cultythat his keeper prevented him W A WITCHING TIME. A FEATHEREP g^NIUS. broiled when the coals are red and Mary trembled mt that look, and She drags him up from the seething from following the master he so aneo -*Kf^m there is no smoke. Real cream for the half lost her self-possession, then she waters beyond their reach on the shore. Ms* Tn witching time when, sparkling nieher, tionately loved. if coffee and delicious golden butter for bent her attention on Jacob Browne, She slips off the overcoat she is wearing tow a Common Parrot Rose in tbe Scale of Intellectuality, The last log crumbles in the fire, E I loved the bird before, that feel- JL.4 the bread, and a supper fit for a king who evidently imagined himself a typical and wraps it about him. She placed igc 5$V^' And through the midnight's creeping or two captains is ready. *~!***f ing was intensified from that moment, ^fc John Alden. A strange, nervous her hand on his heart, her face to his From Southern Echoes. cold The cap'tain swallows all the coffee and money could no more have tempt- $ desire to laugh shook her frame as iace. The shadows lengthen, fold by fold, About fifty years ago there lived in without compunction,for Mary drinks she looked up at the red face and ed me to part with him than it could And in the settle nods the sire. They find her there, and caiTy him Philadelphia a family named Miller^ only milk or hot water. Perhaps that And the dame droops and maids draw heavy frame of the "strippling, John to part with one of my children. ~j?" to her father's house, and lay him who kept a hotel on Chestnut street is one secret of her tea rose complexion, nigher Alden." down on the warm hearthstone before In 1881 Polly was brought from\f (Sam Miller's). One day he bought an 35acb to the man of her desire, together with the exercise she gets Not Captain Alden,but alank,lean-fa the blazing wood fire in the room where Lancaster, Penn., to this -city, where I A Australian parrot. He was probably (So do the bashful seek the bold in the housework, and can do anything vored and decidedly meek looking man, yesternight the spinning-wheel stood, had located a year before, and soo three years old. Sometime in the beginning In witching time') about the house. Not that the represented the staunch little Puritan 4J *and Mary smiled dreamily as she listened attracted unusual attention, as 1MW of the forties Polly came into housework depends entirely on her. captain, Miles Standish. 3S'en at this hour, when revels tire, to its hum. had at the North, exciting the wonder' the hands of a Wentz family, at Lancaster, They have a handmaiden of about And the spent mirth and mood require However.the poem went along without V. The girl in her blue dress clinging and admiration of all who saw him. Penn., who had him for perhaps nfty years, bony and muscular, and Something to stir the sense or hold hitches, and everybody was interested wet about her, kneels by his side. She It was evident, however, by noticeable ten or fifteen years, when he was The soul in awe, these tales were told Ni crabbed and faithful, who has been and not inclined to be critical, has torn the white handkerchief from failing of eye-sight and sold to a Mr. Connell, in Leacock 'Told, while the flickering flames expire, f?*J*.' i their maid of all work ever since until there came the scene in the her throat to wipe the water from his stiffness in his joints, that age was township, Lancaster county. Here In witching time! Mary's mother died seven years ago. cottage. As John Alden poured face. Her golden hair hangs straggling telling on Polly, and this caused me to he had the misfortune to break his leg, AUSTIN DOBSON. It would have been lonely for the forth the praises of the captain who and wet and stringy over her shoulders. watch him with as much solicitude as which disabled him so that he could young Priscilla without the companionship had no time to woo, and drew down She bends over -him and a bit a tender father watches his child. My not feed himself properly. He came of this elderly maiden during the sharp, wounded replies of the of her hair touches his cheek. They greatest fear was that the growing J~ very near being "sacrificed to relieve PBISCJLLA. the long absence of Captain Alden. maiden, Mary felt a pair of dark eyes see her lips move, they cannot hear years might lead to decrepitude and him of his misery, when a Mr. Crick Grim and homely the one gentle and searching her face, and just as she uttered her words. helplessness, with all the attendant successfully splinted and bandaged lovely the otherthe two are fast the words,, "Why don't you "John!" she whispers. evils of extreme age. Often in my contemplative the broken limb, and in a short time Snow crystals were filling the air. friends. Mary humors the whims of speak for yourself, John?" some power "Priscilla!" he breathes. moments did I picture to healed the fracture. Houses, fences, and trees were losing Rachel, and Rachel in return scolds which seemed to be beyond her control Her father leads her away he has myself the final separation. At last p. "their clearness of outline in the cling- and watches over and privately worships lifted her eyes to the minister's face. read her secret in the white cheek, the end came. The closing scene of PrisMary. He was looking through her eyes and p, ing white. The brown of the roads, From this time forth the history of which forgot to blush, though all in this enigmatical existence burst upon Mischief is in the captain's eyes as down into her heart. He held her Polly's precocity begins. It was never the room may read the beseeching oi my view when I least expected it. the stiff spikes of frozen grass, and the he swallows his coffee and masticates gaze. She could not withdraw it, while known before what "was in" the bird. her eyes. Polly was entertaining a number withereld stems of last summer's flow- er stil showed through the fleecy his beefsteak. He waits, however, his eyes said to her: Polly was given a wide range on the of callers with his laughing, talking, He is safe. She lies down in her chamber 5 till the table is cleared, then Mary little farm, where he mingled with "I know you love me, now you have whistling and barking programme with a deep prayer of thankfulness. finds herself set suddenly as on a pedestal geese, ducks, chickens and pigs, and whiteness. said it." until a late hour in the evening, and She is too unstrung to sleep for many where lately the supper dishes by degrees became a mimic unparalleled His name was John. seemed to be in his usual good spirits. As the whitish darkness grew an hours, and when at last she does, it had been, and the captain is walking by anything recorded in history. After the company had left, members Then suddenly the color flashed like is to start up with a wild, gapping cry, hour before the sun-setting of a clearr around the table thinking he never When he cackled any one not aware of the family were startled by plaintive a flame to the girl's forehead and over as she sees a wave-washed body tossed saw such a pretty bit of living statuary. day, it hemmed in a one-storied ot his presence naturally concluded cries from the bird as if in her throat and bosom. She faltered. from billow to billow. A moment later the mischief fades that a hen was just glorying over her gable-roofed, New England house, great distress. Rushing into the All eyes were upon her. Then In the morning all meet at the breakfast from hi3 eyes as he sees the strong "last lay." When he crowed all the room they found him lying on the her color left her white as showing, as the darkness deepened, a table, the minister looking well likeness to another j'ounggirl he knew barnyard strutters joined in chorus floor, to where he had fallen from the snow. She trembled visibly and bfftrty as ever, and with something yellow light flashing forth at moments years ago. He catches her on to his to out crow him. When he imitated back of a chair upon which he he had and bowed her head. She lifted it, ibrating in his voice and glancing irom one of its high-set, many paned shoulder, thence down into his arms, the small "chick" with a shrill and been sitting, uttering the most pitia. bit her lips. A hot red place came in in his eyes which had not been with a flush of tears in his eyes. quick "peep" as if in pain, clucking windows. The light came from the ble cries, evidently trying to say "Pa- her cheeks. John Alden had rushed there before. Mary, pale, and rather mothers would run in the direction "Now tell me all about it," he says. pa" (meaning me). I heard the commotion wildly away, whenBoom! Boom! ^blazing logs in an old-fashioned open proud-looking, with dark lines under whence the sound came, to the rescue "What means this Puritan rigand from a room in a lower story, Boom! came resounding sullenly on her eyes, but very lovely in her cardinal fire-place brick lined and black. of the supposed victim, only to be Grand-mother Alden's spinning and immediately ran up stairs. Imagine the air, a sound they knew too well. morning dress, with plain linen Brass andirons, polished to the lasc confronted by the mischievous, hookbilled wheel?" my feelings if you can, gently Every man sprang to his feet. collar and cuffs. counterfeit. degree of brightness, flung back and "It's for an 'Old Folks' entertainment reader, when I picked up my dear old "A ship in distress'" cried a voice The captain is bluff and gruff and at the church," says Mary "and friend! A few gasps, a convulsive tremor, His braying of a mule was perfect in forth the cheery flashing light. like thunder. "Man the life-boat! cheery, trying by his talk to hide his am to be Priscilla, the Puritan maiden a closing of his jet black eyes and modulation, but somewhat lacking in Man the life-boat!" Now the lo^s fall together and the daughter's silentness. Men have a and Jacob Browne is to be John Polly yras no more! He died in my volume, and for that reason was one There were rapid robings and a rush real, rare delicacy, as well as women. blaz springs higher, revealing more Alden, andoh, father! couldn't vou hands, doubtless from an apoplectic of his very best efforts. No woman from the church and down the village Three men are there also, from the "fully the quaint old room and Mary be Miles Standish?" stroke. Teais fell from my eyes. It ever laughed more heartily than Polly street toward the shore. wreck. Rachel stalks about grimly, was a weakness,'tis true, but still, under "And you have rejected me?" says Alden seated before a spinning wheel. could laugh in fact, so natural was Oh, the sullenr oar of the waters! doing the honors of the table, while the circumstances, pardonable. the captain. "I couldn't stand that! this imitation that on more than one Oh! the blinding of the snow! Oh, the She is a daughter of John and Priscilla, inwardly she is troubled at Mary's My love for the feathered tribe has always I'd act worse than Miles Standish ten occasion persons would stop to listen gun's booming signal of distress! but they are a John and Priscill white face, and determines to dose been intense. Since Polly's times over." to the fun among the women folks of Mary.rushiug down the street found her with catnip tea and send her back of later date than the puritan death I love them more, and no matter "I think it was John Alden that the house, to be told on inquiring as a heavy coat thrown around her. to bed. John and the laughing Priscilla who how homely in plumage, all alike acted badly!" says Mary. "I hate to what was going on that it was "on- Then she bethought herself of her unaccustomed One of the men tell the story of the have my undivided love and ceaseless him' I don't think I could ever have ly Polly having a~ laugh to himself." said: "Why don't you speak for open-throated dress. wreck, and Mary is thankful that care. The insignificant little sparrow, forgiven him!" The most natural of all his imitations, Oh, the sullen roar of merciless waters! yourself, John?" thus she is saved from having to talk and the goldfinch gay, the crow and "Why so?" said her father. however, was the crying of a baby. It Oh, the thought of human creatures to the minister. She cannot and will I don't know how John Alden's Priscilla the pheasant, the robin and the wren, was enough to touch the heart of any "Oh, for making me pop the question. in peril of life in the snowy blank not meet his eye, for if she does she the lark and the swallow, in short, all tender parent passing the house when I should feel so humilated that looked, but this Pris, Mary, I and blackness of waters beyond! And knows the tell-tale blood will leap to 1 of God's beautiful feathered family, Polly had this theme in hand. Such I should forever after hate the man yet the girl's heart was hot within her meanis a girl with a mass of golden her face. Outwardly she is pale and are the objects of my jealous care. sobbing, such holding of breath, and who made me do it. Such a coward' as she dashed through the snow mad hair, which, to-night, has slipped from calm and haughty. then bursting out afresh in a perfect Making a girl say she loved him, and J. J. SPRENGEB. with joy, for that look which had After breakfast she escapes to the 'its coil and fallen down her back. scream as of pain, made then not even telling her fie loved her. said: "I love you yet wildly angry ATLANTA, Ga., Dec 24, 1886. kitchen, and meekly takes the catnip Her eyes are blue. They are the eyes everybody within hearing and I never could have been Priscilla!" that he should have compelled her tea rather than struggle with Rachel, not knowing the source feel like "How does the next minister get of a woman who can love. They eyes to his just as she said those whose grim sternness and firm eness suggesting Wmslow soothing syrup or How a Man of Genius Was Reformed. along? What's his name?" words. She felt the hot blood rush just began to have troubled lights she knows of old, and she is curiously paregoric, and that without delay. Mary had stooped to lay a new up to her forehead with shame at the willing to slip off to bed. Not that within their depths since the new One other extraordinary effort bf log on the fire. She does not answer thought,even in the cold and thesnow she meant to sleep but the minister From tbo Boston Transcript. .minister came. Her skin is of the Polly was the squealing of sr dying pig. for a moment. Then, with a little and the wind. will be gone when she goes down stain There is pretty sure to be some local Mr. Crick killed many hogs for the warm white of some roses, deepening reserve in her tone, or something "I will never forgive him! Never' again. interest in a story told by the market and this gave the bird an excellent which makes the woids come a little in the cheeks to the delicate blush at never! never!" She wakes -up in the middle of the opportunity to acquire this Rev. A. J. Rich in a sermon preached stifly: And then her heart smote her for the heart of the rose. Her lips take afternoon from a refreshing sleep, to ear-piercing refrain. His imitation of "People like him. His name is on the life of the late Dr. William thought of self at such a time, and find Rachel by the bed with a delicious tender curves. Endicotte." the whining of a puppy and barking ot she ran yet more swiftly toward the Greenle&f Eliot, of St. Loais, an honored omelet and toast and tea. She leans slightly forwardt froo her a dog were perfect in tho full sense of Jhighbacke chair Her foo is the shore. The steps of a man were following, People do like the new minister. Then she dresses and slips down into pastor in the Unitarian denomination. the term. In short.there was nothing though she heard them not in The very shake of his hand warms the little sitting loom a similar treadle, her hand is yet uplifted holdins Mr. Rich tells how, having that it undertook to imitate which the snow. He wore no overcoat to them to the heart. Quarrels, enmities, room to the kitchen, only carpeted the yarn. But her foot forgets to had ocasion to write a brief memoirof was not done to perfection, except the save him from the cold, jealousies, the small hatreds of little and with crimson curtains lor the move and the wheels to fly round as braying of the mule. Henry Giles the Irish hunchback orator, hearts, cannot live in such an atmosphere On shore men were already lighting firelight to fall upon. She knows the she gazes beyond the spinning wheel Polly was happy in his home.but he as he creates. Tne church bonfires to throw out light upon the who had been one of his own parishioners men re all gone, tor she hears her at things we cannot see in the heart of finally became too sociable for Mr. has prospered since he came. He is a water and lanterns, like stars, were at Hyde Park, he wrote for lather out in the yard piling up wood the fire., Crick's use, and this was the cause of man with stirring New England blood moving here and there. Matches in the shed, and the house is perfectly material to Dr. Elliot, who had been The'Shifting light leaps high, then his sale. His obtrusive sociability in his veins. The good old deacons, were applied to the heaps of straw still, but for the quick stopping of low, now golden, now ruddy with Gnes' intimate friend. The letter consisted in eating from the baby's while shaking their heads at some of and drift-wood and tar and seaweeds, Rachel across the kitchen floor. Warmth now dropping for a moment that he received contained many interesting hand. One day the baby was eating his advanced thoughts and methods and the flames sprang up to throw So she stands secure before the fire, to darkness only to light up again, lor church work, are yet glad to have candy. Polly wanted some of that reminiscences among them strange lights and shadows on the falling with hands spread out to the blaze. rrevealing more fully the quaint old this young sinewy strength to pull candy, so he just walked up and snow, and sullen black waters one which Mr. Rich thus relates"Mr. Again she is a picture in her close-fitting warn with low ceiling and white them up out of the slough of Despond took the candy and part of the which rose and broke in white foam. 4 Giles was to make a Western brown diess, only relieved at tboarded floor the brown, time-darkened in which they, like Christians, had almost thumb from baby's hand. When baby Now the life-boat is launched. Who lecture tour and was t^ start with wrist and throat by white lace and spining wheel, andsurely this stuck fast. ciied he broke out in a fit of laughing, will man her? How the wind blows! Chicago. There he had friends who the group of sweet-scented geranium girl in the old-fashioned dres3 oi blue which novel concert brought the family How the snow blinds and deceives! entertained him, as it would seem,too leaves she loves to wear for background Now a library is to be formed, and .home spnn, deep, stiff linen cuffs and to the scene, and from that moment Who will venture life for life? hospitably, in some directions. In the warm crimson of the draperies. the "old Folks" is the means by which neckerchief scarce whiter than the it was resolved, finally and irrevocably, A dozen stalwart men leap in. The appealing on the plaiform he showed the money is to be raised. bosem it crosses, is Priscilla! that "Polly must go." He minister is with thpm. He takes a sings of abnormal exhilaration which The sun has dropped down beyond If the fall of snow is heavy there will The dreaming Priscila' was at once deprived of his liberty by hand at the oars and pulls with the the large and cultivated audience interpreted the woods, and only tne fire-flashes be splendid sleighing, and as the affair The puritan maiden Pricila! being put into his cage and transported skill acquired college racing clubs as the effect of a too free use of light the room. What a contrast and has been advertised in all the neighboring Through the silence of the snow to Lancaster, five miles distant, to and made more practical on many a drink. The next day the papers reported comfort this evening to the storm villages, they may expect a comes at times a sound so common be sold. He was kept in a basement day off shore. the exhibition made, and the and terror of last night! Her face crowd. The young will come for the Priscilla does not heed itthe rushing restaurant, where I for the first time What a weird scene it is! A dozen sad fall of the finest orator the Na- i pales and she catches her breath. sleigh-ride the old for the pleasure of of many waters, and we know that saw him, loved him and bought him. fires throw up a lurid glare, and snow tion had ever welcomed from the old Suddenly two hands drop on her seeing the young. not far away is the restless mighty A large volume might be written of falls hissing on the flames. Here are woi Id or had produced at home. It shoulders, and a masterful, happy John Endicotte is unmarried, and all ocean. my more than twenty years' experience women, wrapped in the first thing tra\eled far and near. It went on face is bent above her. She is turned, the gossips haye been trying to pick We are on that strangely shaped bit with this wonderful creatuie of which came to hand. One wears a swift wings to St.Louis, where he was gently, bub firmly round, and in her him out a wife. But h* smiles on all of New England which runs out and the excursions we made together man's coat immensely too large. They booked to lecture the next week. He ft. surprise looks up in the minister's andturns from all. curls aiound in the ocean in such a through the surrounding country of shield their eyes from the glare of the made his way tardily to that city and *f face, and a teazmg smile is there. Girl aces, sweet as flowers, gladden curious way and whose name has our trips to various large cities in fires with their hands and peer anxiously to the study of the young minister "Priscilla'" Oh, how the name at his smile faces growing withered, such a flavor of fisherfolksCape Cod. Pennsylvania of his tricks in gymnastics, into the darkness, trying to Eliot, by whose efforts he had been sounds from his lips! "Priscilla, I am with crowsfeet gathering at the eyes, We have chanced, too, on one of these of his accompaniment when I follow the lifeboat trying to see chosen to fill an evening in the lecture John Alden. Now say your lines as and care wrinkles beginning to show old-fashioned houses where the fires are whistled "Sweet Home of his gathering the struggling ship. Thinking of husbands, course. On Saturday afternoon the you did last night, and look in my on the forehead, grow strangely young yet lit from the pine-needles of the up from the floor a number of brothers, lovers, lost at sea, door bell rang and a short man, not face and mean them for me'" as he talks boys and girls, young and woods behind. coins, carefully bringing them to me they send up silent, agonizing prayers five feet high, dressed in bearskin coat, "I will not, and I hate you, John old, gather around, all but one, with Suddenly a stamping of feet is heard lit a perfect roll and placing them in to the Eternal Father who bounds cap and gloves, stood before him in (before she knows the word has slipped a face like a rose blossom. She is at the door, a hand is on the latch, my hand and of his ringing a bell, the restless waves. They know the his study. His first words were, Well out) Endicotte! I'll never, never, never near for more then a moment, and Mary springs from her dreams to carrying a little bucket of water, bringing perils of those who go to sea in ships. I am here, and I suppose you have never forgive your" though John Endicotte feels through mee a rush of cold tiir, a gust of snow my hat, my handkerchief or my A taint "halloo!" from the impenetrable heard all about it. I meant you But the touch of those hands are every fibre of his frame when she enters flakes, and a big, roush-coated man purse when told to do so, and of a number white darkness tells them the should before I got here, hence my de- thrilling her through and through, the room, and has a consciousness with a voice to match in bigness, and of other equally wonderful feats boat has reached the ship. Then lay.' 'Yes,' said the host for the hour, and she is not quite master of herself. of her presence wherever she is, tsoughness andwarmth. indicating extraordinary sagacity, il silent suspense and deeper prayers, 'I am sorry to say that I have read "Why? You saved my life." even though he may not see her. "Mary! my girl!" not reasoning powers. But I will content till the boat appears again, toiling in all about my friend's trouble I have "You have humiliated me beyond That Sunday evening, when he And Priscilla jumps into his arms myself with giving one remarkable rowing. weighed the matter, too then taking forgiveness." preached his first seimon, her eyes with a half articulate cry of delight, episode in his career which I him by the hand, and looking him in Ah, what wild cheers ariSe as she "But you will forgive?" looked up into his and his looked never minding the snowv coat. think most astonishing of all, and one the face, added, but you are to lecture comes to shore, and seven men, half His hand had slipped under her down into hers, and their souls met, "Oh, father! Oh, father!" is all she in which I, for one, found great difficulty on Tuesday evening, and preach for dead with ild are given up to the chin, and her face lifted up so he can it seemed. It had never happened says but she is satisfied as she in fixing the line where "animal me to-morrow. It is all arranged and waiting bands which shall take them read all its meaning. again. Something had come between. Cat ulls him to the fire and takes off his instinct ceases atu3 reasoning faculties notice is widely spread." to warm firesides, and mix for them Haughtily she gathers up all her When she looked at him, her eyes and brushes away the glistening begin." "Giles was silent for a moment with hot drinks and turn them into comfortable energies to resist him but she cannot looked, but her soul was hidden. He drops the snow has turned into on In 1876 I lefft for Europe. It occurred pent up emotion, and mu-gled surprise beds. slip from those detaining hands. Her had looked at her and watched the tfnoustache and whiskers. He is used to me that the safest place for and gratitude, and then replied,, Then the boat is pushed out again face is pale and desperate. Her lips color rise to her face and ebb away tq to having her "baby" him, and he Polly would ba-fche zoological gardens 'Elliot, you have saved me! I shall and disappears in the whity darkness part. rush back again, and ebb and flow, likes it, this rough, weather-beaten at Philadelphia, and there, accordingly, obey orders.' 'But,' saidi his friend, to return by-and-by with another half "You do forgive?" while she sat motionless, looking up sea captain. And. the man who is I left him. After three years and 'on t&is condition, that you are not to dead freight. Some strange vibration in the vroice at the ten commandments emblazoned king on the 'Miles Standish who three months' absence, I called at the stopat the hotel. I have provided And so they continue for many did the words sound half-strangled on the wall. Even in the very says to this sailor, "Go!" and he goes zoo. On entering the- bird house I entertainment for you at a friend's hours, for the sinking ship holds many in the throat?makes her glance up midst of his sermon, when he, like the and to that boatswain, "Come!" and took a station on the opposite side of house, and after tea with me we will souls, untiloh, joy! the last boat to a face unaturally calm. His grasp born orator he was, was pouring out he coniesthis man sits meekly down the building from that occupied by Polly, go over and I will introduce you? to load is nearing shore. is wounding her. his very soul to this people, he was in the big arm-chair she orders him where the bird could not see me and roost agreeable parties/ That night Meanwhile the storm has grown A quivering of her lips, a flood of conscious of her eyes lobking up to 4nto, and obediently pulls off the then exclaimed: "Where's my Polly?" at heavy- snowstorm csane, and notwithstanding wilder.and the snow blows more blindingly. tendernesss weeping all her face, a.yielding him/ her face now lighting, -snow-soaked boots and puts on Immediately the bird recognized the the bad roads,, the The waves break higher and of the whole tense form, thenwomanlike now falling, now flashing with color, fet 'the wool-lined slippers she brings. voice of his former master, became excited, ahurch the next day was crowded, and higher. Will the life-boat live this catching quick breaths at some passage, SL, There is a delicious sense of ease in walking back and forth on his the pastor- was a listener. The* Doctor's time,or will she, with her hero-crew, be "YesJohn." settling into rest at another. fi. slipping off his authority and obeying perch, showing as best he could, by account of thoservices in this engulfed in yon mighty rolling wave? Only at such times did her heart and %k the orders of his little captain, though voice and gestuie, that he wished to letter was most glowing, and &e said Ah! It is on her! It breaks. She is lost! soul stand revealed, and hehe was The first meerschaum pipe was carved W there is-no knowing if he be in a merry answer tbe question by saying "Heream such a prayer he never heaad from No! She rights! She is dashed on shore. the minister of God speaking his word in the early part of the ThirtyYears* a tender humor, but that at any L" mortal laps, notwithstanding: it was ,J?_ Men rush into the waters with a to this people with whole heart and War and Wallensten* is said to moment he may snatch her up to It wa&a dear casa of instant recog*aition. written, out and readprobably writ-* y^" rope tied from waist to waist and soul he could not divide himself from perch her on his shoulder, as if she have bought it. New the average Then I went to my pet. Tbe ten that very moaning und#r the ispiratson catched them from the return wave. that to watch her then, only he had a were a child again or else pull her number of pipes turned out in the affectionate creat are ran his bill of that brief interview They are saved! Huriahl hurrah! supreme, happy consciousness that down to his kneewhich is^ *he later centre of pipe manufacture in Germany through my mustache in the attempt Eliot's study. Rsom that day forth, hurrah! Butwhat? Man missing? one heart received every word he said. fashion, is 540,000 ffeal meerschaums, to kiss me, rubbiag his head against for over twenty years, th*s weak and The minister? Oar snapped? Worked However farawayeand distant she was The two captains have g&y. times 500,000 imitation meerschaums, 500,- myeheek, then kissed rae again and mes, sh was always near sorely tempted, once-fallen man went hk a tiger! at other .together on the precious flay the big 000,000 wooden pipes of great variety, nestled close to we,as though he feared from city to cfty, all over this land, A girl is rushing along the- shore- him then. one is at home. She is his only one. and many millions, of clay bowls. he might lose- me again. Then I from Bangor to San Francisco, and in the weird firelight, reaching The night for the sociable came, and He has been Tier only oneuntil now. tested him in some of his old tricks to spoke before &he best audiences, to be^ out arms toward same object Marywas there in her blue homespun, And she doesn't acknowledge that last prove his memory, and they were performed secured, and never again, that can JA" in the waters. It is going out? "Papa," she said, 3ftly and blue,hingly, deep, stiff linen cuffs, and white neckerchief. sjret, even in her dreams. with as much readiness as ever. learn, was he led into temptation by It is tossed back on the next high "young Mr. Simpson is in the John Endicotte caught his When the overcoat has been hung "Polly, Ihavelosfcmypoeketbook," which his audience ox his friends were' wave!" God only knowshow she saved parlor and wishes tospeakwith you." breath at sight of her. A resolution .^away and the big captain has poked I said after having dropped it. called upon to apologize for his be itwith what superhuman energy she Then she sank into an easy, chair- and formed itself in his heart at that moment i in a hearty laugh in. On my takind ap the logs to a brighter blaze, Mary Polly went eeareh of it, an 6 havior.'* dabbed at the wavesand saved it irom her heart beat so fiercely that it made I 8 ,which caused the blood to rush F'F^A Hiangs the blackened kettle on the soon brought it in his bill, and having i their grasp* God only knows how the gas fixtures rattle. Presently, the Urned with a wild passionate thrill through srane by the time the water is hot, fc. deposited it in my hand expressed his love's'msfcin.et led her with love's sharp his veins, then stand still with a shiver ind one.little, round oaken table Mrs. Mark Hopkins the twenty-L 0l ejes. to seutq that one point at the of fear and doubt, only to cause is covered with a snowy cloth and thftfe1 millionaire, took a trip through one instant when it 'was possible to his lips to take a more determined "*?u 2** wanted to borrow 5. i uld-fashioned, bfue-and-whife china. 6 wit said the, disappointed, old en.aeman. Kentucky Mammoth cave, s.uel ief linn as he looked,o\e^^a Pjfuscilla^, ftnd Then the coffee is made and a stake i WftS on d-ffl, it 1 majmmamm