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By -some means0W Wit wn to him ,week) to /00k in.�e direction are
of his iri
afraid they are a saucy -look-
self, Mr. William Shakespeare appear--)ing crew. My groom" -perhaps-
ed tc1'read tht#e' thoughts of the lady. ; was well that a :Milne 'of Mistress
At least the sly 'stale that had crept Anne did not reach the . ears. of the
,..anteo'tlipee awmber but wonderful eyes„ haugiityP'young Falconer was. who w a . v t a
had deepened to a look of roguery. toff charge h
of her horse at the tailor's'
!Mistress. Anna grew orinteen; the door—"my groom pointed `them outtri
disdainful head wettt up; she bit her me
as I passed bhe Moot Hall. A's'
14p;. ands then'"Sealwing that aitch s soon as I rettirn to the Castle I will
display of embarrassment was wno.ly 'inform my father the Constable, and
unworthy of the daughter of the 'Con- I will see if they cannot be put in
*table of Nottingham Castle, the pridethe stocks, which to my mind is'where
of youth chastened her so sorely that they belong."
she 'turned her back abruptly on the As became the shrewd man he was.
cause of her defeat. Master Nicholas Tidey, made no "reply.
Soon, however, the ever abiding He was content to nodhis head grave -
sense of place and. power cam to her ly, as if he tacitly approved, while at
aid and she wail able to command her- the same time he contrived, ta keep.a
self sufficiently to address the tailor. tail of an eye upon his distinguished
"I see the town is full of play-act= friend. There might or there might
ing rogues," 'she said. "Whence , • do not have been, a ghost of a smile upon
they come?" , that prim and cautious mouth.
"Frees London, madam, I believe," Indeed, very wisely, 'Master Tidey
said Master Tidey, without venturing left it to the. play -actor himself to
try a fall with ,such a formidable ad-
versary. And this that; daring indi-
vidual proceeded to do in a manner
quite cool and leisurely, and yet -with
a vastly considered air. In his eye,
it was true, there was a suspicion •of
something ,far other than .gravity.
That of course was regrettable; but
it was 'undou'btedly there:
Mr. William Shakespeare's first act
was to remove his hat with its single
short 'cockss feather, and , the he
bowed very law -indeed, in the man-
ner 'of one quite well aware of ad-
dressing •a social superior.
"Cry you mercy, mistress," he said,
'Abut as one who is himself a poor ac-
tor may he ask wherein his guild has
had the unhappiness to offend you?" .,
• Mistress Anne Feversham met this
effrontery with a disdain 'that was
wonderful. Her chief concern at the
moment was • to show •'her• great con-
tempt without a descent into down-
right ill -breeding. But as soon as she,,
met the somber' eyes of this . individ-
ual, in which a something that, was
rare and strange was overlaid by a
subtle mockery, this nat>lraiinstinct
took wings and Sed. In those eyes
was .,something that hardly left her
mistress of herself, i'n:.spite of her
father the Constable, her •young- blood
horse and her incomparable . pair,•of
galiisgaskins.
"My father the Constable ,would
have all play -actor's' whipped,' , said
Mistress Anne Fevershani:
But her voice was not as she had
intended it to be. Moreover, her
father the Constable had yet to de-
liver himself of such. an illiberal sen-
timent. And this graceless individual
seemed• to be fully aware that this
was the. case.
"Whipped, mistress!" His look of
grave.' consternation did - nets _deceive
her. "You would whip a poor actor!"
"All who are actors, sir, my father
would."
"Is it3 conceivable?—the • gentlest,
the hutBlest,, the •most industrious,
the.•most law-abiding of mien!"
' "My father cares. ,not for that, sir.
He says they are masterless rogues."
• "Then by my faith,, mistress; that
is very forward in your father."
"He says they are the scum of tav-
erns and alehouses and they' corrupt
the public' mind."
"Ods my life! how ,comes so, crab-
bed a sire to have a daughter se, fair,
so "feat, so 'charming!"
It began to seem hopeless for Mis-
tress Anne to continue in such a
strain of severity. For moment she
used her will' in order to punish this
audacity, but in the next she was
trembling upon 1 the verge of open
laughter. Still the consciousness that
she was no less a person' than the
only daughter, and heiress of Sir John.
Feversham,. tiie Constable of Notting-
ham Castle and chief justice of the
forest of Sherwood, was • just able to
save her from that which could only
have been regarded in the light of a
disaster.
"I would fain inform you, mistress',
there are play -actors- whom even. the
Queen approves."
A1,as! Mistress Anne had a full
share of the cynical irreverence of
youth.
' "I am not at all surprised to learn
that, sir. I have even been -told that
the Queen dyes her hair."
The effect of.„. a speech so daring
was to startle Master Tidey quite vis-
ibly. The world leek's to one. of his
craft to hays a conventional' mind,
and there• was no doubt the tiinds
were perilous. The shears almost
fell from his hand. If this was not
treason, might;'he never sew another
doublet! r•
The play -actor, however, was of a
fiber less delicate. It was: as, much
as Mr. William• Shakespeare could do
to refrain from open laughter.
"May I ask, mistress," he said,
"what is your tii=arrant• for such a
grave charge' against the Qgeen's
Majesty?"
"The warrant of my own eyes, sir.
Her hair was certainly dyed when she
stayed at the Castle a month since."
"But bethink you, mistress, might it
not appear less -treasonable if Giori-
ana's true subjects presumed her glair
to• be a wig,?"
"Let them presume nothing) sir, but
that which is the truth."
"To so•'pioUs as resolve even'a poor
actor may say amen."
Mistress Anne realized that she
was no match for this man. The en -
1y hope for her dignity lay in a cool
scorn of him. Suddenly the glorious-
ly straight baiek was turned fl9ti:a.in-
fully. Let the greatest lady for ten
miles beware how she chopped logic
with a strolling actor.
"Master Tailor, I ,would have you
devise me a second. pair of these Night
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Pure bred sales,', also farm stock ' Masten Tidey bowed low,
and implermenta. One per cent. "Good -day 'to you, Master Taller."
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,my expense. his ears. ,
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With, chin' held high, and with!, an.
arrogant, free -swinging carriage," Iylis-
trpss Ann Feversham went . forth -'of
the , tailor's shop. But even .then,
abrupt as was the manner ofher go.
iiig, she had to submit to the play
aetor's leaping to the door before She
could reach it herself. He opened it
and held it forr her with the grace, and
dignity of a courtier. She passed im-
periously, without yielding VIM a
glance or a "Thank you."
A dashing young man in the livery
of a falconer was holding the young
blood -horse of Mistress Anne outside
the tailor's door. He was handsome-
ly mounted on an animal similar to
the one he held for his mistress, 'On
his list was a small falcon, hoodwink-
ed" and fessed. -
Very agile was the lady in finding
her way . into the saddle. For all that
she was not quite clever enough to
defeap,,this. incorrigible play -actor.. He
sprang to her stirrup while she had
one foot still on the gromad and hoist-
ed her up with an address that en-
forced her respect, and, with so grave
an air of caurtesy as tacitly to com-
pel her own.
All the same she was angry. And
she hadsense enough to know that
it was illogical te' be so. Yet she
swung her horse 'around `sharply in
order to give expression to her state
Of mind. • Arid as the falconer, „John
Markham 'by name, confided the mer-
lin to 'the accustomed wrist of his
mistress, he turned back aninstant
to mewl at the player. It was even
as if he would' ask him who the devil
he was, and what the devil he did
there.
The player removed his hat with
its single cock's feather in a manner-
that
annerthat was almost tenderly ironical. It
had hardly been a display of "Court
manners , of which he had been the
recipient. . But he was too much a
man of the world to look for those
everywhere. And above all here was
youth_in its glamor, youth in its sor-
cery. For the sake of a stuff so pre-
cious he would forgive a, crudity
greater than this,
With a sigh of delight theplayer
stood at the tailor's ; door to watch
this fine pair ride very slowly and
•
There is. na`ueli agreement in Q,ttaawa.
eirc'l.es and, accorjding to' this colUnnt's
wide code. of cgntacts, all across.
Canada ..in statQments .,made by Ot-
tawa's 'populav and'able Mayor Lewis
in an addres last Week. "During the.;
war,' said •' Mr „Ecol!, "our eyes were,
dired.ted at affair`;'' across ,the amain —
outside of ;Canaria, at the preheat
time in my opinion our eyes -are foc-
ussed a little too much an the Euro
Dean situation, we have some liieal
problems . ."
Detractors of Canada
It is very evident, too, that there is
a growing feeling 'of exasperation
among Canadians at the political and.
business , leaders who continually
abuse everything done in Canada. The
leaders of .the—CAP. Party' are the
biggest offenders against our country
and the'speech .delivered ,by the lead-
er of that party last week comes •un-
der fire in many discussions. • Mr.
Coi'dwell's coi:nparisbn of the cost of
houses in_.Canada and in New Zealand
did not take lute- account the differ-
ence in structure required because of
our Canadian climate and is'•cone&
haughtily do'A'n the street: For all
their air of class c0nseiousness and
their open "contempt of the townspeo='
ple, which' their .youth alone Saved
from being rididulous, they made a
.glorious' pair in the eye, of the part -
proprietor of the •Globe Theatre, Lon-
don.
That was "an eye to judge men and
things as none .other since- the world
• began. Neither Mistress Anne Fev-
ersham nor, the falconer was aware
of that fact, and had they been aware
of it they had not cared a . button;
All that they did know and all that
'they cared was.that the worthy bur-
gesses of Nottin'ghafn' were stealing
glances of awe and admiration rat
them. In a word; they were catising
a sensation, and Went 'Very 'pleas'ant'ly
alive to the fact.
(Continued Nast' Week)
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wt re getting•
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nery., Asixty Iainowl machine,
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ern Canada, coat tile New gblana,
Partner Stili -so,. It is hard to pq>�vililCa
Canadiagfarmers that they 'should
Prefer Condit' fus' like this
The Question of Subsidies
The leader of the Co-operative Cons,
inanweaith Federation has come' 1114 -
der' Hire.' recently on another count,
He is taken to task in many -.places
for ..the 'inconsisteney .between hi
statements in the Rause of Commons
and his statements outside the 'Hol �s
On .,,January 22 In a radio -addres
reported by the Canadian Press h
criticized the federal government fo
hot paying a milk subsidy (the: hand-
ling of milk comes under provincial
-silk 'bo'ards) 'and. at the •satn'e- time,
implied that the federal government:
the s1.lgge
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7hb ani
finding
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tt, But heir .prodltdtio t ha�sY gone
per foo,. trap,
Mli. C.OLDWFLL, di has: l one up.
MR, :MI'P!GFIEL Thee ports oi'
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dd�r�osppWeaifdriokrrlthirty-
e�ght #u�on n
last year.
ns
COI,DWELt, Because<a ri vats°
enterpl'ise` wore, the xn#tiei aur:.
e, 'M'F1'OI{ELL' -.MY lien. friends'•
do riot. -need it.' o ,any farther than
e tlOs elisiiiber if ley want"to. ;look a`,t
$` socialism. It -all comes 'back to • the
question of ubeidy
was improperly paying subsidies to
:the •Dominion Steel and Coal Com-
,pany "suck. corporations had ,been
'
granted subsidies amounting to mil-
lions -of dollars over, the years."
Oh Wednesday of" last. week Mr.
Coldwedl sat in the House of, Com-
mons and concurred• when a C.C.F,
member.,.'a5ked• that the govei•n'nient
pay a further subsidy to the Domin-
ion Steel and Coal Company. "The
only agency that can cope with it (the
coal strike). is • the federal govern-
•ment by way of subaidy."
The coal mining „problem in Nova
Scotia is largely caused by a drop in
production, Mines which were pro-
ducing 2.7 tons per man day in 1939
are now, producing only •1.5 tons .per..
Man day. the government concilia-
tor recommended that the increase of
$1.40 per day be granted, $1 -of which
Was to be paid by the, company and
subject td improved. production, the
40 cents to be paid'by subsidy,' The
Wartime Prices - and Trade Board
agreed to allow coal to go up enough
to pay the'40c increase instead of a
subsidy.
Eohoes From Parliament
MR. MITCHELL (Minister of La-
bour) : We have had many .arguments
here this afternoon.' Some have criti
cized this report. Some' -'think they
have'sa better answer than this com-
missioner had to the problem of the
coal industry, but' if they have it, let.
them stand up 'on their bind legs and
say what' it is—
MR. GILLIS
s—MR..GILLIS (C.C.F.):. We have told
ynu many times,
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