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DR. C. W. THOMPSON •
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AUCTIONEER -JAMES SMITH LI-
, censed Auctioneer for the County
of Huron. All orders entrusted to
me will receive prompt attention.
Will Gel! either by percentage or
per sale. Residence on the Bayfield
Road, one mile south of Clinton..
APPLES
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r am also continuing tie
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J. A. Ford.
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Helmesville.
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Adoring 'how =day it. was. Unale
Rad, Marrbeen ii" elittn ' &la& 'She
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might have doubted whether the blue, een driven from the pan -
looking stuff Mrs. Grundy poured . Peter had
try fer asking for milk, and now the
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to. her cup ever saw any cream, but MY hauielf had wie uP to °mull°
she was only too thankful to get it on her morning apparel and clone the
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any terms, end hurried with it backigh-crowned cap with the ska-alue
ribbons, Greatly Was she surprised
to her room. About noon the clouds
broke away, while here and there a at the• sound of VOiPq$ in the "On
paten Of . bright blue sky was to be adjoirring, and while Mary was Aill
in Billy's lap the door opened, and
seen. But the roads were so muddy
that Mary had no hope . of Billy's Mrs. Grundy appeared, with her
hands thrown up and the wide border
coming, 'and this it Was, perhaps,
which made the dinner dishes of her Morning cali, which also did
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hard to wash, and which made her night service for its fair owner, flying
cry when told that all the knives andstraight back.,
forks must be seoured, the teakettle "Mary Howard!" said she; "ii, man
p i -
wiped, and set with its nose to the uin thiball, where no man is
ever permitted to come. What dpera
north, in what Mrs. Grundy called
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the "Pout Hole," and which proved it mean.? Ishall be ruined l
No danger, madam, I assure you,'.
to be a place under the stairs, where 4
said Billy, "I came to bring Alice's
pots, kettles and ironiltare generally
. • eradle, and did not suapose there was
were kept. improper , in coming . up
AII things have an end, and sosclict 'anYthing
the scouring, in spite of Mary's -faro aere."
to the contrary, and then watbhing . 4f It'S nebedY but. Bab' Render,"
a time when Mrs. Grandy did not tee said Mary, frightened at Mrs. Galin-
dy's wrathful, looks; :
her, she stole away upstairs. Taking
Alice on her lap she eat down by the %•• "And who is Billy Bender? A beep?
open window where the damp air 'Pears to me you are beginning young,
end getting on fa,st, too, a settne in
cooled and moistened her flushed face.
lap. S'posin' I. should do ,so -
The rain was - layers, -alaa, atereee the his
meadow the sun was shining through wouldn't it be a town's talk?" '
the tall trees,. making the - drops of ' Rea's" tried to 'get awl, but Billy,
the leaves greatly amused at the highlyascanclal-
water which hung upon`
mos iaed lady's distress a held her: tightly,
aParkle and flash ht. the sunlight
!and Mrs. Grundy, slamming the door
so many tiny rainbows,. Mary watch's
together, declared "she'd tell Mr.
ed them for a time, and then looking
upward .at the thin white, dame& Parker, and that's the end on't."
But no Mr. Parker made his ap-
which ehased each ether so rapidly
and as the sun was getting
across the blue sky, wondered if her • Pear:arm,
toward the west, Billy ere long start
mother's home were ahem. • and il she ed up, saying . he must go now, but
ever thought . of her children, so sad
and lonely without her, • would come' ragain next week. Mary
---A 'mateenrents.aaaAltoe-artroused ,her---.1caleased, hint cloyeasaeire, and then re -
teaming to her room cried herself into
from her reverie, andalooking into the
road, she saav directly 'opposite the so sound a sleep that Mrs. Grundy
house Billy Bender', and with him, was obliged to scream at her at least
..Alice's cradle-, ;In a moment Mary's a dozen times to come down and set
the supper tables adding 14$ a finale,
arm Were thrown sheet, his neck as
,tightly. as if ate thought he had the that "etre wondered if she thought
She Was a lady boarder, or What."'
power and Was come to take her away.
"Oh, Billy, Billy"-ssad she, "I was
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Trains will arrive at and otpArt
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BUERALO AND • GODERICII DIV.
6.22 a. en:
7.33 a. 'm.
3.16 p. m.
5.20 p. m.
11.10 p. m
44 lt Lei ni.
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Going East •
44 44
it ti
4; 41
Going West
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tt • " it 10.47
LONDON, HURON & •BstUCE DIV
Going South - 7.47 a. m.
It 44 4.24 p: m
Going North 11.05 a.. m
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one wee knows grin:Mar. itOW Maui as she called them, aria she exerted.
genders are there, child?" herself to repay the debt with inter-
"Feur," arrawered Mar.Y., what had est. Sometimes on a sultry summer
been studying Smith:" morning when the perspiration stood
Instantly Sal oeized Marfa hands, thickly on Mise Grundy's face as ohe
and nearly wrenching them off in her bent over a red-hot 000kotove in the
10Y, capered and danced about the kitchen, Sal, with her feet in the
room, leaping over the cradle, and brook which ran through the back
finally exclairlaing. "Capital. -. You yard and a big palin-leal fen in her
think just as I do, don't you? And band, would call out from thme shadY
have the erne opinion of her? What spot, a'llalloo, Mate Grundy, don't you
are the genders, dear? Repeat them." wish you were a lady boarder and
"Masculine, feminine, neuter and could be as cool and as comfortable
coMinon," said IVIar
as I am?' Occasionally, too, when
"Oh! ;get out 'with your corm:non safely fastened in the pantry enjoy -
vender," ecreamecl Sal. "My grammar ing her green tea and Beaton creek-,
don't read SO. , Bays masculine, ers, she would be startled with the
femiuine, neuter, and Grandly gen- Words, "That mast have been an eita
der, to which lest but one thing in pellent relish!" and looking up she
the world belongs, and that is the lady would spa Sal cosily seated on the top
below with the cast-iron back and shelf eyeing her movements compla-
india-rubber tongue." cently aria offering perhaps to newt
"Do you mean Mrs. Grundy'?" ask- her if she -found the tea too strong!
ed Mary, and Sal replied:
"Mrs. GrundaP aral who may Mrs.
Grundy be? Oh, I turderstend, -she's
been stuffing yen,"
"Been what?" said Mary,
, "Excuse me," answered Sal. "That's
a slang term I've picked up since
I've been here. It's so easy to get
contaminated, when .one is constant-
ly associated with such low people.
I mean that during my temporary se-
clusion glee Grendy has probably
-given you erroneous impressions
which I take pleasure in Correcting.
She has no more right .to order us
boarders around, and say when we
shall breathe and when we shan't;
than I have. Sire's nothing more nor
less than a town pauper herself, and
has to work at theta'
"So do we ,a11," interrupted Mary,
and Sal continued:
"On that, point you are slightly
mistaken, my dear. I don't have to.
I didrat'come here to work. TheyAried
a once."
Here pushing her tangled hair back
from her brow she pointed to a long
abet, saying, "Do you see that?"
Mary nodded, and Sal continued:
, "When I first came here the overseer
was a bad man, not at all like Mr.
Parker. One . day he told me to wash
the dinner dishes, and to use mote
than a pint of water, too, so I gaffe
ered them up and threw them into. the
well; but this method of washing did,
not. suit the overseer's ideas of house-
keeping, so he took a rawhide, and
said he would either 'break my will;
or.'break my-arreeka-aedaheessuaseathe-
could not break my. will, and dared
hot break my neck, he contented hina
self with breaking my head. Every
blow that he struck . me was like melt-
ed leaa. poured' into ray brains, Which
puffed out like -sausages, and have
never recovered their wonted dimen•
sions. The town took the .matter up,
but I don't remember much about it,
for I went to sleep again, and when
I woke the overseer was gone, and
Mr. Parker was here in his place. I
was chained like a wild beast under
the gavot stairs, an.d Miss Grundy's
broad, OM back was hung there foi.
a door. Nobody asks • me to Work.
now, but occasionally, just for pas-
time, I go into Mrs. Parker's room
and read to her, and tell her about
my Willie, who went away,"
• "How Icing has Mrs. Parker been
sick?" asked Mary.
arm' no judge of time," answered
Sal, "hut it seems a great While, for
since her illness Miss :Grundy has
been at the heli the,kitchen, and
perhaps it is all right that she should
be; for somebody muitt manage; and,
as I had declared I would- not work,
'twould hardly have , been. consistent
to change. my mind. And then; too,
Miss Grandy seems admirably suited
for the place., Her forte is among pote
and kettles, and she will get the most
work out of the boarders, keen. them
on the least fare, and put more money
into Mr. Parker's packet at the end
of a year, than anyone he 'could hire;
and this is, ihe secret 'pi his bearing'
so Much from her." •
"But why does she want to fill:his
pockets *with money?"
. Sal gave a knowing wink and re-
plied, 'You are not old enaugh to see
into everathing, so I date say you
wouldn't understand me if I should
'hint that. Mrs. Parker has the con-
sumption, and can't live always.''
Mary's looks aplainly told that
this remark had given her . no:
idea whatever; and Sal continued, "I
knew. you wouldn't : understand, • for,
you haven't my discernment to begin,
with, and then you were never sent
away' to school,. were you?" ..
."NO, ma'am, was you?" asked Meg.
"Say `were you,' if You please, it is
more 'euphonious. Yes, I was at school
in Leicester two years, and .wite call-
ed the best grammarian there; but
arinee I've sojourned. wig.t this kind Of •
_people...Eve nearly lostmy_rennement.
and now you've come, shall cut them
all, with the exception of Uncle Peter,
who 'would be rather genteel if he
knew more of grammar." -
Just then Alice awoke, and Sally, •
who had not: observed her before,
sprang forward with a scream .of joy,
and . seizing the child in her arms,
threw her rip toward_ the ceiling, catch-
ing her as she came down as . easily
as she mould a feather. Strange to
say Alice neither manifested any fear
of the women nor dislike .of the play;
but laid her head on Sally's shoulder
as naturally arts • if it had been, her
mother, .
' "Dear little fellow," said Sal, he
looks like Willie, only not half so
handsome," ' • •
afraid -you. would 'not come, and it CHAPTER VI.
made me so unhappy. Can't yeti take • .
mo home with .you?" • The next morning between nine and
• Billy had expected as muck and ten, as Mary sat by Alice's Cradle
had tried hard to. make his mother rocking her to sleep, she was senaibla
say that if Mary and Alice were very of an unusual completion in and
homesick, he might bring them holm. around the house. ,First there was
But this was Mrs. Bender's sick day, the Bound as of some one dancing
and Billy's entreaties only increased in the dark passage. Then there was
the dangerous symptoms of palsy the same noise in the kitchen below, .
from which she was now sliffenng, and a inerry voice was heard 'singing
the scarlet fever having been given snatches of . wild songs, while ma-
ny) until another time. sionally peals of 'laughter were heard
"If the saictmen .pay me well for mingled with • Mrs. Grundy's harsher
it," said she, "'I" will take them what tones. Mary's curiosity, was roused,
little time I have to live, .but not and as soon as Alice. Was fairly asleep
without." . she ratio -reed to go down and ascer-
Billy knew the town could sipport fain' the made • of. the disturbance,
them mach cheaper where they were, which had now subsided: '
so he gave up the projeat, and bought As she opened. her door . she saw
Mary a pound of seedcakesand Alice advancing toward her .from the furs
a stick of canna. Then; the moment thest extremity of the hall a little,
the rain had ceased he gat himself in shriveled -up -woman, with wild, flash-
teadiness to start, for he anew how ing eyes, and hair hanging loosely
long the day Would seem to Mary, and over her shoulders. She was shaking
how much .Alice would Miss' her arra .her fist in a very threatening mat -
die.. Three . times before he got Otte tier, and as she • drew nearer Mary
side the gate his mother called him saw that her face was going through.
back -once to find her snuffbox -once a • great variety of changes, being at •
to see if there was not 'more color in first perfectly -hideous in its expres-
•her face than there ought to be, and sien, and then instantly •changing in -
leggy to inquire if her mouth' hadn't to something. equally ridiculous,
commenced taming a little toward' though not quite so frightful: Quickly
the right ear! After finding her. box, divining that this Must be Sal Fur -
assuring her :that her color' was nets' bush, Mary sprang back, hat had
ural and her mouth all straight,' he not time to fasten her door ere: the
at last got started. The road was wild woman was there. • In a 'tremor
long and the hills were steep; but pa- of terror Mary ran under the bed as
tieraly Billy toiled on,: thinking how the only hiding-placesthe room afford -
surprised pleased' Mary would be ;' ed, but her heart almost ceased beat -
and When he. saw ho* joyfully she ing as. she saw her pursuer about to
received him he felt more than paid follow her. Springing out with a
for his trouble, Some boys would •• bound, she would Perhaps have made
have rudely shaken her Off, ashamed her egress through' the open window
;to be caressed. by a little girl, but had not Sally prevented her by seir.-
Billy's heart was full of kindly syin- big her arm, at the same thee awing:
,•pathy, and he returned her caresses 'Don't be alarmed, duckey, I shan't
as a brother.' avenild have done. a I hurt 'you; I'm Sal. Don't you: know
As he released her he Was startled Sal?" •
at hearing some one call out, "Bravo? 'The voice *as low and musical, and
That, I conclude, is a .country hug. I there was. something in its. tones
hope she: wont' try it on me!" which in a measure quieted. Mary's
Turning about he saw before him leers but she took good care to keep
--a--white.iiiiced--bey,-nearly-of_his_own_at...a.:retnectfiablistanee„,,,Aft_er awhile
age, whose dress and appearance in- .Sally asked, "Have you come here
dicated that he belonged to a _higher' to board?"
grade, as far as wealth was concerned.' "I have come here to live," answer -
It was Henry Lincoln, notorious both • ad Mary; "I have no other home."
for pride and insolence. Billy, who "Well, for your !Sake I hope there'll
had s worked for Mr. Lincoln, had .be an improvement in the fare, for if
been insulted by Henry many a time, • there isn't I declare I won't stay much
and now he .longed to aienge it, but longer, though to be sure yOu.,,don't
native politeness taught him that in leek as if you'd been used to anything.
the presence of Mary 'twould not be better than skim -milk. What alls
proper, so without a word to Henry your teeth child?" .
he whispered to the little girt "That Involuntarily Maryai hand went tip
, fellow lives pear here; and if he ever ,:te her mouth; and Sally, who if she
gives you trouble just let me know." expeoted an answer, forgot to wait
"Kissed her. then, 'didn't you?" . for it, • continued, • "Do you, know
sneeringly asked Henry, retreating grammar, child?" '
at the same time. • • • I Mary replied that she had studied it
"Come into the house," said Mary, 1 a few months in Worcester, and a
"where he can't see us," and leading ' few. weeks 'fir Chiesapee. -
the way she conducted. him up to her I "Oh, I am so glad," said Sal, "for.
own teem, where there wise no fear , now I shall have an associate. Why,
of being interrupted. • ' athe greatest objection I have to the
Alice vsaiarfirst carefully fixed in her kind of people one meets with here is
cradle, and then kneeing down at that they are so horribly vulgar in
Billy's side, and laying her arms their conversation and murder the
across his lap, Mary told him of every-' queen's English so dreadfully. But '
-thing which had happened, and 'finish- ' w,onat you and Flume good times Bay-
ed by aaking, "how long she must • ,ing the rates in common?
I Unfortunately Mary's knowledge of
stay here" .
Rad. Babes puree been as large as ` grammar was rather limited, and as
his heart, that question would have she did not exactly fancy Sal's 'Prd.•
easily been answered. Now he :could position, she answered that she had
only shake his head In' reply, while nearly forgotten all she' ever knew of
Mary next asked if he had seen Ella. I glatnaranh art -haws nothing child•that
as' have not seen her,"' returned „ , .
he,!'bilt, I've heard that rainy as it nothing. • said Sal. • It will return
to you gradually. Why, things that
Was this moreing, Mrs. Campbell's
happened forty years ago and were
Maid WaS out selecting muslins and
jaconets for her, and they she forgotten twenty years ago come back
to
Half a Dollar
will pay a "sub:
scription to The
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Toronto World
is not to wear blaek BB rs. amp -
bell thinks her too young."
Mary did not speak for some time,
but her head dropped on Billy's knee,
and she seemed to be intently think-
ing. At last, brushing aside the hair
which had fallen over her forehead,
Billy said, "What are you thinking
about?"
"I was wondering if Elle wouldn't
forget me and Allis now she is rich
and going to be a lady."
Billy had thought the same thing,
and lifting the little girl In his lap,
he replied: "If she does, I never will; '
and then he told her again how when
he was older and had money he would
take her from the poorhouse and send
.her tp itched, ancl that she should
some 4Inie he as much of a,,lady as
Ella,.
, By this time affre. Grundy's work in
the -Magnin was done, Patsy had been
shaken tot: etaalilij 4. linger cake, the
lame Woman had *been ecolded be-
Oattile her floor had dried in streeko,
iiillates, *who 'iota** eirhoev4,04.1. 4001111.
me eve day• but then I alwayis
,
did forget more in one night than
sonie people, Ati88 GrUndyt for in-
stance, ever knew in all their life."
"Have you lived hem long?" asked
Mary. •
"Yes, a great while;" and the ex-
pression of Sally's face grew graver,
as she added, "Perhaps you don't
know that 1 lost little Willie, and
then Willie's father 40, too, and
left me all alone. _Their gravee are
away on the great "Wetternprairies,
beneath the buckeye tree% and one
night when the winter wind wet howl-
ing fearfully, I fancied I heard little
Willie's VOlCB calling to me from out
the raging storm. So 1 lay down on
the turf above my lost darling, and
slept to. long that when 1 awoke my'
hair had all famed gray' and I was
in Chicopee, where Willie's father
Used to live. After awhile they brought
meohere and said I was crazy, but
witin't. My heed Was clear as 4 bell;
and 1 knew at mu& tie .I ever did,
Only 1 couldn't tell it, hecanee, you shut up on the slightett pretexts. sta
Bee, thti right arta& *Cantata atonic.se* Vera Wifil to whom she was in. ing in its effects upon the feeble *had
Bus 1 deal gotteAtour roe. minted fat .bar ".bennoraltr that -hi khArt ento ttai
deep olumber. Mery gently
down,. and then smoothing back the
few silken curls which grew around
her forehead, and Mooing her white
,clietik, she returned to the kitchen,
determined to please Miss Grundy
that day. if possible. -
But MIBB Grundy was in the worst
of humors, and the moment Mary ap-
peared she called out, "Go straight
back, and /etch that .young one down
here. Nobody's a-gomi to have you
radii' upstairs every ten minutes to
see whether or no she sleeps with
her eyes open or shet. She can stay
here as .well as Not, and if she begin%
to stir. Patsy can jog the cradle."
"Mary cast a fearful, glance at Patsy,
who, nodded and smiled as if in ap.
probation of Miss Grundy's command,
She dared not disobey, so .Alide and
her cradle we% transferred to the
kitchen, which was all day long kept
Miss Grundy wore a wig, and as the at nearly boiling heat from the stove -
occulted disturbed whenever the fact room adjoining. 'Twice Mary attempt -
was mentioned, the walls of the house ed to shut the door between, but Miss
both inside and out were frequently prundy bade her operait so the could
oroamented with ludicrous pictures of 'keep an eye on all that was going
herself, in which she was sometimes on." The new sights and faces round
represented as entirely baldheaded, her, and more than all Patsy's strange
while with spectacles on the end of tippeerance, frightened Alice, who set
her nose, she appeared to be peering up such loud screams that Miss Grua -
hither and thither in quest of her wig. dy shook her lustily, and then cuffed
On these occasions Mies Cirundy's Patsy, who cried because the baby did, ,
'wrath knew no bounds, and going and pulling Mary's hair became she
to Mr. Parker she would lay° the case "most knew the felt gritty," she went
before him in so aggravated a form bach to the cheese -tub muttering
that at last to get rid of her, he would something about "Cain's being raised
promise that for the next offence Ser''' the hull time."
At last wholly exhausted and over-
poorshoul
should woman,
shutan, tany c. Ihne r t its waywe words, come
come with the heat, Alice ceased
"was secluded from the visible world screaming, and with her eyes partly
ne7ivartlyh hatlhfe
thOthtiemreinmateo of the while Mary, half out of her senses,
closed, she lay panting for breath,
house, however, she was a special tipped over the dishwater, broke the
favorite, and mane were • the kind yellow pitcher, and spilled a pan of •
-turns which she had done for the morning's nailk,
lame woman: whom Miss • Grinds. "If there's a stick on ahe, premise%
took delight an -reminding that she I'll use it, or my name isn't Grundy,"
didn't half earn. the Balt to her par- said the enraged woman, at the same
ridge." time starting for a clump of alders
Next to the wig nothing more an- which grew near the. brook+.
noyed Miss Grundy than to see Sal, At this stage of affairs -Sal Furbush
with grammar in hand, perched. upon came dancing in, courtesying, making
the window sill or table and repeating faces, and asking Mary if she thought
at the top of her voice the "rules, "the temperature of the kitchen con -
of which every fourth one seemed to dueive to health?"
have been made with direct reference Mary instinctively drew' nearer to
to herself. But it was of no use for
Miss Grundy to complain of this, for
ea Sal said, "Mr. Parker merely wink-
ed at it as the vagary of a disordered
• mind," and she was free to quote her
-griaranar -from •, morning- - tills -night: -
Whenever she was crazier than usual-
• her commend of language was propor-
tionately greater, and her references
to her grammar more freauent, while
no one in the house could Arehture
a remark without 'being immediately
corrected for some impropriety of
speech,
• Uncle Peter, who had a high opin-
• ion of Sally's abilities, always did his
best to converse as she directed; but
in her "inspired days" even he be-
came utterly confounded, and once
when in one of her lofty strains she
had labored hard to impress upon
• him the all-important fact that adjec-
tives' are frequently changed into ad-
verbs by the suffix '1y," the old man,
quite out of his Netts with his efforts
to understand and profit by her teach-,
• ings, was guilty .of a laughable blun-
der.
. "Uncle Peter.," said she, "did you
notice how unusually funnily Miss
Grundy's wig was arranged at dinner
id -day?" • • -
•
Thinking that he fully understood
• the reply which he was expected to
• make, and anxious to make amends
for his former stupidity, Uncle Peter
promptly .replied, "No madam, I did
not-ly." • • ' -
' The look of horror which Sally's
face assumed convInced Uncle Peter
that he had failed in his attempts Grundy. On this occesion, hotvever,
at speakhig gramniatically, and with he clid not take sides with her, but
her, as to a iriend, and grasping her
dress, whispered, "Oh, Sally, Aunt
Sally, don't let her whip me for noth-
ing," at the same ;time pointing to-
ward, Miss Grundy, who was return -
log with an alder switch, stripping
off its leaves as she came.
"Whip you? I guess she won't."
said Sal, and planting herself in the
doorway as Miss Grundy. came up,
she asked, "Come you with hostile
intentions?" - • -
. "Out of my way," said Miss Grun-
dy. teeth that upstart to break
things wherashe's mad." Pushing Sal
aside, she entered the kitchen. •
Mary retreated behind the cupboard
door., and Miss Grundy was about •to
follow her, when Sal, with a nimble
bound, sprang upon her back, And.
pulling her almost to the floor, snatch-
ed the whip from her hand, and
•it in twenty pieces. How the at -
ter would have chided is uncertain,
for .at that moment Mr. Parker him-
self appeared, and to him Miss Gran-
dy and Sal detailed their grievances,
both in the same breath.
"I can't get at a woad," said he,
and turning to the pleasant -looking
women, who was staidly paring ap-
ples, he asked what it meant.
In a plain, straightforward manner,
she told all, beginning from the time
when Alice wigs first brought into the
kitchen, and adding as an opinion of,
her own that the child was suffering
from heat. Mr. Parker was a good-
natured, though rather weak man,
and in reality slightly feared Miss
a sudden determination never again
.to try, he precipitately leftthe house,
and :kr ..the.meat two hours: aniused
hiinself by:plaYing "Bruce's Address"
"She isn'ta boy," quickly inter-
rupted Mary. "Her name is -Alice."
"No consequence," said Sally, "he's
Willie to me;" and ever after, in spite
of Mary's remonstrance; she persisted
in speaking of Alice as "he," "the
little boy.' '
' Mary scion found that the poorhouse
with Sal Furbush shut up, and the
poorhouse with Sal at liberty, were
quite different affairs. Now it was
.no longer lonely, for Sal's fertile im-
agination was constantly suggesting
something new, either' by way of pas-
time or mischief. Toward Mies Grun-
dy and the other pauper's eviriced
a strong dislike, owing, in a great meas-
ure; to the air' of superiority which
that lady thoraght proper to assume,
and which was hardly more than nat-
ural considering the position which
she eccupied. She was a capital
house -keeper, and to one unacquainted
with the circumstances it seemed
strange why a person, apparently so
strong and healthy, should be in the
almshouse. -Unfortunately, however,
she was subject to fits which made
her nrn,ief,g to unpleasant to the
poop e with` whom she lived that at
said, "It was ndiculous to have such .
Works; and that if Mary wanted whip-
ping, ,he Would -do it himself.
"But Sal latitude" said"Mitii,Grtire
upon his old cracked fiddle. From dy, as she '41dr:bated . her headgear,
that time Sal gave up all hope of edu- :wench was slightly displaced, "can't
, eating Uncle -Peter, and confined her- she be esaut pp? There's. Bedlam to
self Mostly to literary efforts, of,which pay the whole durin' time when7 sae's
we shall speak hereafter. loose," •
The night following Sal's fait ac- Mr. Parker knew this Very vrell,
qUaintance with Mary, ' Alice.' cried 'but before he had time to answer •
until neatly daydawn. The milk Mary looked pleadingly in his face, •
which Miss Grundy's stinginess al- and said, "If you please, don't shut
lowed her: was not particularly con-„ hir_up.-She was. not to blionia for I. -
ductive to her health,„ and besides asked her to heti me." .;
that, she missed the invigorating bath ' "Well, well, we'll let her off this
to which Ore had been accustomed time, I guess;" seal he; and se Uncle
dating her mother's lifetime. Mary' Peter jest then put his head into the
had spoken of it two of three times, window, saying _that "the lord of the
but Miss Grundy only jerked her maim' was wanted 'without!. . ,
shoulders, saying, she -guessed she .Parker left, glad to get out of the Mass
'Wasn't gcting to have such a.•slush
"NeoaliisloOner was he. gone 'thin Sala
around the house. You can bring her
down," said she, to the shik, and catching up the cradle, striated for
-Icumea..-Pa-68scr-IVImuacra-sh Waitr, a°011.mheorre-abaUlls but-Iacen-and will-takercarasof little
YOU the stairs, saying, "I won't work,
it until the niaht of which we have Willie, and I cheese to do it in a.
spoken, and then .ahe determined on° more congenial atmosphere." Then,
as Mary looked little startled, she
hmeakartingeamonoset more effort. But when
nBuotn hener.
. added, 'Never you fear, deatie, Sal
„atrial thaned kmiteishaenGrushnde 5iaasaw ahow nia. thriEsi
wbicitnalf, a make faaethe little boy the least
knows what shee about, and she
danced' around. She well knew that
isnegmeitthituog AwriaseeiswrocriNn, sdheatwtriaihtldut-
troFifre withtgt At kali ce6 there during wtmh e71(1°11yk °trot
she seemed to cling naturally to Sal -
in silence for the steam to burst.-
"Bind:" said Miss Grundy to the ly, who hour after hour rocked and
. • • - ' ' • took care of, her, while Mary, ina the
g
mg the milkpail, "ain't there nary •
wash. kitchen below,. was biller with the
thousand things which Mks Grundy
irl with crooked feet, .who was
found for her to do. • •
spare room in' the clerk passage?." - . • •
"None but the wool room, as • • *
knew on," was Rind's sullen response. I CHAPTER VII,' :
"Well; wool room 'tis then -for, as
for My being kept awake night after Mary had been atthe poorhouse
night by a good-for-nothin' young one ab.mit three Weeks when Miss Grundy
that ain'tano business here, anyway, • one day ordered her to tie on her sun- -
I shan't do it. So"' • (speaking :to bonnet and ruff serest the meadow.
Mary) "you may pick up- your duds and through the woods until.she came
and move this very morning." to.a rye stubble'their folleW the toot.
"Going to put 'em with the path along the fence until she came
Wool?" asked Rind, suspending " oper- to another strip of woods, with a
ations, and holding up the pail so brook running through ita"And just
that the water ran out of the spout. on the fur edge of them woods," said
"You shet Up," said Miss Grundy, she, "you'll see the men folks to
"and wait until you're invited to work; and do you tell 'em to come
speak. Goodness alive! look at that to their dinner quick." . •
slop! . Tip up the pail, quick." Mary tied her sunbonnet and hur-
By this time Mary had found cour- ried off, glad to escape for a few mo -
age to say she thought Alice would merits from the hot kitchen, with its
be better if she could have her Usual endless , round of *fishing dishes,
bath every morning. This only in- scouring knives, wiping doorsill% and •
creased Miss Grundy's wrath, and she dusting chairs. She had no difficulty
whirled round SO fiwiftly that her in finding the way, and she almost •
forehead came in contact with the screamed for joy, when she came sad -
sharp edge of the cellar door, which denly upon, the sparkling brook, which
ddeanwceedf the
mtelerfilwyoobdesueath the oha.-
ch!Oneoeoll7 bsoeftolyPen. whispered Rind;
while the shuffling motion Of her club "What a nice plater this would be
feet showed how pleased she was. to sit and read,": was her first eutcla- °
Mary, on ,the contrary, was really motion, and thee ,he sighed as she •
distressed,- for she knew the bumped thought how sell' were' her chances
head would be charged to herand for reading now. '
felt . Flare that she was further than Quickly her thoughts traversed the
ear from the attainment of her ob. peat, and her teats mingled with the
clear water which flowed at her feet,
as she recalled the time when, bless-
ed with a father's and mother's love,
she could go to itehool and learn aa
, other children did. She was roused
from her sad reverie by the sound of
'voices, . which she supposed proceed-
ed from the men, whose tones the
fancied were softer than usual.
can' hear them, they earl hear me,"
ethhOencoghttidsha os,haensdotionhohuetiantgd asurl.?urattre.d ste
telaramasvodicaiceatiinyfristver. saying he wOuld
It Vali a mild Septeinber dey, and
sat Alfaint. kw . that kat waaid Latta
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.
last no one VMS williur te 'hire her. ject. Still, after Miss Grundy's fore -
About that time, too,' he was taken
, very in, and as she had no relatives
she was removed to the poorhouse,,
where she had remained' ever since,
When Mrs: Parker became too fee-
ble to work Miss Grundy immediate-
ly stepped into her place, filling it eo
well that, as Sal had said, Mr, Parker
bore a great 'deal from her, knowing
that no one whom he could hire would
do as well or save as much 1114 the did.
Sal Purbush ohe could neither man-
age not make 'work, and she vented
her intite toward her by getting her
head was duly bathed in cold water,
and bound up in a blue -cotton hand-
kerchief (the laded favorite *obi!),
she again ventured to say, "Mise
Gruady, if you will only let me wash
Alice in my ,toom, promise she
shan't disturb you again."
After a great deal of scolding and
fretting &boat , whims, ttuck-up no-
tione, and paupers trying to be some-
body, Miffs . Grundy, who really did
WA care a copper where Alice was
washed, consented, and Mary rim
J0+1117 .uPstaita,.With. the bucket of
clear, cold water, which wail so tooth-