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s ONKLE & sons B¢ your Plow aranteed firs ARES GROUND UNTAIN MILLs 6 MILL reéepared to do all this line. HOPPING Friday ;E;.a_lso attended to le $3 per week ercise Books chool Ba~s & Gp, Limite 86 E. HAmnton ‘('*;; $ s m* Decorations Ol Supplies. 66 pright Piano JRNBU LL PRICES 66 6¢ 1 " * SADERS der Part 1 .. Pldoowe : BB a s Upright P: feb a calendar . > i ice for cas hoice of a han ler, pedals, colo provements itiful Upri $6 & Ip ) per month. §K you $37; Pood as this er, handâ€"sic «urabull AIl, be a ate. BNTLEMEA M e | zoe Wast . I ) BEAMSVILLE 15 ! ;music eabl \ gabinebs, 30 K &As BOOKS pIES w Shares.._Al) rst"class, reeomacasrcmverme mss ie arnm PM chair seasonable bt Piano rmeuemrerocs a y promptly TTON {Inds o /S â€" We ret, pariot ege., at© T YJ U N12 18 ino 00 n som e 15¢ O1 com W oC €C Oc oC fo h ht "Well, I own up I was set back two or three rows. Somebody had been there, that was sartin. I‘ve seen cats with double paws, but no cats made them prints. "I ain‘t a narvous man, gin‘rally speakin‘, but I got up and moved sudâ€" den.. I didn‘t exactly run, but I kind of glided over to the sink. Leastways I was backed up against it when I reâ€" "I was standin‘ right in front of the door of the eloset where the old maids kept their pots and pans. And jest then insiGe that closet bust out the most outrageous racket ever you heard. Biffity, bang, thump! And then a coughin‘ and sneezin‘ like forty packs of thunder crackers. â€"" HMHumph!" says I, aml Brad agreed with me. stray cat, and it‘s hidin‘ around someâ€" wheres.‘ "But jest then comes a whistleâ€"a squeal, I meanâ€"from the barges. Tempy‘s headlights were poppin‘ out of her head, and she was p‘intin‘ a shaky finger at the floor. There was big muddy footprints all over it. folks strung « barges, holdin‘ wrappers and b "We opened sailed inâ€"that i coal barges got in the doorw: There was a 1 in the doorway and stayed there. There was a lamp burnin‘ side of a pan of dough on the table, but, jest as I expected, we was the only humans in 81 "Brad looked puzzled, sort of. ‘I sartinly heard something movin‘ out here,‘ he says. ‘Most likely ‘twas a "‘Looks as if the burglars had got tired of waitin for us and got mad and gone home,‘ says I. ‘Don‘t know what they broke into the kitchen for, anyhow. I‘ve heard of a feller‘s stealâ€" in‘ a redhot stove, but‘â€" "And now Brad, he held up his hands, poker and all.> ‘All right,, all right! says he. <‘Now that we‘re reâ€" enforced maybe we‘d better go out and interview ‘em.. They might die of old age if we stay here much longer.‘ â€" "So he winked to me and the figet got under way. Me and Brad led off, like a couple of tugs, and the women folks strung out behind, like eqal barges.; ‘holdin‘ on to each other‘s self!? "I couldn‘t b‘lieve ‘twas burglars even then, but I knew if Brad Nickerâ€" son took any stock in it somethin‘ was up. And the poor girl was tremblin‘ like Peleg Myrick‘s pup. "‘All right, Claray says I. ‘Let‘s go in and shake hbhands with ‘em.‘ "so in we went. When we struck the dinin‘ room there was Brad in the middle of the floor lookin‘ pretty toler‘â€" ble foolish, with Prissy moored to his coattails and Tempy with a clove hitch round his waist. All hands lookâ€" "I had to laugh. I couldn‘t help it. ‘Burglars at 10 o‘clock? I says. ‘Did they come to supper? "‘But they‘re there!" she says. ‘I erybody heard ‘em, Bradley and all.‘ "‘Obh, Cap‘n Eri" says she. ‘Oh, Cap‘n Eri" tige "‘Burglars!‘ says she, makin‘ fast to my arm. â€" ‘Burglars!" "*‘"‘The same,‘ says I. ‘What‘s the row? + "But the critter swooped out of the gate and bore down on me like a hawk on a June bug. Then I see ‘twas Clara Hopkins, scart pretty nigh to death. ‘"*You see, I‘d been up to lodge meetâ€" in‘ and stayed a little longer‘n usual. I was comin‘ home by the short cut, and jest as I got abreast the old maids‘ house the front door bust open, and somethin‘ comes prancin‘ down the walk futterin‘ and flappin‘ its arms like a hen tryin‘ to fiy. Thinks I. ‘Has that speritu‘list camp meetin‘ I went to last summer struck in? Clara appeared, clinging to the arm of Captain Eri Hedge. Captain Hri looked puzzle®#, but he grinned when be saw the tableau in the dining room. He told the story the next morning to his messmates, Captain Perez and Captain Jerry, about as follows: ag pC at m € *sO8 \J %% h ‘ *x’ééo‘-‘g? Pew »##. #s‘?’g s ie h it %*?;‘ fe it toe 298 99 299 e -%fi% £ w a@= ag= * »6G ‘Living statues? en footfails were ming up the stej me audible. S onized whispers. tt e one in tne Thought we h sy. ‘"‘Why, y pers and breathin‘ hard e opened the kitchen 1 inâ€"that is, Brad and I to see Â¥ho he (L LU, 10 at, and it‘s hidin‘ arounhd someâ€" a> <D Partners tl Author of "Cap‘n Eri" x@#. in. yQr, wdr. wha. wQk. vQr. wQr. v6r. wmQz. wQr. x0% w05 w0# wQr. w6# yQ# @k 10e ale ale ie oi ole rle ite dle she aite a0e c0e ste ate ate aite alhe ce JOSEPH C. LINCO L N, t in a 1 tu in Bradley. «* BY + .. nnei ard ‘em!‘ u_ hbheard ps. Clara‘s vyorCce he was speaking e heard Wha kitchen door and id and I did. The ump, so‘s to speak, r open turned to star of the hall, an xq no more °n i is this? says UC Copyright, 1905, by A: $. Barnes L Co. bus »9= 495 405 08 105 z05 *Q= »¢« 10« 1099 he 1088 â€"â€" ts out yourâ€" W whi ell the Tide d ID "Out comes somethin‘ doubled up like a ( _ dackknife." A "Course we all looked at Clara then. ishe blushed up pretty red, but she anâ€" swered prompt. says she, ‘thot I don‘t see.‘ "*‘*Cause I couldn‘t see you no other way; that‘s why! I‘ve tried hard »nough to speak with you for the last didn‘t pay no attention. \ "‘Why was you hid in that clojet? says she. j "Well, sir, that was the fust tim» in my life that I ever see EHz Titctmb clean out of soundin‘s! I snum! You could see he didn‘t know what to say, fnd when Ez gits that way thikgs must be consider‘ble mussed up. e BAgeted and stuttered and picked fat bis watch chain. $ "‘Prissy,‘. says. he, and then @% atopped. ‘Prissy,‘ 1 thuut up like a clam "‘Prissy,‘ says Ez once more; then y he let everything go with a run and hollers: ‘Oh, thunder! What‘s the use? |! Clara, you know what I come here for. Why don‘t you tell ‘em and be done . with it? ' tiuiuUt Up iiKe a Clam. LrIssy â€" c "‘Well? says Prissy in a sort o vinegar on ice voice. C & "‘Prissy,‘ says EBz. He looked a her and at Tempy and at Brad. A for Brad, there was a twinkle in his eye. Honest, he looked almost as If he was havin‘ consider‘ble fun out of the show. | "‘Hooâ€"rashâ€"oo0!‘ says Cap‘n Ez, sort of openin‘ the conversation. * *Well!" says I. .*.; * ‘For heaven‘s sakes!" says Bril "But Prissy stepped for‘ard anditook command. She didn‘t looked Sared any more; only kind of queer lound the mouth and snappy round the wes. | "‘Oh, it‘s the cap‘n!‘ squeaked Temâ€" py and went down in a heap. _ "I swan to man if it wan‘t Ezfmt' comb! ‘E / "The whole congregation was «im- sider‘ble shook up. Nobody felt like risin‘ and addressin‘ the mourn'?rs. The critter at the water bucket splishâ€" ed and gurgled for a minute. . ’l‘l;é it turned round. Its head and face was all streaks of red and brown, and the water was drippin‘ off its chin. Vho was it? You‘d never guess in a giil- lion years! "‘Hooâ€"rashâ€"oo!" remarks the thing as if it meant it too. Then it shoved its head into the water bucket. J ~"Afore he could reach it that door flew open of itself. Out comes sot@ thin‘ doubled up like a jackknife. It kind of pawed the air with its fiipp?s and dove head first for the sink. I give it all the room it neededâ€"didn‘t want to be selfish. £ "‘The bangin‘ and barkin‘ and snee; in‘ in the closet kept right up to tim Whoever it was, he wasn‘t shirkip his work none to speak of. "*‘CGome out of that!"! yells Bra§ makin‘ a dive for the door. 3 membered to take an observation The women grabbed each other an screeched. Brad, he‘ turned sort yeller round the gills, but he was coolest one in the bunch. membered to take an The women grabbed e: screeched. Brad. he‘ t Ahe w Seciin 1Wns e mt C C in ra on ud y y ayia 4 t o dfst t e y iCs NORA en At hn ~CBn s e ie o ns o aa l tele e ‘I s‘pose you come « EVYE a_â€" wh here to see me,‘ you should hide Aos i3 @4 »Ox, 3 3l¢ 1e P ut shoor ner nead. "Â¥Yes, she said, "I ghould say it had. 1 guess the best hing I can do is to move back home ght away. They‘ll never forgive me )r letting you fall in love with me, gra, never in the world." ‘Oh, I don‘t know," replied the capâ€" in hopefully. "That‘s where Brad ‘ll Beélp out. He can do more than anyâ€" Bhdy else to square you and me with EBssy and Tempy. Land of love! Is thit 1 o‘clock?‘ _ (Yes, it is. You must be going right aÂ¥ay. I‘d no idea ‘twas so late." Ehe fog had entirely disappeared, @00 it was a clear, cold November Bi&ght. The heavens were spattered thitk with stars, and the horizon was dotfed here and there with the sparks of lighthouses and lightships. Sleepâ€" ler said to the dentist. The thing at worried me most of allâ€"always xceptin‘ your givin‘ me the mitten, as ‘d begun to think you hadâ€"was how we was goin‘ to break it to the old maids. And now it‘s kind of broke itâ€" elf, as you might say." \Clara. standing in the doorway, with : shawl about her shoulders, smiled, but shook her head. "Yes," she said, "I ould say it had. I guess the best hing I can do is to move back home / LL, Ciara,‘" obser: W tain Titcomb a fe [;@?}3 later, standing "on tS by the back Goor toning his peajacket, "I s‘pos to come out some time, but I ‘twould come more soothin‘ lil “That’é off in th in‘s." > Th€ ip shade J lamp if directioh yond the long the pol bor, a s stant, L B8 @Qrham lay still, and the surf bUMMMed a restful lullaby. "What was that?"‘ asked Clara, poi, 5 TA was what?‘ _ I thyught I saw a queer light out ?né ater there. Yes; see, there it 18 f 19 * with his b "Tempy started to say something, but Prissy was skipper jest then. ‘Don‘t say any more, Tempy,‘ she says. ‘Now that we know the cap‘n is goin‘ to marâ€" ry our‘â€"I guess she was goin‘ to say servant, but didn‘t hardly dast toâ€"‘our young lady friend, says she, ‘we‘ll treat him as her comp‘ny, not ours. Come, we ain‘t wanted here.‘ "And, helpin‘ Tempy up, she took her by the arm and sailed out, all canvas sot and colors fyin‘. > "Ez, he looked consider‘ble like the feller that stole the hen‘s eggs and forâ€" got and set down on ‘em. ""'Bz-ug didn‘t speak. He jest looked sort of mournful at the partner and shook his head slow. I ain‘t a mind reader, but T‘ll bet he was thinkin‘, same as [ was, that, for a chap wlho bad the name of bein‘ the slickest kind Of a ladies‘ man, Bz Titcomb surtinly got and set down on ‘en “‘Brag didn‘t speak. | sort of mournful at th shook his head slow. | reader, but I‘ll bet he same as I was. that f. "‘Come and see her!"‘ bellers Ez. ‘Didn‘t I try to come to see bher? But every time I got to the kitchen door you or Tempy ‘d take me in tow and bhead for the settin‘ room. I swan to man I ain‘t had a chance to breathe, you watched me gso! "*‘Well,‘ says Prissy. ‘Well, I must say, Cap‘n Titcomb, that I think it would have been more manly if you‘d come and seen Clara instead of spendâ€" in‘ your evenin‘s with us and lettin‘ us think‘â€" sperits, out of that closet, spoke up as if she was talkin‘ in her sleep, and says she, ‘And it was Clara he was comin‘ to see all this time! "Prissy looked as if she was goin‘ to say something, but Clara cut in ahead of her. ‘Yes,‘ says she, ‘but what you haven‘t explained are your actions last Sunday. When a man asks the lady he‘s engaged to to go out drivin‘ with him and then calmly ups and takes somebody else, why‘â€" ‘"*‘I wrote you how it happened,‘ says Ez,‘pleadin‘ like. "‘I never got the letter,‘ says Clara. "‘One minute, if you please,‘ breaks in Prissy, calm, but chilly, like a Janâ€" uary mornin‘. ‘Let‘s understand this thing. Cap‘n Titcomb, are you and Clara engaged to be married? "Ez swallered once or twice and looked round as if he was hopin‘ someâ€" body‘d heave a life line. But nobody did. Then he shoves his fists in his pockets and says, ‘Why, yes, weâ€"we are.‘ â€" "* ‘Well, I never! says Prissy. "I didn‘t say nothin‘, neither did Brad, but I cal‘late we both looked s‘prised. Tempy, who‘d been settin‘ on the filoor ever sence Bz was mateâ€" rialized, like one of the camp meetin‘ Wesk, but you‘ve cleared out every Hight ‘fore I got the chance. I thought if I waited till you come to fix the bread I‘d be here, and you‘d hbhave to see me and hear what I had to say. So I come in the back door and waited. Then I heard Prissy speak in the dinin‘ room andâ€"well, I got rattled and hid in that daâ€"that everlastin‘~ closet. That‘s the whole fool yarn! There! fptain put up his hand to s eyes from the rays of the the kitchen and looked in the she was pointing. Out beâ€" 8 strip of water at the foot of 4 hill behind the house, beyond 4Â¥ that divided it from the harâ€" Sleck of light glowed for an inâ€" 4534 ered and went out. C Vqueer," he muttered. "That‘s "S@barbor, right by our moorâ€" ies man t the ca CHAF o be continusd) re soothin‘ like, as the he dentist. The thing e most of allâ€"always IR XIX h this time 1u 121 _ _a 1Iew hours g ‘on the step door and butâ€" s‘pose it had but I did hope observed Ca t him alone SUNDAY SERVICE Hamilton departâ€"9.10, 10.10. 11.10 2.m., 12,45, %.10, 3.10. 4.10, 5.10, €.10; 7104 2. 10 p.m. 1.15, 8.15 p. m The 9.40 p.m. car leave Grimsby Park 9f£10.10 p. in, |â€" CARS LEAvVE Fifteen minute a. m. to 9.40 p.m. CARS LEAVZE‘HAMILTON GOING EAST Successors to T. C. Brownjo; CivIl and Mining Eingi \ Land surveyors, Jif eeâ€"15Hughson8t. 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