lPI- B.SSlia3^^ yro- y^^T wnpmapi !W MELERTHElflLLEB. TWO* mother's ill and father's dead, and bigger boy stalked out proud as, a jpg he boxed the side of his own head I "You needn't dothat one mill Would, my young brother and I want to get king, and rattling his money. Stenne imagining it was Ike's head. hold three of us. out into the field and try "to find some passed, hanging his head, and as he But he was too cautious. But the boy came home so happy, "Miller the miller was a handsome, Cwo lovers by a moss-grown spring: potatoes." passed the Prussian whose gaze had Before long the "Dusty Miller' went whistling so cheerily! Heset down his They leaned soft cheeks together there, He was actually crying. Stenne, embarrassed him so, he^ heard him away on business. but silent and odd, "old bachelor." Mingled the dark and sunny hair, ssr^ coffee and molasses and salt and sugar ashamed of himself hung his head. say in a sad tone of voice: "A paet O wooingg buddin time' ind heard the thrushes sing. -&- Ike had to keep^house two or three with such an innocent air that his ,l He lookedfrom the crown of his tjop a paet tjop, this," ^tnd*it The sentinel looked at them a moment, 5 uncle could not speak harshly. days alone. brought the tears to his eyes* head to the soles of his bootsas if he then down the solitary, white O lore's best prime! j./^ But at last he did manage to say, When the miller came back he said, road. Once out in the plain the boys began had just been rolling in the flour he' "Ike, do you keep clear of nonsense, Cwb wedded from the portal step: "Ike, I am going to be married." "Pass, then, quickly," he said, to run quickly towards home. Thenbag had ground. His fine old horse,which' The bells made happy carollings, mind that now!" "Married? When? To whom?" standing aside, and they found themselves was full of potatoes, which the The air was soft as fanning wings, "S* "What nonsense?" asked Ike, independently. was born black, carried so much flour "Well, any one who saw Mr. Craig's on the road to Aubervilliers. Pussians had given them, and so they i Ifhite petals on the pathway slept. house would wonder at Miss Craig being on his coat that he was called "Dusty passed the sharpshooters' trench without How the big fellow laughed! 0 pure eyed bride! "Why, keep clear of folkspeoplegirls," willing to live in the loft of a grist- a hitch. Here they weregetting ready O tender pride' Indistinctly, as in a dream, young tf^n.V^ Miller." ^/^hnx WMiller he added, compromisingly for the night attack. Troops "kept mill!" Stenne noticed, the factories that now the^ miller "girls that you know nothing about!" rwo faces o'er a cradle bent: had one marked coming in silently and forming behind were used as barracks and garnished Four vears have passed. The miller Two hands above the head were locked He continued the walls. The old Sergeant was there peculiarity. He wouid hardly speak with wet rags, and the high chimneys now wonderfully softened toward They pressed each other while they rocked, "There's Ruth Bowne nowsheshe" looking happy and busily placing that pierced the fog and threw up all "womankind"has moved into a to women. He had been left an orphan, those watched a life that love had sent. his men. He noticed the children as their empty, broken walls towards O solemn hour! pretty cottage. and a hard-hearted woman "What about her?" they passed and smiled at them kindly. 0 hidden power' the clouds. Here and there a sentinel The cheeriest and happiest man in had made his boyhood haid. He was "Well, not her, but her mother" How that smile hurt young Stenne! hooded officers scanning the horizon that town is Miller the miller, whose Two parents by the evening fire: "Why, Mrs. Bowne's a mother to He was on the point of calling out to poor in youth, and his early courtships through their glass little only regret is that he did not get out The red light fell about their knees everybody! She's the best woman in them: tents soaked with thav/ing snow had not ended as he had hoped. of his rut of life fifteen years before, heads that rose by slow degrees the world!" before which the camp fires were dying. "Don't go there we have betrayed like buds upon the lily*spire. and who wonders where all the cross Thus his heart had been turned away "No, it was her grandmother I The big fellow knew the roads well, i&* O patient lite' you." from womenkind into a lonely rut of and disagreeable women have vanished 1 meant." O tender strife! and where to cut across the fields to But his companion had warned him: to. "Old Mrs. Bowne?" life, and he had fallen under the spell avoid the pickets still, notwithstanding "If you peach we shall be shot," and He credits himself with all this happiness, the two sat still together there, "No, the other one." these precautions, they fell upon so fear kept him from saying anything. of the evil spirit of a false opinion. The red light shone about their knees and at the risk of this story's "There wasn't any other grandmother an outpost of sharpshooters, wrapped But all the heads by slow degrees As we said, Miller the miller had seeming too much like a novel, we you couldknow! Mr3. Bowne's own Sad gone and left that lonely pair. in their short cloaks and huddled up At Oourneuve they entered an abandoned may as well add that Ike and Ruthie had a bittenand violent step-mother mother died when she was a year old." O voyage fast' in a ditoh half full of water, that runs house to divide up the money, are also very happy. There are no "Well, I guess on the whole, it was O lonely past! from babyhood. We might have added or along the railroad track of Soissons. and truth obliges me to own that the more hospitable homes in our town Ruth's greataunt I meant." that when his father died he had Here the big fellow repeated his tale divison was a fair one, and that when .The red light shone upon the floor now than Ike's, except Miller the mil- "What ailed her?" asked Ike. in vain they would not allow him to young Stenne heard the crowns jingling And made the space between them wide been passed over to an uncle whose ler's.Youth's Companion. 'Why sheshewas shehad pass. While he stood there complaining, They drew their chairs up side by side, into his pockets and thought of wife was a perfect shrew, who was therheumatism, and" Their pale cheeks joined, and said, "Once an old sergeant stepped out of the many games of "galoche" he half insane on cleanliness, and chased When he recovered himself, Miller Brother Gardner's Sermon. more!" the crossing-keeper's house his hair should be able to play, his crime no O memories' the miller said, "You keep your neck her husband and the boy with broom was white, and with his wrinkles looked longer seemed such a horrible one. De longer I lib on top dis earth de O past that is' out of the noose and iemember, Ike, somewhat like Father Stenne. As soon as he was alone, however, and mop, warning them about her harder I am convinced dat de man George Eliot. I've got this mill to give away to "Come, come, boys, don't stand he began to suffer misery the big fellow white floor! Those were the women who profits by your advice gibs you somebody." there crying," he said to the children had left him as soon as they had THE CHILD SPY. be had first known. no credit fur it, while de one who loses "There's good luck ahead for him "they'll let you pass through after passed the gates, and then the crowns that gets it," said Ike, as he passed by it am your enemy. I have reached The bad romance of his youth that your potatoes but just come in here began to grow heavier and heavier, out, and up the "gang plank" towards dat pass in my private life whar', in and get warm. That youngster looks and the hand that was clutching had ended so disastrously we will not They called him Stenneyoung the road. frozen." his heart tightened its grasp. case a naybur steps in to ax my opinyun repeat, save only to say that in one respect, Stenne. Miller the miller was greatly exercised Alas' Youug Stenne was trembling Paris seemed changed the people about de weather fur de nex' one only, they made a very after this, and fancieu he saw He was a real Paris boy, puny and all over, not with cold, but with in the street looked at him twenty four hours, I dodge do inquiry Lee's heart stolen from him, and his pale, perhaps 10 and perhaps 15 sour man of Miller the miller. shame and fear. L.side they found a disapprovingly, as if they knew and turn de conversashun to hard cider home made desolate by some flower fears oldfor with these imps you can few soldiers crouched around a dying Young Miller went the night after where he had bepn, and he kept hearing of a girl who would turn into a scolding as soon as possible. If I predict never tell. His mother was dead and firea real widow's fire, as they were the "spy" in thenoiseof the wheels his uncle's funeral to live with old woman. his father, fc merly a soldier in the trying to thaw some biscuits on the rain an' hit it, dar' may be too much and in the rolling of the drums tne Jarvis, the miller, whose simple housekeeping Alas, alas, for Miller the miller! This marines, was the guardian of a square point end of their bayonets. They boys were practising on along the ca fur his beans or not 'nuff fur his tatera hour was coming on, and fate was was done by a brother, more In the Quartier du Temple. Everybody moved up close to make room for the nal embankment. He reached home an' he am sartin to lay it up agin me. even at his very heels. knew Father Stenne and loved noted for his culinary skill tnan for children, and gave them a little coffee at last, and went to his room at once, If I predict rain an' it doan' come, he One night, thinking singing school trimbabies, nurses, poor women and and a drop of brandy. While they thankful thathis father had not come his mental power. must have been out a long time, he loses confidence in my judgment and the old ladies with their campstools were drinking an officer called' out to home yet the crowns that seemed so Here Miller found a place of peace, concluded to drop in at Deacon A holds me in contempt. in fact, the whole of that part of the sergeant from the door, said a few fk heavy to him he hid under the pillow. "not a woman within sight," he Bowne's to ask what made his horse's Fur de las' twenty y'ars I hev been Paris which seeks a refuge from passing words to him and hurried off. Father Stenne had never been so crupper gall his neck. said. "It was very restful." seekin' tte happy medium, an' dat's de The sergeant returned in high glee. carriages in these flower plots surrounded good or so jolly as that evening when The horse didn't know it did! The chief cause ot my bein' hump-backed "Boys'" he said, "grog all round tonight by sidewalks. Everybody he came home. The news from the Jarvis died after a few years, "Billy" miller thought by so doing he would an' bow-legged, an' liver all upsot. we have got the password of the knew what a pleasant, sympathetic provinces was good, and prospect* went off to live with a sister, and the surprise Ike there and then he would doan' want to bp so good dat a pusson Prussians, and this time I think we'll looked more cheerful. While he was smile the old fellow had behind his house was sold. bristling moustache, both the terror he would he didn't know what he dares to come an' steal my hens 1 take that dd Bourget away from eating supper the old soldier kept would or wouldn't do! in de daytime, feehn' dat I'll forgive Miller took the mill. He partitioned them." looking up at his gun that hung from of dogs and loafers, and they also When he went in, there was company, him, an' I doan' want to be so bad off a kitchen and bedroom in the There wa3 a bur3t of applause, and a nail in the wall, and said to his boy knew that to call up that smile they and that was more than he had dot none of de nayburs will dare to loft, and made a parlor of one corner, the men began to dance and to sing, with a good-natured laugh: had but to ask: imagined. come in an' borry soft soap, knowin' on the floor with the "hopper," put while some of them polished up their "Hey, little man, how you would go "How is the little boy to-day?" The first one to jump up and offer dat I like to lend. In tryin' to strike into it a red table and for yellow chairs, bayotets. Taking advantage of this for those Prussians if you were big How old Father Stenne loved that him a chair was Ike, who exclaimed, de happy medium my hens hev all and hung up some of those chromos confusion, the children escaped. enough." boy! He felt so happy when the little 'Well, this is a treat, to see uncle died of de pip an' none of de borryed with which people are punished for Beyond the trench they struck the About 8 o'clock they heard the guns fellow came for him in the evening after out visiting! Here's a welcome for soap has bin returned. taking papers they do not want, and plain, the end of which loomed up a booming. school, and they walked down the you!" never read. I want to treat all my naburs long white wall, broken by loopholes. "That is at Aubervilliers. They are alleys hand in hand, stopping before The bravery of this took the spirit alike, but when Johnson comes in They made straight for the wall, fighting at the Bourget," said the old aach bench to greet the regular visitors So he lived here like an ancherite, all out of Miller the miller. He laughed an* abuses Smith, an' Smith comes stopping at every step to look, as fellow who knew all the forts by heart and answer their polite questions. his only vexation being the little girls reluctantly, sat down after being in an' abuses Johnson, the happy though they were picking up potatoes. Young Stenne grew very pale and went Unfortnnately, the siege changed all who came in on their way from school introduced to the deacon's cousins, a medium which I search aroun' fui "Let us go homedon't let us go up to bed, saying he felt very tired -this. Father Stenne's square was to stare down into the hopper, or who stalwart man and a pretty little woman makes enemies of boaf, bekase I doan on," young Stenne kept saying. The but he could not get to sleepand the closed, and petroleum was stored leaned over his rickety fence to see the by tb name of Craig, from Pine agree with either. other merely shrugged his shoulders guns kept on booming. He fancied there so the poor old man, ever on great, black wheel churning the silver Falls, some twenty miles away. and kept on advancing. Suddenly that he could see the sharpshooters If I pray so loud dat my bazoo the watch, and not allowed to smoke, foam. He would sometimes mutter: The miller actually stayed and ate they heard the clicking of a gun being going out into the night, so as to surprise floats out on de night air to de ears oi tpassed his life wandering alone among "They'll get drowned or ground up apples and nuts, and talked and cocked. the Prussians, and falling intc de nayburhood, somebody remarks the deserted, o\v.i turned shrubberies. some day, and then it'll be laid on to laughed with the rest of the company. ambush themselves. He remembered dat wind-power religion may be all "Lie down'" cried the elder, throwing Me could not see his son now until my mill or me." He didn't go home till Ike said, the sergeant who had smiled at him, right to trade mules by, but it doan himself on the ground. late at night, at home, and you should When Miller the miller was about "Come, uncle, this is pretty late for and he fancied he saw him stretched reach de gates of heaben. If I pray in As he lay there he whistledand have heard him talk about the Prussians thirty-five years old, his brother died, you and me to be out! We must go out in the snow, and a number of others such a low voice dat nobody h'ars it, another whistle answered over the and seen his moustache bristle leaving an orphan boy of ten year. home now." with him. The price of all this remaiks are made to de effek dat snow. They advanced, slowly creeping up fiercely! Young Stenne did not Miller brushed the flour off his best 'On their way home the miller remarked, blood was just there beneath his pillowand has cooled off a good deal since payin' on all fours. On a level with the somplain much of his new life. clothes, off his horse, and rode twenty he, the son of Mr. Stenne dat bill for three months' pew rent. ground, and just before the wall, a miles to the funeral. Now Miller the "Very nice folks those Craigs are." the son of a* soldier! Ah'the tears yellow moustache appeared under a My left hand naybur has chill'en miller had a sympathetic heart, after "Yes, uncle, I agree with you." were choking him. In the next room greasy cap. The big boy jumped into who am de terror of Kainturk. He You see a siege is lots of fun for the all, and when he returned, he brought So they were agreed. he heard his father walking up and the ditch by the side of the Prussian. comes ober to me in de gloamin' an' boys school is closed no more examinations little Ike, his brother's son, and his Next morning at breakfast the visit down, and then open the window. Oil axes me what should be done. De now every day is a holiday, "That is my brother," he said, small bundle to the old mill with him. was alluded to, and Miller the miller actually the square below they were beating tc happy medium would be to buy? a pointing to his companion. and the streets are like a fair. Ike was born and had always lived said, "That Craig wasn't such a arms a militia battalion was forming, mad dog an' turn him loose in de back The boy Stenne was so small that The child used to stay out until in "the hired man's house" on a farm, fool as most men arehe didn't marry ready to start. It was really a serious yard, but de suggestion makes de man the Prussian began to laugh as he mightfall, running about everywhere. in full view of the barnyard, and a until he found a woman worth having battle he could not keep back his my enemy. looked at him, and seized him in his JHe followed the companies of his level sweep of hard worked fields. We did he? Where do you suppose he sobs. My right hand naybur has chill'en arms to lift him up to the break in lrard as they tramped off to duty on can imagine his delight at the wonders found this one, Ike?" who am. so good dat dey lay down an' the wall, on the other side of which "What is the matter?" asked Father -the ramparts, and always picked out of his new home, with a mountain behind, "Found her? Why, I suppose he let darselves be robbed and pounded. rose heavy earthen embankments, Stenne, as he opened the door those that had the best band. Young a stream below, a valley, and found her at home!" He wakes me up de mawning to ax cut tree trunks, and black holes in The child could not stand it any long Stenne was well up on this subject, fields and forests on every hand! But A few days after this the miller asked my advice, an' when I tell him to the snow, in each of which you just er, he jumped out of bed and threw -and he could tell you why the band the mill, with its great wheel dashing Ike how long "Mr. Craig and his pack dem off to an idiot asylum he saw the same greasy cap and the himself at his father's feet and as he of tba Ninety-9ixth was poor- and why and splashing among the waters, wife" were going to stay at the Bownes'. doan' speak to me agin for six same yellow mustache that laughed did so the crowns rolled out on the that of the Fifty-fifth was so good. sending crystal arrows and rainbow months. as the boys passed. floor. wreaths in every directionthat was Then again he watched mobiles drill. "His wife's at home. Miss Craig is De medium which we should strive "What is that?" cried the old man In one corner stood the gardener's to him the glory of all this picturesque Besides these amusements there were his sister," said Ike. fur may be divided up as follows: trembling all over. "Haveyou stolen?" house with tree trunks for casemates. region. "the waiting processions, which formed "Oh, yes! Well, I was thinking, Ike, 1. Be deaf in nayborhood quarrels. And without drawing breath young The lower floor was full of soldiers 'before the door3 oi the butchers and It was like a dream of fairyland. that all the years I've lived in- the Stenne told how he had gone to the 2. Be dumb as to men's faults onless playing cards, while some were cooking bakers, in the dark winter mornings, And this was his home, and he could mill I've never had any one here to a Prussians and what he had done you am in de witness box. a stew over a large fire. It smelt 'when the lights were all out, and he see and hear the mill-noises always, meal, excepting beggars and tramps. there as he talked his heart grew lighter so good of cabbage and lard what a 3. Be silent when you can't praise. ^would stand up in file like the rest, and climb the high banks of the stream, The Bownes are good neighbors, and it was a relief to accuse himself difference between that and the sharpshooters' 4. If you advise at all, agree with with his basket under his arm and and catch squirrels, and skip stones I've half a mind to ask them over to Father Stenne listened and his brow camp! Upstairs the officers de ideas of the pussons askin' it. his feet in the slush and water here andandeverything! tea while they're here." kept growing darker when it was all were playing the piano and uncorking 5. A blind man am nebber brought he had made acquaintances and talked "Whew1" cried Ike. in jovial surprise. But Miller the miller was not as well told he laid his face in his hands and champagne, and gave a joyful cheer into court fur a witness. politics, and, as he was the son of wrould make thG cake and pleased with his nephew as his nephew "But who wept. as the boys entered. They gave their 6. Wisdom am not in knowing such Mr. Stenne, everybody asked his with him. The boy made a new condition the fol-de-rols they always- have for papers and the men began to give them a powerful sight, but in keepin' shet "Father, father," the child began. opinion. But what was most fun of affairs necessary. The miller company?" he added- wine to make them talk. Most of the on what you doan' know. The old man thrust him aside without was pitching pennies, and that fatuous now thought the place too rough "I'd ride over to Beaver Pond, and officers looked like proud, fierce men, a word, and picked up the money game of "galoche," which the and mean, and set out to finish off his fa buy up a lot of stuff of the baker, and but the big fellow's slang and his caddish, "Is it all here?" he asked. Breton militia had brought into rooms with lathe and plaster and California and Florida Honey. some peaches and pineapples and monkeyish manners seemed to Young Stenne nodded. The old fellow 'fashion during the siege. When you paint. He put up white curtains in such things in cans, and other knickknacks. amuse them vastly. They laughingly It may not be known to many that then took down his gun and cartridgebox, voould not find young Stenne either on place of the green paper ones, and actually It's only nine miles, you know. repeated the words after him, taking California is favored with a growth and put the money into his the ramparts or at the baker's he was bought a carpet for the parlor I'd have the table all set before they a curious delight in wallowing in the of foliage especially adapted for the pocket. pretty sure to be at the game of "ga- corner, which was now a real room, came. Have we dishes enough for mud which he brought them from growth, of honey. The finest produced "Very well," he said, "I am going partitioned off from the main mill. loche," on the square du Chateau six?" Paris. in that state is a clear white, very to give it back to them." And with As his house improved, he began to 35au. He could not play, of course "Who are your six?" asked Ike. sweet and rich. It is the product of out another word, without turnin| Young Stenne would have liked to like the boy better, and to become sthat cost too much but he looked on "Why, Mr. and Mrs. Bowne, Mr. the winte sage, with which SouthernCalifoarnia round again, he went down anc say something, too, so to show them very indulgent to him. and opened the biggest, greediest eyes and Mrs. Craig, and" is abundantly supplied. marched away into the night with th that he* was no fool either but something in the world. There, in this "elegant home)" the "Miss Craig," interiupted Ike, with The next in quality is from the sumac. militiamen who were just starting embarrassed him. A little to There was one fellow in a blue boy had his school-friends as oiten as a quizzical look. This is of a light amber hue,, He never was seen again.Translated one side, and facing him, sat a Prussian smock, whom he admired especially he chose to ask them. Together they "Yes, and you and meisn't that and is-also sweet, with a very fine flavor. from the French of Daudet. older than the rest, and more he only bet dollar chips, and when he popped corn and made molasses six?" Another class of honey is produced serious-looking. He was reading, or fan you could hear the silver jingle in candy, and whittled out boats in winter, Miller had indeed bought "a lot of from the tar weed. This israther pretending to read, for he never took pockets. and they stuffed birds and pressed Did Prayer Save Them?' stuff," enough to feast a dozen families. dark in color, and has a bitter* his eyes off the boy, and there was wild flowers in summer. One day as he was picking up a He had bread and biscuit and While Alfred Green and anothei ish, taste. For this reason it is not so-1 something of reproach in his look, as coin which had rolled away and stopped So the years went on, the miller rolls, and crackers of every shape and young man were fishing in Shirley gut though he was thinking of his own son, well liked as the other varieties mentioned, 1/ just at Young Stenne's feet, the growing less odd in their flight. But name. He had fruit-cake and frostedcake, near Boston, the tide rose, lifting then just about Stenne's age, and were saying and at tSsaes is scaBoely salar big fellow said to him in a low voice: he still kept up his old antipathy for sponge cake and brides-eake, anchor, and the boat began drifting to himself: ble. The flavor of the California honiey "It makes you, squint.does it? Well,if womenan antipathy that he could nut-cake, currant-cake, doughnuts, Before the men realized their positior is entirely different from, that produced "I had rather die than have my boy you want to know I'll tell you where not have cherished had he ever known sugar cookies, molasses cookies, and the wind increased and the current be in New Yiork state and vicinity* do such a thing." a mother and a mother's love. vou can get some." hearts and rounds. All these were gan sweeping them out to sea. Thi where the white clover is the main: And young Stenne felt as though a When the game was over he led him Ike was a happy boy, and became a piled up on as many large blue-edged boat swept out past the points source of supply for the bees to work hand was placed upon his heart and great favorite with his neighbors. At 'To a corner of the square and proposed plates, looking like a chain of tiny land, and as it began to fill all hopi upon. Conssquently it finds a market kept it from beating. To forget this feeling eighteen years old he could do a man's to him to go with him and sell mountains. was abandoned. The oars were drop among thosa who prefer a rich and! |y he began to drink, until soon everything work in the mill, beside going to school newspapers to the Prussians he got Then there was canned salmon audi ped and one of the young men flunj sweet article for their own use, the around him was turning round. in winter. A shadow fell across the f g-' thirty francs a trip.y Stenne refused pressed beef and .smoked beef, cheeseand himself in the bottom of the skiff anc t*^Jr .^t first and was highl indignant. Fo white-sage honey havhng also a fine He could hear indistinctly now his miller's spirit Ike began to look at the three kinds of piessuch as they began to pray. While so engaged th consistency which at tsmes is much desired. comrade was laughing at the national girls. He carried their skates and U~t ^H^three days he would not go back to wereand to crown them all, there boat suddenly grounded on a litth Tie New Yoak Mail and Express, guard and at their awkward drill, their books, he risked his life on the 1 ^fi^^ %"the gamewhat awful days those were two peach-cans, with the exaggerated beach and both men were thrown in ^three were! He could not eat or sleep. t which we are indebted for much to the amusement of the listeners, precipice over the stream to gather [l |P$1 pictures still on them,, filled with to the water. They climbed on shon At might he dreamed of piles of galo- the abo-xe facts, says also that within or how he imitated a false alarm, the "lady's ear-drop" and the purple '"""Vi7 long sticks of candy of every name and and found themselves on Brewster'i a short time a few bee culturists have the turning out at night and the rush "night shade" for them. 4j i cihes at the fo6t of his bed, and of hue, and. there were nuts and raisins island, a small rock, twenty mile* ^shining dollars, slipping along on their tried Florida as a honey-producing I' for the ramparts. After awhile the He went on sleigh-rides and to partiesandandwell, and apples! from the mainland. This was the lasl state.. The success which has attended *t big fellow lowered his voice, and the Miller the miller |1/, faces. The temptation was too strong, The miller looked very sad as they island the harbor, and inthecoursi faces of the officers drew nearer. The their: efforts has induced others 1 had heard of his walking home one And on the fourth day he returned to all rose from the table, saying, there of all outgoing steamers. The sea was wretch was warning them against the to engage in the enterprise. moonlight evening with little Ruthie J/ititie chateau d'Eau, saw the big feli was as much "stuff" now as when running high outside, and in a few attack of the sharpshooters. This It is expected that one of^% Bowne, whom he had sent out of the fir Slow, and allowed himself to be talked they sat down. Therwa now storytelling, moments more the boat would hav time young Stenne could not stand it, th* finest honeys ever produced williji^ milt a dozen times in as many years "over guessing of conundrums and been swamped. The only people oi ***h and suddenly sobered he cried out, w" One snowy morning they started out, b* soon in the markets for general for looking down the hopper, and for singing. The guests admired everything, the island were two fishermen, wh "I won't have that, now none of sale. The transplanted bees have gathering floux-dust to play baking |^*each with a bag slung across his shoul- from the corn-room and the that." had beached their boat, and wer taken a great faney to the orane^*L with. f&*der, and with the newspapers hidden hopper, down to t&e stuffed birds and taking refuge from the winds. The3 blossom, and from it produce a honey-I^ But the big fellow only laughed and He had never once rebuke^ Ike for |p under his blouse. It was hardly light pressed flowers and on going away, assisted the young men, and next daj very delicious in flavor. At present^ went on before he was through all the anything, and he felt delicate about I when they reached the Flander's gate. Miss Craig told the miller it had been launched their boat, that had beei the Florida orange-blossom honsy isXV officers had drawn around him. One beginning tha$ nowthey were so happyjtogewier'- \1 'The big boy took him by the hand one of the pleasantest visits she had driven on shore by the sea. After a novelty, and commands as goodly of them pointing to the 4oor said to -and led him up to the sentinela goodhumored ever made, aad added, merrily, row of twenty miles they reached th pnce3 as any brought to tihe New^ the bovs: 1l| The trouble grew. fat old fellow with a red "There's aa old deserted mill near mainland exhausted,, but with ml "Getoutoffaere!" I "Something's got to be done quick noseand said to him in a whining us. I believe I'll buy it, and live in it, York market. If there is anything in^ faith that the prayerfrom the botton And they began to talk among themselves I about thV he said* "and it will be myself!" aroice name, orange-blossom ho&ey Quaht^St^ very quickly in German. The of their skiff saved their Uvea* done toot"/ And in hia resolute zeal, Kind sir, do let us pass, please sir W '4 Miller, the miller wanted to say, to command a good price% Je. fete,