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't have-thotght- that p" she
{4 fly;. "you couldn't r'
I Wl
-Ltuous movement aloet _ins
!4-T: m, she flings her epede: ath.
ings Peet -hilt, Oes tarsal
to this kind of thing,.
oughtfully. He does not
When sheis tuft of
eks up the spade, sticks
round, terns-- methodically to•
rde *And so to the front
Itis the shortest way back
saes the baleony, however, a
him. Looking _up, he sees
over
sorry I was so rude to you,"
ly formally. Her face is a
Ler' eyes'proud, her whole air
-confessed, far removed from
any sur-_ If there is regret in
! y of u --very haughty kind,
ardon
e alsyth' • _ i s!rdon
d _sl
gemel
seems=
sale-:.
"k
3 1•
a
ds
hove
;the
slogy,
offered, some
arisen between
arting under a sense
that she almost dis-
her eyes rest on his
erge of discourtesy.
I believe time was
she, to ing her arms off the
urning away.
rays he, quickly, but too late.
hand impatiently and goes
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APT R IX.
ndahens are in a high stated#
:what - does it all mean, this the ha I hist 1' Be had been 'angry
rd and forward through the because U'M&o�re` was with' her; ` hut that'
erry With meal'in bee prett` )lard! rcounts naw. He can think. of only=
tire.gnite accustomed biit`perr - y;
e -and -seek from the stable to one thing, that live she saw him her pretty
i se (where, in good times past, . face fell, hertp€etty smile died... •.
need to be), and from the- c — >. A very' rage of anger against hersnrgesiin.•'
-sheds, is a thing altogether, out his heart. - - •
' The pigeons, too, seem great "Oh ! -I didn't know,", she cities,.breath-
the<proceedings-beneath them, ing quickly both from surprise andher late
alp so high m their little homes fest'_ rent -1'1110 yed-were comime-i.'
ales that they can afford to " So I perceive," says Trefusis, dryly.
Ripon the matter with a smiling - Terry turns round as if to say something
and Trefusis; -- from ' where he s
can see that she is *Capering
zjft iani.on.
=at'me the foe ie drawing ever nearer,
add to the discomfiture of the two.
-a flock of soft white pigeons,
"swooping bark to their homes in
x'd, fresh from their petty larcenies
`t£ed in the cornfield. around them,
straight for Terry. Are they not
i>f their crumbs when she is near ? -
he boys being now m the stable, Terry:.
less the courage to show herself, to raise her
bands, to try and frighten away her feath-
yed friends. In vain ! ..Lower and lower
they descend, theirsoftsilvery wings gleam-
jng in the sunlight.
Trefusis -can see her rise in desperate -
ttress, can see her uplifted arms, can almost
ear her lips cry, " Cash ! Cush 1" though
she says it in the softest whisper. He can
e, too, that the pigeons think nothing of
this, are not in the least afraid of their
loving mistress. Bodily they descend upon
her, perching on head and arms and dainty
shoulders, cooing loudly the while.
And now the boys are out again. They
see. the pigeons. Where the pigeons are,
there surely is Terry. A piercing war
whoop bursts Item them. Terry springs to
her feet and.stands for a second laughing,
her snowy betrayers still fluttering round
her ; then she springs forward, Laurence.
after her, the boys in hot pursuit.
Theyso head her that she makes straight
for the small gate where stands Justice,—
that is, Trefusis. She is laughing as she
runs; her face -is all alight, full of beautiful,
almost childish excitement.
She has run almost into Trefusis's arms
—into his presence, rather, for his arms are
certainly at this moment not ready to re.
ceive her --before she sees him. '
Then she stops Short- The lovely light
dies from-her.'eyes,= the laughter: from het
lips.. ,
Trefusis-says nothing. For the fist time
in bis skcellentlywell regulated lice, he:
finds°.himseif without words. Viet' Change
in her face !.. The dying away of the mirth,
" s.witch 1 a witch '.• with her talking cat!"
while it might have gone very hard with the
poor woman, had it not soon been found that
a wag, for a joke, had killed and flayed her
pet grimalkin, and dressed wee Jeffrey in its
skin. knighted b the King, Hudson
When y
assumed many high and mighty airs, al-
though he was the butt as well as the
amusement of the Court ; -Was once almost
drowned in a basin of water; and would
Lave been blown into the Thames but for a
shrub that saved him. But Lord Minimus
(as he was dabbed) really had his doughty
adventures ; was sent on diplomatic . mis-
sions ; fell into the hand of a Turkish
pirate, who carried him off a prisoner to
Barbary ; and finally distinguished himself
by shooting a Mr. Crofts in a duel, that
gentleman having at first come to answer
the small man's challenge armed only with
a syringe filled withof er. was Richard
A contemporaryY
Gibson, an artistic Lilliputian whho studied
under Sir Peter Lely, paintedvery
credit-
able -historical pieces and miniature por-
traits, and taught drawing to the royal
Princesses Mary and Elizabeth, who were
afterwards Queens of England. f He
ba
was
'appointed, in his youth, page -
ak
stairs, and was married to Anne Shepherd,
another court dwarf exactly his own height,
having a most brilliant wedding, King
Charles giving away the bride, while the
Queen presented her with a diamond ring,
and Edmund Waller, . the poet to their
,Majesties, composed a poem on the event,
Whin diminutive pair, 3 feet 10 inches high-
e�itassed a long and happy life together, and
Asad nine children, five of whom grew to
,,,naturity and were full ordinary size.—
z[Harper's Young People.
to-Larry.or the boys, but they are nowhere
outs Geoffrey, having oaths it to be seen. Larry, scenting trouble in the
skirt, but ineffectually, for air, has consideratelj carriedher brothers
m and escapes, though with a away with him. : Thus deserted, Terry once
in her gown, more look** Trefusis.
•
y that. -makes one wond aying hide-and-seek," she
s anything more - beau
light is a pale shimtinerr#1g,
elicious. All over the lira
the swoo+ing flowers co
er9tlr+
Ming cher
thing, but her nerv-
y still :further. W hat
at she. should show 1 DO0,. e
zo 'What has there: ham#;
res
s- _ With=her -o sanies
44,
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G. TO ?
.,,WeAre.-troiiig to
o-, $ Michigan, near Saul;
Ste Marie.
E WHY DO YOU GOTHERE ?
,k11, we have five - bo si 4.
h .ve . sold . the farm for $ 51 -
e slight, beiiievet: .4 -p rt.
I'api sorry I was:unfortunate::ti.,utr e - _
place
� - ut:a trace a - go
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sis a good' deal. Every day in his ice of the emotion that ie -et rsiog each Of 111 b
own from the Hall to see him to 'his heart's core. This ht lite nals-
ry day they had parted on fortune If he had storfeedet her, scolded and -have money left.
a in the --itch
the pis on 1talon.
r
later, --a week that has rupt you, he says, calmly, witho d have a g
e terms as they parted the her heartily, shown himself abominably renter
do there]
t seemed to him impossible to jealous, she could have understood him,— What can a
o-rtthe girl, to see into her heart, having been brought up m an atmosphere He can ba on five years ,time
(',core of it. He Could hold her where every one said justu3' what he or she
had borne that, -=endured, he tho�ight at the moment, where anger, justly and pay for it with one-fourth of the
f with: extreme bitterness, was -sh wn, was accepted in a right spirit, and a oney he would pay for rents in that
w cce -he had kissed her ; she ,storm or two in the weak considered of little and own his own home.
ing, but she certainly had riot cbnsegiience. That Trefusis, though she
knew he must be angry with her, should
ittle gayety in the •Iaugh—and even a greater stranger to her than he was. A • ori s anyend
in
he didto't make an end' before. Larry would have said so much !
break- -asunder, a connection 1I On CoExcell;nand then she could have explained ; but he, .,. g,
t
tided to nothing but his own Mr. Trefusis, he will say nothing. She feels Oats, �eaS,%hEa
Yet whop the morning came suffocated.. Suddenly a sense of anger, ft
. �e� Timothy
Pc›.
d to sen her once -again; ,0d 1 "host honest anger, stirs her breast. She . 1 h
liea:,he'did see_her, he knew he
r_`,be the 'onet'to sever his
And through it all a
-troubled =him,—jealousy �a
f ai Barry !
day he saw her at bet , l.g me,r' and
eve> ings she dined.a+tt the�Hall.
e hadher cogieeveryeven-
metimes made : excuses.
o, she lunched w,itir Fanny
1P
knowinU, roma word
t it was le:_� than
e: scene.
eons he
res the s
nscio
• ood land ?
e used to�laugh_at himself=— refrain from saying so, makes him at once
Is lt..g
toes and all kinds of
oats. .Prices are as good as any on the
lames, owing to the nearness of the
turns to him a charming face, now all frown-
ing with her thought.
(to BE CONTIt(UED.)
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Some Famous Dwar "s• mines and lumber woods to the west-
One
estiOne of the most celebrated of little men 'ward.
was Jeffrey Hudson, who figures in Sir What class of people live there ?
Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak. Hisare nearly all from Huron Co..
history has been so often written as to bear They
but a tie mention. - oR
b rid A whimsical !lite was meet there so'lnany old neighbors
he, presented by the Duchess of Bucking 8t you can hardly believe you have
ham to Qeeen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Wit' home.
Charles 1., served up in a cold pie,' and .< ,
many were the prank -
s in which he took a "..I want to see that- land.- Who has it1
part. For instance,
there was the party of t sale?. Imagine of
tattle -baskets, as they were vnrly term ,
edi sitting down to-enfoy" that
,� , dish of. gossip at 'he smile . ;. E.. C• D.z �+. I DSON
cheer _ � •..
hi"n, le ea tt ..g -r '} It Ste
s arell4ed 'ir�110 MOdei11'G0 � --
. Maxie, Mich.
nest ed puss at
say, • 1, H O
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f y,
mpg the d crones -with uplifted hands, �` �
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