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� s r,63y,00,412961111a KwIne'to Make Xi soma games it will help'to Ilan the time." about to follow it up by anot ter. Th �ula'i foriat of enter6ijament lit - E'vora the plea.olar� Of seeing himself in in comfort,, and 4ould no doubt torl4 to; ,
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. _ I . I I 1113%ergcRiag the ordeal qo,coollv proposed to coal Seems to be a wild and fantastic one, 1.
, % Eittlo'chilluill, War 00 roun', cleared away the boys and girls gathered in Sprang upon tb,) brute arkd plunged the jack- seft in the high -art antimaca sars, and was him, but to refuse Atice a request without thereare �Oirrts reAgectbag it which seem to I ," �.
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I fLY411or punikin, Azilp6lina, blia destroying the sight of that momber. Oith f6 ity, however, till one eventful day. On that " Ceitailkly. .IN hou she'll I come? prevent a mail of wealth, carpying out 4e I hl
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" � "I, ,IrVil%lta Jolly thnowe'li iab when heam done! partof that time Hal Dover has beena I A Seeing this Hal-fiftompteil'to rise i but Itwasno more ordinarystumble from 117�vhyto-night, if you can, as it may and he could easily arrange -for a- supply of , ''
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V � ,� , 'W_O,nhyo'bo ma Chrls'mus present. Angoli na. gether and Hal and I were great chums. Of co.uldnob, and hecalled on me tobelP self and goes on his way an though nothill, leace."' pound of coal in his house ; cooking utensils I � . , " I " � I
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. 11 � : � �'� TAVO 9hillurfi, clar do green , closely than eOr. . him up. To me at that instant his weight parish whom the curate ought to have as- then go U it' I eleven," Said Mrs. utensils only want placing in a convenient . , .�� .
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. , , ,�'Tufiedc;flddle an'de banjo far do WA I - Howard -Greene cheerfully. "You don't place for the application of the our- '� I Z�.
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I I ,"..'''.1 �!.ToJcrlqhtan'F(f'a-skippin, tell, the whole of this district had not half -threw-his body over any shoulder. . Alice Gilmore was a charming and talented feel sleepy, I hope., do you?" rent, and at once boiling or stewing or I . .,.
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,,, , �. ";", I I Mampletown WAS unknown. Therc5 was. a his uninjifted eye rolling and his teeth ful inerchant, and heiress to two thousand a who declined the offer of sqpper, and wc.ut be prilegeded with. The very exped- I .". , .�: ,, �,
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K;", , ,; , � tavern and that was all. To go to school was She was ail orplian, and .when she left
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;Q1raladva 111rowiiN Chrisinlas Story for the ,
I _". . ' Dead Hollow, where my fe,ther.had also to than mine. r sent her to stay with his cousin, Mrs.
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, � -'01illi ,slid 'down the hollows, now thickly Spring and Summer and wAnt to school five It al lie intended to take his war into
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I , � ,� 'inow that the boys fondly hoped would last get to school we had to pass through a, big reat haste, uttering a howl of pain an he " She'll.meet nobody at Wyngate Park,"
I I *1_ - woods'that was Situated on both sides of ' -thought be, 11 and it will be 'a charity to
�;�, �: - , 411'Winter. Wfillin all was cozy and com Long Pond, and it was here that trio ad- lid so. . poor Carrie to1a've the girl to board with
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�r; , I ..... . 'r, * delight as they diffused their genial warmth. 11 It was just about this time of the year of my second blow migbt be, but with Hal Alice Gilmore had not been many hours
11 , ' : on my shoulder dashed down the Stream as in the little suburban villa when she met
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, , - " ,' ,,'jbouted Ben, ai lie brought forth his old fully t,wo weeks. The boys in , those days I somebody; and that somebody, was Horace
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1, .w7�'% �' oled and ,adjusted a neW rope to it. I think were not given much to skating, but there half mile on, my w .
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�,,.,,,,,.-`.:,,,� �Juhristnlae is the beat holiday in the whole was a good pair of skates in the garret &lid ,,When I set H"l on big feet lie was so
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,��.,,'. '�eir I- Hal h4d a splendid now set, so we two do weak he could hardly strike out. As for Park, but. though amiable to all, he had as
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. , " And in another moment the, sled was in �ided one day to take bur rLkates to school myself,vnow that the worst of the encounter given no one any encouragement, and
proper trim, his Cousin Been was. bundled &lid after the Session was over go to �Loug was,over I found that I was trembling in' yet '
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on top, and off he started as swift .as the Pond and make a trip to its A e'ery"�mb and that my hand was deeply e
wind down, the road. We know that the pond was Some five miles that, Mr. Holfern meant to marry money.
1�., I His,brotlilers, Jack aud,Will, with their long, and having never been to its northern cut in the spot where I had held the blade Perhaps. they were right. At any rate,
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. ,� �� — cousins,,Lucy and Mabel, were not slow to extremity, thought it would prove quite n "By this time it was quite dark and soon Rome heiress, and some people thought he
�,I:il" "I �, follow; and as the young people disappear. exploring tour. - it begar. to snow, though not very str .
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���;, �, ed in the direction of Long Pond, Grandma , 11 As agreed, we took our skates to ichool We pushed on as best we could, and reacK. succeeded.
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�� and hid them in the woodshed. ' I am sorry ed our homes about ail hour later, utterly
,..�,,,,'� , Brown smiled and Shook her bead. Alice was a -bright, clever girl, but she
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: ", � � A I Never Sit w such a parcel of boys in all to say that our heads were so full of the tired out, but thankful, that our lives had had seen nothing of the world - ou taide the
t , 1�1 , 11�:_t I school -room, and, it is not- "surprising that
' ' �. ' ,�,.%��, , my life!" she. exclaimed. "Thereisa . 't one project that neithar paid the .attention to been spared." .. '
,.' �, �,� " I d She b,qgan to be interested in the pale, stud-
;,:,;, ,� , , , , . . of them quiet a minute." . . the lessons that our teacher requiredt and, "And what became of the bear?" aske - � curate, who talke : Fmpathetically
, '. 11 It shows that they are all strong and as a conseque � nee, both of us were compelled Ben, who had been deeply interested in tons d ,
,-�,, `� - , h )) replied Grandpa, Brown, who sat remaiii in an hour or more after school Grandpa Brown's story, as indeed had all about" Robert Elsinore," 6g agreeably,
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� . ;!, "ItIlY& watching what was in the oven. tw0as dismissed. .
�� 1. I by the and understood Chopin and Schumann.
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"",.; -, I' And that's a deal to be thank fill for." 1:A Then when we did get out some one "The next morning early my father and - She was friendly to Basil, too, but poor
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, , , .:. 11 So it is, and I wasn't complaining. I had found Hal's skates and hidden them, Mr. Dover put on their shates, took their Basil never shone in conVersatfon, and
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:: %� :,��; , W , . - I . boys will always be boys as long as and it took us a quarter of a:n hour to hunt glins and A�ent up the stream to find the whilst his colleagues laughed -and talked � �
. �, 'suppose ' h I look J on in despairing
", . I are born." them up, so it whe getting toward sundown Zeax. , They went up as far as the big rock, wit all, poor Basil
�,� ,� .-� T0fr.t!l-f_.r you," asserted( ,'randp% Brown. when we reached Long Pond. and there they found the brute dead in his
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�, ". 1. 41 And I like Wen. I think a boy ougnt to 1.1 I was somewhat discouraged at this, hole, which was only a short distance away. led, and his head a less startling red.
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7 , , � .:, be a real boy until he,�is it man. The Mr. Holfern did not lack opportunities
., I .�'., � � ". and was iii favor of postponing the trip to Hal had struck him with his jackknife when
.1 � " * troubles of manhood come quickly enough, the next day, but Hal insisted on going fi rat attacked, and these wounds, along v
I I ""i � 1, � I 71th for urging his suit, for Mrs. li owurd-Greene
; "c'' - My l'but when I saw theinjo off with such allead, and so we started. those I had inflicted, had caused his death. "
,'� �',' ,, right. faces it made me feel fifty. years 11 We were soon well oil our way. Hal , � was proud of her I A paying-gnest, " and talk-
�, -,�', , '! , . _ ed so much about the heiress, her beauty, so-
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�_:_, . oualger .- - , was a much sm�ller boy than 1, but he was . ' complishments and diamonds, that all the
, ��;,�.i,,� ld�good skater'and had no difficulty in keep- Trals of Shipwrecked Sailors.
,, - - g a 0 ; clite of the Park were eager to entertain
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� , , �,�,-�, � I . in until dinner time, i, sai randma. ing up with me. A. R. Sullivan, mate of the ship W. A Miss Gilmore. -
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, , , Basil was on the vem of despair, and
_ " ,�, �111 hen they will come home all tired out
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,_,L,., � I .1 Campbell which was lost %t sea, has arrived
" ".., " an as hungry a,% boars." I very much as it is now, excepting that the thinking of becoming a missionary, when a
, _ . at San Francisco with six of the crew, who
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r , � I ell, we have enough in the house to trees and bushes bung everywhere over' the escaped with b1m. Sullivali states that the startling rumour disturbed the peace of
:, " , " bank, and that there were a numbdr of small fury of the gale was duch that the cro�v , WyngatePark. *V,�_, -
,i,�, , feed then), no matter how hungry they get,
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, ; said grandpa, " and that's another thing to islands here iud there, covered with elder- were powerless, and the deck. was Soon lit. The Hollies was said to be haunted.'
be thankful Jor." , . .. berry bushes. � - tered with wreckage of spare end masts. Now a family �host in an ancestral man -
Right again," reSlied graildnia ; and "We were soon over the -wide part, and Finally it was decided to abandon the ship, Sion is one thing and a stray spook in a
�a 'allic �
�,;,,, , - O ad od bless them every then the way narrowed. down to little more as it,was apparent it would soon sink. 'Tile lath and -plaster villa. is another. The for-
�.,�::� � , one ,,, than I twenty or thirty feet. Here the over. water tanks were all burst in, and only a mer usually has a corridor --reserved for its
: � �,��,. 1 The"�old farmhouse was full of people. It' hanging trees made it quite dark, and we small milply could be secured from the don- use. and troubles nobody. The latter, be-
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0� . the sitting rooin there were Aunt Nellie and aides conferring no dignity, prevades the
.1. , had to be careful not to catch our skates in ]toy engine. The captain's young wife, who
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,,,, - Uncle Frank, Grandpa Gaston from Torouto, Some bits of sticks frozen fast to the top of bore hot e put household as a disturbing element, causing
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" �� _,l Ben's fa:ther and mother, and besides old the ice. r was caught in this fashion once, in the larger boat with Captain Havener . encral " to have fits, the charwoman
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I.,. ; �,� and was sent sprawling along for several and 1.1 sailors. It was decided to set fire to to imbibe unlimited gin, and small boys to
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. � '- : , a dozen others. It Was the custom to meet yards, tearing the knee of my trousers and the ship for fear that she might wreck other
�� ";1 , ring the area bell at matimely hours.
.�.,.'--,,�" at Grandpa and Grandma Brown's once a barking the skin from the back of my left vessels, so as they shoved off the torch was The ghost had manifested in this wise. �
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� i 1 `.,��' �� who came received I . - . 11 ' Don't you ftink we had 'better go as there ,were explosives on board. I (After was shining iri"ill its splendour, Alice dil.
1. �:,� � �- 1" 'As Grandma Brown had prophesied, none back,?' I said to Hal. I It will be pitch dark 8 'ullivan, more sta,yed downst r r ther t r tb n
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.1 A ?,i,ng together two days," sad&'tp al 8 a Is e a
,.,_ . of, tboyoung folks put ]In &11 pearance I ecided to push on, as my boai'was the usual in order to finish readin* a novel she
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, � unti - noon. Then, with shouts . lau liter, .
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, .,��,�;� . they came tip the road and burst pell-mell 11 A No ; let us ppsh on,'said lie. A I hate swlfteaL All hands were put. on short al- -had recently purchased nd in which she
'I; .. to give tip when once I start to do a thing.' lowance, half condensed'inilk and water and was more than usually interest-od.
,�, - 1-1 into the kitchen. the bero and heroine happily
: " 11 And sowe pushed oil, though I had my three biscuits a day ; canned meat at morn- She left
'" "Stich a jolly time as we have had!" cried .
;,"', � misgivings as to how the trip might end. 1119 meal, and in -the evening one tin of fruit married, and the villiin defeated, and thell
,::,.� ��:' ' Bess, shak ing a mass of snow from her curls. s used . On the tenth day our water went tip to bed. Having settled herself
L, �, � I ��� "But what do you suppose Ben did? Damp. 41 Presently the way got narrower and WO, .
� L i ' " IL, " ed me right into a big snowdrift twice ? But narrower, and often we were compelled to gave ut,an(ilp-,i'.tliemenonthestimeal- comfortably between the sheets, she was
�'1.111 step over a. 1allen tree and niak loWance of wine. On the 14th signs of just beginning to dose off when she fancied
_ - , I L Jack and Will made him pay up for it, for. e our way
, � , _�, some rocky spot where shating was weakness were noticeable in several R the she heard a rustling noise as of someone
, �,,', , they pelted him with snowballs all the way over
�' '. men. Twenty days ont and all our liquids moving about the house.
� home. " exhausted. The men behaved well, with This roused her somewhat, &lid caused
�'_ ,.. i�npossible.
, 11 Yes, and half of the snow is down 11 I We have about reached the end,' said
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': Lt 1, ' 4'� . . I Illy I. A Let us get back before it gets so dark the'ex-ception of three Chilian sailors. The her to unclose her eyeg. Looking lab, she
". �., " . back now," laughed lien. 11 Ongh I bow t , ticed that the Chilians Seemed to distinctly saw a mail's head appear-, as it
cold it does feel l" lie added, . tha we lose our way.' men no
4��---around.. ----- -- -- � - squirming , stand the short allowance of rations better were, out of the wall, The head soon
I � I 11 A We can't lose our way on this Stream, I th�n themselves, and it was deolded to.as- developed into the form of a man,'who came
!�,� � I I * 11 Long Pond is cleared off," put in Will. said Hal. I See, there is a big rock and a. certain the way they (lid it. Watch was out from the wall into the rooni, and, then
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�, ,:`," � " ' It The boys have been at it. all I morning. We tree right ahead. That is the end and no set, and in the night they were discovered glideil off into the adjoining one—Alice's
', . .. - , helped for awhile. " mistake. We will go as high up as that aud eating from the rations of the sleeping Wl- dresaing-room. .
fl�� � ,,, 11 And we,are all going skating this after- out our initials in the tree to prove we have ors. It was all I could do to save the lives Then it was that Alice recovered her
. I 11 : �: � � noon " said Jack. I of these Chilians,as several of the men drew s�nses, and jumping out of bed she rushed
� ., - . . 11 is it safe?" asked grandma, anxiously. 11 So we skated as far as he said, and, Sit- to the dvessing-roorn door and turned the
� , . � their knives and swore to 'kili the thieves.' ' ,
" I � 1 � 118afe� Why, it's hardasarock I Doe- ting on the rock, began to c.tTve our initials ,No tidings have leen received of the miss key in the lo�k.
, � . _. tor Small says lie thinks it will bear a in the bark of a tree. Both of our kniv.cs li� boat which contained Captain Ravener Than She wbnt into the corridor and
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1. . liorse." I were shcErp and we worked rapidly. wife, and -child, Se.-cond Mate Alexander raised an alarm. I
I , ��, o "And we have all got our skatda along," I A I had just finished two of my letters, Murray, Th ird Hate 'Percy E. Turner, and Soon Mrs. HoNvard-Grecile and some
�. remarked Mabel. I
I . .�, I.. and was beginning on the B, when a fright- eleven men. it is thought they were picked
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I L, " I Well, come into dinner now," said ful growl close at hand caused us both to up by a vessel going round Cape Horn or peared upon t . he scene. To those, Alice,
: � � I grandma. "Everything is ready and wait- jump tip in alarm. . have perished. .
, . 11 . now quite abirmed, narrated all site had
I � : _ ing. -1 A What is that'?' cried Ila], -and his face
�" , So tbi-,y flied into the dining room where turned avk fully pale, and I guess mine did, � . What to Buy for Christmas- seen
I." - all the others were alteady assembled and too. . ' A "Search was at once made of the dress-
�,:�, 4 sat down. Th ' on grandpa Gaston offered A I A I don't know,' I replied. A Sonnded This is one. of the annual problems that ing-room, but not a.trace 6f anyone was
up it prayer of, heartfelt thanksgiving, and like a bear.' stares all of us in the face, and as December discovered.
�( - , tiacy all fell to eating with great gusto. "'We had better get out of here,' he is now upon no we must decide at once. As i lie room had not a second door, and
, E ach year greater numbers ; ake -the beroic the window was at a considerable height
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.1 turkey with oyster dressing and cranberry animals in these woods. I never thought method of disposing of the vexing question from the ground, it was not easy to see ]low
"I . sauce, Splendid salad and celery, several of them when we came." and say sturdily, 'I I Shall Make no gifts of anyone could quit it. ; but, admitting that a
[" , . 'kinds of vegetables, fruit, plenty of nuts, AAA Nor P I replied. 'Come on - never formal courtesy, none to pay the back debts. .very athletic person might have dropped to
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� paid last, but Dot.least, mince plo. mind those last letters. We uian—" of Cbristmas norib"bacause it is expected of -the ground in Safety, ic would have been
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. 'a gifts to the needy." int
before them. It was just suth a feast as for just then the growl was repeated, 'any! val.0was tbe-imst hobse in the Park, and
they loved topartake of at GrandpaBtown's an instant later a big, clumby black bear But still there remain hundreds of thou- was surrounded by uninelosed land. As
house, 6d so they ate and ate, until as Jack appeared at one side of the opening. sands of men, women and children Who fbel soon as it was found'that the intruder was
I � ,. . that they cannot depart from the old custom not in the house, three guests set off in
declared, he guessed they "wouldn't want "All of you call well understand how
i", , . i another mouthful for. a year?" of Christmas surprise presents, and it is for pursuit, and searched every possible hiding.
- ,%� ' I frightened we were. Neither Hal nor my- them thin article is written. Some classes place, but in vain.
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wre , , ,� -Tlxq young people -did not wait to pick elf h d ever seen a bear louse in 0 woods are wholly exempt from Christmas claims. "There's only one explanation of the mya-
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I 411d, nuts, Grandma-ktiew how anxious the before, and we hadn't a sirgle, �d," said Mrs.
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I 'Were to get - skating, so she quietly filled us in the shape of firearms.
� every pocket and told them to go along and "No sooner bad the bear made his a fat it is like stealing from the one they owe ; Howard -Greene, who dabbled a little in
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� eat them on the pond. P- every dollar over and above the necessaries mysticism because it was fashionable and
; . pearance than we turned and took 156 our f life for themselves and family, in the not expensive. 11 You must not sleell there
i Yournay tal-o my word for it they were not heels -I should have said skates -as fast as reyes of God, belongs to their creditors, agitin, Alice." I
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C a a Alice at first declined to believe that the
oven more tinging than that given in the "But, as I have mentioned, ther WA, class that in exam t is composed of those figure she l.ad seen was that of
morning all act offora a run for the pond. a ghost ;
�� very rouky spot in the stream and over It an" but when somebody rememberedtlintatramp
I , I could not begin ,to tell of all the inn this we made Slow progress. ' wort y poor who �y steady industry
' afte# had banged himself in the bedroom before
� - they had that Meanwhile honest economy can just make both ends
99 a §qp. How the boys that bear let out another growl that made meet.
r towed" arena i e� Is, and how old the house was let, her scepticism bog�n to
q our hair.ttand on ends, had, came after us Having disposed of the class who bave 6
, . 'it Browser ae own later on and an lively as his bulky form ,would permit. hack�bone enough to live up to their belief room adjoining bar aunt'A.
Ciptai I give Way. and She conAented to aleop in th
L oir�tcaii, silver quarter as a prize for the "Both of us managed to rose" a clear that Christmas giving isafoolish &lid trouble. The next evening, Basil, who had heard
-,.boy who could skate around the pond three aperking, where the stream widened con some custom when not strictly hypocriticali a rnmour of the incident at The Hollies,
t, t' in the quickest, tim6, slid how J`aok olderably, but� here Hal tripped and fell and of the next two clasads of exemption, called to inquire after 0c ladies.
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. and ton were a tie, and had to divide t) el h,adiong. the two who have no right to give, we will 11 I mean to investigate the thin
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I thtftoy between them. Xor can I stop to t "I was ahead at the time, and (lid no give some hints to simplify the shopping of thoroughly, and if the ghost is genuine, seng
how ,Rabel skated on some thin ice an I t
I know *hot had happened until he uttered those who wish to and can. the narrative of its appearance to the local
. was Irrdatigbr of breaking through When a lend cry for h6lp. Then I looked back - — —
I 'Will dashtd it thd caught her up and alled , and saw not only that lie- was doivn, but The Isle of Guernsey exacts, a tax from dapers," obs6rvbd Mrs. Howard -Greene.
, i Is you mean to watch for it, then ?" ask .
ioWAy just al the nick of time. . that the bearwas close at hand. all aliens. . A
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exectibion. .
He did not dream of lying down, but
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with the trade in fuel, and especially, with
wandered restlessly from one room to an.
the buying and Selling of anthracite coal,
other, devo�tly Wishing the night was over.
the greater part of which is used for house -
Soon the noises in the house ceased, and b
hold put -poses. The chea eqing of tb5a prod.
twelve o'eldek every light was out, and Basil
tictipwilich in sure to f3'11ow the introduc.
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felt terribly lonely.
tion of electricity for the household, will for
they'd out ' light I
" y liven me a
dn't have
a few yeara'delay the universal use of do- -
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meatio,electrical apparatus, since numbers of -
a4,f i , so much," thought
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Basil ; A A but Alice said it would lessen my
people will always patronize that which
chdrice of seeing the ghost. If I'd only
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costiff least money, regardless of comfort and
known that in time I'd have run home for
cleanliness. Bat once electricity in intro- .
s?me candles, and had a regular illumina.
duced in the household in a practical way .
t!on. But I can't walk about all alifilt. I'll
there is no doubt that the brancl�ing out .
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Sit in the bedroom awhile, for I don t fancy
will be very rapid. Two very importailL .
the dressing -room with those big wardrobes
parts of domestic work are compriadd in
an d croaking doors."
cooking and getting rid of dirt. There
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Basil threw himself into an easy-ebair
seems every probability that electricity wilt
and being really tired he was on the point
be adapted to these two departmints'in a
of falling asleep, when he heard a slight
very practical way: When the mistress
noise in the dressing -room.
call touch a button"),in her bed room and
He felt as though his hair stood on end.
either tnru the girl out of bed or turn on
. He nerved himself to stagger to the
the current to cook a breakfast placed on the
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doorway, and, moving the curtain a little
stove the evening before -, when neither coal
peeped in.
nor ashes atli'i6t her by 4ust, and when
Sure en'ough there was a, ghastly figure
electric sweepers and washers are at her
standing in the cantre of the room. Its
service, She will feel as though the millen-
face was livid and awful, as that of one
mum had come. � . . .
risen from the grave, and its eyes gleamed
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'with a strange, unearthly light.
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PEATS OF STRENGTH. I
Basil's first impulse was to rush on to the
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staircase, or anywhere away from the ghost-
Itemarkable Stories of the Prowess At.4 the
ly thing, but he was literally too terrified to
. Grand Canarians.
move,
He gazed fit the figure with a sort of
After the Spanish occupation of the Grand
Canary a certain enormous stone was for a
fascination. The room was very dark, and
long time pointed out as the one of the in.
but a faint, peculiar light, which appeared
struments of the Gaunclic athletic courses.
to emanate from the eyes of the intruder,
Tile natives had been able to lift it, set it
hardly anything would have been visible.
As he the figure moved towards the
on their shoulders, and even throw it over
'Their
gazed
doorway, holding out its bands as thong"
their heads. degenerate posterity
and the Spaniards could not raise it from
feeling for the curtain. In another instant
the ground. Tradition has immortalized one
those long, claw-like hands would touch
Adargoma of Grand Canary, who could
him. .
Basil remained petrified a mow ,itionger;
wrestle for two consecutive hours, and haiv.
ing been thrown undermost irm certain con.
then, as the face came closer, a new idea
'test got his antagonist'between his legs and
darted into his mind. -
He dashed aside the curtain, and closed
&ring and squeezed him so that his'bones
began to crack. Tito native was subsequent.
with the intruder, who, evidently st�artled
ly sent an a pr lactic . r to Spain where he as.
in turn; gavd utterance to language ofa very
tounded the people by his performancou.
human and emphatic character.
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One day, in Selville, he was �inited by a
Basil's antagonist was of a Win, sinewy
build, and displayed much athletic.sh ill,'but
brawny youth of La Mancha, who was anx-
ious to try a bout with him.' fl My good
Basil ultimately mastered him, and draqged
friend," said Adargoma, " AS we are going
him triumphant] you to the landing, where
to wrestle togetherit is only reasonable that
the startled inina.es of the house were 1?y
thi� time assembled.
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we should b in by drinking something. " A
large bowl loef wine having been brought, he
"Let nie present my colleague, Mr.
took this in one hand and continued to ad-
. of
Holfern, in a now and original chars, ter,"
dress the challenger: " If with both your
said Basil.
Alas I it.was indeed that fall.nn idol who
arms you can overpower one of mine, so as
to hinder me from drinking every drop of
now faced his former worshippers with Sol-
leal re#ohition, and the skeleton keys which
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tll;s wine we will try our strength together.
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f not may return to your home. " The
carried, sufficiently proved that to obtain
you �
struggle took place, and Adargoma by de.
Alice Gilmore's jewels had been the object
grebe drained the bowl in the coolest man -
of big untimely visit.
Basil conducted. trio captive to the police-
ner without Spilling a drop of the wine. His
one hand was more than a match for the
station, and on inquiring into his anteced-
two.
ants, it was found that Mr. Holfern had no
legal claim t-) life clerical position, which
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,mon for a man to take an untethered ox by
had been obtained by forged letters. He
the born with one.hand and slay it with the
was, it seemed, a scapegrace University tu-
other. A native born priest of Grand Can.
tor, who had lived by his wits for years,
sty in the seventeenth century showed' that
and was wanted by the police all over the
.
he inherited some of his ancestors' vigor
country,
On big firat meeting with Alice lie had
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for one day, hearing that an enraged bull
as in the street, he
had broken loose and w -
probably entertaine ' d the idea of marrying
ran out, and, gr6sping it by the leg, threw
her, but finding himself in danger of deice,
it down and so held it unell its owner wis
tion, he lie ' d determined at any rate to steal
able to secure it. This doughty son of the
her jewels. Tile extr�ordiiiary appedrince
Church before his death chanced to have
of his face, which had so greatly terrified
one of his lers amputated for a cancer. It
Basil, was due to the use of pllug"b .'u.,
was th�.0 fow,d that his thigh bone Was
and big athletic skill had bee. iloqui,cd dor .
solid, with no trace of marrow. It must be
ingati appearance in a pantomime.
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confessed, however, that the relics of the
Alice Gilmorewas ashamed of having been
Canarians now found in their burying places
even momentarily dazzled by the finpostoro
and being of a practical turn of mindi she
do not bear out the inference that this was
a national, characteristic, though their di -
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soon accepted the cons�lation which Basil
mensions are, certainly a testimony of the
now ventured to offer her, and within the
trengbh and sizeof their late proprietors. -
year Basil Alinnifer brought his wooing to
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a Happy termination.
A French Soldier's Suloidc-
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A strange scene was witnessed on Men
4crosa The Sallara.
day morning on the Quai (I'Orqay, near the
The well-known explorer Captain Nloritei
Place de la Concorde Parls. An artillery
will sh-)rtly arrive, in - Tripoli C t i
rl�,
soldier, in a semi -intoxicated condition, and
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Monteil was last heard of in M.
dresecd negligently, was passing the Cavalry
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letter was received in Paris which had been
Barracks, close to the Cour (leg Comptes,
despatched by the explorer five months be-
when he attracted the notice of a non-com.
fore from Kano, in Sokoto. Hisjourneywill
missioned oflicer of dragoons who was on
have been a most remarkable one. Starting
duty at the barrack gate, and who repri-
from Senegal, the explorer in May last year
manded him for his disgraceful appearance.
reached Wagadon it, in the Mossi country,
midway between rimbuctoo and the Gold
The artillery -man at once took to his heels
and rushed down some steps loading to the
Coast.. From there he proceeded to Say, oil
the Niger, and thence by way of Kano to
riverside, followed by several soldiers bf the
guard. Before the fugitive could be reached
Kuka, a I.rge town on the east side of Lake
he jumpe(I into the river and greedily clia-
Chad, and the capital of the important our-
�he water,
appeared below the surface of .
pire of Bornu. Captain Monteil has now, it
All efforts to recover his body proved una-
appears, almost concluded this important
vaili1lg-__.0�_W0._
journey by crossing the Sahara from Lake
Chad to Tripoli.
Big Land Sales.
From the first of January to the 30th No.
A Rusitian So3mill .
vember, 1892, the Canadian Pacific Sold 84,.
A great sonsation has been caused in
252 acres, receiving for the same $348,771,
and for a like period of the prerent �ear the
official circles at ,Nlosoow by the announce.
merit of the sudden death, at Tashkend, of
,
sales reached 378,537 acres, valued at no
Major-General Alexis Beranek. The deep
less sum than ,2,320,334, or an in2rease of
the sales of 1891 of $971,562, These!
, ression earned by this news in due to the
Ily,
f.e't tball the diseased officer had only just
I w 0 not can-
astounding figures, I o ever, d
arrived in Turkestan for the purpose of
making. a thorough investigation into the
brace all that has been (lone in the corri.
pany s.land department during 44ip past sea -
provincial administration, in Some depRrt.
son: Apart from 4ho above,cL�es, which
monto of which groat confusion and even
were insde to gattloar;, the prT*,eo,L of the
it -regularities are alleged to exist, in ,whiell,
land sales for town sites tip to tYa end of
November reach 8403,603, bringing the
it is asserted, a great humber of the officials
are involved. These circumstances bay.0
total amount for the past I I months rp tca
led to the belief that there is possibly a con -
81,723,937. 1
nection betwoen Bor"ok'o audden death
andthe dread dutertaia;d by certain offi,
All the pawnshops in Mor4n(rzt, P,1188U,
cials of the iesulta of the investigations
owned by the Hebrews are sli,irtly to be
by the (�overtxmealt�
whiall-theGletioralwas charged to make.
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