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Successor to Dr. Charles. Mackay.
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County of Huron.
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Nouttglaiis*hot
rtAilitheategbehis, etnennitin-Wedeling'
in the -Magi ivt Arleffreld•
Peb-
er-iwb» gone wear ftle bridn telt
Olienroilie-er4,-114nfinienkfrbits- elonr;
growing depresinione • kb neetned to
jinn as thoughnelFrancis married -hie
last; man-nriand would vanish. Al -
Most, he grudged (the veiledgirl her
obeitiruinintPninenn-
And this feeling of depression did
not wear off as- the easy April days
dipped' by. Rather; it increased. All
the Man in Peter eeseeted ill -health;
insented the lack cof male companion-
ship; tresented idleness. And, idle-
ness, Heron ,Baynet assured hirk was
irnpera,tive.
Rile began to worry about the fu-
ture. His Ipension, thirty shillings a
week subject to revision, barely paid
a third of his insurance premiums.
The children elitist be sent to sehool,
The ,expenses of ,Sunflowers rose
hourly with the tide of war extrava-
gance which had :swept over England.
'Things can't go on like this,' exact-
ly represents Peter's attitude.
'He decided to gplbacic into the to -
bade° husinese-L-and reversed decision
as soon as reached. Somehowhe
enuld no Fenger imagine hiart4elf at a
desk., . . . Patricia, consulted on
thie point,' agreed So strenuously that
Peter bdeailnie suspit.Ous. "Why
shouldn't I gD back?" he rem•on,strat-
ed. "It's the only trade I know. , The
Irn• rial would give me a job tonere,
•. .", Nevertheless' he dis-
carded the idea. •
The Whew° .business, like the army
lay behind him. He was out of the
one as he was out of the other. But
memories of both still haunted his
mind, Of the two lives he had liyed.,
he missed the military one most.
Maurice Eieriesnorn Ellkins, Selo -roe
steine and the Bramsons seemed.pet-
ty fig-ures crompared with the'Weasel
and General 'Blecklbek, Conway and'
Sandiland and Charlie Henry. But
correspondence from the Brigade
dwindled end dwindled, seen ceased
anngetthern till only Ian ,occasional
poem by Purves, who continued his
conquering campaign, in the Press,
and Jacky •Bannet's tor Alice Stark's
letters to Patricia, reminded tof
khaki.
Fr the world, war went on; but
for Peter it had stopped. He saw it
from afar: spectator and not partici-
pant. His lack ,of interest in it am-
azed him almost as Much as the glor-
ious credulity of the civilians with
whole he roecasionally idiscussed its
offieial versione-perversiens. Final
ly in a fit Of ungovernable annoy-
ance over a picture of 'cheery wound-
ed' after the battle of Messines, he
barred the 'topic altogether. Patricia
who had been harrowed by more than
one personal reminiscence, made no
objeetion; (but the children demurred
furiously.
"If daddy isn't going to tell us a-
bout killing Germans," threatened
Primula one evening, "I shall refuse
to go to sleep."
bloodthirsty little wrench,"
began Peter: and till their mother
'intervened, 'bloodthirsty' became the
sehololroom adjective.
.Howerver Evelyn and! Primula's
passion for the word `bloodthirsty'
paled into insignificance at th,e dom-
ing of Peter's ,brother Arthur. Ar-
thur had 'got a job' at the Godstone
flying school; and you never knew,
as you sat at lessons or romped in
the garden, what particular moment
might met bring the drone of Ar-
thur's engine, high up in the eir, like
an enormous bee. He used to come
swooping across country from behind
the trees at the back of the paddock;
and you could always tell if it were
Uncle Arthur because his engine made
a funny noise -buzz, stop, buzz, stop,
buzz -when he meant to land in Ten -
bits' pasture. Once, too, Uncle Ar -
ren Stun ted• TS4117' ''stunted,' for
Ivo** twvsk oraes
ilatt remain*, Mon • n • . • But Ae-
Vine Min* netted thntOlinfef,* Per-
dienninneen his 'Wing leg' Proving
tio0 much for.eFleberne nerves.
n'Iou native eeme 014 , &chat,"
OnOwled the flwing Man, "there's no
danger at aln, One just shuts' off
the engine • • .•••
dataw all about that" said Pet
er, "but to.,see you, turning twee lied
aver sideways frightens me out lel
my wits. Besides,, -if anything hap-
pened, you'd beneurniniartialledn)
"By the Arehangel Gabriel, I sup-
pose," ,grinatedeArthereend sioared off
into the. blue. On; -
"Now that," thought Peter, "is a
maxi's life.. Whereas mine . ."
And again: depression gripped him.
§ 3 •
May came ,glorilouely. Hawthorn
hedges donned their ru,ddiet coral:
orrdhard foamed below the, gravel
terraoe: Wild cherry spangled blos-
som against the greenery of new -
leafed beech woods beyond the pad-
dock. Peter didn't care. 'Frankly,
he was bored to teams. He wanted
something to do. He- messed his hors-
es. If you couldn't hunt in May, at
least you could ride. What did one
do with oneself in the country during
that rotten Month, 'May? Fish, per-
haps? IHle dallied a day with his
trout -rod,. unearthed ,seree, rather din-
gy files; hired a puth-bike in Arls-
field and cycled to Henley. The May-
fly was on the water; not a fish
would bite. Fish on •• the lower
Thames rarely do bite. Still, that
day re -introduced! him to the river.
Next time he left the trout-eod and
took Patricia. Teibbits lent them his
trap for the day; and they enjoyed
themselves. He punted her up to
Wcaegrave; she tpa.dellecl hirn home
down the backwater.
"Good pals, you and I, aren't we,
Pat?" he„,,elaid to her, as they drove
back through the twilight.
"Yes, dear." She had ,abandoned
her love -dreams. Love, as she saw
love in the eyes of Francis and Bea-
trice, was not for her. She must sat-
isfy herself with palship, be c intent
'aniong the ranks and files of matri-
mony.
have been 'a fool," she thought,
"a sentimental fool. Love is not for
me. I am just an average woman, an
average, middle class woman. Andi
like all women; I have expected too
much of life. Life has been very kind
to me. I mustn't grumble. Life has
given him back to me. Isn't that en-
..ough ?"
She looked at the man by her side.
He drove ateadity, wrist. giving to
horses mouth. A loose crust coat hid
the lines kid 'his figure: under it, legs,
feet and ankleashowed white in.•beekt-
ing-attire. Soft hat, brim down turn-
ed, shadowed the thin, face, the ser-
ious eyes.
Again she thought, have been a
fool. Life holds nothing better than
this: to he ,one's husbands friend.
Love is ,only for the very young. We
are old married people. We have
married over ten years. 1 wit be
reasionable. I will iclentent myself
with the much that is mine. He has
always been good tame. He has al-
ways been faithful to me. I have
the children,'
, The mare trotted on, steadily, sob-
erly, resigned to loose bit, to ungall-
ing collar and easy load. Eeen. so,
Patricia resigned •herself to :matri-
mony. . .
Peter set down his wife at Sun-
flowers, drove en to Tebbits.' alone.
"Back in half an hour," he called ov-
er his shloulder; "I'll just help, the
old man unharness Kitty." But old
man Tebbits would never unharness
the brown mare again. He had died
an hour back; painlessly; asleep in
the vast wooden chair Charlie had
made for him.
"He always slept his few minutes
aiter bis 4ei,elf'tCne-4314iiied Mien
nhibits, "And Vlkettrkititind to Weik4
There - was n�.,onnit at the leap,
410 'eotiueiftnn' lb,ntnindn.tnla the labor-
..Misobed genielneMeengrer-was'a good'
fattier tons enin?..:einid PM*, unbuck-
ling the 'totem •,Winlin.iiine finger;
"I'm snaking noenSinninint About
Sid Wane, thn'enteteliinea leavy4loot-
geoneneeenteittlangrizzled beard
-led the mare to ha' stable. .Wil-
liam, a hg, bent. 'fan* who liven
with 'hie Mother' at Llttle Arlsfield
came wheeling is °mint -encrusted
bike from the combine:ie., "Good
nigirt, Mr.. Harry," called 'William.
The; 'boin-e("Nener keeps more than
rome bey -two .tallesn' had been one
of iodi 'man Tebts' aphorism -
stood about, now on one leg, now on
theOther. imeerbain Ion his 'duty.
"You'd -hotter be off," ordered Har-
ry. The blond giant turned to Pet-
er. Wlourld eau care to see him, sor."
They had icarried the old man as
far . as the kitchen sofa; spread a
patehwoek quilt over .bis limbs. In
the scullery, .1111ine Tebbits was wash-
ing up; Peter could hear the trickle
of water, the clink of 'crockery, is he
stood gazing clown on , the gnoxled,
happy face. 'Thus, Men ehould di'e,'
thought Peter, 'not . . Old pie -
tures came terlowdin,g on his mind'; he
saw. other .faces, dreadful facee, face
es of 'young 'men Who should have
been alive. .
Charnel nienbilta; summoned fnom
Aeleneld, 'stalked hatless into the
room. "He erae.a good father," said
Charlie; ni've ne complaint to make
about him."
:Peter wanted to get away, to leave
these two alone' with their dead. He
held out his hand to Charlie.
sorry." The man gripped it. "He
alneys 'liked- You,' Sin" Harry fol-
lowed him out of the kitchen. They
walked slowly down the flag -path to
the ,gate.
Peter held lout his need again. "See
you to-kraorrbw, Harry." The giant
fidgeted for a moment; his blue eyes.
under the golden brows gazed straight
into Peter's.
"Father said," begian Harry, "that
if anything happened to him we was
to tell you albout that lease."
"nnhat about it?" asked Peter
wonderingly. •
"Father didn't like signing that
leasen- wenn on Harry. "He didn't
ought to have signed it neither. That'
Henley solicitor felletw, he was alto-
enther too sharp. An father got
angry witch him. . . ."
'It took half an hour before Peter
got to the bottom of matters. Ap-
parently, the trouble lay not in' the
house itself," but in the paddock.
House and orchardstood on a little
patch of nreehold .ground-Telobits'
property: but the pad -clock, like most
of Tebbits' land, was leasehold -and
Tebbits' lease (an old-fashioned con-
tract) expired with old man Tele
bits.
"Well, I don't see it matters," oaid
Peter finally. "You'll keep the farm
on, I suppose?"
"If we pan," said IHarry, pulling a'.
his great moustache. "If tee can,
sir." He clumrped heavily lback to
the heuse.
PART XXXVI
END -OR BEGINNING?
§ 1
,Rightly to understand what follows
-which is the end (or the beginming,
according to standpoint) of romance
-you must recall to memory that
Peter the Firet, grandfather of our
Mr. Jackson, who left the country -for
the town 'at the commencement of
the great English manufacturing era,
about eighteen hundred and forty,
tried his luck in the City, and ended
his days on the tobacco farm in Guan-
albacoa, Cuba; also Peter the Second
father of our Mr. Jackson, and founa:
er Of Jackson & co., Lime Street.
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Nor must you 'quite forget Captain
'Chips' Bradley, Tesea Bradley, and
the exotic Hebraic strain of the Mira -
flares. For all these played their
ghostly parts in the mind ot their
descendant as he,walked that debat-
able paddock in the 'warm sunshine
of aelate May Morning, ten days af-
ter 'he death of old man Tebbits
Fry had dug up half an acre of
that paddock; and already the mauve
potato -flower was in bloom above its
dark lealneS. ' 'Confound it,' thought
Peter, 'I'm not going to be done out
of th.is paddock. I paid to have it
dug up, di•dn'L I?'
if a looked at the two chicken -hous-
es. Thee' would have to be moved.
It wouldtake Fry half a day to
move them.. Half a day at thirty
shillings a iveek. . . .
'And immediately the word 'busi-
ness' formed itself in Peter's brain
He had never before considered the
country in th,ei light of business; the
country had been for him a place
where town people made holiday; a
rather jolly, picturesque kind of place
-scenery among which one rode, or
killed pheasants, or drove golf balls.
Now, he saw the country as the peas-
ant sees it -(but the -peasant :n Pet-
er had been sharpened by half a gen-
eratinn among townsfolk.
'It isn't just a business,' he thought
'It's the business. The greatest busi-
nese in the world. And I've been liv-
ing right in, the middle of it for six
months without grasping that sim-
plc fact.'
Then the Jew in Peter said, quite
oistinctly, 'My boy, there's money in
Prudence the pig grunted a hint
,of feeding time. But to Peter she
was Prudence the pig no longer: she
was Prudence the breeding- sow, and
the sooner he went to the boar the
better. Pigs! 'Little pigs pays all
right' -ho seemed to hear old man
Tebbite speaking. Then imagination
outran Tebbit: if little pigs paid to
ell, big hogs paid to rear. 'Question
of feeding cost,' remarked the ghost
of Peter the First •
The man in the white flannertrou-
sere with the belted shooting coat
and the oki Etonian tie, looked at
five woods beyond the paddock.
Beeches! There were beeches in
those weeds -beech -mast, roots, all
sorts of pig fodder. He eaw. an end-
less procession of hogs running
through the paddock to feed in those
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Said Peter, "I've got to have the
pad.doek. . . ."
Three hens fluttered up on to the
wire -netting round the potato -patch;
swayed there a moment; dropped ov-
er among the potato plants. Patricia
,oruldn't make hens pay. Of course
he.couldn't They were bad hens.
And chicken food was too dear. But
it one grew one's own corn . . .
'Self-srupporting,' thought Peter
suddenly. 'Cut the middleman's pro-
fit!'
A caw towed from across the road.
Thought :process went on. Peasant,
soldier, Jew and business man met
round the board -room table of Pet-
er's brain. First the land; then the
men to work the land. 'Don't pay
rent. Buy outright,' said Business.
'Keep 'e,ni in order,' rasped the sol-
dier. 'Crops and stock,' said the
peasant; eropseand stock, stock and
crops.' And your markets,' whis-
pered the Jew, 'never forget your
markets. Work to your markets -
supply and demand, demand and sup-
ply.' . . . All ef which counsels
the old Etonian crystallized into the
words. 'Why net become a gentle-
man -farmer?'
"Snobbish idea!" -this time Peter
spoke aloud. "Gentlemen farmer-
gentleinan business man -discharged
officer would like to sell wine and d-
eem On oomMiesion. Rubbish! A
job's a job. The mail who does his
job is a gentleman: the man who
plays with his job is . ." The
Expeditionary Force epithet sailed
bluely into the country air.
From abstract ideas, thought
switched to Tebbits' Farm. "The posi-
tion, as far as he could gather from
Harry, was this: the Colonel -(Damn
that colonel,' thought Peter, 'why
hasn't his wife called on Pat?') -did
trot want to renew old man Tebbits'
lease: the Colonel wanted te sell his
land: Kerry Tebbits couldn't afford
to buy it. But he, Peter, could af-
ford to buy it, and if he didn't -here
the peasant in Peter grew very an-
gry -somebody else might do him
out af this very 'paddock. 'Then sue
Tebbits' estate for damages,' coun-
selled the Jew. 'You don't know any-
thing about farming. You'll make
a hash of it, like your brother Ar-
thur. Farming's a difficult business,
my boy. Why not lend Harry t h e
money? Six per cent and no risk.
If he can't make it pay, you fore-
close. . .
Peter walked slowly back to the
house'. But the next morning, and
the next, and the inerning after that
he spent in the paddock. The More
he considered this, business of farm-
ing. the wider its scope appeared. It
embraced everything he needed: plen-
ty of wtork, limitless opportunities, a
hit of a fight, a bit of a gamble, men
to boss, horses to ride. And if one
could Leann to be a gunner in' six
months, surely one could learn to be
a farmer. . . In how long?'
asked eeaslari: and Peter realized for
the first time his utter practical ig-
norance.
For two days he abanidoned th
scheme. Then a milking time visit
to Tebbits' brought the whole business
back. He might not knoev Mush a-
bout farming -ha atty ass weld see
this wasn't right. 'Filthy,' • said the
aoldier in,Peter, '`filthy! Mies and
cobwebs and a dung -heap mound itt
the. Corner. That mills went/ Pidaren
a reginielitt.'
Finally, he decided to etalk the
whole thing out with Haery. If Harry
would come into partnership; if Har-
ry Would listen to reason . . . For
already the business man in Peter
had realized that farming on "Teb-
bits' lines was a thing ion the past, a
picturesque anachronism.
'Farming'. -Peter must have said
this to himself alt least a hundred
times during thiose few days -'isn't
just a business. It's the business.
And like all businesses it's got to be
big. All this talk slbout small hold-
ings is blather. The smallholder
works himself to dea.th for less wag-
es than a dock labourer. . .
(Continued next week)
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Wingham
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Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
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2.23
2.30
3.08
3.27
3.35
3.41
3.55
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Hensall 10.55
Kippen 11.01
Brucefield 11.09
01 i nton 11.54
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Blyth 1119
Belgrave 12.30
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7.33
7.42
Pin
2.30
3.00
3.18
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Seaforth 11.34 9.57
Clinton ••••• 11.50 10.11
Goderich 12.10 10.87
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5.55
8.04
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