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The Seaforth News, 1937-07-22, Page 6PAGE SIX, Me se r9 nie ^Oh, !bother?" said she '(for the strain of a heavy salmon and ;forty yards of line was something on her arms); here, •take the handkerchief i .From this ,breast -pocket, and wave it back to them stand up 'beside me— they won't see the difference—" 11 -le did as he was 'bid; apparently she paid little attention; she seemed wholly bent on getting this .fish after her recent ,misfortune, /And clearly the salmon had somewhat exhausted himself with his 'first escapades; he now 4ay deep down, not stirring an inch; so that she gat in her line until there 'was -not more than twenty yards out: 'then they waited, THE SEAFORTH NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937 I send ham some photographs of Lake! 'Well, there,' she said to herself, a Alichigan,the ,result of these rapid ,cogitations Then in the boat: in the tufternoon I of Jack Hysen's ,good for anything she ,quite innocently remarked that ! if he wants to say he has done true she 'wished he was going back home service—if he wants to show he ha with them; for that he world find the the spirit of a man in him — well voyage across the Atlantic so amus- now's hie chance.' ing, She described the people coming out to say good -by at ;Liverpool; and the throwing of knives and pencil- It was but another instance of th cases and what not as farewell gifts, curiously magnetic influence of thi from the steamer to the tender, and man's personality that she instant] vice versa; she described 'the scamper and unhesitatingly assumed tea around Queenstown and the waiting what he wrote must 'be of value. No for the mails, then ,the tong days on every second human 'being, as we the wide ocean with all the various she knew, writes verses at one perio occupations and the :concerts in the of his life; and these are mostly tras evening, .and the raffles in the steak- and remain discreetly :hidden, or ar ing room (this from hearsay); then mercifully burned. But what .Roanal. the 'c owcting of the deck for the first wrote, she was already certain, nim glimpse of the American coast -line; he characteristic of himaelf, and h'a'v and the gliding over the shallows of interest, and definite worth; and who Sandy Hook; and the friends who better could she do than get 'hold o would come steaming down the Bay some of these things, and have the to wave handkerchiefs and welcome introduced to the public, perhap therm home. She seemed to regard it with some little preliminary endo: as a quite natural and simple thing ems written by a friendly hand? Sh that he should 'be of this party; and had heard from the little Maggie th that, after landing, her father should lRonald had never sent any of h take hint about and 'see him through,' wri'tin'gs to the newspapers: nigh as it were; and if her fancy failed to not this be a service? She could n carry out these forecasts and to pie- offer hint a sovereign because h ture him walking along 'Dearborn aw- happened to be in the boat when sh enue or driving out with them to caught her first salmon; 'but fame Washington Park, it ,was that once but fame—the appeal • to the wid or twice ere now she had somehow reading public? Nay, might they n arrived at the notion that Ronald be of some commercial value also Strang and Chicago would prove to 'She knew but little of the customs 'be incongruous. !Or was it some in- the Chicago journals; but she goes stinctive feeling, that, however natur- 'ed that a roundabout hint conveye al and fitting their friendship might to Mr, John C. Huysen would not b Abe in this remote little place in the without e'ffe'ct. ,And what were th Highlands, it might give rise to awk- subjects, she asked herself, that .Rb wardress over there? !Anyhow, that ald wrote about? to praise of dee could not prevent her father from stalking, for one thing, and mountai seeing that .'Ronald had ample intro- iolim'bing, and .out-of-door life, sh ductions when he landed in New felt assured; you could see it in h York; and was not that the proper gait and in his look; you could see sphere for one of his years and cour-in his laugh, and his singing as h age and abilities? went along the road, When they got ashore at the end of the 'day it was found that each boat had ,got two nno•e salmon, so that there was a display of nine big fish on the grass there, in the gathering dusk. "And to think that I should live to catch five salmon in one day,' said Miss Carry, as she contemplated her share of the spoil. 'Well, no one will believe it; for they're just real mean people at home; and they won't al- low that anything's happened to you in Europe unless you have something to show for it. I suppose Ronald would give Inc a written guarantee, Anyway, I ant going to take that big. tir,npriate--and she leas' welcome 1 one along to ,the Doctor --•it will be .a the best of them; but as for scri'bbl good introduction, won't it, mita?' ings and nonsense of that kind—no But a curious thing happened :about no, On the other hand, site was jus that salmon, When they get to the as persistent, and treated hint to inn, the Gish were laid out on the little gentle raillery—wondering' the seine flags of the dairy --the coolest he had not outgrown the years o and safest place for then' in the shyness; and finally, when Neerythin house; and loss Carry, who had else had failed, putting her reques cone along to see their. when she as a grace and courtesy to be grante wanted any't}tin.g clone, natatrally to a visitor. This was hardly fair; bn turned to 'Ronald. she was very anxious about the mat 'Ronald,' said she., 'I want to give ter; and she knew that her dentin that big one to Mrs. Douglas; and I was founded far less on mere curios am going along now to the cottage, ity than on an honest desire to d Will you carry it for me?' hint a service. He said something about getting a .Of course he yielded; and a terribl piece of .string, and left. A couple of time he had of it the, might he se ]tllfll5trs therrafter the lad Johnnie about selecting something to show 1 appeared, with a stout bit of cord in her. For how' could she understan his hand; and Ise. having affixed that the circumstances in which tees to the ]read and the tail of the sal- random things were written—thes mon, caught ]t up, and .stood in read- idle fancies of a summer mooting- - ines.s. She seemed smnprised. there careless love on 'Where is 'Ronald?' said she for gs tine; he was always at her bidding. rhymed epistles in whichthepra•ctic fie •asked me to carry the (fish to al common sense and shrewd arh,ic the doctor's house, tent,' said the were notch more coinspictmes that lad. "Will '1 ?„ any grace: irf art. And then again s go now' many of them were about Meenie Moreover, this salmon was acrid- and these were forbidden; the penis cntally responsible for a still further discovery, When Miss Carry 'vent of \leerie--even emit it eas th along to call on the Douglases, little 'birds and the roses and the fix r lours and the Sommer rills tha Maggie Was with her friend 'Meen]e; 1 and they all of there had tea together, and when .tete little Maggie consider- eni it fitting she should go home, Miss Carry said she world accompany. her —for it was naw quite dark. And they had a good deal of talk by the way. partly about schooling and ac- complishments, !but much more large- ly about (Ronald, who was the one person in all the world .in the eyes of his sister. And if Maggie was ready with her m'fo-mation, this pretty young lady was equally interested in' receiving it, and also in making in- quiries. !And thus it came about that Miss Carry now 'for the first time learned that Ronald was in the habit of writing !poems, verses, and things of that kind; and that they were greatly thought of by those who.had seen them or to whom he had sent them. 'Why, -I might have guessed as Hutch,' she said to herself, as she isalked on alone ito the inn—though what there was in (Ronald's appear - alio., to suggest that he •was a 'writer of rhymes it aright have puzzled any ane to determine, (let this was a notable discovery; :till it .et her 'i;uicic and fertile•brain wort ins! in a hundred different'ways; het mostly she beth, tight her of one beim i', Huysen asd of a certain s s el till y Not i1 d h d nine m m- e at is tot e e- at ? of s - c! Rot Miss ,Caatry looked on in a very calm and business -like fashion; al- though in reality her heart was 'beat - ng quickly -with gladness and exul- tation. And 'then, 'with the same bus- inesslike calnmess, she took from ;the deep pocket of her !ulster a flask 'that she 'had 'borrowed from Mr. Murray. ',Ronald,' said she, 'you must drink to our good Mak.' She handed Mina the 'flask. She ap- peared to he quite to the manner born now. You 'would not have im- agined that ler 'heart was 'beating so quickly, or her 'hands just a little bit nervous and shaky after that pro- longed. 'ex'citemeilt. 'Good hick seemed to follow the Duke's boat this morning—to make up for the disastrous (beginning. Within the next three-quarters of an hour they 'had got •hold of another salmon—just over ten pounds, And, it was barely'. Lunch-time when they had succeeded in lauding a ,third— this time a remarkably handsome fish of fifteen pounds. She now thought site had done enough. She resumed her seat contentedly; !there was no elation visible on her face. But she absolutely forbade the putt- ing out of the lines again, 'We are to have luncheon down at the dray,' said lie, 'There is heater shelter there.' '\'cry well,' said she, :\nd well be going over a very good hit of ground,' he suggested, again. "Very well.' 'And I think the other boat has got a fish too.' 'So much the 'heater.' 'Will ye no put out the lines?' 'Now, look here, .Ronald,' she .said. seriously, 'What clo you think !1 came here for? Do you think I came here to leave my bones in a foreign land? I ant just about dead now. My arms are not made of steel. We ctua go ashore and get lunch unpacked; the other ;boat will follow quickly enough —I tell you my arms and wrists have had just about enough for one morn- ing.' And a very snug and merry little luncheon -party they made • there— clown ,by the side of the Lapping wat- er, and under the ehelter of a wood of young ,birch trees. For. the other boat had brought ashore two salmon; so that the !five 'handsome fish, laid side by side on a slab of rock. made an excellent .show. Miss Carry said nothing about her arms aching, but the dill not seers to be in as great a hurry as the .others to set to work again, No; she enjoyed the rest; and, observing that ;Ronald had finished his lunch, she called to itim, under the pretext of wanting to know something about sending the fish sinttlt. •This led of to other things; the three of them chatting together contentedly enough; and Ronald ev- en staking bold enough to light his e. A pipe. very friendly little .grout' this was—'away fiy themselves- in these wintry solit,odes—with :the wide .blue Waters o'f the lake in front of then!, and the snows of CleIbrig white against the sky. And if he were to go away from these familiar scenes, might he not Dome hack again, in the after days? .And with the splendid power of remaining or going, just as be pleased?--li,ust as these friendly folk could, :who spoke so lightly of choosing this or that quarter of the gio'be 'for their temporary habita- tion? Yes, there were many things that money could do: these two etra.ngers, naw, could linger here at 'liver-1'Iud+al just as longus the sal- mon fishing continued ,to amuse thein or they could cross over to Paris and see the wonders there; or they could go away back to the great cities -.and harbors and lakes and huge hotels that they spoke so much ahnet. ITe listened with intense interest, awl keen imagination. And was This part of the shore around thein—with its -rusks and bresls and and clear'ty,c;er —really like the :.hires of Lake r ;rrgr ';ere she n•as afraid 1 ra tlesn tke,? She said she ,no ,til And meanwhile this thing that was overtaking them? The bright, windy, changeable day—with i•ts gleaming snow -stapes, and sunlit straths and woods darkened by passing shadows —seemed to be 'slowly receding from then, and around them tante a kind of hushed and stealthy gloom. And then the wind stirred again; ;he gusts tame sharper and colder; here and there a wet particle stung the cheek or the back .of the hand. Of course, she was in a •death=struggle with a salmon; she could not heed. ,And pre- sently the gathering :b'lacknes's all around seemed to ,break into a soft ;bewilderment of snow; large, soft, woolly flakes carte driving along be- fore the 'wind; all the world was shut out from them; they could see nothing +but a short , space of livid dark water, and feel nothing bet this choking silent thing in the air, And then again, with a magical rapidity, the heavens and the earth seemed to open above and around them; the cllouds swept on; there was a great deep of dazzling 'blue suddenly re- vealed in the sky overhead; and all the dancing waters of the lake, .from the boat to the farthest shores, ,were one !flashing and lapping mass of ,'keen, pure cobalt, absolutely 'bewild- ering to the eyes. 'The joy of that radiant colon after the mystery,,,,, and the darknessl :And along his mighty shoulders; and Ben Loyal's suow- slopes were white against the bril- liant !blue; and it seemed as if the fairest of soft summer skies were shining over ;Bonnie Strath-Naver. To her it 'meant that she could see a little more clearly, She shook the snowJflakes from her •hair, • '!Ronald, you are sure it is not a kelt?' 'Indeed I am. There's nothing of the kelt about that one.' '3f it is,' said she, 'I'll go home and tell my ma. I don't want to be given away twice in one morning," :She was clearly ,feeling a little more secure about this one, though he could make nothing of her recon- dite sayings, And she did capture the creature hi the end, though it was af- ter a long and arduops struggle. For he was a strong 'fish fresh run up ` from the sea, and heavy for his size; and again and again, and a 'dozen times repeated, he .would make rush- " es away ;from the boat !just as they thought he was ,finally allowing the white feather. lit was the toughest fight she had had; but practice was hardening her muscles a little; and she had acquired a little dexterity in altering her position and shifting the strain. By this time the other boat was ,coming round. 'Stick to him, Carry? her .father cried. 'No Seces'h tactics allowed: hold on to him!' Rut the next moment lRonald hard settled all that by a smart scoop of The clip; and there in the 'bottom lay a ,small headed deep -shouldered fish bf joust over sixteen •potutds--JRoiald pinning him down to get the min- now oast of his jaw, and the lad John- nie :grinning all over his ruddy face with delight, ''We're ahead now, ,Ronald,' said he, in an undertone, 'in spite 0' the one that i;roke away.' Ifie'e a fine 'fish this one, -Miss Hodson,' 'Ronald said. 'Fie is not a couple o' days in the l+nch. And well ye worked hiui—well ye worked hits —,i will say that.' C1HHA'PQ1ERR XVIII is it But the stiffest struggle Miss Car- ry ever had with any salmon was stere child's play compared with the fight she had with Ronald himself over this matter. At first he wars ex- ceedingly angry that she should have been told; but then he laughed and said to her there were plenty of folk in :Scotland as elsewhere who wrote idle verses, ,but that they had the common sense to say nothing about it. If she wanted a memento of her stay in the Highlands to take back with her to America, he would give her her choice of the deer -skins he had in the shed; that would be ap- ei 4 d d si d n U • sang of her—was not for alien eyes. But at last he lit upon some verses supposed to convey the sentinteits of certain exiles met together on New Year's Night in Nova Scotia; and lie thought it was a simple kind of thing; at all events it would get him out of a .grievous difficulty. 'So—for the lines had been written many a day ago, and came upon hint now• with a new aspect -41e altered a phrase here or there, by way of pass- ing the'time; and finally he made a fair copy. The next morning, .being a Sunday, he espied Miss Carry walk- ing down towards the river; and he overtook her and ,gave her this little piece lb redeem his pledge. ' 'I't's not worth much,' said he, '!but you'll understand what it is about. Burn it when you've read it—that's ail I ask of ye'—then on he went, glad not to be cross-questioned, 'the faithful Harry trotting at his heels. So she sat down on the stone ipara- pet of the little bnidge—on this hush- est, still, shining morning tlfat was (Nile s511100e1"-like in its cabin—and opened the paper with not a little curiosity. And well enough she und- erstood the meaning' of the litter piece: she knew that the Mackay, used to live about here; and was not Strath-.Navcr but a few miles off: new.e er office en 11'i+;h ,Avenue and this the very Medal river teen- Chicago, ee nChic i , 111, in tmckrnrath the bridge `on ittsicl she was sitting? 'B'ut here are the verses she read—and he had entitled .them AIORIO;SS TIHiE SIEIA n Nova Scotia's clime they've met Do keep .the New Year's night; 'Phe merry lads and lasses crowd Around the blazing light, But •Pother and another sit withdrawn, 1'b let their fancies floe To the old, old time, and the old, old home That's far across the sea. And what strange sights and ,scenes are these That sadden their shaded eyes? is it only thus they can see again The 'land of ,the Mvac'kays? 0 there the red deer roam at will; And the grouse whirr on the wing; And the curlew call, and 'the ptarmi- gan Drink at the mountain spring: And the hares lie snug on the hillside, And the -lusty black -cock crows; But the river the children used to love '.Through an empty valley flow's. Do they see again a young lad wait To shelter with his plaid, When she steals to hint ,in the gath- ering dusk, His gentle Highland plaid? Do they 'hear the pipes at the wed- dings; Or the low, sad 'funeral wail As the boat goes out to the island, And the pibroch tells its tale? O fair is Naver's strath, and fair The Strath Chat Medal laves: And dear the haunts of our childlsobd And dear the old folks' gravers; And the parting from one's native land, Is a sorrow hard to free: God's forgiveness to them that sent tis 'So far across the seal And is Bonnie Strath=Ntaver shining, As it shone in the bygone years?--- As ears?—As it shines dor urs 'tow—ay, ever -- Though our eyes are .blind with tears! Well, her own eyes were moist -- though that was but for a moment; for when she proceeded to walk slowly and meditatively back to the inn, her mind was busy with many things; and she began to think that sire had not got any way near to un- derstanding this 'man, who's she had treated in so familiar a fashion, as boatman, and companion, turd girlie-- almest as valet What lay +behind those eyes of his—that glowed with so strange a light at tines, and seem- ed capable of reading her through only that the slightly erennulous eye- lids came down and veiled then', or that he turned away his head? And why this strain of pathos in a nature that seemed essentially joyous and glace and careless? Nat only that, but in the several discussions with her father—.occasionally 'becoming rath- er warts, indeed—IR•onaid had 'been invariably on the side of the land- lord, as was naturally to be expected. 1.1 had insisted that the great bulk of the land given over to deer was of no possible use to tiny other living creature; he had utaifstained the right of the landlord to clear any portion of his property of sheep, 'and forest it. if by so doing he could gain an in- crease of rental; he had even main- tained the rig'lit of the landlord to eject non-paying tena.ts from hold- ings clearly not capable of supporting the ever-increasing families; and so forth. But was his, feeling, after a!!, with the people—he himself being one of the people? His stout •chamnp- ionship of the claims and privileges of Lord A.iline—that was not incom- patible with a deeper sense o1 the cruelty of driving the 'poor people away from the land of their !birth and tine home of their childhood? His na- tural sentiment as a Mann was not to be overborne 'by ,the fact that he was officially Q. dependent on :Lord Milne? These and a good many other curious problems concerning him=and .con- eerning his possible future—occupied her until she got back to 'the snug little parlor; and there, as she found her •father seated in front of the blaz- ing fire, and engaged in getting through the. mighty pile of newspap- ers and illustrated jourealls and mag - a ines that had coarse by .the previous day's mail, she thought she might as well sit clown and write a long letter to her boson friend ,in Chicago, •hrough whose intermediation .these verses might discreetly he '.hronglst to. the notice of Mr. Huyeren. She had reason for not asking any favor din- fTo Be Continued) Make the Meadows Pay Ontario usually has ahont four anid one-half million acres of hay crops tach year. In passing across tie. ;,ro- vinc'e dust rbef6re haying one cannot*i PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical 1DR, E. A. McMSASTiER—Graduate cif the Faculty of Medicine, Univers- ity of Toronto, and of the New York Post 'Graduate ,School and Hospital. Member of the College ,of Physicians and 'Surgeons •of 'Ontario. Office on High street, Phone 217. Office fully equipped for x-ray diagnosis and for ultra ,sthort wave electric treatment, ultra violet isuat lamp ,treatment and infra ,red electric treatment. Nurse in attendance, DDR. !G'ILBERT C. JiAR'ROTT — Graduate of 'Faculty of Medicine, Un- iversity of Western Ontario, 'Memiber of College of Physicians and'Surgeons of Ontario. 'Office 40 Goderich street west. Phone 317. Sours 2-4.30 pan., 7.301.9 p.m. Other 'flours by appointt- ment. Successor to Dr. Chats. +Mackay; DR. H. HUGH 'ROSS, Physician and Surgeon Late of Landon Hos- pital, London, England. Special at- tention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Office and residence behind Dominion Bank, Office Phone No. 5; Residence Phone '104, DIR. F. J. BURROWS, ,Seaforth. Office and residence, 'Goderich street, east of the United Church. Coroner for ,the County of Huron. Telephone No, 416. D.R., F. J. R. F'ORSTE'R- Eye Ear, Nose and Throat. :Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto 1897. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moore+field's Eye, and 'Golden Square throat hospi- tals, London, At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month from 1.30 p,m. to '5 p.m. DR. W. C. SPROAT Physician - Surgeon Phone 90-W,t Office John .St. Seafortt Auctioneer. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Arrangements can be made 'for Sale Date at The Seaforth, News. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. F. W. AHRENS, Licensed. Auction- eer for Perth and Huron Counties. Sales Solicited, Terms on Application. Farm Stock, chattels and real estate property: R. R, No. 4, Mitchell. Phone 634 r 6. Apply at this office. 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Parties .desirous to effect insurance or transact other business, will be promptly attended to by applications to any of the above named officers addressed to their respective post - offices. help feeling that .many, of these acres are not paying'lthe taxes and the cost of handling the crop, 'Statistical re- ports indicate an average yield of oily one a,nd one-half tons to the acre and this can certainly .he much improved upon. For the meadows, good drainage and sweet soil are very important. Roots of grasses and clo- vers are slow to pcnotrtute wet soils and wherever there is a surplus of water on the soil, air is shut out and hence the bacterial life is either wea- kened or 'killed. Another point in meadow improvement is the arse of high quality seed. If poor - seed is lased 'the meadow starts out with a handicap, Good 'drainage, good seed, Incl a liberal stipple of suitable fertil- iser make. profitable 'meadows. Want and For Sale ads„ 3 wks. Sae.