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G. 8. ATBIIN8ON, L.D.Q., D.D.S.
Oeaduate of the Torii College of
Dental Surgeons of Oabssio Mid of
Me University of Toronto. Late Dis-
trict Dental Office. Military, District,
No. 1, London, Ont. Oleg hours at
1e1d, Ont. Monday, Wednesday,
and Saturday, from one to
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IRWING BACHELLER
(Continued from test w.*,)
After a. moment of; silence ,he ex.
claimed: '
"Gorhl Itat awful lonesome here!
Gee whittakert this is the worstylace
I ever saw!" •
I tried to think of something that
I could say for it.,
"We have got a new corn .sheller,",
I said, rather timidly.
"I don't care about your 'corn
shellers," he answered with a hook of
scorn.
He tool, a little yellow paper -c
r -c
ered book front his p
pocket and beg
to read to himself.
I felt thoroughly ashamed of t
place and sat near him and, for
time, said nothing as he read.
"What's that?" I ventured to a
by and by.
"A story," he answered. "I in
tjat ragged ol' woman, in the ro
other day an' she give me a lot
'em an' showed me the pictures a
I got to readin' 'em. Don't you to
anybody 'cause $y ol' dad hat
stories' an' he'd lick me 'til I could
stan' if he knew I was readin' 'em
I begged him to 'read out loud a
he read from 'a tale of two robbe
named Thunderbolt and Lightfoot w
lived in a cave in the mountains. Th
were bold, free, swearing men w
rode beautiful horses at a wild ga
lop and carried guns and used the
freely and with unerring skill. a
helped themselves to what they wan
ed.
He stopped by anti by, and confide
to me the_factthdt he thought h
would run away and join a band
robbers.
How (10 you run away?" I aske
"Just take the turnpike and kee
oin' toward the mountains. Whe
o meet a hand o' robbers give 'e
h, sign an' tell 'em you want
oin."
He went on with the book and rea
ow the robbers had hung a captiv
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He stopped suddenly and demand
ed: "Is there a long rope here?"
I pointed to Uncle Peabody's ha
rope hanging on a peg.
"Le's hang a captive," he proposed
At first I did not comprehend hi
meaning. He got the rope and threw
its end over the big beam. Oar ol
shepherd dog had been nosing th
mow near us for rats. Amos caugh
the dog. ,who, supecting pct harm
carne passively to the rope's end. H
tied the rope around the dog's neck
"We'll draw him up once—it won'
hurt -him any," he proposed.
I looked at him in silence. My
heart smote me, but I hadn't the
courage to take issue with the owner
a silver watch. When the dog be-
n to struggle I threw my arms
out him and cried. Aunt Deel hap-
ned to be near. She came and saw
mos pulling at the rope and me try -
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"Come right down off'm that molt'•'
this minute," said she.
When we had *come down and the
g had followed pulling the rope
ter him, Aiint Deel was pale with
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Mc Peabody seemed to feel very
badly when he learned how Amoss
had turned out.
"Don't say a word about it." said
he. "Mebbe you lost the pennies.
Don't mind 'em."
Soon after that, o1N • arnco
Aunt Deel came down in t 'tile
where �+a� were dr WhEe
was talking with ncla �Pe anw
sides occurred to ane and the dog and
I ran for the het**, There. was i.,
pan dime). on Oa to• ' abelf off the
pantry and ever ,since 1 bad seen it
put there I bad cherished secret de-
sig'tllsan into the deeer see,
with the lid of a chair, c 1tlbed,
the trot shelf and then. to the next
and reached into the pan and
out -a .comb of honey, and with no de
lay whatever it went to my mouth
Suddenly it seemed • to- me that I
been hit by lightning. It wax the
sting of a bee. t felt mireelf goin
and made a wild,grab and caught the
edge of the pan and down we cam
ito the floor—the pan and I—with
great crash.
I discovered that I -was in deeper
ate pain and trouble and I got to m
feet and ran. I.didn't know where
was going. It seemed to me tha
any other 'place would be better than
that. My feet took me toward the
barn and I crawled under it afid hid
there. My lip began to feel better,
by and by, but big and queer. It
stuck out so that I could see it. I
heard my uncle coming with the
horses, I concluded ,that I would
stay where I was, but the dog came
and sniffed and barked at the hole
through which I had crawled as if
saying. "Here he is!" My position
was untenable. I came out. Shep
began trying to clean my clothes with
his tongue. Uncle Peabody stood
near with the horses. He looked at
me. He struck his finger into the
honey on my coat and smelt it.
"Well by—" he stopped and came
closer and asked.
"What's happened,"
"Bee stung me " I answered.
,"Where did ye find so much honey
that ye could go swin nein' in it?" he
asked.
I heard the door of the house open
suddenly and the voice of Aunt Deel.
"Peabody! Peabody! come here
quick," she called.
Uncle Peabody ran to the house,
-
- but I stayed out with the dog.
Through the open door I heard
d Aunt Deel saying: "I can't stan' it
e any Longer and I won't—not another
n ' day—ayes, I can't stun' it. That boy
is a reg'lar pest."
They came out on the veranda.
Uncle Peabody said nothing, but I
Y could see that he couldn't stand it
either. My brain was working fast.
• , "Come here, sir," Uncle Peabody
s called.
I knew it was serious, for he had
d • never called me "sir" before. I went
e i slowly to the steps.
t , "My Lord!" Aunt Deel exclaimed.
i "Look at that lip and the honey all
e t over him—ayes! I tell ye—I can't
stan' it."
t ' "Say, boy. is there anything on I
this place that you ain't tipped over?"
Uncle Peabody asked in a sorrowful
tone. "Wouldn't ye like to tip the
;house over?" •
I was near breaking down in this
i answer:
• "I went into the but'ry and that
pan jumped on to me."
"Didn't you taste the honey?"
1 "No," I drew in my breath and
shook my head.
"Liar, too!" said Aunt Deel. "I
can't stan' it an' I won't."
Uncle Peabody was sorely tried,
but he was keeping down his anger.
His voice trembled as he sai�:
"Boy, I guess you'll have to—"
Uncle Peabody stopped. Ha had
been driven to the last ditch, but he
, had not stepped over it. However,
I knew what he had started to say
'and sat down on the steps in great
dejection. Shep followed, working at
my coat with his tongue.
I think that the sight of me must
have touched the ,heart of Aunt Deel.
"Peabody Baynes, we mustn't be
cruel," said she in a softer tone, and
then she brought a rag and began to
assist Shep in the process of .cleaning
my coat. "Good land! He's got to
` stay here—ayes!—he ain't got no
other place to go to."
"`But if you can't stun' it." said
Uncle Peabody.
"I've got to stan' it—ayes!—I can't
Stan' it, but I've got to—ayes! So
Ihave you."
Aunt Deel put me to bed although
it was only five o'clock. As I lay
looking ,up at the shingles a singular
` resolution came to. me. It was born
, of my longing for the companionship
of my kind and of nay resentment. I
would go and live with the Dunkel-
bergs. I would go the way they had
gone and find them. I knew it was
' ten miles away, but of course every-
' body knew where the Dunkelbergs
lived and any one would show me. I
;-nub! run and get there before dark
and tell then)_ that I wanted to live
with them, and every day I would
play with Sally Dunkelberg. Uncle
Peabody was not half as nice to play
with as she was.
I heard Uncle Peabody drive away.
I watched him through the open
window. I could hear Aunt Deel
washing the dishes in the kitchen. I
, got out of bed very slyly and put on
my Sunday clothes. I went to the
I open window. The sun had just gone
over the top of the woods. I would
have to hurry to get to the Dunkel-
bergs' before dark. I crept out on
the top of the shed Mid descended the
ladder that leaned against it. I stood
a moment listening. The dooryard
was covered with shadows and very
still. The dog must have gone with
Uncle Peabody. I ran through the
garden to the road and down it as
fast as mybare feet could carry me.
In that direction the nearest house
was almost a mile away. I remem-
bei I was out of breath, and the light
growing dim before I got to it. Y.
went dn. It seemed to me that I had
gone nearly far enough to reach ndy
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coming behind me.
"Hello!" a voice called.
I turned and leoked up at Dug
Draper, in a single buggy, dressed it
his Stint day suit.
"Isit much !tether to where the
Dunkelbergs lived Tasked.
"The Dunkelbergs ? Who be they?
It seemed to isle very strange that
he didn't knot*. the Dunkelbergs.
"Where Sally Dgnkelbgzg lives."
That was a clincher. "Es laughed.
and swore and said:
"Git in here, boy. III take ye
there."
I got into the buggy. and he struck
his horse with the whip and went
galloping away ince dose
wI i'tha$ you're .off an Aaald
from that' 00 . o : 0tint
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he.way
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with a slbear.
I have omitted and shall' emit the
oaths curses with whish his talk
was
"I'm gi . out Q'this country ehy d
my -
to self," said he. "It's . too. pious for
,.
drew m By and by we passed Rovin' Kate.
- I could just discern her form
by the roadside and call• to her.
had He struck his horse and gave me a
rude shake and bade me shut up.
g It was dark and I felt very cold
and began to wish myself home in
e bed.
a "Ain't we most to the Dunkel-
bergs'?" I asked.
"No—not yet," he answered.
y I burst into tears and hehit me
I a' sounding whack in the face with
t his hand.
"No more whimperin'," he shouted.
"Do ye hear me?"
He hurt me cruelly and I was
terribly frightened and covered my
face and smothered my cries and was
just a little quaking lump of misery.
He shook me roughly and shoved
me down on the buggy floor and said:
"You lay there and keep still; do
you hear?"
"Yes," I sobbed.
I lay shaking with fear and fight-
ing my sorrow and keeping as still
as I could with it, until, wearied by
the strain, I fell asleep.
What an angel of mercy is sleep!
Down falls her curtain and away she
leads us—delivered free!—into some
magic country where are the things
we have lost—perhaps even joy and
youth and strength and old friend-
ships.
What befell me that night while I
dreamed of playing with the sweet-
faced girl I have wondered often.
Some time in the night Dug Draper.
had reached the village of Canton,
and got rid of me. He had probably
put me out at the water trough. Kind
hands had picked me up and carried
me to a little veranda that fronted
the door of a law office. There I slept
peacefully until daylight, when I felt
a hand on my face and awoke sud-
denly. I remember that I felt cold.
A kindly faced man stood leaning
over me.
"Hello, boy!" said he. "Where did
you come from?"
I was frightened and confused ,but
his gentle voice reassured me.
"Uncle Peabody!" I called, as I a-
rose and looked about me and began
to cry.
The man lifted Me, in his arms and
held me close to hitir• breast and tried
to comfort-ine: ' i`'remember seeing
the Silent Woman pass while I was
in his arms.
"Tell me what's your name," he
urged.
"Barton Baynes," I said as soon as
I could speak.
"Where is your father?"
"In Heaven," I answered, that be-
ing the place to which he had moved
as I understood it.
"Where do you live?"
"In Lickitysplit."
"How did you get here?"
"Dug Draper brought me. Do you
know where Sally Dunkelberg lives?"
"Is she the daughter of Horace
Dunkelberg?"
"Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dunkelberg."
I amended.
"Oh, yes, I know her. Sally is a
friend of mine. We'll get some break-
fast and then we'll go and find her."
He carried me through the open
door of his office and set me down at
his desk. The cold air of the night
had chilled me and I was shivering.
"You sit there and I'll have a fire
going in a minute and get you warm-
ed up."
He wrapped me in his coat and
went into the back room and built a
fire in a small stove and brought me
in and set me down beside it. He
made some porridge in a kettle while
I sat holding my little hands over
the stove to warns them, and a sense
of comfort grew in me. Soon a boy
came bringing a small pail of fresh
milk and a loaf of bread. I remem-
ber how curiously the boy eyed me
as -he said to my new friend:
"Captain Moody wants to know if
you'll come up to dinner?"
There was a note of dignity in the
reply which was new to me, and for
that reason probably I have always
remembered' it.
"Please present my thanks to the
Captain and tell his, that I expect to
go up to Lickitysplit in the town of
Ballybeen."
He dipped some porridge into bowls
and put them on a omall table. My
eyes had watched him with growing
interest and I got to the table about
as soon as the porridge and mounted
a chair and seized a spoon.
"One' momerk, Bart," said my host.
"By jingo! We've forgotten to wash
and your face looks like the dry bed
of a rider. Come here a minute."
He led me out or -the back door,
where there" were a wash -stand and
a pail and a tin basin and a dish of
soft soap. He dipped the pail in a
rain barrel and filled the basin, and I
washed myself and waited not upon
my host, but made for the table and
began to eat, being very hungry, after
hastily drying my face on a towel. In
a minute he came and sat down to
his awn -porridge and bread and but-
ter.
"Bart, don't dig so fast," said he.
"You're down to hard pan now. Never
be in a hurry to see the bottom of
the bowl."
I have never forgotten the look of
amusement in his big smiling, gray
eyes as they looked town upon me
out of his full, ruddy, Smooth -shaven
face. It inspired confidence and I
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"Go right home --right home," said
e to Amos.
"Mr. Baynes said that he would
ke me up with the horses," said
MOS.
"Ye can use shank's horses—ayes!
— they're good enough for you," Aunt
Deel insisted and so the boy went a-
way in disgrace.
I blushed to think of" the poor
opinion he would have of the place
now. it. seemed to me a pity that it
should be made any worse, hut I
couldn't help it.
"Where are your pennies?" Aunt
Deel said to me.
T felt in my pockets but couldn't
d them.
"Where did ye have 'em last?" my
nt demanded.
"On the haymow."
"Come an' show me."
We went to the mow and searched
r the pennies, but not one of them
nld we find.
I remembered that when I saw them
st Amos hod t hem in his hand.
"Ti,,'awful 'Ira id for him—ayes T
!" said Aunt Osel. "I'm 'fraid
twin' Kate sen rirrht about hint—
es!"
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"What did shr ,--sy?" I asked.
"That he was: +min' to he hung—
es! You can't ',la',' with him no
ire. Bovis th y' til,e what don't
long' to 'cm ,v 1 ti I hope he didn't
ayes; 1 hope 11 a,cful—are apt to
hong by their necks until they
doad- jest ss he was goin' to
ng o1' Shep—ay, !---t.hey are!"
Agaiti 1 �nw ti,e ►Dirk figure of old
ate' standing in th,. sunlight and her
ggerl garment and bony hands and
heard the hiss of her flying pencil
point. I clung to my aunt's dress
for a moment and then I found old
Shep and sat down beside him with
my arm around his neck. I did not
eak of the story because I had
omised not to and felt sure that
mos would do something to me if I
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whispered timidly: .
"Could I have some more?"
"All you want," he answered, as
he put another ladle full in my bowl.
When we' had finished eating he
set aside the' dishes and I asked: "
"Now could I go and see Sally
Dunkelberg?"
"What in the world do yppa�u want
of Sally Dunkelberg?" he asked.
"Oh. just to play with her," I said
as I showed him how I could sit on
my hands and raise myself from the
chair bottom.
"Haven't you any one to.play with
at home?"
"Only my Uncle Peabody."
"Don't you like to play with him?"
"Oh, some, but he can't stand me
any longer. He's all tired out, and
my Aunt Deel too. I've tipped over
every single thing on that place. I
tipped over the honey yesterday—spilt
it all over everything; and rooend my
clothes. I'm a reg'lar pest. So I
want to play with Sally Dunkelberg.
She knows all kinds o' riddles and
games and all about. grand ladies and
gentlemen and she wears shiny shoes
and her hair smells just like roses,
and I want to play with her a little
while—just a wee little while."
I had unburdened my soul. The
above words are quoted not from my
memory, but .from his, which has al-
ways been most reliable. I remem-
ber well my thoughts and feelings
hut not many of my words ,on a day
so distaint.
"Forward, march!" said he and a-
way we started for the home of the
Dunkelbergs. The village interested
me immensely. I had seen it only
twice before. People .were moving
about in the streets. One thing I did
not fail to notice. Every man we
met touched his hat as he greeted
my friend.
"Good morning, Sile," some said,
as we passed them, or, "How are you,
Comptroller?"
It was a square, frame house—that
of the Dunkelbergss=--.large for that
village and had a big dooryard with
trees mA it. As we came near the gate
I saw Sally Dunkelberg playing with
other children among the trees. Sud-
denly I was afraid and began to hang
back. - I looked down at my bare feet
and my clothes, both of which were
dirty. Sally and her friends had
stopoed their play and were standing
ih a group looking at us. I heard
Sally whisper:
"It's that Baynes boy. Don't he
log* dirty?"
I stopped and withdrew my hand
from that of my guide.
"Come on, Bart." he said.
I shook my head and stood looking
over at that little, hostile tribe near
me.
"Go and play with them while I
step into the house," he urged.
Again I shook my head.
"Well, then, you wait here a
moment," said my new-found friend.
He left me and I sat down upon
the ground, thoughful and silent.
He went to the children and kissed '
Sally and whispered in her estfr and '
passed on into the house. The chil-
dren walked over to Inc.
"Hello, Bart!" said Sally.
"Hello!" I answered.
I `shook my head.
Some of them began to whisper
and laugh. I remember how beauti-
ful the girls looked with their flow -
ea. What happyf faces
hair and th1d
wonder vow It oil frighte mud
tressed ate so.
In, a moment my friend carte
with Mrs. Dunkelblelrg, who kissed
and asked ane to tell ° boa► I hap
pened
tobe there.
"I just thought I would come.
said as I twisted a button on my coat
and would. say no more to her.
"Mr. WVright, you're going to
him home, are you?" Mrs. Dunkelberg
waked.
"Yes. I'll start off with him in
interested " said my friend. "I am
see his a and I want
"Let hini std here with us until
yeu't;e ready to go."
"I don't want to stay here,"I said,
seizing my friend's 'hand.
"Well, Sally, you do down to tine
°Sep • stay with Bart until they
"'Yost' ��
out
me
„ I Peabody
very
—that you talcs that you wou
from here?"
"I don't k •" mean
was my *BOW
"Course I new
an wanted ye to see that it Wetto to do fer you to keep on tiepin' . ugq
over so."
I sat telling them, of my adventur,.
and answering questions, flattered bar'
their tender interest, until milking
tit*. I thoroughly enjoyed all that.
WPM I rose to' go out with Uncle
Peabody, Aunt Deet, demanded my,
"`Take 'em right off," said she. "It
ain't a goin' to do to wear 'cm com-
mon --no, sir -eel They're for meetiq'
or when company conies --ayes!"
I regretfully took off tht. shoes and
gave. them to her, and thereafter the
shoes were guarded as carefully as the
butternut trousers.
That evening as I was about to go
up -stairs to bed, Aunt Deel said to my,
"Do ,you remember what of Kate
wrote down about him? This is his
fust peril an'. he bas met his first
great man an' I Cap see that Filo
Wright is kind o' fond' o' him."
went to sleep that night think
of the strange,en
old, ragged, site
wonnare
like thatwouldn't you?
the star .raised o1 me.
"I don't know," I said.
"That measle• yes," said the men.
.Sally and another little girt name
with us and passing a sem I !fid
back to look at many beautiful things
in a big window. ,
"Is
there anything you'd like there,
Bart?" the man asked.
"I wisht I had a pair o' them any
shoes with buttens on," I answered
in a low, confidential tone, afraid to
express, openly, a wish so exbrsva
,
"Come right in," he said,- and I
remember that when we entered the
.store I could hear my heart besting!
He bought a pair of shoes, for me'
and I would have them on at once,
and that made it necessary for him
to buy a pair of socks also. After
the shoes were buttoned on my feet I
saw little of Sally Dunkelberg or the
other people of the village my eyes
being on my feet most of tete time.
The man took us into his office and
told us to sit down until he could
write a• letter.
I remember how, as he wrote, I
stood by his chair and examined the
glazed brown buttons on his coat and
bit one of them to see how hard it
was, while Sally was feeling his gray
hair and necktie. He scratched along
with his quill pen as if wholly una-
ware of our presence.
Sonn a horse and buggy came for
us and I briefly answered Sally's
good -by before the man drove away
with me. I remember telling him as
were went on over the rough road
between fields of ripened grain, of
my watermelon and my dog and my
little pet hen.
I shall not try to describe that home
coning. We found Aunt Deel in the
road five miles from home. She
had been calling and travelling from
house to house most of the night, and
I have never forgotten her joy at ,
seeing me and her tender greeting.
She got into the buggy and rode home
with us, holding me in her lap. Uncle
Peabody and one of our neighbors
had been out in the woods all night
with pine torches. I recall how, al-
though excited by my return. he took
off his hat at the sight of my new .
friend and said:
"Mr. Wright, I never wished that
I lived in a palace until now."
He didn't notice me until I held up
both feet and tailed: "Look a' there,
Uncle Peabody."
Then he came and took me out of
the buggy and I saw the tears in
his eyes when he kissed me.
The man told of finding me on his
little veranda, and I told of my ride
with Dug Draper, after which Uncle
Peabody said:
"I'm goin' to put in your hoss and
feed him, Comptroller."
"And I'm goin' to cook the beat
dinner I c ---,r cooked in my life,"
said Aunt Deel.
I knew that my new friend must be
even greater than the Dunkelbergs,
for there was a special extravagence
in their tone and manner toward him
which I did not fail to note. His
courtesy and the distinction of his ad-
dress, as he sat at our table, were not
lost upon me, either. During the meal
Internal and Externa@ Pains
are promptly relieved by
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HOMAS' ECLECT11C L
OR PEARLFIF-fYkAJR SELLER THAI) _5'Q
CHAPTERIIIWe Go To Meetin And See Mr.
Wright gal.
•
I had a chill tht night and in the
weks that followed I was nearly
burned up with lung fever. Doctor
Clark came from Canton to see me
every other day for a timye, •and one
evening Mr: Wright came with him
and watched all night near my bed-
side. He gave me medicine every
hourand I remember how gentlyhe
would speak and raise, ►toy head wighe came with thespoon and the draftIt grieved me to hear himsay, as beraised me in his arms, that I wasn'tbigger than "a cock mosquito."
I would lie and watch high as he pa stick on the fire and tiptoed to leis
armchair by the table, on which three
lighted candles were burning. Theu
he would adjust his spectacle, pickup his book, and begin to read, and I
would see him smile or frohvn or
laugh until I wondered what was be-
tween the black covers of the book
to move him so. In the morning he
said that he could come the next Tues-
day night, if we needed him, and set
out right after breakfast, in the dimdawn light, to walk to Canton.
"Peabody Baynes," said my Aunt
Deet as she stood looking out of thewindow at Mr. Wright, "that is one of
the grandest, splendidest men that I
ever see or heard of. He's an awful
smart man, an' a day o' his time is
worth more'n a month of •our'n, but
he comes away off here to set up with
a sick young one and walks 'back.
Does beat all—don't it?—ayes!"
"11 any oneis always on band," said Uncle Pe -
body.
I was soon out of bed and he came
no more to sit up with me.
(Continued next week.)
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