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 w^^^ •»1 ine ' 'nan hJ 'P.000.00 ^•"7 ""'=«'«* for „ ^):"Y si GUARANTEED BREEDER.^ t"'1 Book oH-*^ STEAMER OUR TENANTS. ij and I had given much thought -jestion of house and rent, and had '^eV that we should not be justified in '.prettv little place in the country at '^irent. "Give me a welt-cooked chop I'-^jgUis of sherry, and I can roaj;h it "there," sind the intending traveler. We *â-  ,^aiiteJ a thoroughly pleasant bouse \,.m easy access of a country town where L 1 vfa8 g'30^1 sooiely, a really good garden, f'ybleauJ coach-house, and a few fields, I" had looked at many houses, ivhen one If after a morning â-  f disappointment, we H' charming one standing some little di' from the road, and a notice informed liii R LIII -epuon amon? th " steamers. !v reference to th' '^f"' Safety C,m 'â-  Iheyarespeci .1 their rajjid pa. -ei.;^'e accommo ir tevemilatioi •' has been maci on of the passen til and absoluu and women, n â- ompartment ha • n^ed that eve- a a littte priva;; ar-s apply to thi i in Ontario, cr -3 York strec: :~n remedy '^^ â-  "but r"jr NE" vIAiiSJI, a.'il URE A- :matine Map. Ont. Messr?. A--ta.. Torontc. IE B^ST immi se nuiile by ,orse3 cansav. nev bvhaviiii; lior^j Remt-^ land we wou-" 3 following 0) .orC.O.D.ami box, J-' pounds avin Cure, S-. 1-3. $1 2 boxes Powder, 50c.. [oof Ointmeni. D, 2ith SU I Spavin .CW' have tned 1- ndforgenemi tide we ba^' older. 1 CoK ve Buttoner; â- orv one gei- :e%»i 1 Sck»|f i1 tber tl»W! I ' ««: or ' that it was to be let. \V e went to tee i^. .\fas simply perfect, and was surrounded jj ardeu which 1 loved at first sight. It bjjtnelttrrid from every cold wind, open !.. j^ery benign influence, and full of ihe T-j: beautiful old-fashioned flowers, all ;^,"jjg as if they had been at home there •.'yfais. A single glance showed me that .!je which I had long been vainly trying !;,;;ltivate were flourishing here with happy â- jilfereQce ti human care. My wife was ;;:)3hted with the house â€" so was I, â€" but it ly'the garden which completely carried me fVj. It wa? not very large, but there ^.K wide open walks, and pretty, secluded m;[s, and rose and fruit trees, a lawn, ani â- j^Dilicent flower borders. Having once '^:hat garden, I never could be satisfied f ;h any other. Its pretty, sir," said the housekeeper, jicrvmt! how lovingly my eyes dilated. i maDy pretty flowers grows nere. They -jwot their own accord liae, for the gar- iaerhas liitie trouble with them." â- 'The gardener ' I exclaimed " I never i;p«cpieof that kind run riot among my â- sers.' lor, sir well to be sure But there â- ji always been a gardener here. That's his icttagetheie, behind the tiees." And she •linted out a pretty red cottage across the awn, Little was visible but the tops of joe dormer windows, for a high trellis cov- .jedwith rosts screened it from view. •What's the rent of Fairlawn " I asked :3ndden fear, for the little bit I saw of the lirdener's cottage was so well built that it canned me, "One hundred and sixty pound"!, sir." My wife's countenance fell. With prompb eciiion she took off her spectacles and put :em carefully in their case, and stowed am away in her bag as no longer needed. "line hundred and sixty pounds," I re- eated sadly. 'Yes, my dear, that settles it," said my iloved wife but she had no idea what re- .ret I was feeling. "I suppose it's no use thinking of it," â- lid I, with a sigh, " but I never saw How- rsdo so well in any garden before." 'Come, -lahn," said my wife, " It's only â- ::mz uurse ves for no purpose â€" we had bet- •rrgo. \l\x Know as well as I do that we ;gtit not to .saddle ourselves with such a .ijh rent. " "-â- â€¢.up I have an idea," said I, joyously. We might reduce the rent by Petting that :ttrii;e.' â- ^j you might, sir," interposed the hous- ^eeper. "' It has six good rooms and a .;:i.nen it was let a little while back to the :rate. It's only the last year or two the .irdener has had it." W,.- went to the cottage, and when I saw «r.at an excellent house it was I decided to Ae P'airlaun. I settled the matter at once, .:d in ten tiays began to move in. I gave ::e eottaije a name likely to inflame ardent -:1 poitical minds, called it Eglatine cot- "-i;e, and advertised it freely. It had a :raKla â-  xered with roses, and a pretty ::I" ^arltii of its own in front, sloping â-  '«'ii to t':e high road. We had established ;r;elvts ^t Fairlawn, brought our only â- --' ':.i.;_luLr home Irom scnool, and re- :-:ntii !!.Ljt cr the caiis made on us by the â- rsbjtiit u'l-iitry, before we had an applica- â-  â- n.'Lrtiic cottage. At last a gentleman »3ieâ€" a 11, ail of " with bushy, brown hair. i:t!i, II uriiig, gray eyes, and a singularly •-"â- tKiL'Mit face. His name was Shute. He "I =ti;iiii (I for the bar, but was forced to 'â- e ill \\_,- country on account of his wife's -â- a:tn, ;,;.,! now devoted hiiaseif to art. -•'â- fV ::a.l no children, and dul not object to i'-i'i rt-LT, tliough I myself had ftared that • ^as K.tjiijr too much. All was soon set- 'â- ii, r ided the references he gave me 'â- -'e .-ati-factory. incy Were most satisfactory. Each of the "^0 ri-vj niisihle and well to-do gentlemen to ^^oni 1 wrote hai the greatest pleasure in '.estiivuv^ tu the high character of the gen- ••ema:, \.,ho wished to be my tenant, and â- i-n iicluiled by saying that such testi- -onyi,,! his part was almost unnecessary, 'temg that the said gentleman was one cf â- 3e .s;u:tes of Shttheld. I read this, and â- â- raiglif,vay a fine Havor of respectability at- •iche'i itself to my tenant â€" he was one of -e Siurtes of .Sheffield, This being the •ise, 1 dedicated to his enjovment the larger P^rt of a large number ot fine ferns which ^Jd be( n sent to me from Cumberland, and '6st and planted them myself in telling [pots. I'hat done. I tied up his roses so â- 'lat his wite might have the full benefit of â- seir biauty. And iiow all care was over, 13(1 wt wne really happy at Fairlawn. -My "â- 'Jo iu 1 litr pony carriage and explored the -sigiiloi hood, and I had my garden and my '^-^ of bucks frcm the library. Mr. Shute's â- ^rnitare began to arrive, ai:d Mr. Shute I'.TiS' 'j ..ame to see all made ready for his 'elicate wife. He staid with us, but he was "' tusy that we did not see much of him. de w:.s iiowever, a very pleasant fellow, ^d we liked him. 'â- f won't trouble you with my furniture- ijranging ditiiculties, my dear Mr, and Mrs. .everiU," said he, "but there is one little •Ivor I would like to ask of you. Would .^-'i mind having that trellis lowered a lit- "â- '*•.? It would be such a treat to my poor "•'6 to have just a glimpse of your exquisite ?^irden from her sofa. She is so nnfortun- "'6 as to be almost a confirmed invalid." " I Shall be very glad â€" " I began. "Thank you! Thank you! I felt sure Ku would be kind. Shalt I give orders to ^i^^e the trellis removed or will you " " Kemoved " I had imagined that he -^^â- '1 "lowered " Now I like to throw off "y coat and waistcoat when 1 am in my Jardecâ€" but one can't behave ill to a deli- â- Â»e woman, ""Sne IS coming home lo-morrow," said "-â-  " there is no time to lose." D?d Dot the courage to plead for its only Untine cottaae raked my hamn k«n*ine- ground* wheSl had hittert 12?io fTff liberty, and so alone. My heart ached for ISf i?^"" l"^- ^^^^^ ^^ ^*^ *i«own down J^«^ 'â- '^^V ^^' S»»«t« began to pluck tbem and said he would put them in water Th^^u'"^* the house gay for his wife. .. A?f *»e »hrew them down, exclaiming After all, she won't be here till to morrow. Im sure you will give me a handful of iresh ones in the morning." " Y.ou have roses of your own." sa^d I impatiently, for he had flung down all those he had just gatheredâ€" and it infuriates me to see flowers ill-treated. "I kuov I have," said he calmly '« but 1 dont want to touch mine." I looked at him in astonishment and unable to answer him, turned away, and so the matter ended. In due course his wife arrived. She was a till, pale, languid sort of woman, wifi fair hairâ€" which was not, however, her own â€" and dull blue eyes. She was, Mr. Shute in- formeJ up, one of .the Wilmotts o: Taunton and was a "creature of impression," and spent most of her time on the so'a. "How I wish than 've had a little balcony to our house," said Mr. Shute to my wife one day, "if it were ever so small. My wife never gets out she can't sit in- our gar- den, for it is too near the, road "td bein' 80 much in the house is very dull." " Having said this, he looked anxiously in- to her eyes to see how much Caristian charity she possessed. My wife, poor dear woman, was takea by surprise, and replied " I wish Mrs. Shute would use oar gardea sometimesâ€" when my husband is not working in it, I mean, for, when he is busy he likes to be careless about appearances." " Oh thank you. How truly kind " ex- claimed Mr. Shute. "Then we shall have a key made. You know there is a door from our back-yard into your garden, and we wi'l have a key made at once, unless you have one you can lend us." And now my poor wife knew what she had done, for, of course, it was out of the question for an invalid like Mrs. Shute to walk all the way around by the lane to the proper entrance, and yet, if she had a key and could come and go when she liked, all my pleasure in my garden would be gone. " You won't go when my husband is at work ' she said in desperation to Mrs. Shute, and then trusted to her delcacy. What a poor weak thing to trust to They got the key â€" they used it. Mrs. Shute who was not strong enough to go around to the proper entrance, meandered for miles along our gravel paths and lawn. I could always trace her presence. For she plucked every flower she fancied, and flung it as quickly away, and I saw my slaugh- tered innocenta lying bruised and withered in the sun, and could have slain her in turn. Mrs. Shute might be a creature of impress- ion, but the flowers were the creatures of impression, too. and bore the marks of her ridiculous high-heeled shoes as she crushed them down ia her indifference and passed on. Some little time she respected my feelings and never entered the garden when I was at work. Soon, however, she came when she chose and frequently I, hard at work in my grey flannel shirt, would see a sylph- like form arrayed in spotless white glide to- wards me, and seemed determined to enter into a prolonged conversation, if I moved away Mrs. Shute was certain to follow me. It was best to try not to mind her being there, and let her sit admiring her pretty feet and open-worked stockings, and utter- ing weak little remarks. .She was always affable. " I see, Mr. I'everil, you are quite au bout des doigts with all your flowers I" said she one day, most kindly. "H'm,"" replied. " Ve.s, I like flowers. ' "So do I I worship them I even ad- mire a lot of ugly ferns we have in our owt garden." Thus, did the creature of impres sion speak of the lovely rai 2 ferns which 1 had sacrificed to the tenants who were tc help me pay my rent. " Don't you like ferns " I said, half in- clined to make an effort to get them back again. " Well, yes, in the woods but I like Pe'ar-r-rgoniums in gardens nothing looks better. If I had money I'd just put hundreds of them in front of our house. What a thing money is, Mr. Feveril ' and there are actually some people so crowded with it that they doa't know what to do w ith it but make an ostentation of it." " I am very sure I should know what to do with mine, if I had a little more," was my thoughtâ€" for I was forced to endure this lady's company for a miserable £40 a year. She perhaps found me unusually dull, for she said she would "stroll about a bit," and, hastily knotting up a " guinea switch of hair " which was rolling down her back, she swept away. Presently she returned with the Grosvenor book which I was look- ing forward to the treat of reading when my work wai done. She had obtained it by thrusting in her arm at the open window and removing it from the table where it was lying awaiting my return. She and her husband, too, were extremely fond of pos- sessine themselves of whatever they hap- pened to want. She borrowed a book in this nefarious way. He came in a panicâ€" his wife was ill would we let him have a half dozen bottles of old port? Or he was suddenly seizsd with admiration of one of our water- colors. We had three good ones, but he was not satisfied with anything less than our Turner, and asked if we would al- low him to take it to the cottage for an hour or two, and p'ace it on a easel near his wife s sofaâ€" it would help to while away the weary hours, and she was the Rather than hear him say that she was the creature of i-npression I hastened away to get the picture from faim. His wife did not care for pictures why did he borrow them for her She did not care for books, either. She was entirely uneducated and though possibly a Wilmott of Taunton, she certainly was not a lady. She wished to be pleasant, though, and was very fond of sympathising with me whenever she hap- pened to observe certain small gre-n insects which she called "nasty afrites " on my roses. Had she been reading " The Persian -ad Turkish tales?" I Wished an ill-dis- poaed afrite would carry her cffâ€" but nothing ever did carry her away from my side but the sight of the garden, r going toward the kitchen garden. Then she said in a mo- ment " Dear Mr. Peveril. Edward and I are so fond of fresh vegetation, may I go and asK t'ai man to cut off some littte trifle for the cottage " and I, rejoicing at (hia mo- mentary good fortune, always said, " Oh, pray do." And she went wad commanded him to convey to her abode canliflowen and peas, lettuoea, apricots, or whatever else was agreeable to the palate of a creature of impression. For my part, I should not have cared what went to the cottage so long as nothing came from it â€" to sit by my aide I mean. But my wife said too much went They had new-laid eges, milk, cream, and more batter than we could well spare, and they did not pay as they got it, but let the accounts run on. "Be patient," said I; "don't complain and don't otiend them. We should have been vary hard up without the Shutee, for I have spent more than 1 ought on the house and garden, and it is an immense comfort to have such rich tenants. They must be rich, for ihose pictures on their walls are worth thousands. Don't let us think of the Shutes. Let us enj y oar happiness." Our dear daughter had got a lover â€" not a declared one, but one who was evident'y in earnest. He was a thoroughly conscien tioQs, upright man, and had a small estate which had been in h's family for a couple of centuries. Our joy about this made us tol- erant of the Shutes. The young folks met constantly, and the more we saw of Mr. Ducle the more we liked hinu Perhaps it was a lucky thin? that Mrs. Shutes liked sitting on my lawn better than driving with my wife, for if she had used our pony car- riage my daughter would have bad to stay at home, and Mr. Ducle would have had fewer opportunities of seeing her. Oae day, after irritating me by calling my penstemons antirrhinums, when I should have liked to hear her bestow such an ap- pellation on my snap-dragons, she, who knew nothing of our secret hopes, suddenly excHimed " Mr. Peveril, don t yon think that Mr. Ducle who comes to your house is a very charming young man We have asked him to the cottage, and he is coming There are a great many nice young men in this neighborhood I am going to invite my sister to come and stay with me â€" she is such a nice girl, and so beautiful " I could see the connection of ideas. She was going to invite her sister to the cottage in the hope of her fascinating some one â€" most f roDably our Mr. Ducle This was fatal, for if Mrs. Shute made up her mind to deprive us of anything wbijh seemed good in our eyes, nothinigremained to us but to resign oui selves t»^ll^ing her have it. My poor Uorotheff? I sighed heavily! That marriage on which we had set our hearts was not to be. Mrs. Shute's sister, a Wilmot of Tauntoo, and probably also a creature of impression, would come and win away Mr. Ducle's affections from my daugh- ter, and my wife and I would be such fools that even we would allow ourselves to be drawn into doing our part toward producing that result. I was silent for some time 1 ^as afraid she would notice it I did not want her t3 know bow we felt about Mr, Ducle, so I said " I suppose your husband is hrJ at work this fine morning " "Yes, he is busy copying â€" painting, I mean," she said in confusion. "Copying nature, I suppose," said I but it occurred to me considering he was a land- scape painter, Mr. Shute staid a great deal indoors. Miss Wilmott c ime. She was as bright and rosy as Mrs. Shute was pale, and hardly had ahe arrived than the Shutes began to borrow our pony-carriage freely, and asked us to lend them our lawn for a tennis party they wished to give, to introduce her. "They want to invite Mr. Ducle " I ex- claimed, when my wife told me this. "It is too much It is like seething a kid in its mother's milk I" "And we shall have to supply the straw- berries, and the cream, and lena the teacups and teaspoons, and a couple of servants. And she wants to borrow our long dining- table to place under a tree on the lawn, and has not got a table-cloth long enoutjh to cov- er it, but is sure we have, and won't mind lending it, and " " Say no more," said I, decidedly. " We must draw the line somewhere, and draw it at giving up Mr, Ducle to them." He was there even while we were speak- ing he told us of his visit afterward, and said he thought Miss Wilmott a very charm- ing girl, though it was easy to see that, like the fat boy in "Pickwick," "he knew a nicer " but how long would he continue to put Dorothea io the first place if those Shutes began to angle for him in earnest Our ex- perience was that they always managed to get what they wanted. He began to go to ihe cottage a great deal more than I liked. My wife said it was because from the iS nutes' windows he could sometimes see Dorothea walking in our garden. I did not know. Why did he come to us He did come to us, and sometimes asked Dorothea to stroll with him to the garden, but no sooner did they go out than Mrsi Shute and Miss. Wilmot joined them. I called the latter "the Abominable, that uninvited came," but how could the mind revert to poetry in.;the midst of such vexation as this While Everything was in this wretchedly uncomfortable state I received a letter from my uncle-^the uncle I did not want to offend. It was rather cell, and it ended thus: "I think, Jphn, you must now see that I have every reason to warn you against taking that foolishly expensive house of yours, but you need not have sold your ' Turner,' and you ought to have had a: least another hundred for it. Besides, I would infinitely rather have lent you some money myself than have that Exquisite drawing go out of the fami- ly " It had not gone out of the family â€" I had not sold it, and never meant to do so It had been an act of great self-sacrifice to let it go to the cottage for a few days, but now 1 had got it back an would keep it. My uncle's letter made me feel inclined to go and look at the drawing. I took it down to enjoy it thoroughly. It had been taken out of its frame. Why had that been done I at once went to the cottage to ask the ques- tion. The ladies were out. They had hired a carriage and gone to spend the day with Mr. Ducle's mother. They were evidently in terrible earnest about that affair, and it was a most significant feature that they had hired a carriage, instead of insisting on hav- ing ours. " Mr. Shute is in the studio, sir will you walk up stairs " said the servant. I vaUbed ap stair^ bat b* was not there. On the tables and easels I saw a number of water-color drawing in various stages of pro- gr.S' all of which he was copying from others. Mr. Shute copied Tamer drawings andjMld them as origiaals 1 I nw it in a moment. And he had copied mine I Or he had, perhaps, sold the original and sent me back the copy Then the drawings on his walls were copies, too, and I had not such a well to do tenant after all, for those Turner's on the wall had been my sheet-anchor of safety. Perhaps the rent of this cottage, for which T had sacrificed so much, world, never be paid, and my cream and new-laid eggs, my fruit, my vegetables, my peace of mind, eren my hopes for the future, were all to be as nothing. Letters with foreign stamps lay on the table, doubtless orders from the antipodes for valuable drawings, which my clever tenant had no difficulty in snpp'ying, and even now his wife and her sifter twining their meshes round I looked up suddenly, and saw from the Shutes' window my Dorothea and Mr. Ducle walking in the garden below, hana in hand. Joy took possession of my heart. He had fled from the two Wilmott sirens in search of my Dorothea. We never saw the Shutes again. The same evening they left Eglatine cottage. Next morning two emissaries of the law took possession of it. Mr. Shute was deeply in debt, but he had taken away nearly everything that was valuable. All that had remained to satisfy his creditors was a cer- tain amount of Indian matting, two pairs of flimsy curtains, a few rush-bottomed chairs, tmpty picture frames, and some furniture too heavy to be moved. The china plates which had looked so imposing were cracked in every direction and neatly mended. Not one of ihem was worth a shilling. Every- thing else was much the same. This litt e paradise of a^theticism had faded away in a hour or two. My wife and I were to happy, that we did not grieve over our lost rent. My uncle lent; me £100, and three months afterward came to Dorothea's wedding, on which oc- casion he satisfied himself, and me, too, that my Turner was still on my walls, and that the estimable Mr, Shute, of Sheffield, had contented himself with making a copy. A Wise Tailor. "Yes," said the young man. " I made my tailor knock off five dollars on the price of the suit before I ordered it, I thought it bet- ter not to owe so much money, and I guess he finally came to look at it in a similar light. He doabtless made up his mind that it would be better to lose $-15 than -SoO, which was where his head was level. " Victor Hugo has been taking an outing at the Hotel Byron, on Lake Leman, near Villeneuve. 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