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The Clinton News-Record, 1907-10-17, Page 7October lOth, 190 0, D. l‘leTagga,rta. M. D.. McTaggart. Meraggart Bros, ---13A U'0,11e-a A GENERAL BANKING BUSla NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED. DTRAFITS issurit. INTERgsT .LLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES TuReri- A.spn. 01, •••••• 9••••• OM. W. ERYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR • NOTARY, PUBLIC. ETC: OFFICE -Sloane Bloc-CLINTON. ,„. RIDOUT HALE Conveyancers, Commissioners, Real Estate and Insurance . • Agency. Money to loan. ... C. B. HALE , JOHN RIM/UT • DRS. GUNN & GUNN Di. W. Gunn L. R. C. Pt -a-Edinburgh- Dr. J. Nesbit Gunn M. R. C. S. 1F•mg L. R. C. P. London Night calls at front door of residenae on Rattenbury street, opposite Presbytedan church , OFFICE:- Ontario street-CLINTON J. W. SHAW-- -OFFICE- RATTENII-ERY-ST. EAST, -CLINTON.- DR. C. W. THOMPSON • PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special atteotion given to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat -Office and Residence - HURON ST. SOUTH. CLINTON 3 doors west of the Commercial hotel. -• DR. F. A. AXON.- - (Successor to Dr. Holnies.), Specialist in Crown and • Bridge work.• Graduate of the Royal College •• of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Honor graduate of University of Toronto Dental Department. Graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, Chicago. 2 Will be at the Commercial hotel Bayfield, every Monday from 10 a. m. ' to 5 p. m. J. LEWIS THOMAS. Civil Engineer, Architect, etc.-- . • • (late Dominion Department • Public Walks.) • Consulting. Engineer for Mun- icipal and County Work, El- ectric Railroads, Sewerage and WaterworksSystems, Wharves, Bridges and Re -enforced con- crete.• • IIIM111.1••••••••• Phone 2220. LORDON, ONT. ..• BEER* STEADIES THE NERVES GOOD beerr- , used as a hove Nage with meals, makes steadier, stronger nerves be- cause it helps the omach do its work better. Your own doctor will tell you that the right use of beer is good for almost every adult, - women especially. The little aleehel in beer (leas than there is in cider) helps digest food. Get the right idea about beer, and be healthier for using it, GIMES Isi tam which covssi Inst. Alm PorIsstsntl Mout; asTatittIlIt 14'.113,1,1n1,atglitaT,T0,1:1VortiX; ob.bed In Os ',moat lansls, bops intl puns vistas 101 APPLES WANTE BOTH, FALL, ,A.ND WINTER For •which the highest prices will be paid. Don't sell until you see me cr one of lily agents personal- ly. - • • D. CANT ELON CLINTON, illssel=fillms Ageilcylltilmlo • I have-, been appointed forfor the Maiesey-Hartis Cotn- pany'in this district and will • keep on hand a: complete, list of 'Supplies in my store oppos- ite the • Molsone tank, •1 am also continuing the flour, feed and seed grain bus- iness and, respectfully solicit a a continuance of .your patron- , age. Ford. .0ILP .WAN'Tgp. We Will pay the' highest eath prices for old 'live hens, also spring chick- ens, ducks and all kinds of poultry. Meation,:Ais.. paper. THE" CANADA • POULTRY & PRO- DUCE :CO. L IMITED .STR A V IP ORD ,' -ONT. . • AUCTIONEER-JAMES SMITH LI- censed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. All orders entrusted to me will receive prompt attention. Will -sell either by percentage or per sale. Residence on the Bayfield - Road, one mile south of Clinton. . LICENSED At•CTIONEER.-GEOR- ge Elliott, licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron, solicits the patronage qf •,he public for busi- ness in his line. Sales conducted:. on percentage or so much per sale,. All business prom.ptly -attended to. -George Elliott, Clinton P. 0., re- sidence on the Bayfield Line. 58 SO YEARS' EJTERIENCE aicKI11oRM11tua-ITr1'1:-e- I.nsufance Conwanu -•Fa•rm and Isolated: Town Property- •• -Only Insured ' • • J. 13. McLean, President, Seafarth P O. ; Thos. Fraser, :Vice-Preeident Brucefield P. 0. T. E. Hays, Sec. Treasurer, Seaforth -F. .0,• --Di rectors • - William. 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HELLYAR • CLINTON, ONT. • RAILWAY GRAND TRUNK SYSTEM ifltOLrgewiecorg. _ 000000101101100004100.00000000000•111900601119011000.0 1 0e# English 0 0 . 0 • p 0 . • O IP • O . , ,-Il.. 9 1 .,. • 0 O ..?.. 0 O r El Ill : Author a $1.4enti Myers," "The liernestead-on • • • • the rilh ,ot "Tempest • •••••01110004110•••••••••• mate' "ti' poerlibtufer tind 'then '11e built castles of a future, when, by the labor of his own head or hands, Mary, too, should be rich and happy. CHAPTER XI. As spring advanced Alice began to droop, and Sally's quick eye detected in her infallible signs of decay. But she would not tell it to Mary, whose j. 'fe now seemed a comparatively happy oue. Mr. and MTS. Parker were kind to her -the pleasant -looking woman and the girl with crooked feet were kind to her, Uncle Peter petted her, and even Miss Grundy had more than .once admitted that "she was abeut ha good as young ones would average." Billy, too, had promised to • remain and work for Mr. Parker dur- ing the "sunainer,, intending with the money thus earned to go the next fall and winter to the academy in Wilbraham. Jenny was coming hack ere long, and Mary's step was light and buoyant as she tripped singing about Zit house, unmindful of Miss Grandy's eft-expressedash that "she would stop that clack," or of the an- xious, pitying eyes Sal Forbush bent upon her, as day after day the faithful old creature rocked and tended little Alice. . id she "I cannot tell her She'll have tears enough to shed by and by, but I'll double my diligence and watch little Willie more closely." So night after night, when Malt was eleeping Ithe deep sleep of childhood, Sally. would steal noiselessly to her room, and bending over the little wasting figure at her side, would wine the cold sweat from her face and whisper in the unconscious baby's ear messages of love for "the other little Willie, now waiting for her in heav- en." • Sally laid her hand on Mary's face and replied, "Poor child, you'll :soon be all alone, for Willie'e going to And . ' his mother." • • There was no outcry -no sudden • gush of tears, but nervously clasping • her hands upon her heart, as if the -shock had ' entered there, Mary sat down, upon.her bed, and burying her face in the pillow, sea there for a • long time. But she said nothing, and • a careless ' observer might • have • thought that she cated aothing,, as it • became each day more and more evi- dent that Alice was dying. But these knew not of the long nighte when with untiring lcive she sat by her sister's cradle, listening to her irregular breathing, pressing her ....elammy hands, and ,praying• to be forgiven if ever, in thought or deed, .she •had wronged. the •little one now, leaving . o, sa. • • At last Mary could n� longer be de- ceiteekAnd one day when Alice lay gasping in -13 -ally's Tap • she: said, "Aunt • Sally, isn't Alice growing worse? She doesn't play now, nor try to.avalk." andSunshine," Etc. • • No •••••••••••••••••••••• one"kiiew'"•wlio Place( it here, or whenee it came. Gently Mary laid back the thin muslin covering, say- ing as she did so, "Allie is dead. I've got no sister left but you!" and again • her arms closed convulsively about Ella'e neck. • "You kind of choke me!"said Ella, trying to get free; and it was not un- til Mrs. Campbell, thoroughly wham - ed of her want ef feeling, took her hand and placed iton Alice's cold i cheek, asking her f she were not sorry her -little sister was dead, that the manifested any emotion whatever. Then, as if something of her 'better nature was roused, her lip trembled far a Moment, and she burst into a violent fit of weeping. "It is hardly natural that she should 'feel it as deeply as Mary,'" said Mrs. Campbell to Billy, Bender, Who was present. He made no reply, but he never forgot the scene; and 'when years after he met with Ella on terms of p'erfect equality-whenhe saw her petted, flattered, and admired, he turned away from the fawning mtiltitude, re- membering only the April morning when the stood by thp aleatl b9dY, of ' her sister. . . During all this time no trace of Sat Furbush had been seen, and at last a strict search was instituted, but to no effect, until Billy, who chanced to be passing the dark closet under the garretstairs,heard her whispering to herself, "Yes, little Willie's dead, and Sally's got three in heaven now," Entering the place .he found her . trouehed in one corner her hair hang- ing down her back, . and her eyes flashing with unusual brightness. "Why, Sally," said he, "what are you here for?" "To save the credit of the house," was her ready reply. "When the other Willie died, they chained me in this dungeon, and thinking they might do so agaira-1-eoncluded to come here quietly, wishing • to save all trouble . and tonfusion, for the utmost decor- um should be preserved in the house of death." • "Poor woman," said Billy kindly, "no one wishes you to stay here. Conics with me," and he took her hand • to lead her forth. . But she- resisted him, saying, that . "fasting and solitude were nature's great restoratives." ' "She has sheaved her good•sense for once,". said Miss Grundy, on hearing of Sally's whereabouts, "but ain't the critter hungry?" and owing to some newly -touched chord of kindness, a slice of toast • and a cup of • hot tea era' long found entrance into the darkSoine cell. • Strange to say, toe the hand which brought it was not repulsed, though ' very demurely and in seeming earn- estness was the question asked, "Mrs .Grundy, haven't you met with a change?" • The next day Was the funeral. At first there was some talk 'of burying the child in the same inclosure with Patsy; but Mani pleaded so earnestly to have her laid by her mother, that her request Was 'granted, and , that night when the 'young spring Moon came out it leaked quietly down upon the grave otlittle-Alica, whoe-by her -mother's iiide was sweetly sleeping. her. ' And all this time there came no kind word or message of love from Ella, who knew that Alice was dying, for' Billy had told her so. "Oh, if she would only cnine and see her," said Mary, "it'aauldn't seem half so bad." • "Write ti : her," said Sal; "perad- venture that may bring her," Mary had not thought_ of -this be- fore,,And-uow -tearing et leaf from -lir writing book, and taking her pep, she •wrote. hurriedly: "Ella, dear Ella, won't you come and see little Alice once before she dies. You used to love her, and you 'would now if you patild see how. -white and .beautiful she. looks. Oh; do come. Mrs. .'.Campbell will let you, -I know." • • . This note; _which was 'blurred and blotted with_tears, was. carried by Billy who, was going to the village, saneldf. df•Peleelir"hapsrep:r.thheeMtpptaarpOteiCainidanwaPotinanilinghire-et- • one .orphan and utterly. neglecting teririx upbraided her for caring so much for membered the time when her own dar- ling died, or it may be that conscience wed ith - Mary's as she replied, "Fdla shall come this afternoon. But before afternoon, a dritzling shower came on and Mary watched and waited ,in vain, for Ella did not come. Thenext morning was bright and beautiful as April mornings often are, and at as early an boor as was consistent with Mrs. Campbell's hab- its .her carriage was before the door, and herself and Ella seated within it. The little lady was not in the best of hotnors, for she andher maid had quarreled about her dives, Ella in- sisting upon 4 bright -blue merino and the maid proposing a Plain delaine, which Ella declared she would not wear. Mrs. Campbell; to whom the matter was referred, decided upon the delaine, consequently Ella :cried and pouted, .saying she wouldn't go, won - • 4 —TIME PABLE— Trains will arrive at and at..pArt from Clinton station as :follows , BUFFAL,0 AND GODER1011, 'Going East 0.22 a. in. 7.33 a. in, 3.10 p. m. 5.20p. 11.10 p. M 1.01 p. m. 6.40 p. nt . 44 44 14• t 4.4 Going West li ti II 44• m. •y• LONDON, HURON & I34UCE ))/V Going South . 7.47 a: M tt 4,23 ft, nt Goirott, North 1106 a. nt 14 44 • p, m. dering what, Aliee wanted to be sick for or anyway' why they should sold for her. . Meanwhile in and around the poor- house there was for once pe.rfect si- lertce. Sal Forbush bad been invisible. for hours --the girl with crooked feet trod softly as she passed up and down the stairs--Urtcle Peter's' fiddle: was Unstrung, and, securely loeked in hie fiddle box, was stowed away tit the' bottom of his old red chest ---and twice " that morning when no one stew her, Miss Grandy had stolen out to Patsy's grave. Mary was not called to Neagh the dishes, but up in her 'room she sat with her head 'resting upon the window sill, while the sweet, fresh air of the morning swept over her face, lifting the hair from her flushed brow. Billy Bender was standing, ne.ar her, his arm thrown around her and, his lips occasionally pressing her fore- head. • • Suddenly there woe' the .entind Of carriage wheels., and he whispered in her ear, -"Ella is coming." • Hastily runlibl.g dovin the stairs, Mary met her sister in the doorway, and throwing. her arms around her neck, burst into tears. F.,11a wOuld gladly. have shaken her oft, for she felt that her curls went in danger of 1 being mussed, and she had besides hardly recover ed from her pet. But Mary firmly held her hand, and led her on through the long hall, into a room which they usually denominat- ed "the beat T00131.° There, upon the table, key .a little stiffened form. The blue eyea Were Then dra,wrng her head over ao that he eould look into her Mee, he eon - tinned, "Htusks out your tusout haven't you? Well, it's quite an improvement, •eo much so that Venture to kiss you. Mary struggled, and Jenny scolded, while floury said, "Don't kick and flounce so, my little beauty. If there's anything I hate, it's seeing girls make believe they're mocleet. That clodhota• Per Bill kissee you every day, I'll warrant." • Here jenny's wrath exploded; and ,going up tp her brother, she attempt- ed to pull him away, until bethink, ing her of the brook, she zommenced sprinkling hini with water, but ob- serving that raore of it fell upon Mary than on her brother, she desisted, while Henry, having accommplished his purpose, began spitting and malt - big wry faces, assuring Mary that "she needn't be afraid of his ever troubling her again, for her lips were musty, and tasted of the poorhouse I" Meanwhile Tattoo, who had become a great favorite with Mary/ and on this occasion had tiocorapamed her to the woods, Was standipgon the other side of the brook, eyeing Henry's movements, and apparently trying to make up his mind whether his inter- ference was necessary or not. A low growl showed that he was evidently deciding the matter, when Henry de- sisted, and walked leisurely off. Ere long, however, he.returned, And celled, out, "See, girls, I've gtA an elegant necklace for you." ! Looking up, they saw him advanc, toward. them with a small water snake, which he held in his hand; and readily divining his purpose, they started and ran, while he our -4 sued them, threatening to wind the snake around the neck of the first one he caught. Jenny; who was too chub- by to be very swift -footed, Wok refuge behind a clump of alder bushes, but Mary kept on, and just at she reached a point Where . the brook turned, Henry overtook .her, and would per- haps have carried his threat into exe- cution, had not help arrived from an unexpected quarter, Tasso who had watched, and felt sure that this time all was not right, suddenly pounced upon Henry, throwing him down, and then planting himself upon his pros- trate form in such a manner that he Mary saw that. Mrs. Mason could daredOhngoodot mgove,ood" said Jenny, • hardly repress a smile as she replied, , ,com- "•• ing out from her concealment; "make I am glad about the temper.. and - manners, but the scouring of knives Tasso keep him there ever so long; and," she continued, patting the, dog, ISOf little consequence, or Judith el - ways does that." "if you Won't hurt him much" you • Sal Forbush, who had courtesied may shake him just a little. all waited, she "had usitarstblen away to her books. She had not been long occupied ere Rind called her, vying Mr. Knight, who, it will be remembered, had brought her to the poorhouse, wee downstaira and want. ed to see her, and that there was a lady with him, too. Mary readily gueesed that the lady must be Mi -.'Vinson, and carefully brushing her hair, and tying on a clean apron, sho descended to the kitchen, where she was met by Mr. Knight. who called out, "Halloo! my child, how do you do? 'Pears to me you've .grown handsome. It agrees with you to five here, I reckon, but I'll venture you'll be glad enough kr leave, and go and live with her, won't you?" pointing toward a lady who was just coming from Mrs. Parker's room and toward whom Mary's heart instantly warmed. "You see," eontinued Mr. Knight, "one of the Lincoln girls has taken mighty shine to you, and it's queer, too, for they're dreadful stnckup folks." "If you please, sir," said Mary, in- terrupting Min, "Jenny isn't a bit stuckup." "Vinph !" returned Mr. Knight. "She don't belong to the Lincoln race, then, I guess. know them, root and branch. Lincoln's wife used to work in, the factory at Southbridge, but she's forgot all about that, and holds her head dreadful high whenever she sees Inc. But that's neither hersamor there. This woman wants you to live with her. 1Vliss Mason, this is Marra Mary, this is Miss Mason:" The intrmluetion being thus hap- pily over, Mrs. Mason proceeded to ask Mary a variety of, questions, and ended by towing islte thought she would tako. her, although she would rather not have her come for a few days, as she was going to be absent. Miss Grundy was now inten'ogaled concerning her knowledge of work, and with quite a consequential air she replied, "Perhaps, ma'am, it looks too much like praising myself, con- siderin' that I've had the managin' of her mostly, but I must confess that :she's lived with me so long,. and got ply ways so, well, that she's as pleas- ant a mannered, good-tempered child, and will scour as bright A knife as you could wish to see," No, no, said Henry writhing with fear, "call him eff, do call him off. Oh, mercy !" •he added as Tasso, who eye and can parse a sentence eon - did not particularly care to have the • taffi'ing 'three double relatives, two case reasoned, showed two rows of very white teeth.subjunctive moods, and four nomina- ' Mary could not help laughing at dyes- absolute, perfectly easily." "I see you are a favorite here," the figure which Henry cut; but thinsaid Mrs. Mason, laying her hand ldng hina su • fficiently punished, gently on Mary's head, "and I think she called eft the dog, who obeyed rather unwilthat in time you 'will be . quite as lingly, and ever -after much of a one with me, BO one week raaxlifeated his dislike ' to Henry by from Saturday You may expect 'me." growling angrily whenever he an - There Wil.,something so very .affec- herself into the ,roorn, now tasked to say a word concerning said she, 'the very apple of my Mary. "She Orie morning peered. • .taanate_in-agaa,.-Masenaia-lasarrier-o about two .speaking that Mary .could not keep ward Mary was in the meadow ga- • thenher tears beck; and urhen Sally; hig cowsfips for dinnerw , when she . chancing to be in a poetic Mood, said heard some one calling her name; to her, ."Maiden, wherefore weepest Iand looking up, she saw jenny hurry- thouRP she replied, can't help it. big toward her, her sunbonnet hang- She speaks' So kind, .arid• makes me . -ing down her .back ati:.ueual, and her think of mother." cheek a flushed with violent exercise. "Speaks so kindly, you mean;" re - As soon as she came up she began I turned Sal, while 'Mrs. Mason, brush- , with, "Oh, my, •ain't I hot end tired, ing:•a tear from her: Own eye, whis- and I can't stay a minute, either, for I ran away. But I had such 'good :pered TO' the little' girl; "I' will be a ' mother to, you, my child;" then, as news to • tell you, that I would come. Mr. 'Knight had finished discussing .You are going to have a great deal better .home than this. You know the weather with M she where Rice Corner is; the district over dstriereildalv;.- in:buggy,P• ad.: w:875 and • ' • ...Mary replied that she did „ and "That,' , what I eilu:a_l_thoroughly- Jenny. continued! "We all weiTh over grammaticalady, said •Sal, looking there yesterday to _see „Mrsa-LMatteif,'•Ufter her Until a turn in the road hid _Slies.-a real nide lady, who- used to her from view; "and I shall try to be live in Boston, and be , intimate with -restigned, though the vital spark me, until three or four years ago, :leaves this house when Mary goes." when Mr. Mason died, We didn't goNot long after, Rind Biked Miss there any :inore And I r A • Grundy if William•Berider was going Rose what' the reason was, and she away, ' • - • said Mrs. Mason was Peer now,. and "Nbt-aS I know on," answered Miss na.a, had 'cut. her'; and when1- asked Grundy. "What made you thinkof her -..what she Cut her with; She only that?" , . • .• - laughed, end said she believed I didn't Itleaw. anything. But since then '"Cause," returned Rind, "I heard I've learned what it means." • Sal Forbush having over a Mesa of "What - does it?" asked Mary; and stuff .about the sparks leaving when Senn*. replied: • ' , Mary did, and r. thought inebby he "If a person.. dies and leaves no was going, rie You say he's her spark !" money, no raatter hal' good his folks The next afternoon Jenny, manag- er°, or how much you like them, you • ing to elude the watchful' eyes of her mustn't know theni when you meet mother and governess, came over to them in- the street; -or you must cross' the poorlamse. • • over the other side if you see them 'Txn so glad You are • going," said corning; and thenwhen ladies call she, when she heard of Mrs. Mason's and speak about them, you must -draw • Visit. "I shall be lonesome without a great long breath, and wonder 'how you, but you'll have such -a happy -.thelabor thang-will-get-alongrithie-was humo-and-when you get there mayn''t. so dreadful extravagant! I positively I tell George Moreland about you the . heard mother say those Very words nekt time I see him?". 4' about Mrs. Mason; arid what is BO ..w_arthweni_an the same day 'Three weeks had passed awaY Educe . -CHAPTER XII. • • Alice's death, and affairs at the poor, house were beginning to glide on as usual. Sal ,Furbusii, having satiafied her own ideas of propriety hay remain- ing secluded •for two or three days, had once More appeared .4n society; but 'now that Alice was no longer there to be watched, time hung wear- ily upon her hands, and she Was again seized with her ..old desire f Or alstb;rsmiluriP.11oed, which . A c c o r d i hin g ly shetai , agrc=uldar *w contain nine hundred and ninety-nine rules for speaking the English lan- guage correctly! • ;UnrY, who had„reeumed_her pest tie dish-was.her in the kitchen, was al- most daily expecting jenny; and one' day when Billy came in to dinner he gave her the joyful intelligence that Jenny had returned, and had been.in the field to see .him, bidding him tell Mary to meet her that afternoon in the woods by the brook. "Oh, I do hope Miss Grundy will let •me go," said Mary, "and I guess she will,for since Allie . died she hasn't been near en crois." "If she -don't, 1 will," answered Parker, Who chanced to be standing near, and who had learned to regard the little Orphan girl -with more than usual interest. . • But Miss Grundy made no object - lone, and when the last dishcloth was wrung dry, and the kit. iron spoon i put n its place, Mary bounded joy- fe.ny; away to the woods, where • she found Jenny,: who embraced her in a manner which showed, that she had riot been forgotten. • "Oh," said she, "I've got so Much to tell you, and so much to *hear, though Ikrtow till about dear little Allio's death -didn't you feel dread- fully?" Mary's tears .were a sufficient an6 swat., and Jenny, as if stiddenly covering sonaething new. exclaimed, "Why, what have yeti been: doing? Who pulled. your teeth?" Mary explained the eireurastances of the tooth -pulling, and jenny don - tinned: "You look a great deal better, and if your cheeks were only a little fatter and your skin not quite so yel- low, you'd be real handsome; but no matter about that, I Saw George More- land in Boston, and, I wanted to. tell him about you, but I'd promised not to; and then at linit X felt afraid of him, for you -can't think what a great big fellow he's got to be. Why, he's awful tall! and lorndsome, too. Rose likes him, and so do lots of the girls, but don't believe he cares a bit for arty of them extept hi$ cousin Ida, and I guess he does like her; anyway, he looks at her as though he did," Mary 'wondered how he looked ttt, her, and would perhapt hive -asked,' had she not been prevented by the sudderitappearance isf Henry Lincoln, who directlk in front of her leeped .eleeed, and the- heng eyelashes rested upon the marble cheek, and in the waken hands, folded so carefully one ever tae &thee ateee toea enee.eaateea goings the brook. Ile,,,,was evidently not much. iniftroved ratumere, ;for the metnent he was safely landed on terra firxim he approaehed her, and Seizio her round the waist, d " pe saki inc Wk. t dare aint,'7 saying, She' thrtisel into Mary's " bend a large package. carefully wrap- ped in hell a dozen newspaper, and the whole enveloped in a snuff -color. ed silk handkerchief, which Willie's father used to wear." Here Rind came up tbe stairs saying breakfast was ready, and after putting her present °aide Mary descended to the kitchen, where she found the table arranged with more than usual care. Au old red waiter, whichi was only used on spec- ial oCcatli011s, was placed near Miss Grundy, and on it stood the pheno- menon of a hissing'. coffee-pot; and, what was stranger still, in the place of the tin basin from which Mary had recently been accusteneed to eat her bread and milk, there was now a Cup , and saucer, which surely mud have been intended for her. Her wonder Was at its height when Miss Grundy entered from the back room, bearing a plate filled with snowy white hie* mit, which she placed upon the table with an, air of "There, what do you think of that?" -then seating herself, she skimmed all the cream from the bowl of milk, and preparing a deli- cious cop of coffee, passed it to Mary before helping the rest. "Is the millennium about to be ushered inP" asked Sal in amaze- ment; while Uncle Peter, reverently rising, eat& "Fellow -citizens and ladies, for these extras let us thank the Lord, remembering to ask a con- tinuation of the same!" • "Do lel your victuals. stop your mouth, said Miss Grundy, 'and don't act as though we never had cof- fee -and biscuit for breakfast before." "My memorybusfailed wonderfully if we ever did," was Uncle Peter's re- ply, • • Breakfast being over;Mary as usual commenced clearing .the table: hilt Miss Grundy bade her "sit down and rest her," and Mary obeyed, wonder- ing what she had done to tire herself. About nine o'clock Mr Knight drove up alone, Mrs. Mason being sick with nervous headache. "I shouldhave been here sooner, said he, "but the roads is awful rough, and old Char-. lotte has got a stub or somethin' in her foot. But where's the gal? Ain't: she ready?" He was answered by Mary herself, -who made her appearance, followed by •Billy bearing the box. And now . commenced the leave-takinge • "May I kiss you, Miss Grundy?" said Mary., while Sal exclaimed aside, "What! kiss those soleleather lips?" at the same time indicating by a gut- tural sound the probable effect such a: process' would have upon her stom- ach! • Itisa_Grundybentdownand receiv- ee c 's kise, and then dartiixg. off into the pantry, went to skimming pans of milk already skimmed! Rind and the pleasant -looking woman cried . outright, and Uncle Peter between times kept ejaculating, "Oh, Lord! oh, , massy sake !-oh, for land!" while he. industriously plied his Addle -bow in° the execution of "Delia's Dirge," which really sounded unearthly and dirge -like enough. Billy knew it would be lonel without Ma but glad tohave her go to a better home, so he tried to he cheerful, telling her he would take good care of Tasso; and that whenever she chose she tenet claim her .property. • ' • Aside from him: Sally'veas the poly conaposed one. It 18 true her eyeii were very. bright, and there was 'a Com- pression abouter mouth seldom seen, except 'hist before one of her trended. attacks, 'OecasionallY, too, she pressed her hands upon her head; .- mad walking to the sink, bathed it in water, as if to cool its inward heat; but she said nothinganntil-Mary-war- ' about stopping the boggy, when she whispered in her ear, "If that novel should have an unprecedented run, and ,:oir COuTscat *ill); you would not mintl.:shariogralle profits with me, would youP" • • Very •dC iffer'ILAPjE t thisil:tXimIen.w:s Mary's ride with Mr.. Knight front what it ' had been some months before, and after brushing :away a kw natural.. tears, and sending back a few heart., sighs to the loved ones:. left behind -her spirits rallied, and' by. the time ' they reached the borders of 'Rice' Corner, there was such a look of quiet happiness on her face that even Mr. Knight, noticed it. • , "I'll be ,hanged if 1 know what to inake of it," said he. "When yeti rid. with me afore. I thought you Was about as ugly -favored a child as I ever see, and now you look full as well as 'they'll average. 'What you been doin'?" spoke of her; and cried when she fold how kind she was, and how she would go without things herself for the sake of giving to the potient'e queer, isn't it?" Ah, Jenny, Jenny. you've Much of life' yet to learn 4 . - After a,mortieht's pause Jenny pro- ceeded: "This Mrs. Mason came into the country, and bought the prottiest little cottage you ewer saw.. She has lots of nice fruit, and for all mother pretends in Boston that she don't visit her, just as soon rt.s the fruit is ripe she always goes there. Pa says it's .real mean, and she should 'think Mrs. Mason would see through it." "Did you go there for fruit yester- day?" asked Mary. "Oh, no," returned Sonny. "Mother said she was tired to death with stay- ing at home. Besides that, she heard something in. Boston about a large estate in England, which Possibly -Would fall to Mrs. 'Mason, and she thought it would be real kind to go and- tell her. Mrs. Mason has poor health, and while we were there ,ehe asked mother if she knew of ani good little- girl she could get to come and live with her; 'one," .she said, 'who could be quiet when het bead nailed, and who would read to her andaivait on her at other times:. Mother' said ehe did not know ,of any; but when Mrs. Mason went but to get tea, 1 fol- lowed and told her of you, and the tears came into, her eyes aithen I Mid your folks were all dead, and you were alone and sorry. She said right off that she would come round and see you soon, and if she liked you yeirehould live with her. But I must run back, for I suppose you know mother brought our governess with us, and it's time was turning My toes out and my elbows in, 'Ugh how I do hate such works. If I ever have a house there shan't be a fashionable thing about it. I'll have it full of cats, dogs, and poor children, with a swing and a #teeterein every room, and Dilly Bender shall live with me, and drive he horses!" So saying, she ran off; and Mena heving gathered, her cowslips, sat down to think of Mrs. Nia8Ori, and wonder if iihe should ever see her. Since Alice's death she had been in the daily habit of learning a short leason, which she recited to Sally, and this athirst:ken...when the (lithe* *sate "I'd rather you . wouldn't," said Mary, "for, I don't believe he remem- bers me at all." "Perhaps not," returned jenny, "and I.guess you wouldn't know him; for besides being so tall he has begun to shave, and Ida think's. he trying to • .raise whiskers !" I That night, when Mary was alone, she drew from its hiding -place • the golden locket; but the charm was broken, and the pleasure she had be- fore experienced in looking at it now , faded ANEW with Jenny's picture Of a whiskered young man, six feet high! Very rapidly indeed (lid "Mary's last week at the poorhouse pass ;filmy, and for some reason or other, everything went on, as Rind said, "wrong end up." Miss Grundy was crosser than usual, though all observed' that her • voice grew railder in its tone when- ever she addressed Mary, and once she went so far as to say, by way of a' general remark) that she never yet treated anybody, particularly a child, •badly without feeling sorry for it." Sal Furblish was uncommonly wild, dancing on her toes, making faces, re-. peating her nine hundred and ninety- nine rules of grammar, and quoting Scripture, especially the passage, "The Lord gave, and. the Lord taketh away," etc. Uncle Peter, too, labored assiduously at "Delia's Dirge," which he intended playing as Mary was leaving the yard. Saturday came at heat, and long be: fore the sun peeped over the eastern hills Mazy 'vies up and dressed; Just as she was ready to leave her VOOm She heard Sally singing in a low tone, "Oh there'll be mourning -mourning -mourning--mourning; Oh, there'll mourning when Mary's gone away."nHy opening her 'own door, she knocked M Sal's andwas bidden to enter. She found her friend seated in the middle of the floor, 'while scatter- ed around her were the "entire con- tents of the Old barrel and box which eontained her wearing apparel. "Good -morning, little dreary," said she, "I am looking over my aoraewhat limited wardrobe, in quest of some- thing wherewith to make your heart happy, but my search is vain. it eatt find nothing except the original Manuscript of my first novel. I do not need it now, for 1 shall make enough out ot my grammar. flo take it, and when you are rich and influen- tial you'll have n� trouble in getting It nithlishad-oone at all." • et • e • "Perhaps it's because ve had my teeth out," suggested Mary, • and Mr. Knight, with another scrutinizing look • • in her face, replied, "Wall, I guess 'tis that. Teeth 18 good in their place, but when -they get to achin', why., yank 'era out." . So saying, he again relapsed into si- lence, and commenced whipping at the thistle • tops and dandelions. As theyrode on Mary fancied that the country looked pleasanter and the houses better than in the 'region of the poorhouse; and when it Sudden turn of the d brought ' t - a • beautiful blue sheet of water, em - bosomed.. by bright green hills, her delight knew no bounds. Springing. up and pointing toward it -she exclaimed, ' "Oh! please step a moment and look. Isn't it lovely,I.7 What is it?" "That? Ol that's nothing buth 'Por - dunk Pond,' or as folks most generally - " call 'em Seeire tiler's two North and South Pond." • "But it's big eno gh to be it lake, isn't it?" asked ivljry. • • "Why, yes," rfirned her corapian- ion. "It's bet ban five miles long, and a mile or BO wide, and in York • State I &pose they'd call it a -lake, but here in old Massachusetts we stick to fust principles and call all ' things -1>y their right names." ' • "How' far is the pond finin Mrs. Mason's?" asked Mary, casting long- ing glances toward the distant sandy " beach, and the graceful trees which drooped over the water's edge. "It's farther back than 'Us there, 'cause it's uphill all the Way," said Mr, Knight, "but here we be at Miss. Mason's, -this 'house right here," and he pointed to a neat, handsome cot- tage, 'ahnost hidden from view by the dense foliage which surrounded it. There was it long lawn in front, and into the carriage road on the right of it Mr. Knight turned, MA &tatter un- to a aide door, said to Mary, "Come,. jump down, for my • foot is so lame don't believe- I'll get Out. But there's • your chest. You eau% lift. that. Hal- loo! Judith, dome 'ere." In answer to this eall a fat, plena - ant -looking colored woman aPpeared in the doorway, and as if fresh from the regione of cookdom wiped the drops of perspiration from her round; ' jolly face. "Here, Judith," ettid Mr. Knight, "help this gal lift her traps out." Judith complied, and then bidding • old Charlotte to "get up," Mr. Knight drove. away,' leaving Mary, onnding •14:cotaTikiNtatmAnn AIII6Ar;ITIVI IS. Stl;