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St a EC foe nr, a ah = Ea - Tea is Delicious and Pure Sealed Packets Only - Never in Bulls BLACK, MIXED or NATURAL GREEN ------ Between CHAPTER I--(Cont'd). "So it's hey for Glasgow to-mor- row?" remarked Tim 'Laren, as, fathful to his role of clown, he grin- ned within the frame of his woolly whiskers. John nodded without turn- ing. "Ye'll be coming back a regular stiudant in spring, no doubt, eh? not knowing a double-handed hammer from a single, hi, hi!" "I don't think so," said John, with his slow smile, while Willie Robson solemnly gaped. No need for enforced gravity now; merely to look upon a man who was 80 soon to look upon Glasgow bred awe, automatically, as it were. Adam, pressed between two broad fists, spoke protestingly: "Strikes me you might have put it off till next week. Would save me having that gowk, Davy, as best man. It's the usual thing to come to wed- dings, not to run away from them. Doesn't seem cousinly, somehow. What's eight days over the books, after all?" ? "Even one day is much when one has wasted ten years," said John, his wide brown eyes following the move- ments, of a exiple of men still linger- ing on one of the terraces of the cliff, and now, in answere to a second shrill summons of the whistle, running to shelter. "But two sheep, John----think of that!" urged Adam, warming up to his subject. "We've reckoned, Don and I, that one would go round just a bit tightly, so to say. No end of mutton-chops, iy lad, I tell you; and the cake ordered from Oban, and the whiskey--" A dull explosion covered the next words, preceded by a small puff of smoke, followed by a spurt of slate OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. sitting doubled up, with! grimy elbows on knees, and cheeks! a Cousins; pieces, whirling about the cliff like a flock of startled birds. Within the same half-minute another puff from another point--another detona-, Like a dull cannonade they tion. followed upon each other. The four men in the bothy cowered with craned necks, silently watching the familiar sight, whose interest never staled. Upon one or two distant levels out- side the blasting area the men stand in ups, fascinated spectators. The air began to smell of gun-powder. "That's ours!" said Willie Robson presently, in an accent which teemed of the pride of possession. Even after the cannonade was still, the men remained cowering and cramped, waiting for the releasing whistle, which would not sound until a margin of some minutes had allow- ed for a possibly forgotten blast, "To come back to the sheep and the whiskey," observed Adam, with fine tenacity, "you haven't told us yet what harm it would do you to stop a week longer." ei ed ing that this was, under 1 i impol- itic. . "Let it be within the next ten years, and it'll do richly." As the three pairs of eyes once more white duck trousers it was not hard to guess that, mentally, he was being ut into clerical black. Not one of em dou that that priestly in the be { was safely han, | of the future. Keen workman though vaguely felt that there was something else beside the workman in John. To picture that long, narrow figure in a | white surplace required no great effort | of the imagination. Lest the i startle in this locality, let it be briefly interpolated that here too the "Mas- sacre"'--that crowning sin of the House of Orange--had played its part, by riveting the descen tims to the church of the Stuarts. For _ centuries past Ardloch and its district had formed one of those Episcopalian !islands which have successfully with- stood the Presbyterian ocean, John's plan was generally approved of, and yet between him and his well- wishers there existed a complete mis- understanding. They knew that for ears past he had been laying shilling wk shilling, in order to reach the sum which would make study possible, and saw therein nothing but a very praiseworthy ambition which others before him had cherished either suc- 'cessfully or otherwise--since the | Church is, after all, the most attain- {able of the rungs in the social ladder. | To a man they approved of his plan of "bettering" himself, without ever ! guessing that his own idea of "better- ment" bore no resemblance to theirs. So careful had Highland shyness been of keeping its own counsel that not' even his daily companions guessed { Unsuspected, he carried about with him his dream, having brought it out of his very boyhood. When it had been born he could not himself have said. Pérhaps on some summer day, fixed themselves upon the figure in the he was, even the dullest among them! "white surplice" should! J ts of its vie-| that they had a fanatic in their midst. | their souls? 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Gunns Limited, West Toronto 7"C might be considered provided for--but Even. to pronounce the word in' public, outside a church, would, in his present character, be a sort of moral indecency, as he well knew; and there- fore it was that John M'Donnell had John turned his face towards his! 8S he drowsed among the heather to| determined to earn for himself the cousin, a whimsical smile brightening its seriousness. "No harm, perhaps; but no good, Adam, neither to you nor to me. roomful of people always strikes me stupid, as you well know." "And how about a churchful of peo- ple, eh? "quavered Tim. "You'll have to be trampling on that sheepishness of yours when once you get into the pulpit." "Will I get into it?" mused John, with wistful eyes. "As sure as we're all sitting here growing as stiff as salted herrings," asserted Adam gruffly, yet with aside long look at his cousin, which showed no want of faith in him. 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Crisp, Crackling COOKIES and a glass of milk--taste the delicious; blend of flavours. {or any 4" the music of the bees and the murmur! of the nearest burn; perhaps on some winter night, when the awfulness of wave and blast had taken his soul and shaken it free of the trammels of earth] ties. But it had been there almost. since he had begun to think the thought®"of a man. Or perhaps it had been born furth- er back yet. The angel, charged with ushering human souls into Time, from Eternity, does not always sing over his work--or 'else sings to closed ears. But once and again the song lives, and is remembered as in a dream, and sought after during a life- time, as a haunting melody is sought. Such men and such women always run the risk of being a little ridiculous, as the abnormal is ridiculous; and if, in addition, they are shy, the opportun. ities of misunderstanding between them and their fellows are exception- ally rich. i John M'Donnell was not consid- ered "feckless," it was only because he kept his own counsel; partly, also, be- cause he could handle the Wouble- handed hammer as could few men in the quarry. He was going to appear unfaithful to the quarry now, but only, so to say, through an excess of faithfulness. By dint of studying his fellow-workers, he had arrived at his own conculsions concerning their wants. . To all but | childhood. right of speaking both in and outside church walls. Not that the pulpit had ever stoop empty, but that the oc- workmen--so seldom found the word that went to its goal. To John it had been torture to sit out nine out of every ten sermons he had heard since; He had begun by re-! making them in his own mind; he had, ended ¥ resolving to stand one day in| that pul 1:5 How differently, living their daily lives, being of their very bone, he could speak to these toil-worn men! He knew, where those others only guessed or imagined. It requires experience to teach how hard it is for men ever tied to the elementary ma- terial, ever at war with its laws, ever in contact with stone and earth and metal, and all the other brute physical fatts, not to lose complete sight of the side of life which is not physical, which cannot either be cut or weighed, or measured, or calculated. And no one who has not been in it himself knows how depressing is the purely physical groove. To lift his fellow- workers a little , way out of that groove, such was John's ambition; for, wh his big, unpractical soul he lov- ed them all too well to look on content at their slavery. He felt himself as distinctly called to this deliverance of the infirm and the incurably lazy bread was assured--Ilaboriously earn- ed, and sometimes at the risk of life, but fairly plentiful. Their bodies Rice As Potato Substitute. Rice is really our best starchy food. It contains also a small amount of Protein, a trace of fat, and some min- eral matter. Starchy foods supply heat and energy to the body, and are, therefore, really more valuable than meat, which produces muscle. It is four time as nourishing as potatoes. Most of us in the past have only associated rice with eggs, milk, raisins as the principal ingredient of pud- dings. The majority of Canadians have still to learn the use of rite as a vegetable which our American friends, especially the Southerners, learned long ago. It is the most-easily-digest- ed of all the starchy foods. It is readily absorbed and leaves little or no waste in the intestines. All starches in their final digested are converted into sugar. Rice is about the most abused of all our foods in the cooking. "Just boil it," they say, but "just boiling" may result in a delicious appearing and tasting food or--a cross between paste and porridge. Let no house- keeper come out of the war days with- out learn how rice grains may quadruple mselves in the cooking and be the nourishing, delectable food that doubtless they were resigned to be Wash the rice in several cold wa- ters. Have ready a large dish nearly full of rapidly-boiling water. Sprinkle in the rice slowly so as not to stop the boiling. Boii rapidly without the cover for twenty minutes. If the rice seems hard at the end of that time boil ten minutes longer. It must be dry and mealy, like potatoes, not wet. Drain it in a eolander and pour over it there, quickly, a quart of cold water. = Place the colander on a plate and toss the rice about with a fork from the centre to the sides. 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