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_ 7 v-v._-v.v-u-V 3 -IIUV- IVVUIU .l` ` coma. A lundiomol! llllumtod woolly. hind Qltlon lclontm IOIIKL; gs`? tut. non:-no BEGINNING JUNE I 131: rnrcas WILL BE AS FOLLOWS: .NU-r COAL-$7.00 per ton; $3.60 pet I half ton; $1.85 per quarter ton`. ' .s1'ov1: AND `nae COAL--$6.75` per , ton; $3.45 per half ton; $1.75`per ; quarter ton. `PEA COAL--$5.75 per ton; $2.95 per halfvtton; $1.50 per quarter ton. 25c. ton less to farmers teaming .coal from -yard. Bagging coal 15. per ton extra and 25c. per ton extra carrying up or down stairs. ' V V V V ' UDPVIIIGI-fl ! 80. In In: och ux: on lgptobagg; op on fr ' * a non Itrlotl oonndam. :'iI:u .3':':'......."'" Anyone Idndlnc 3 sketch and decor! ion not %$COTT S ' `;Does t7hTev little boy want a hair cut? asked a tonsorial artist, after ,the lad had been Waiting about an hour. ~ ` waelunouu. Imnoutclm-e.mtho T T `_"' Scientic Jlmeriea ` L hlllbnnlv llrntnrl humbly, m 4:- `(J3ook--.-Yes, Mfs. Cobb, he was that, but I xed him this time. I sez, Who the do you think you re talkin to?- This is Mrs. Cobb. It was the shop and the He did when hecame in, re- sponded his father rather sarcasticaI- 1y, but I guess he l1 need a shave before he gets-out of here. ` Again} the Cook. Life:-Mrs. Cobb-Was the groc- ers s boy impudent to you again when you telephoned your order this morn- ing? * Managing Him. Radical Guest-'-By the way, Duch- ess, if we abolish the Lords this ses- sion, won t the Duke be awfully up- set`!. . . Duchess--Oh, I expc t' he `would; but I shan t let him know, you know! Oico Phone, 86. Yard Phone, 113. uuuu uu us! UUGDJ. Which shows how wonderful we re made, ' Skelton commented; the voice that was tted for the .Maister s message was just as weel qualiqti for coaxing pennies and poonds fro cautious pockets. .As for the towns- foIk,.I"m nut seah sure that they're much better off than dalesmen. (To be Continued). REPAIRED U v UL UU&Ul'U.' Aw this bodderment comes 0 'living in see a hole in t corner,-Godr forsaken spot, Sarah declaredas the discussion showed signs of agging. Ford fowlk what live in t . toons choosing -a trade s as easy as whust- lin . See `what there is .to pick at. Besides, if they re nut handy at yan job there/s neah fash aboot anudder. Look at Jossy Mawson at Allerdale, him whose trade was settled for him by his gift 0 t gab. He went in for being a parson, an when he failed. to pass it was settled that see a ne voice was just a gift and nut to be wasted, an so he mum be an au`c~ tioneer, an noo there isn't a man in `any '0 t" marts in. Cummerlan who can get see prices for sheep an _. beasts as Josey. \Kf1n:n1. n`nt\-'-'~ I-v--A - ` " ` SH OES It-(is.-. probahle, .however, that e_he',.~ up the only znemberp of the group who failed to appreciate the .outs'tandin "3` `fact of her son s decision and` cer- tain ,it is that from the `day of the revelation, both the` Cbfonel and the shepherd had a stronger hand-grip for the young master of Ghyllthwaite than ever before. . (KA... LL:. 1 g . .. --_-uuuuuu UUIIUDU (Afiliated with Lindsay Business College.) ENTER ANY DAY. A. H. SPOTTON. H. 0. BEST. - President. Pmncipal. A. W. WHITBY S 1: :-_u can I:r Ii The secret of successful men is a. busi- ness training. We train young people for honorable business careers. Our teachers are SPECIAL- ISTS. Gregg` Shorthand taught by the _best equip teacher in Onta.-io. who 18 a qra uate of the Author. All business and Shorthand subJ ects. rillia Business College (Ai_i1ia.ted Lindsay J:.9.9.'.S,AHEAD ...._ _.. v.......u. vuIlJUUUOI Iidiiia s1*u|;r counszs _ `Elizabeth Asc. N E AT LY QUICKLY usual crowded" barber slow barbers. 0 `l'\f!(\:n` .._LZ...L _L--- Nicz Another Wolnili 7`7"7;"1 Ly3{1".%.a&`s% S9"v A . n . 0. Y . Pound and Blopm HQW in perfect heal . - th pains eve? I % women who nu or as . .;;.g 1 V - . . W.`-/'_ '4 - '2:.5-a>s~: V {' Sl-'e1';,` . 2'33 L2? 1 r stronger in every` way. ~` ..v1 also `took Lydia ." 931 pre ant _women;ssMnB;= egetable Com u':1d"b`ef6_i'ef r;ny Easy ) was born, and recommendit`hi3hE. By Lydia E. Pinkham's' Vegetable Cpgipqupd A` r MADE WELL AND &I STRONG: ation, Trunk ` - ' ' r ""'i' . Toronto.-I gladly '96 on,` my testimonial in favor of %ur vagnderful `medicines. Last Octo er I wrote to. you for advice as I was completejly ?run- down, had. bearing down sensation in . the lower part `of ` '~-=;;,;., bowels, backache; , and pain in"the ., - % side. `I also suf- ' fered terribly ftqm (FBI ' ` --_..`,.....\.. 4v;,|.;ubAI.V|J D ULIUJUULX ' VV`-W5 pitvlxwi in paradise." . _ . ` l*`rmn her own corner bythe lower 1u.=I;c she looked down into the world en : the Twin Hamlets,- where the toy-I like rz1ilw:1_V ended, and the .silent ]_muple'~ made the most offthe rich n:..-..l;.u.- ......,..,. A... LL... LA- ---- -u. -5-. one 1uu1\Uu up vuc \I.':'Jr.g\'. and beheld its` Walls; creep. .`.'L-`l1H,`,' in until, beyond the Fdlls of' Hn'|<-1'. they tuxnultuously c.onvjerged, '.'{Hl\'I`l"';HlI' +1111 Jnln 4n n runs-n 1`t\a`5\ vLI|nIJ`3vL!VL|DJJ L.Vll V__V65U\|_, v01:\'.-1'tir1g'|t}1e dale to a nzere-dele }v:u|In'.' to rank upon rank-.of{ needle- . \ " ;E.'em" 5; (32.11? from thv hedge she looked up the \.`_'HI*\' urn] hahnlrl 1'65 ` nvhllm nunnn ` .1. _m..u.. u;. l.ru|.'vLvLlU vsstlu V ` A For the watehlng-of Margaret Mus- grave no claim of distinction can b_e nlzulv; in this matter the way of` I x { ! nmtl1m'l1o0d is universal.` The excepv timml in-unnstance was one of extelf-L nuls. There are mothers, too many for tho counting, who, untillthe end of time, make all the Waiting -and` watching by the doorway of a frowsy 1mm: in :1 nwlancholy 7 street, V but I\Iz11';_v:u'vt .\Iusgrave s out1ook- was 1...l..mI ... .n.s...\ SH-.. \_;uA\|\.A| svnlsubslwulu From the beginning of the days which made her mistress of Ghylltha Waite, the garden` was a joy to her, a haven of refuge from household, care, :1 hallowed place of many bane-. dictiuns. But when life grew older, and the feet of her bairns forsook the guarded pathways `for the moun- tuiu tracks and the valley roads, she" turned her garden A into a place" of" watching, and sanctied it With years A and _\'e:u's' of patient vigil. Vi*l'\l' fill? nvufnhinn-A9 Mnnmnin 1,111! | CHAPTBR I. In Margaret, Musgravvs 'Gar(_!en. Far away back, in the daysf when the forms now bent by weight of. _ye:;rs were strgight as reeds, andtheh eyes now dimmed were keen as those of mount/ain bird. Margaret `Mus-T grave s garden was a riotous tangle of gorse and bracken outspread upon the foothills of the dale; but- the hands of love laid :1 brand to the .bush, and digged and delved the vir- gin soil, and when Richard Mus- gmve s bride came home she found in the place of the wilderness an arbour where roses ourished, f and luvemler and rosemary lled the air with fragrance. 1 -Ix: u - -- .` uu "'.iu1{(?'t1}e garden Richard Mus-% grave gave the name of his wife[;vbi.1t after the lapse of years it_ was called .\Iothe1"s Garden, and Mother's Garden it remained. `- over j I $55,000,000 ! Total saymcs` Accouwrgf SOLICiI'If,f21;. Capital and Reserve. % $8.650.Q00 1911. After receivin yur' ` `directions, followed; 1:he.m_ closely and am now entirely free from `I. gain in back~and- -_--I_ __.I __. o R) N W `A: By Oscar Wilda`-i_d' eL . ...._~1{eserv=ejlf`7fl1tig l ' _% V Hgag;%v.oa3g, mxisax; ms. E-1-u--j , = Celfsrajl '..1\g_;3n g-._r9:._ f . " Ggnerl i_Banking"-B}t'sines`s`Trdsat -me Boats` `and "`S t':Aite'xr1'}.-nfls ` Bank fare .an_n_ul1y spbmitfgd to ma ' trj't!j" indepcgdengg afu`dj;. '5 ~" 3`.-' ..------,. ..,.uuyyu'qu65y_.; ` v '- 1+~JgS`4lLTl;n_:-MA5"3R"'?_ ,_. l \?WVV V5739 \.I\?|3Ivl\TD VVLII `SUV NV OIUlPIlV`lgI_'(?I.lIV But; now the. fromj.its%. %s-Igamgggr. A " F . 9 ,,9`.1 gavono we-av`; She is here, in the western corner, I now- she. ing her eyes for the rst wisp of smoke, though she knows -full well that the train cannot yet have zig-zagged round the Inner sands, and made its that call under the castle walls, A score of years and`more ' have run their course since the roses began to 'blo,ssom..,i..n the garden, -and Margaret has exchanged the blpon_1' of youth for the dignity" of `the grey` hairs` and the Ifurrowed cheek. Z511- guish, too, has made its mark, and. tip- ou_ her" head there `rests the capof i widowhood. Ric_hard Musgrave sleeps `in the little graveyard. pitched `under the ..sunset lights -.in...-the..mouth i-of:;_`1;`y_11e.A dale,_and_ with; him his rst-bornfsqn, and`t1he wee jinaid who for six may-y years roused the echoes of; the .;} ;{q`ldI? house with laughter '-and with Qfh'g..= The Weight-of other losses also hasgzlggghe > helped ,-to `carry, lean yearehiive Elly -`r -lowered~%thee' irtreosure ;-in-:~`the~{gGh;E ,_ 311- ~ cWaitemc9#er9.;;a 8,13s1`r.;:he m'aking .ds~* F "t1':e`eti -hat 4i`n'voWe- -the . sdcrict` " ma-ny'.of~its;-ucres.;~ . Still : 1tV;von* `h31"*@0ns-:-h@V6;!f'b9 t X . to. `hex; c.a`I1'd~_-rthe -~:gnot1_:`crv1r "2i!?t`T*`Tis_`;q { I ` `t: V, J _ r,` . - . M; `er s i" i`e.. . ; -1: ` we In-no--I This was theoone deception of her-E life. Th-ere were times when it turn-J ed her grave," and filled her with self- reproach, but in the-' end she always found consolation in the assurance that noneknew it for a oction saye herself. Yet Robert Musgrave. some- times prayed that he might be saved V from envy. V / - . . Q1...` -:11 `kn 3.. LL- _`...;.L...-.. _..._;_V Outspread below the garden, on5 `the foothills, there was also the ever] lwidening `cleft where the dale opened to the winds that blow in from the sea, -and there was one hour intlie day when Margaret '5 eyes were ever bent towards theyveste lights, the ihour wherein` the fus` little train `toiled up its sinuous track, bringing her `younger-born home from school. -About this Mrs. Musgrave had "a Ilpleasaut fiction--one which gave `her lcomfort, though it never actually de- ceived ,her--an insistence that both her sons shared her vigil, that her outlook was for Robert, the elder,` quite as much as for Paul, whomVshe| still thought of as her ibabe, `and .- :of whose future she dreamed golden dreams. A . ' ,'"Auh"fiE}Z, Yo granite front of her own home` loomed darkly _'~ through the circling belt of trees. ' Farm and , mansion together, a - house of character this-built.of rock quarried from the walls of the dale, solid, itself as the surrounding ,hills; a house of many angles, with quaint windows of lancet pattern, and chim- neys which _began in a square-set base upon the roof and endedrin cylinders of perfect moulding, massive `columns, whose design" would `make the heart of the artist glad. Within, as well as without, Ghyllthwaite was ahouse of note, a treasury of oak-panelled rooms and raftered ceilings, with winding passages, dark and romantic, and a library where the Shepherds Guide swas uncomfortably sandwiched. between Pa1ey s Evidences and a dog-` eared Virgil. High up in the hall there hung the long-horned heads of three ferocious-looking Herdwick rams, as was onlyproper with the_Mus- I ; igraves, who had been rearing shee'p_1 upon the `anking hill ethrougha great span -of generations, and on the staircase masks and brushes won from reynard on the steep and shaly screes. . , 1 ' yurutqu urugu .ana massive pikes. "On'.the far side ofthe valley, be- hind the meadow` lands, the madcap waters The_ Beck tumbled w_ith - lusty s out from the high moorland {to the plain; round the foot of her own hillside. The River cantily surg- ed,inow` along a shingly' bed- fringed with reed and -willow; now through a deep-sunk channel of ruddy rock, `with walls carved _clean as ;by the blade of giant chisel; behind her a forest of ask and birch, "of knotted oak ` and spreading sycamore trailed away into the gorge `of The Ghyll whose cascade boomed mightily with I the rumble. of` far-off thunder. A -J 1.-.... 1... LL- _s_.u,;_ LI ~ _, fvP0iI1t9d crags . and massive pikes. sa.poF{=E" "nss,2T _ _. - W :'-vV:`~`r: -av-v--eve-u iiagerlf aeioss her ki1itti.ng- Mar-il eguet watches him vor' a .while;. but `by Aandibye the needlesi .lose their ~ click and, -her hands fallen idle, she -`lives once more the..strenuous years of her` ife; `In-fancy, shehears again - her hit band laying down the law for ~hi: b6ye,.* setTt\Iing-, their T future ` with "r1ir.'r:LiVt"e_ determination. _ Richaxji, "their ;tst=bbifii, Iiiugit? b"e*` taught" ` gheyyayf _ of`. ` ` " i_`1;tjV1l"at the="s `_e'ep., aha 1 me" The. meal at an end, Paul hurries away to The Colone1 s, for he has promised Barbara Wyndham a lesson in A how-t`o.tie and `cast a y; Robert also dis-appears to wind up `the "work of the farm; but presently "he returns and ettles down by the open window for a quietevening with his mother -and his book.w If anyone should ac- fcuse ~himf_iof beirngetied to his motlhe-r s Fapron` ,stri-ng ,1 _` he v would `meetithe charge with'a smile and 'accept it as .a._ c`omplim.&nt.. Shallow-minded people will,` of` course`,1;regerd`;.thisziasga `sign of weakness,, but men. of judgment . f_'?"i..l-1:A":t.a`k,et i.t= $.53:-P1."V0f.=_f. str9nsth- s . .'l1l..a._-..`l_.. . . _ . _.. 1-- 1- -..-e. T V A . \ I It `was well for her peace that Mar-` garet had ` not been`, endowed with a,c_ute1y analytical faculties; well for Her that while she beheld the` gulf "dividing her sons, she knew not the why not the-wherefore not anything of` thejportents.,E1se now, inthe even- tide she might. not have been eit- `ting so jcontentedly in her own place, listeningnto Robert s quiet talk o_f the sheep-folds and_ the fells, to PauI s gossip of the, great scho'_o1 at The I-Imxcl`, andto theecomments onthings in ,.general_ made-by Sarah Losh, her handmaid and cpndant. .u_....,_,W Mm Pail ,' A _ none '(;f ol1eth:1.?th1 handy exuded} His color Wasghclllgilllmral atmosphere frame sufficiently eab y "g*`.v his -was that of due W llist. but hls face 39d given to thou (int used ltobooks Only.hig- eyes 3 ls . `"1 R A .- ""9 Perplexm ; L-ig~ obett 3, they were bl V 8' 1 e brian blue- `but wh.l J9~r.eal Cam- reposeful, meditat.. 1% Robert s were character Whose Sourgile mdex~ of Q [must utterly fail to szftig*mantbd_ale suvvuu, uuu 110$ OI Dlrf. J "'.X11th3 marks of the farm had` Rob-i ert, with scrupulous care, remo_ved ere he approachedthe table, and when he spokehis voice revealed no harsh tones`, its only exceptional note that uty cadence given - to the `Cambrian V so that you may know him in what- soever land; he may be met. And yet, he was obviously a manwho wrested` a living from the land,and laid.toll on .sheep and cattle. Lashed" by wind and rain and` snow, burned by the sun, ' his face bore the glow of copper with anlunderlying tinge of red; his hands 'wcre' brown as the soil, `and his hair, brittled by long battles .with' the winds on craggy heights, was'strik- ingly assertive. From the iron ram- parts of The Hause to the golden lsands of Esk, there were few men of lsturdier build than he, though he had' `not yet touched the twenties, and. those who looked for character found the promise of it in thelsquare-cut -chin, the rm lips, and` the steady `eye; but Robert Musgrave was still the dalesman out and out, with little of". that rening grace for which the townsmen look. . 'DnJ1] As` L1... ...A.L___ 1,--,,,1 `I `I --now and again I've wondered" -if I ll gever wait . `here and dread the` comingrofmy lad. That s notlikely, is-it? f.- ` . 19 `:'I k'n_ "resting _'now,,.Robert, and .I like the, watching. Sometimes, when I m here in_;n_1y owin corner,;I fancy that the ` chance tofn waiting and watch- ing -is among `the bqst of all God's gifts. , ,.atching._isn t `p burden when it s free from worry. But. --she left her` corner and came. over` to. him '---now and I ve wondered=if T711 ----_ v '- '- all-IIIUIIO8 . . --Ay',m,other:` watching -for Paul? "e`_Yes. `I-IV_e s late, isn t he?_` " l `Oh, _no. I He'll -be up to time, but -not yetnawhile. See, Ben Sanderson has only just pulled up` for water. Paul won_ t be home for another half- hour yet, Had_n t` you better _ come inside and, rest? `u.`1'r.-.. ;--_;.g_', - u ,_ IQUDIHBB [OI ATQG , -KB-D0111 (oh,-f `,i1":1s,}oi_ayf$, Robert rMusgrav'e," the r statt'es m`a`n1 of-Ghyl1thw'aite. " " " Robert,_ she says. That is all. eye are, not eo1d', these people of the `d ` V t neitherfare they demonstra- tiAve.I= .`Betwe`en: parent ?'and child` there are fewdcaresses, and .not` many en- dearing terms, but there are times when rth tongue becomes loosened, and--they never `forget. ' -Robert! it A_- A-,- `J35 ! v %fT.-it Eqtii ir:ie;g %?; auViganisT underu. -the , {read "off if rm foot, the mothert\ rrns and` -smiles Ain`to. the {gee of-iher elder-born,` the boy` who 15 pet- -9; xnan because of the labour Of his Vnvu `D:-"In---5 '----~~- L1-AU ficll rn u,omnm- A`DVAN%C_E% A `>13i_:t um? `to-7 the;,__C;_)t1;1er_` One: {He ruiembers? the yea:-5*-that Alisa, 'be.t,ween 1. 8!1I},,,8n1, 11" 1b. - .I , ' . V- any vnu-IIJI his peace, Why imposed this_p_ena-A1-tyq of choice? Interrogation thus started 9 becomes " vehement`. L After a'II,' "Why should ._Pault have, more than `he: him- self? V Paul is_ only ~a boy; why~1iot* let him have the boy~ s~3sha1ye-,_-'J,Iheir father had trained them "d1ike;v.tt';u12ht each of _ them to `look for -a` la19 ge`r`*Iife nth` `p__t,Qg1t. of t_ e .:g,ia'1;,a; .ahdt,.wh_`y shojuld. iilgpigshtrice b '1is'??alq:x;?.`:-` 1- :.-i.<-`xv ;54i.;,ALa,c,_, ....;..'.:a.' -ea . A.- - A W ha} his mother thus Adixstutrbed All-this and more, -and then Im-i agination paints for him av pic/cure of the .farm, and upon the. canvas lays. thefcaolours at and. drab. The odours.of the sheep-fold assail him, Dth `drudgery. and staii1' 0 f he .elds,'_ the solit_:'uVde"ofA the qalg; ._ 3 _ . V Responding to the call of fancy,` he pictures himself once more with the books he has learned to love, pursuing the career on which his af- rections are set, playing his part in the busy, purposeful world `beyond -the hills, healing its sores, soothing `feeble limb. its. agonies,` battling with disease A and death and giving strength ~ to tliel .4 . V A` - I -s-sh the: 3, -- -- ---s~-u-5', out vvulaytila ill; 18.51:. `,`He s the youngest, and he has `no right to the elder s portion. Mebbel we ll be able to keep him- for a while] longer at The Head, and mebbe he ll `take to the farming as nely as you ve done yourself. . . . Paul mustn t stand in your way. So, lad- ldie, just make yourchoice. Your life lies in your own hands'.? In his own hands! Again that smile .ickers' on Robert s face. .In his own hands! He .s?'lips_bacl& again to the window andstares out into the brown-. blended mass `of rock and tree, looks but sees not, neither hears -the clam- our of The Force, norsthe` sob of the woman who has found her tears. - This" is the hour of choice! ~One of those rare moments when the man becomes the god, when destiny de- pends upon. a word, when power is given, so that joy and sorrow, triumph and failure are his to deal _with as he will. v -uuu uuv; UL HID UVVII K111 were Here-I Screened! by` the ponderous shadows, Robert dares to smile," a pitiful, grate- ful pmile. . . ` And who will work the farm? 1 Oh, you d have to get. a paid b `l' . ` ' ` a`l`lAnd what about Paul? - I There is `a long pause; Margaret` is afraid; of her own voice. Oh, he ll manage, she whispers at last. n9 flu: vnnunnncu} nu.) `I... L---' '-- the doctoring you d thought of. I ll 'my son is out in the big world healing.` an-ago ounalsuhi ' . How, mother? What is it you re thinking of? V ' I want you .to have your chance,` the chance you ve come so near los-i ing. If you like, I'll let you go back} to the book learning and study for be a proud woman when I know that the sores of suering men and (W0- men. V r ' ` ` What about Ghyllthwaite? It will still beyour own. Pm] doubting you d have to raise an- other mortgage, but then` you d not need to mind that so much once you had another living in your ngers.` Of course, you would never dream of lettingthe place; Richard Musgravev wouldn't sleep in his grave if any but one of his own "kin were here. .Qn1-nanan `kn 4.1.... ._.....`I-..-.,- 4, .m`.:1J:V.Ot_ ust yet.i She iisvigrateful for the gloom. ``There s something I want" to say to you-a-nd--a,nd I can i talk better in the dark.. ..It s been` thinking a lot lately, and-and I m afraid you ve not had a fair chance. . D.on t, mother. "a . I m not forgetting that the farm s your inheritance-though it _s been growing smaller and smaller with the years-and` it seemsbut right that you should follow in your father s way. But I m not forgetting, either, the plans your father made for you. I fancy that he began his scheming when` you were born, and.when he saw] how you took to book learning -there wasn t a more contented man in the dales.. ..And yet, nothing has work- 4 ed out as he planned. I ve lost myi; man-and. my bair_ns-and some of'j the estate `has .g.one-and you ve been 1 turned into a farmer against your will. . . .Shall we try and` put 1 things straight? ` (`I-Tn`-Ir vnnblunn "f7I_-L ' i about yourself, you and- Paul. I ve I nu uuu vvnu. nub [GIBBS 1191' C0nSmt. Softly the lights fade from the sky and the room. seems` l1ed'w-ith a purple haze, while. -the trees have lost1 their delicate lines and` circle, the "1 house in `massed battalions..'* Robert has abandoned his book for reverie- Save for "the b.oom V of the water- _falliin the cavern of the Ghyll, the croak of` insect, and the bleat of `restless sheep, it is a silent world, silent until Margaret speaks. Robert! An exclamation, a sigh thinning away into a laugh, and Robert` rises and stretches himself, then crosses to her side. .(l'I3L A-nun usuvo ` -` `Eh, mothe r, we re a pair .of wool gatherers. You ll be wanting . the , ` lamp. . _ -' 1 l.\T..J.. .:---L ` " ""' ` an I!` vuo If maternal partiality `be 3. Weak- ness, then Margaret must be indict-i ed as. a weak woman; `but she was at .` least gifted with a` strong se_n'se of justice, and now for gnany years `she has know_n that` if sacrice is demand- ed she will not refuse her conslnt. Snftlv +1.. 1:..1.+.. 42.3. n_-- A-- - ....- ynv oU_ lfllv ID. ` . After this thgulittleimaid was taken, and Richard was also gathered to his fathers, and `then, while his mother'wrestled- with . grief, Robert passed out into the sheep-fold and the `pastures, and theclass-room knew him centred. no more. But Paul , the younger-born, remained the student, and in. his future all Margaret s hopes became hotnii,` and` Btalkedl ou!:uain `ao'c om - panied by `Richard V `Mdsgrave ; jheir, `some of the, dalespeople accepd the .eirc"umstano'e as` an act of judgment for `presumptuous foolishness. As. for the father, he mad'e_no more plans, but merely directed that Paul also should be schooled at The Head. The rest he left to_ thoyears. . AHA: +|a:a 4-I... `l:A.'I-.'_..:.1 ____ - v ence? ux-uuu, avaugsuswv AvLv.|u6a.usIL: uuu; 5uvv;L`1 ed in the black alpaca which she ever: laifected save on occasions of state,J when the silk was donned, her forum as well set up as that of the youngest ' maid on the fell-foot. Low seated on , . lyarnusu, uuuu an MC L'U|.|lll.ll II. By way "of emphasising her conten-i tion, Sarah jabbed -her needle vicious-1 ly into the apron she was patching, while Skelton chuckled gleefully and the Colonel shouted his delight. I Bravo, Sarah, bravo! Woman s Work is never done, is it? 3 Outside the dale a group with sol many points of dissimilarity as the! one now gathered in the garden at I! lGhyl1thwaite could hardly have been [drawn together,` In the rustic chair, [which formed part of her well-loved` I corner, backed by a luxuriant laurel] screen, Margaret Musgrave sat, gown- . 1311 `VI Rina`; nlnnnn I1vl\:n]n nkn nvvnuf gnvyuo Margaret assented with. a nod of the head, but Sarah Losh, ever jealous of domestic honour, insisted on a moretting simile, and proceeded to its elaboration: Life like sheep rearing, in_deed!"Mair like hoosewark, I se thinking; for if it isn t time to [git up'it s time to gang to bed, an if it isn t 'bakin it s weshing, an as seun as you ve rubbin -steanedl your steps some gowk sets a nasty boot on em,_an hooivver in t warld _the pots git dirtied as they dui is a miracle that Judas Iscariot couldn t 'explain, deed an he couldn t. 1)-. .....-- "-2 _......1-....:_.-'_-, -,,L,. --v--vv ~` g. nun.-any Lvuvouulc IJULIJ, Ian 3. man with neah questions to rack his brain" ower varra likely has-l n t got any brains to rack, or else he `isn t t to be trusted with questions. :80 you mustn"t worry; responsibil- ity s.often just a nes proof 0 t- ness. *~ I -u .._ A l | ` Life, he said,'turning a pair of I keen"grey eyes on the lady of the house, is varra much like t sheep rearing. You git t - Iambin over an , aau-vv u no" 1J.I.VU1Uu1._ you count on a laal bit rest with law your trouble ended, and in a jiffy you nd it s time for soavin an clippin , an neahsooner are you sett-I let doon again than you feel a nip: of" frost, and away you ve to trounce! after sheep an bring them doon till their wintering. An here s yourself, you ve just _got this question. of Robert an Paul settlet: Robert s to stay in t . da1e,'Pau1 s to seek his fortune in some big toon, and you fancy you re going to `sit quietly by with your knitting, when, dar bon, if there isn t Pau1 s trade to be pick- ed for him. '. . .Bit What, after aw,` that shouldn t be a hardship. A wo-[ man with neahbody to pick an choose I for must be a terrible lonesome body I an a man with r.-nah n.n.m+.`m-... 4... , - -__-_-- v. w `&AUbVDLUL.Io i Life, in its evolutionary movement, bears a striking resemblance to a march `in the fell-country; one bill sur- mounted, there is nearly always an- other\one in front, and a man `may " tramp _until_. his limbs be weary only to nd that the summit he has achiev- ed is-_ but the beginning of a steep mountain track. `A. comparison equal- ly faithful is that suggested by the- Shephetd of Miterdale when be fore- gathered in the Ghyllthwaite garden with his friend the Colonel and listen- ed to the points in Margaret Mus-' grave s new problem. - u1'_;.p,, 27 1... ....:n .L..__:_.., , - -I 1; :..,..:! in .51.. ..-"...9..8,11-"the-'dreatheshe has.dream`- ,,:9r;,as`e_es: fthe zharrowingf overthrow ..";`f herrplans; * * c i ' I iRobert_.eMusgra{e".., has, .. made . his choice. Mother, he says, `-`I m mightily` glad of the thi .g you ve done to-night. You ve given me my chance, -and what more can` a man desire? In the years to come it ll be _ne'to be. able to say that my life is one of my own choosing. . . .I m not going to deny that if-if Richard `had been spared I d have gone out into the world and tried to do a man s part there, but--mother, I ve a big lump of family pride; I m the eldevborn of Ricxhard Musgrave; and I ll be Robert Musgrave, statesman of Ghyllthwaite. on the choice` of 3 -Profession. T 24. :._ II.