek- outh, ancl cheeks .74,liat seemed to have ga,thered black for- eSts of hair at • the expense of his crown, which was of the shiny bald order, indi- cated a vein of &acme blood in Same pro- • genitor, although his 'accent and fluency in Gaelie proved that he was a native of the west Kinder the chair of the piper, Fangal, the piper's collie, almost as ex- citable as hie master, lay asleep, and in the corner, by the game -keeper's gun, _Jet, Donald's placid pointer, lay stretch- ed at hill length. Betty laid down her knitting in some trepidation when the argument reached this point, and came in to see if she could not pour oil On the troubled waters. She found the piper on his _feet `th hi3 bagpipes under his arm, evide tly much offended, looking about ni th dark for his bonnet.1 - "It ist alnither glasit o' whusky ye'll pe taking npw, Mr. Cameron, pefore ye tale the roa4t this caul& nieht?" •. " And it ss verra pad. whuaky ye hef peeragivingais the _nicht, Mrs. MacTon- ald, eunuch to tak the temper away from any man, aid the piper, in his severest tones. .• • "And ye are quite richt th,ere,".Mr. • Caeneron," Isaid. Betty timidly, willing • to appease her guest, at the expense of her Tnreiutation e " and it iss myself that iss glali ye mentioned it, for I had to offer ye ome o' the Catenflton still • the nicht, cass the gentry when they wass on the mooryesterday shooting • took every drop o' the rale heather wet- ter away in their flasks, and left no a drop tei.' me.'• But, I'm sure, Mr. Cam- • eron, ye'll no pe so angry wi.' me as that comes to go away angry like that:" "The whuskyiss coed &much if taken . wi.' a thankful spirit, Mrs. MacTonald," • said Mr- MacTavish. ".But -when a man iss prood and stuck-up Gass he has travellet at the heels o' his,petters-t-but the Tellies dog has done as muckle. while his neighbors have bid.ed at home, • he thinks ma,ype that naepod.y kens the • difference petween a reel and a hornpipe • but himself 1 Gif me another gless, Mrs. MacTonad. Coed nicht, John; I drink to yer potter manners." , • John was at the door, having found • his bonnet, but came back to say shak- ing his fist in Donald's face: I It iss an ignorant plate ye are, Ton- ald MacTevish, and I scorn to pit my fingers -upon ye.; but nae doot ye'll want me to bring anypipes to the clachan an, ither nicht and nae doot yer son Angus will pe wanting me tolearn him to play • the pipes too; and nae doot, when he comes for that purpose, he will look to have a crack wi' Maggie! You will live. Tonga, my ma,n, to ken it wags an ill nieht when ye ti oeht fit to drink to my , pater manners!" With which flourish, wound up by au emphatic and defiant snap of the piper's forefinger andthumb in close proximity to the nose of the Carrier 'game -keeper, the piper raarcb.ecIwith what dignity he could muster, seeing that he carried.half a pint of fierce whisky beneath his belt, from the chichan to the pathway aeross the moor homewards; and so abserbed was he in, cherishing his anger that he would not indulge himself on his Isoli- tery way with one of his favorite Jaco- bite lilts lest the sound of the pipes might charm away his wrath. And. his 'collie Fingal folio -wed Badly at his heels. ' • The game -keeper sat for only a short time after his friend. Was gone; he gave utterence to a low, hard laugh ae the piper disappeared, and then i 1 -elapsed into sulky silence. Presently he said, rising to leave: , , "I'd. getter pay ye for my share d' the whuskey, Mrs. MacTonalcl." • ' "Na, that can reanain. Ye will .pe here the day after te-raorrow or so, I daresay, to -make it up. "Take the anoiaey," said Mr. Mac- Taviela firmly; " he will beg my , pax - don before I drink another drop in his company." . "A bad job!" said poor Betty, With tears in her eyes, as she slowly cceinted out to him.the change. * * e ,,a * * On the afternoon of the same , day, Maggie Cameron, the piper's daughter, was in her father's dairy, busily at Work. The piper's 'cottage and small farm steading stoOd white and solitary at the mouth of Glen Heath, barely half a mile from Inversnow. The score of sheep that strayed. about the glen with the red mark J. C. branded ' on their woolly side, belonged to the piper; so also dici the three or four cows that stood cooling their feet in the heat of the day, in the peat -brown burn that - coursed through the- heart of the glen past the piper's fields and garden to the loch. He was in a Moder at e way a prosperous man, anal after the maniterof men conscious of a bigger balance than their neighbors at the local banle he thought he had a right to dogmatize on occasions. Folks who knew the piper knew that whoever was lucky enough to win the hand of his only daughter Mag- gie would not take her dowerless ; and that the dower would be worth some- thing by, no means to be sneezed at, was evident when. the Inversnow intellect began to reckon on. its finger endsl the various sources of the piper's income. There was first and forenaost the farm ; the piper's crops were the earliest and the heaviest; his mutton was always prime, an4 the piper knew well when and to what market to send. Nor on the Duke's whole estate were better tur- nips grown,. Then. Whet milk was to be compared. to that which caane from the piper's byre ; and as for the piper's but- ter -churned by Magg,ie's own pretty hands -why, betteributter was not to be had in or out of the parish for love or money. • Besides which, the piper's white cottage, built on the slope facing the loch on the one elate and looking to- ward. the--. -glen on the other, within it few minutes' welk of the best scenery; the best shooting, and the best fishing in South-western Scotland, fetched -well, Inversnow did not know how much p er month. Let to the "the gentry" during • Spring:, Summer, and. autumn of ()Very year, it was in itself another tap of gold flowing into tb,e piper's pockets. For several months in each year the Duke entertained guests at Inversnow Castle ; and it was the piper's duty, as it was his pleasure, to march daily (Sundays excepted, and. he grudged Sundays( for - two hours th and fro in the hall of ' the Castle while the Duke and his friends ing , it work on the elean"paved floor of th dairy, her burnished milk Pans full o creamy richness, arranged en shelve along the walls. The dairy was coo and shady,- -ande the sweet fra i mingle grime • of. the fresh • sweetly with 'odor of t . : late honey suckles and fuehsias elite bering- in a the Window. Between • a e leaves 0 honey -suckle there was to be seen fro' the window far Off acres the slopin fields, a peep of the loch, he blue sky, and. the heather -clad hill: in. the dis Once. The door was open !, and the temoon light fell epon no .. ore pleasan sight than the bright tbs. ely Highlan lassie, whose sleeves were ucked up t the elbow,, her dress p.e ed behind, while her hands were d ftly shaping butter with the aid of a -p « of wooden " clatteas " into tempti g rounded pats, each pat being • opped, by a quick, graceful turn of her skillful hands into a dish of clear sprin -water beside her. Maggie hummed, in a sweet, lo treble as she worked, an o d. Gaelic a that had a 'tench of mall a choly in 1 her sole audience the pipe s monstrou bull -dog that lay all her 1 ngth in th sunshine asleep 011 the shold. Pre ently the formidable -1. . king anim. 1 raised. her head, pricked er ears, an growled ; then at the sound of footstep, rose ' and bounded down t . e path ,• a,n Maggie, as she Ipaused in ingmg, hear a well kaolvn voice cry: " lown, DiEg,na ; down, I tell ye; keep down!" Th Highland girl went on Wi h her wor with !perhaps a tinge of c mson sho - ing through theeeunebro d face, while a man'svoice rang out" 4 aggie 1" from the kitchen- door,' and th n, the steps , turned teethe open dairy •or. • "Well; Angus," Meg* aid in a tone of surprise that was hardle meant to be taken as real; and iss it , ou again? I thought you said yester ay that the yacht was going to meet some of the castle folks at Sheepfell?" "The Thule changed. his mind, or hall a telegram or something. But are ye not gisa to see me, lia giet that 'ye won't shake hands wi' eh dy ?" "-Deed and I am fery gl: • to see you - self, Angus, Angus, and. well ye '. en that; but my hands are wet WI.' th watter an4 the butter; and. indeed y must excuse Inc." •.. • "But it iss a cold gre ting to- gif a body, that iss what it iss, Jo to shake a hand, Maggie," said An.,; 0 S ; " or max - bp," plucking up, coura 0 from , the laughter in Maggie'a eyes and the pose • of Maggie's check, " mayb that iss -what you eva,nted 1" And An us boldly bee stowed a kiss. upon the gir 's cheek. I - "Oh, Angus MacTavi h, and how could ye de the like o' tha , when ye eee • I could. not protect myself wi' my hands a&oneg the butter?" ": Then gif it to me bac again, as the. song says," said Angus, ta ng Ms own. again, before Maggie co' I a make any show of resistance. "But it iss a wild fell w yeaze, and no deserving this drink o' new -drawn , Warw. milk I am going to ve ye 1" Maggie wiped. her hand in the long white apron she wore,_ nd turned to fill a tumbler full of mil from one of the pans. "Well, Maggie Camere , it iss ma,ybe more than I deserve," sai• Angus, as he took the tumbler front, a -r hand. and raised it to his lips; "b here iss to yoUr ferry good health, M ggie !" "1 believe ye would rat 1 er it had been a dram," said the girl, a she watched the milk swiftly disapp ar down the young sailor's throat. But Angus de- clared. that in saying so she libelled hint. "And now, Maggie, ye must pat oe team hat and come: with me," said An- gus, Seriously; when he had eraptikdthe ten -abler. ,• • "Go with you, Angus! You're jok- ing. Wass it not for your lesson on the pipes ye own e? But ded. iss . not at home this afternoon- he went the clachan-way with your father -but he will be disappointed to hef missed you." " I want yOu to come to the shore with me, Maggie; I have something to shew you, and I will take no denial for this once." "To shew me, Angus? But dad might not be pleased, if be came home when. I wass out, to find I wass away trifling with you on the sLore." "1 will answer for that, Maggie Cam- eron" " -Well, it iss true my churning is over, and the baking o' the scones can be done when I get back, but "- The maiden - hesitated. - "But there "e -and Angus lifted the dish of butter -pats and. marched off with then, followed 1 by Maggie, to the kitch- t en. "Now put on your 1 at and come with me." •- • While Maggie went to her room, 1 n- gus turned the key in the dairy -door, anil hung it on a nail in the kitchen.; and leaving Janet, the maid, to bring in thecattleand milk them, the couple started on their expedition with ligl, 1 . hearts. They were a winsome *couple. Janet -a goodly lass herself-sto miring them from the oor-st without certein longings ii her t- cpunt, as they walked -al ng waythat skirted the es, , to the bride at the gate; anO.J:tom thenCe t? over the stile and across 4 field., toward. the lock. • Margeret Gaineron was a tall, :well-built girl, yet er head was just on a level with he companion's shoulder. Her face was f esh and. sun- ny, light and -shadow pl: ying' on it in quick responsive moveme it to the men- tal Mood. that ; happene to rule her. She was young, not yet o t of her teens, full of youthful impulse, hat expressed. itself in frequent peals of merry laugh- ter easily roused; with a tender heart, too, as the sweet .1ilue e es told, by the .quick rush of tears when he was moved by any tale of woe, or t uched by the ehill finger of disappoin en ent.. Angus was a broad. -shouldered, six-foot sailor, stooping slightly as. he elked., with a bronzed, cheery face, and the kindest of honed eyes, that looked -ou straight in the face fearlessly. He had been for many years one of the mo t trust -worthy " hands " on board. the !Duke's yacht, the Curlew, and -was lookzd up to by the fishing -folks of Inversno e with all the respect due to a favorite .f the Chief's, and. to one whose ideas had been ex- panded by frequent atti to the Medi. terranean. , "Where are you go • g?" asked the girl by and by, as Angus struck into a road leading to the town. "It iss nefer into Inversnow we are oing like this together!" "And are ye ashamed. o be seen walk- ing with me, Maggie Ca eron ?" " Ashamed., No! ut it iss not well to be having fo • talking idle gossip aboot us ,in the . aytime, when maybe I ought to he at • cane Working." Maggie was made the .1 ore jealous of dined, the sonorous bagpipes &scour appetising and cligestatory music; and s he was indeed a mean or though ie guest who departed without remember- ing the piper in some shape tanaible to the piper. Dearly . he love% his money. Nor was he a man likely -to let money readily slip from his grasp -when he once fingered. it, and no man in In- versnow was more' fertile in resources. for adding to his store. But dearly as he loved gold, dearly as he loved nis sheep, his cattle and horses, his dram and his bagpipes, his one primary treas- ure was his winseette daughter Maggie. Rough he might be, but beneath the hard shell was a true human heart that beat warmly and tenderly toward her. Maggie stood, as has been said, busily •••• her reflutat on as a good housekeeper by receiving a surprised nod a.t that mo- ment fromj ItZteMcAlister, the grocer, who steed. iaity on ;the doorstep of his shop. I " Nefer 11 •.1 what ifolk say, Maggie. This its th way ;" and An& turned off th?ita in. s et to the pier. , , ,: I a,. what a pret little peat -whit a f -pretty peat l' said Maggie as the rea •hed the end of Ithe pier and • looked' do' • oh a tiny boat resting pla- cidl,,yond.tyhAkilocnkh. her :6; pretty peat now, do ye,' Ma:gie_?" looking- rondly from his achiev ment to his co panion.'s in- terested.fa . "1 nefer saw' anything prettier. She sits on the water like a sea,- all," replied the girl w rmlY. ‘ . "And y u can read lior name on the stern -now, can't • you, Ma, e -eh ?" The mai looked down # edly_and.„ as she looked changed oolor.1 Angus was watching er with bearnin eyes. Paint- ed in dis • ct' blue letter on an oak ground we e the words, " qaggie Cam- eeon-Inv :rsnow." CHAPTER II "Oh, A igus !" Maggie I. eld out her hand to hi on the pier„ d. heheld it as in a Vis. "It iss yp )wfl peat, then, An:, s?" I , "No , s a iss not," said •gus. " No ! ::he iss yours, Al, gg,ie ! I built her for ye very inch of h r grew under my own h lid -Land she's a pad peat St all, thoi gh it iss 'me th "'Well, . 0 gus "- says it ' - " Don't Say another w rd, but go aboard," s id Angus, pro eeding down the steep JiPpery Steps to he lock, lead- ing liege. e gallantly b the hand. - Speedily ljhe rope was nloosed, the white sail spread. to the br eze, and the beet rimy cl gracefully an tepidly, fin- der a glorious sunset sky out into the loch. • Maggie I sat holdi./ g the tiller silently, while Angus adju!ted the ropes. The loch Iwas, radiant -I in shore to shop in tiLe rich evening .1 ght ; quickly the white houses of the te - 1 were left in the dist nce ; and hardly a movement but the de 'cions ripple of ater cleft by the boat's bow, or the ,cry of a sea- 11 sailing' lae ly overhead, disturbed the stillness.. Here and thereelin the p ols arhong th . boulders in len.ely parts of the shore, a heron stood s' ' nt as its okvn shadow and solitary as a . ermit ; frem the grassy hollows by the beach a thin white i mist rose, softening the grepen weeded- slopes; and adding a sense of distance to the heathery ridges in the background, glorified by the red Autnrnn sunseti Maggie was supremely happy. When the sail was fairly set, Angus came and stretched himself by. her side. "And ye think she ise a nice poet nd ye like her?" he said, looking into g- gae's face. 1 ,I 1 "It 'Ivertete fery kind of me to think of - giving Sale atich a present as this, Ang is; but I cannot possibly take, it.',7 "Maggie," said •Axigus, taking her dis- engaged hand in his, "1 hrf Tong want- ed. to tell you Sometltingeeendeed. I hef. Maggie-n.ot that I'm a !goot' hand at telling! anything I want„, but -all the time Ilwass building her, and that wass . longer than ye ' might think, Maggie -I hef looked1 to this moment as a reward -when I , would see you' sitting there, loOkinetheit happy and ,th.at peautiful- yee, gaggle, peautiful and. pleased with, my work -and proud am T to see ye so . pleased wi'- a trifle"- ! , " Mit it As not a trifle," said the mail, on, interrupting him ; "it' wass a great undertaking! I nefer taw anything I - liked hall So much." I - "But it is nothing, 1 ti1 you, Maggie, • to what I would gif you tfou would be willingto take it -not g ! I would like you, Maggie, to take all I het -and myself too. It iss true I am only a ccanmPn sailor, but, Maggie, my heart is fery warm to you. Many's the time when I ‘va,ss a hundred and maybe thousants of miles away from here, I wad pe thinking of yorie-,any &time in the middle of the night, when I wass on the deck alone, watching and looking at the stars under a foreign sky, I would single ' out a particular Oar and call it Maggie's eye, and watch it lovingly, oass I thocht you might pe looking, at it too, even if you wass not Walking of inc thousadts of miles off; and it naak,esnae fery unhappy when I'm a- long way Off, to think that maybe I amforgotten, end some other Man is trying to get your love,, and maybe I loosing my chance of happiness for 1-;` cass, like a fool, I held my pr I •by speaking a, word my ' yours might pe - 1 • , , secure." . , • - ' Ang lound the aiirl's waist . the speechthat WS,F froth his heart. Si. J speak for a little. ' er eyes yere filled with , . ! 1 Arrong of ye, Angus, efer to ,vould forget,ye," he said. _ en ye do think so etimes apoot e when I am not near eau ?" , "Angus, how can you pe speaking non- sense like that ?" 1 "Bub it is not nonsense to me, Mag. gie," said her , lover serirsly ; "1 leve you, Maggie, as I love no woman in . the world! and, Maggie, if you were to it wadi break inr--- . It was. the old story. The hunjan souls Meeting under the 'ght of heav n, each recognizing in the other that wh ch each yearned for to giv completen ss to life; the spoken words being the o t - ward force impelling -them toward e Ch other, as two -dew drops merge into inc by a movement external to both. The Highl nd girl had no desire to break her lover's heart; nay, she -was ready to give 11er own in exchange, for his love with all the impulsiveness of a simple and true nature. As the boat sped on they oted not that twilight was deep- ening into evening, that the stars wire myriad -eyed above them, and. the c es cent moon glimmered over the hills and shone in quivering tracks along the lo h. So it came about that. at the samemo- ment of time When the piper in. the la- chen tvas apoStrophizing!Angru.s'e fat er in , the words - already recorded--" Nae debt your son Angus will be wanting e to lea -n him o play the pipes too; nd nap d ot, when he conies for that pur- pose, e will ilook to have Ms crack -., Maggie," &C.-, his daughter's arras were being thrown ! impulsively about s' neck°, I and Angus 'himself was the hap- piest unau in the Western Highlands. - Maggie reached Glen Heath with a joyoue heart, 1 She was there before, the piper. She Speedly girt on her apron, and with tucked -up sleeves proceeded to the More prosaic duty of baking "scones" that Might be warm and. palatable or the piper's supper ; and. as she rolied out the dough, and patted and relied and kneaded it, and turned it . before the fire 11 ' 11 10 as 12 10 3 13 THE P r on, hand a Groceries. OUNDS Canned Goo geaeflL113 k Pot Earl y, a am no Croakery Parties wi rprchasirlig 11..Kin OPLE'S CASH STO!3E. 01 -:IS 14sT SEP EMB lit 7, 1877. .141E1E41 Fie AdrritULIBI4 o••••••••••••,...., rri0 BUILDS S. -Send, Stone, sod Orsveliot -L Sale. Orders left wiPi James Edward or ' Thomas Lee twill be promptly attended:6e, TH051A.S CiOltrug, Se iforth. 4817 cosily On WO UN D. ar e and Wen Selected !Stock of Choice Faimily ()OATHo.nett, LOST.8-1-fiLLT,000sis.ittiu,e,anzbeetnikvothif titetwm4atitthHrovrarioogoArfltdcattonatie: . hich he is selling at Perij Low Prices. . between th ---11.- The finder will be snitably rewarded on hoaxing the saute at 1 the Expositor Office, Sea.forth, OOD BRIGHT SU AR ,FCiR ,$1. O. ROBERT MeMICHAEL. 5064 OUNDS YOUNG HYSON TEtii FOR $1.00. 0. OUNDS OOD FRESH RAITINS FOR $1 a Spices, Pieldes, Swims Ooffees, Elamite of all Ki -ds. Esomees and all ot er Goods vein u Groc ry else tit ,it M.' MORRISON'S. Aleo I erns, Becon, Cornmeal) Oatmeal, plit Peas a. d Mill Feed coustautly on hand at 31 MI RRISON'S. ORO° IEFtlf AND GLitik-SolIN'A RE. malting this lino. a Specialty, anti offering every mincemeat in am Selling • the way of • Best Tea Sets at $2 50 per se. • Good GI ss Sets as low as 60 cents- per set. • Glita6 Bu ter Eashes for 121 cents each. • Handled eas for $1 10 per dozen. -Mug anythirg in t lite will find it to their advent go to ex:ursine my st ck Iscwhere. s ot Farm, P •oduce Taken, in Exchange for Goods. At Deld,vered Free of Charge. • ma.ramaisto =WO • CCO t.; 0 000 leer 25e, 40 Sole Agent Speetaeles. AT IITIPOICTANT NOTICES. , VRAMING AD 1101US WORK -Jobe wantea for 1878. mid work warranted. JOHN are. aerj.,LAN, We on, N. B. -Two men wanted' • immediately. 507-4 1DRIVATE SCHOOL. -133- request, Miss Wright will re -open her private school on Monday' September 8, at her reeitlence, St. john street. For terrna and Other panticulars apply to angs WRIGHT. • 505 • pOUNDKEEPER'S NOTICE.-Inieounded, •-1- Lot 19, Con. 2, aleKillop, a red twe-year old n13E. If the above animalm is not redeemed before Cheap the 12th day of September next it will os etee by publie auction, at the pound. HYMAN TUR- • MAN Poundkt; per. 5074 1-1 'against get • D. O'Connor, a. • gools sold him toitjeior liquo said, Thome8 D • to ebtlect any before Dame. 1110n Goods M. MORRISON. 000- u u NIN -NI- TTTTT EEEEE RRRR iiSSS O