IN THK STAKES. self?" says I, good nattrfedly, handing POLLY'S RELI0I01 I nnuicl some of t5ic best books of religious me public SLJCD 1 came b.iekV "1'U pan of mince-meat^' He had had him the tray and choppin' knife. fiction, br,t,3he never heard of never forget this of you, Mary never!" it on the stove, and it was b'iling I watch her clear-cut cameo fac He put all his meat, some four or five them and sho did not know of a single A month later tho squire said to his hot, and he yelled according, Against the crimson curtain's fold CT BEBECCA HAEDKG DAVIS. pounds, into the tray at once and began one of otir foreign missions." wife, "Did you know Mary was going lumping an' tearing around the room Tho gaslight glimmers on the gold too% *5^ There can be little doubt that if to chop. He chopped and he over his mathematics with Tom Regularly Good Mrs. Demming was uneasy at like mad. I rushed out with some Of ti-esBes twined with classic grace. chopped and he chopped, and still people of Ball's Ferry had been asked this, and that evening turned the conversation coaching hini. This little girl has dry pants and helped him on with 'em. 'The season's beauty, do you say' great masses of whole meat kept coming on doctrinal subjects. Polly tho clearest head for figuring I ever The first thing he did after ward was to decide which was the most pious l&WfV.r5 Whos Indeed,smileashed I see an holdss jest a and court quick re to the sufarce. After three-quarters grew red. frti^"5' knew. But what can be her object?" to take them two pies and march into family in their midst they would unanimously of an hour of hard work he had "I am a fraid," she said, I am not the shed. Here he deposited 'em Mrs. Demming cleared her voice be-* tort have named the Dominings. got it so there wasn't any pieces .more clear in my ideas concerning those difficult in the swill-barrel. Next he went in fore she could speak. "She has applied Keep her from listening to the play. than one and a half inches square and They had long ago been the huclcus points. The truth is, after and took the tw out of the oven and to some of her friends in Kentucky Why should she heed the twice-told tale two inches thick, though there was mother's death I had the charge of my carried them to the same appropriate to give Tom a situation. Father, about which the Presbyterian church Of faithful love upon the stage? plenty that big. Then he went for the four brothers, and I had so little' grave." I thi there may be a chance for the gathered. Now Squire Demniing's pew She knows full well in this our age molasses jug. time" boy. He wants to begin his life all over "Now," says he recklessly, "you Wealth and ambition turn the seale. faced that of the pastor, and no matter "You ain't going to call that fine again among strangers." may finish the pus, Philura, and I'll You will have more time now," said how stormy the weather there was his enough for the meat?" says I. I?Oh, I loved her oncelong since mend fence." Isabella. "I will mark out a course of "God help him," muttered the squire. A year, a century ago "Course it's fine enough," says he. "Who's making these pies, Jeremiah venerable white head in its place and doctrinal reading for you." He surprised Polly when he met her Before I went abroad, you know, "Takes the life all out of the mincemeat I couldn't help saying. But Mary made slow progress with the next time by taking her in his arms, Mother Demming's placid old face beside But I was neither peer nor prince. or hash or anything, to chop it "Throw that my face, will ye?" her course of reading. As time passed and kissing her with the tears in his it. Grace and Isabella, the unmarried too fine." he mutteied, in very subdued accents, and she settled down into her place in eyes. And so we parted. Here to-night sisters, and Joe, filled the pew. "But Jeremiah," says I, loth to see as he went out and got his axe. the household she proved to be a very By chance I see her, and again In the Spring Tom went to Kentucky 0 so much good meat wasted, "that With throb and thrill of sudden painI Young Mr. Floyd (who was radical in But I never grudged them poor pies, busy little woman. She had positive V*. and began his new life. He has not -$4r feel my heart stir at the sight. won't be fit to eat. Let me ta ke it for I never heard any more abo ut the talent for finding work took her part broken down in it yet. his views), or any visiting clergymen I'd rather chop than see thepies spoil- way his mother used to do things. of the family mending, tossed up dainty It was in the spring, too, that Uncle 'The drama ends. Ah, fair coquette! might preach what they chose, the ed." little desserts, helped Joe with his accounts. Ben began to fail. The old man was Folded in frfrs she quits her place, Demmings listened with the same "Sp'iled!" he cried. "Who's makin When Joe had gone to his office If I should meet her face to face, Lincoln Reverenced Women. so fond of Polly that she gave up these pies, Philura?" calm, devout pleasure. It never occurred she took tremendous walks, advised Will she remember or forget? most of her time to him so much of it, In the January Century Nicolay and I wouldn't want to swear that anybody London World. Mother Demming about her fancy work, to them to dispute any opinion indeed, that Joe complained. Hay introduce as follows their account was," says I. or copied the squire's papers for him. "Don't say a word, dear," she said, promulgated by a minister of their of Lincoln's love affairs: "Up- "You always make your pies too "What a clerky hand you write!" said "he has such a little while to stay. Let church. It was "all good" like the Bible. THE WAY HISMOTHER DID. on a temperament thus predisposed sweet," he went on, measuring out sugar Grace one day." I often wish mine me do what I can." to look at things in their darker aspect, There was no room for choice in by the teaspoonful. "My mother were not so delicate when father worries "I say, Polly, was that the Bible you it might naturally be expected never used much sugar." either. The squire would be just as over those papers. But as for were reading to him to-day?" that a love affair which was not perfectly HELEN M. WDJBLOW. Then he poured in two teacupfuls of mother's embroidery, women of her age likely to read a chapter in Numbers to "Yes. He asks for it often." happy would be productive ol I cured my Jeremiah of thinking cider and molasses and a teacupful of ought to give up that useless Avork when Joe began to whistle and choked it a penitent shiner as one in St. John. great misery. But Lincoln seemed especially that he could cook je^t as his mother vinegar. He liked them real tart, he their eyes are failing." down into a sigh. Uncle Ben had been chosen to the keenest suffering The effect on his mind was very much said. did easy enough. I was the week betore "It does not seem useless to me," said such a godless reprobate in his youth in such a conjuncture. The pioneer, "Now for spices," says he. "Lerarae the same. Both had the soothing effect Polly, gently. "She thinks you all that it never had occurred to any of the Thanksgiving, and says I, at the as a rule, A\as compai"atively see. She used to put in a lot of singer, value it." of a repeated charm which set him Demmings there was a way to reach free from any troubles of the 'breakfast table one morning: I remember." And thereupon the "Where can Mary go on those interminable his soul. He lived until late in the safely apait from other men, imagination. quote Mr. McConnell "Jeremiah," says I, I biled my whole two-ounce package was emptied walks?" said Isabella one summer. The Sunday befoie his death again: 'There was no into the pan. "And cinnamonain't You would always find on the Demming's meat yesterday, and if you'll bring in morning to her father. "You should he sent for Mr. Floyd and talked to romance in his (the pioneer's) composition. we got any cinnamon stick?" warn her about Black Lane. She might centre table all the papers and him for a long time. that jug of cider molasses that you He had no dreaminess meditation "No," says I, "you say you don't put into the ice house to keep cool wander into it, and bring home typhoid When the young minister came out magazines published by the denomination. 1 was no part of his mental habit like it." fever." of the dying man's room he was pale. a poetical fancy would, in him, Their house was the headquarters ^through the summer, Fll make up my "Its best for pies, I guess, but this "You ought to report that lane as a He had been much moved. have been an indication of insanity. for clergymen and colporteurs. will do," whereupon the package of *mince pies to-day." nuisance, lather," said his wife. "It is "I will give him the sacrament to-mor- If he reclined at the foot of a tree, on cinnamon followed theginger. "Cloves The girls could tell you at a moment's a perpetual sink of filth and vice." A simple rema rk enough, and innocent, row," he said to Squire Demming. a still summer day, it was to sleep if oh, yes! Where's the mortar 'n' pes- notice where such and such a minister "It is a disgrace to Ball's Ferry that "You think he is worthy of it?" he gazed out oyer the waving prairie, but who can tell what a word tle?" And he ground up a quarter of such wretches can find harbor in it was now, how long Dr. D. of St. Louis it was to search for the column of "If sincere repentance and trust in may bring forth? a pound of cloves and stirred them in. added Isabella. They ought to be driven smoke which told ot his enemies' approach Christ can niake any of us worthy, he had stayed in Europe, and much "Now, that's all but the raisins. 0! I wish," says the pardn er of my beyond the borough limits!" if he turned his eyes towards is. He asked that 'little Polly' should money had been given to dear Mr. J. no, there's the'apples." And he shoved joys, and (when he can't dodge them) Well, well, my dear! It doesn't do the blue heaven, it was to prognosticate take it with him. 'She has done this in the chopped, apple. ^Oh' yes, by his flock in Chicago to visit the Holy to be too energetic," said the squire. to-morrow's rain or sunshine. for me,' he said. 'It's her work.'" of my sorrows, I wish I could taste bread. My mother used to chop up Land. They were exceedingly fond, "They never had a chance." If he bent his gaze towards the green The girls overheard the conversation. -of some of my mother's pies again. bread and put it in. too, of religious poems, and could repeat He was roused, however, to mention earth it was to look for -'Indian sign" They sat gravely silent after the "That was when she was short of "Them was pies as was pies Black Lane at a meeting of the town or buffalo trail. His wife wat whole pages of Henry Kirk a minister was gone. apples," I remarked. t- Now, I know that if Philura Ja ne burgesses that day. only a helpmate he never thought of "I do not understand Polly," said White and Miss Havergal. They took "Who's runnin' these pies?" he repeated. "Something ought to be done, or we making a divinity of her.' But Jones can do one thing better than Grace, at last. "She never seemed to an eager interest in all foreign missionary "Git me some bread, will will have typhus among us," he said. Lincoln could never have claimed me to be a religious person." another, it is to make a mince pie, ye?" work the story of these heroic men this happy immunity trom ideal trials. 'Something has been done," said "Perhaps," said the squire, "we have -but I kep' calm outwardly. I brought the bread, and he pounded in African jungles or Indian bungalow's His published speeches show judge Paule. I came through the not clearly understood vhat religion is. some up and he stirred it in. "How was they made?" says I, how much the poet in him was constantly had all the dramatic power of a lane this morning, and hardly knew it. We took too much for granted. If w "Now, I guess it's ready," and he kept in check, and at this tftne There has been a general draining and ""what was the mgregiences?" would waken up and look into th novel for them. Grace declared she began to ladle it into his under crusts. of his life his imagination was sufficiently cleaning, the dung hills are gone, the truth of the matter" -"Wal," says he, I used to watch had a positive affection for that lovely "Ain't you going to taste of it and alert to inflict upon him the cabins are whitewashed, the women see whether it's right?' sajs I. Your her every Thanksgivin' time and if Miss W., who was at work in Ceyloa, sharpest anguish. His reverence for some'of themhad actually washed thenfaces. Explorations in Greenland. mother used to." and considered Mrs. S. who was in you'd hear to me, I believe I could women was so deep and tender, that I was the 30th of May before we "That's so," says he, "and so did he thought an injury to one of them Hong Kong, one of tho apostolic type tell jest how. Hi! wasn't they good, "What has happened?" asked the sighted the coast, which appeared at I, and wan't it good?" was a sin too heinous to be expiated. squire. of Christians, although she had never first as a long low line of sparkling though? I vuro, believe I could make He smacked his lips and tasted, but No Hamlet, dreaming amid the turrets "I heard the sound of children's points. Masses of heavy clouds concealed seen either of them. Isabella took "'em myeelf." I noticed he didn't smack 'em the second of Elsinore, no Sidney creating a voices singing in one of the cabins, and the summits, but as we approached, time. more interest in the ascetic doctrines "Berihaps you'd better," says I chivalrous Arcadia, was fuller of mystic the men told me it was 'Miss Mary's the panorama was fradually "You ought to set it on the fire and coming into notice. She professed a and shadowy fancie3 of the worth "coolly. class.' Some good woman has bpenat unfolded, the clouds lifted revealing an t^ cook it all together," I couldn't help and dignity of woman than this backwoods delight in symbolism, filled er room work, I suspect." I can," says he, "an' I declare for endless array of peaks, counterparts in saying. "Why, what's the matter, politician. Few men ever lived with religious emblems and pictures, "Miss Mary?"the squire's face form of many of the most famous mountains all tryin' to boss a woman roundI Jeremiah?" mors sensitively and delicately tender grew red, his eyes flashed, but he said wore black on Good Friday and lillies in the Alps, loaded with snow and The tears was chasing eachother will." toward the sex."' nothing more. glaciers. At this time we were a little on Easter, and fasted as religiously as down his hollow cheeks, and for a I couldn't help but laugh to see Going home he met Polly coming to south of Holsteinberg, in latitude 66 minute I was real scairt. any Episcopalian. Every week she him go to work. I got him my big meet him. He looked at her with the degrees, and next morning, when some "There seems to be aleetletoomuch noted down in her diary the change in Eijrhty Years a Soldier. eye of a judge. ''Are you the good check apron, and tied it on. I brought thirty miles further north the character ginger," he said, blowin' his nose, "but l her spiritual condition. The whole Samaritan? Have you been in Black of the coast changed, the mountains I'llfix 'em." Berlin, Jan. 5.The Official Gazette out the flour and the lard, and the Lane, my dear?" family were fluent in the use of theological dwindled down to low hills, and they Then he went to work puttin' in publishes the following letter from the -ealeratus, and the salt and the spicedrawer, She blushed, laughed, and stammered terms, and talked garrulously retained that character for seventy more stuff. A cup more of cider Emperor William to Crown Prince and the sugar-box. Jeremiah "Oh, that was the most natural thing molasses and a cup more of vinegar, miles, exhibiting the unmistakable characteristics of the doctrines of their denomination Frederick William: in the world, father. You know I was he went out and got the cider molasses. considerable pepper, but no salt, two of ice eroded surfaces. indeed, works of controversy on this The army, which knows-how near it brought up among colored people I pounds of raisins, whole, and the contents Rounded bosses were seen everywhere The meat and apples was already has always been to my heart, will understand Birbject filled their book shelves. know how to manage them. It was of a bottle of paregoric, I see tho tops of the hills were clean gone, ontli old table. what feelings stic me at the This familiarity with the outer garments only a ditch dug here and there, a few him put in. Then he went to the settin'-room and convex curves took the place of thoughts of my having belonged to it "There!" says Jeremiah. "Now I'll of religion made them appear derout panes of glass and bushels of lime. closet and brought the bottle craggy forms which were seen to the for full eighty years, and of the changes show you something about pies." in the eyes of others, and in their They are good, affectionate creatures, of brandy I keep for sickness, and south. the army has undergone with me during I said nothing, but went to washing own. They were a well-to-do family, and so anxious to learn." put abo ut half ot that into the mixture that period. At time of my entering up tike breakfast dishes and sweeping and hence felt none of the temptations he was concocting. I looked The matter was driven out of the the army it lay beaten back to the ap. Six weeks elapsed since leaving Copenhagen of poverty. They were naturally gentle, horrified, indeed, for I never use it in squire's mind before he reached the furthest confines of the kingdom, after "Idon't get to baking so early as before we arrived at Egedesminde, unpretending, amiable folks, and cooking. house, for he saw Tom skulking round the severest blow Prussia ever sustained this, generally," says I. "You've got a settlement on the south ofDisko hence were not likely to yield to the the stable door. He had returned that "Doctors say mince-pies ought always and the soldierly spirit -a good, start." Bay, into which we were obliged to temptations of wealth. Their pleasant, day, and a dull weight of misery fell at to hev brandy in 'em to keep 'em which my glorious forefathers implanted "0, yes," he answered in his gayest put until Jacobshavn harbor should ba mild harmlessness, which was in fact the sight on his father's heart. Tom from hurtin' folks," says he: I don't in us remained unbroken, and soon tone, "t'won't be no time afore I clear of icea dismal place at that time Sue to temperament, was set down by did not enter the house until late in the begruch a leetle bran dy in such good put forth new shoots. This was proved have them pies all settin' in a row on their friends as the effect of piety. for every soul, Greenlanders, Danes and evening, when the family were gathered pies as these." in those wars of liberation, noblest remembrances the butterv shelf. Hain't you got no all, had a cough. Though it was now Life to the Demmings was like a long about the lawn. He came into the Then he stirred np the whole mess. of my youth. Thisspirit sour milk?" getting well into June, almost the whole summer day until Joe brought his wife room with a swagger, unshaven, his My land! There was great chuuks ot the army preserved through the "Why. yes," says I, "but you don't home. None of the family had evei island on which the settlement wag boots reeking of the stable. 'On purpose meat, and great long strings of it. want it for mince pies!" honest labors of a long period of peace, seen her. They knew she was one of placed was covered with snow, and a to mortify us,"thought Grace, bitterly. And such a looking pan of mince-meat and its glorious deeds in recent times "Who's makin' these pies?'' says he. the Anstruthers of Kentucky. belt of sea fretted ice was fixed all along 1 never see! show that the frame spirit had been '***My mother always used to make the shore just above high water mark. "There are Anstruthers in the United I came in to see Joe's fine lady But I said nothing as he went on upheld in full strength and thriven sour milk piecrust, and I believe it Here I became familiarized with Greenland Presbyterian Church," said Grace. I wife," he said, in a loud voice. "Unless and filled hi3 pies,, and proceeded to still more. I have seen many changes would taste good once more." hope Mary belongs to our membership." currency and learned the values of he's ashamed to introduce his scapegrace cover 'em. The crust had got so hard in the outward form of the army in So I brought the sour milk. He "O h, yes, certainly," said Joe eagerly. the coins in circulation, which were( brother. and stiff he could searcely roll it out, the generations that have passed dipped out about two quarts of it in He was just starting to be married mostly skillings and half skillings, equal 'Mary is not here said Mother Demming. but he finally got it down not much through under ray eyes, but in my inmost Jttvy big yellow mixing dish. and he was very anxious that they thicker than the under-crust. Without ''Where is she Grace respectively to about English farthinga heart and feeling the army has ^'Where's the short'nin?" says he. hould all love Polly in advance. cutting any air-holes he covered not changed. Placing the sense of "In Uncle Ben's room. She reads and half farthings. Silver was rarely "There's the lard, and there's the the pie, tucking in the edge where It "Does she sing in the choir asked honor and duty before all else, readiness the New York papers to him every day seen and gold never, the higher values -butter here if you'd rather have it." came over, and pulling it out where it to lay down life for these, is the Isabel!. now. They play backgammon together, being represented by bank notes of various "My mother used lard," **ays he. came short. Then his pies went into tie which binds all the German race I think not. But she has one f the and they have one of those silly amounts, which were often in an "Where's a dish to melt it in?" the oven. together and now unites grandsons aweeteet voicesa low contralto. And books of Artemus Ward's. I heard indescribable state of grease and dilapidation. I got him a dish. and great grandsons firmly as it did you ought to hear her laugh, Belle! The him laughing and swearing harder than He insisted oro building up an awfui "Most folks rub their shortening in- their forefathers. It greatly rejoices merriest ringoh, she'll bring new life ever, so he must be pleased. Iwondei fire, and in a few minutes the juice of Thus far we had not had any prospect "'io xhe flour," says I. me to be permitted to speak thus to into this house!" she can stand it." his pies (his meat was floating around over the island ice, such glimpses as had "My mother didn't," Bays he. "As the army, and be able to say that The girls smiled. They were fond ol in an abundance of molasses and vinegar) 'It is hard to understand her," said been obtained having been in vistas closing I said 'before, who's makin' these during these eighty years we have assuredly came running out on the floor. Joe, and. ready to welcome his wife. Isabella dryly. "Mary is not as careful the ends of valleys, or through occasional pies? If I am" belonged to one another. Jeremiah bounded to the oven-aoor. of her associations as she should be."' "But I hope she is ready to take a openings between a couple ol "I won't say another word," says I. Fully and unreservedly I thank the He didn't, look near so chipper as Beading place in the church," said Grace, Tom had been listening eagerly. peaks and to gain a better general idea il've had experience in managing a army for its loyalty and devotion'to when he first began his- pies. after he" had gone. "Joe will some day "Enough said," he broke out, with a of its nature, before proceeding, I ascended opinionated pardner before. duty. Until my last breath these feelings fill father's place, and his description of thump of hiB fist on the table. "If Joe'a an isolated hill on the west margin I wish, Philura," say she, "you'd fie stirred his melted lam into his oi love and gratitude will remain: her does not give me the idea of an energetically wife can take thought of that lonely old jest see here a minute. That crust which commanded a very extensive sour milk, and it rose to the top in the most vivid feelings of my heart. religious woman." man up there, there's better stuff in her don't act-well." view. The morning was still and th little lumps. Then he begun to stir in "We'll hope for the best," said Isaibella. than I expected. Ill go up and make I should say not! Th? inside had sky cloudless and as I gradually ros* i flour. I see he hadn't put in any She was very busy making an her acquaintance."' riz up and was runnin' overall around, above the level of the island ice I saw How Picked Knowledge. .-aaleratus, but knew him too well to limitation stained glass window for the For several days afterwards Tom's while a thick, leathery-looking substance that there were the usual banks of eld '1| 'venture to say so. Jeremiah Jones Sometimes waiters pick up a great 'Sunday school room, and was anxious voice was heard joining in the jokes and rose up in the middle of it, snow from last Winter extending all apmetimes needs to attend the school deal of curious information and can to finish it before Mary arrivecL laughter that came out of Uncle Ben's burnt pretty near black. round the margin where it abutted upon ."kept by Experience. "Uncle Ben must be kept in his own room. "Who's ruunin* these pies, Jeremiah make good use of it. I knew a man the exterior land, and then came rounded, stirred and stirred and stirred. room when she comes, and. Tom can be "Mary seems to have enchanted them says I. "You didn't stick your who had been a waiter in a London dome-like slopes of hard ice, such "When he finally got it thick enough, sent to the country for a month's visit," both," said Grace. "Tom is clean and two crusts together." place of business, and afterwards settled as are common at the termination oi vthere was batter enough,.such as it Grace said, her delicate cheek flushing shaven to-day, and looks like a human "Wal, why didn't you tell me not down as the landlord of a most most glaciers, containing numerous was. to make several dozen pies. painfully. being." to begin with them?" he yelled not respectable hotel in a provincial city. crevasses. This hard ice extended only These pies aregoin' to be so good," "Perhaps she treats him like a human For there were two skeletons in the twit me with it now." He had extremely pleasing manners* a few hundred yards eastward, and then says he "we'll make up a lot of "em. being," said Joe. Demming household. The squire's But I went back to the settin' ro om and was noted tor the clear, bright become snow covered. Beyond there Where's the pie plates?" But even he was startled when Mary brother Ben, who was a paralytic old where I was sweeping, and left him to opinions which he expressed on nearly was scarcely a sign of a erevass, and a I brought them to him all buttered, came down that evening dressed for a soldier and a most cross-grained, profane rastle with the pies alone. everv conceivable subject and the admirable mantel of pure, unsullied snow and he begun to roll out his crust. walk, and, nodding brightly to Tom, old fellow, occupied one wing of But after awhile-1 looked out. I never way in which he supported stretched east, north and south, as far My this time it was so thick that it asked him to go with her. "Finish the mansion. He had a man to nurse see a more dejected looking picture them, and yet this man was utterly as the eye could see, covering everything -could scarcely be induced to roll out your book, Joe. Brother Tom will be and read to him, for his oaths were intolerable or a more depressed man. His apron unable to read or write with any degree At all, but he worked nobly. When completely. How far our night my escort." to his nieces. Tom was their had got twisted to one side, and was of correctness. He wa& asked he got his first piece rolled down to extended none could say, for no one, Tom followed her slouching to the brother, younger than Joe. Tom Demming all covered with flour. Great dabs of one day to explain how he caaae about an inch in thickness, he stopped however experienced with snow and ice, gate. He stopped there. Shame, defiance, had disappeared for three years flour was on bo th sides of his face and by his multifarious knowledge and and looked at it. can judge distance with accuracy on a misery looked out of his t-yes. after he left college, and came back a his whiskers was jest dredged. The tears large collection of opinions. He had like a gdod thick crust, myself," snow field which has no marks upon it.. L. "See here, Mrs. Demming! I reckon haggard, dissipated loafer. Nobody in he had shed had made water courses been regularly employed as a waiter -aays he. "An inch thick aint too To the north and south the mountains?! you, wouldn't have asked me to go with Ball's Ferry knew what he had done in through dirt and flour, and his expression, at public dinners at the Mansion much for a real juicy inside,. around the margin of the island icer^ you~* that Rap of time, but was certain that 0 my! words fail me. was jest House, the Lond on Tavern, fcc He "No I answered, comforting myself showed that the prospect was immense, POUT'S tender,, steady eves met Ins.. ue was under the bana marked man. taking a pie out^of the oven and settin' had heard all the most remarkable with the thought that his crust but they gave no clue as. to the distance "Yes, I know." The family treated him with gloomy it on the table. He put the pan public men of the day speak repeatedly -wouldn't rise up to call him blessed, seen to the east. "D'ye know Fm a thief? was in jail patience. They had taken up their of mince-meat in a chair to make on every tropic. He bad always the way most sour milk crusts do. The nature of this view was a most at Pittsburg for a year." cross and bore it but it was heavy, and room for the next pie, and then he listened attentively and with the By the time he had rolled out four agreeable surprise, for I had never conjectured Polly drew her breath hard.^ 'A he knew they found it heavy. Tom took that out, the liquid from it greatest appreciation. a his own tander-crusts, and used perhaps oneeight that the conditions would b prayer to God for help, went up from was never seen by visitors at the table dripping all over him and the kitchen humble way he became quite a public of his batter, h laid down his so easy, or that it would be possible %a h8r heart in that second, of time. She or in the parloa:. At dusk he would floor. And^f it wasn't a queer looking character. There were great menwho jrolluigpin. meet with such an absolutely complete held out both her hands. skulk out to. join some of pie! The crust had crawled up in would always give him a kindly "Shan't I chop yourmeat for you?" effacement (so to speak) of all the land his comrades at the village grog 'Yes, Joe told me. But this is all arouniish heap in the middle, and thought, and I have an ideathatev en -ays I. features of a continent, unlike anything shops, and occasionally, but not often over now-all,, all over. You have begun the inside was roaming about everywhere, in their speeches they would sometimes "No, sir-e-e!"sayshe. "Who'amak- known elsewhere. There were undulations, waS brought home brutally intoxicatd new again Brother Tom, come!" as if seeking sombody to devour address themselves to the appreciation f* these pies? I wish't you hadn't but no declivities, and there were r\ She put her hand in his arm as they it. My partner stood still (leaving and intelligence of thr chopped the apple*. ve got an oyens&Mul slopes, but not a single peak, nor, excepting joes wife disappointed them all. She walked down the street. He did not the oven-door open) and gazed favorite waiter. If they could please rolled out, and now I'll inatepi the was a plump, merry little girl, nothing speak to her until they came back. at the very margin (where ther at them. Then he backed back that waiter they would be pretty sure ttATery pleasant little heathen!' iside. Where's the choppin* tray more* Then he stopped her again at the gate. were small boulders from the contingent in a sorrowful kind of way, oi "fetching" the general public.Ail "Did your mother have anybody to the Year Round. wished Grace, after two daja had passed. "My sisters,never have been seen with rocks) was there even a stray rock upon and set right square vdown in his land things, or did she get them her- the surface.Leisure Hours.