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om go entitled May Day, is from a drawing 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Black, of Jide that the paper" which we 'use in a sandy snow'? g Along the cador sii : léss branches caught," 'New greflis has just been seen, > ~. And on the hawthorn hedge © & Rose hides the green. S Sunshine lies'warm and tin, Cloud shadows idly drift; Light cups for-dews to fill, Wind-f lowers Lift, : O sweet, fron world, and' young} A blue ird flashes by, And singing Joy is flung T hgh all the sky! store and stock, the burglar was' an |! expert, but if he Jogtely. wished tof} Tob the safe he gave evidence of being' a dirty bungler, whe was. not ac-| custormied £0 sing explosives, Itis tho ght. Yhat gomehne ay before i it was closed Hd the' r else. that a if was. used 10 "To Mr. James' Tompkins, I otters from a Self | Made Farmer to His Son Guelph, Ontario, May 29, 1912 Port Perry, Ontario. Dear: Jim "All'the fliniiy things in life don't happen in the land of books, © If you keep your eyes and ears open you can see and hear all around ;<you curious Chasacters with odd streaks--folks who like law and folks who doesn't, folks that never want to fight, and folks that ud seoner ht than eat.' . It's a face 100," Tin, that all the fighting folks ain't men. There's Johnsons. and Jéfiries among thie women, /- Sometimes they fights by Sgaapbing windows, and sometimes they just talks, and itis Surprising te. way they can lambastanyone that don't happen to suit 'em, "Now there was Saraki Jane Murphy. She'd fought in law until . she'wasn't real Happy unless she was in court, Naturally, being a smart turned 'sort of woman, she got to know a lot of law, only it wasn't well sorted, And having the stuff on hand, she had to use it: The more scraps of law she picked up, the more scraps of another sort she got into to show off what she knowed She reminds me of ap Itishman that sent his boy to alot of mien standing on the-roadside, and told him to ask: "Is there going to be a fight? Cos if there 4s, dad wants to be "in it. Sarah Jane v did like to be i The figs hie tha that stafted Sarah: Jane was a line fence. Now line 'fences bas started more rackets than you could shake 'asstick - at, 'and most; generally there needn't have been no racket if the folks had had as much. sehse 'as. fight in the Human nate do hate shost terrible to get beat, and often the i Sle the thing js that folks' fight about the bigger the racket they 0 cover up their own foolishness: And there's Tolks, too, that- Shout be lead that when they kiss the Bible, that doesnt give them the right fo tell-any more Yes, than they really has to. * Sarah Jane wasn ordinary scrapper. "She didn'tlay out just to win ang then quits Land sakes; no. . That wasn't nothing, She'd "work-up a case and Rave, somebody brought into. court. * And she'd "win maybe. Do you think she was satisfied? Not Sarah' Jane! "'She "wanted to get her money's worth--to tell the court her terrible wrongs: "Sie had to lambast somebody--make a show of them, sort ofNimprove the occasion like. "1 mind one time there was a lawyer that won a case 'for Sarah Jane. 'Won it "easy, hands down! - Do you know how he done it? Just by kebping Sarah Jane out of the witness box. Was she thank- ful?, Nof Sarah Jane! = She walked into that lawyer's-office the. next "day, and gave him the biggest tongue thrashing he 'ever got, and 4 poi : : him for the time it took, s a curious: world, Jim, and there ain't: no curiouser [sort of" ae ft seth aw 0 hf pn when, they. ain't