In the Days of Poor Richard
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Reginald Denny
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By IRVING BACHELLER*
•I LOVE YOU"
Copyright by Irving B«ch«i>«r
the Aeneld nnd the Odea of Horace
I and the history of France and Eng
land.” said John Irons.
“That Is the most astonishing thing
I have ever heard!” she exclaimed
“How has he «lone It?”
The minister wus hla master until
we went Into the bush. Then I had to
be farmer and school teacher. There
Is a great thirst for learning In this
FRIGHT FOR BILLY MOUSE would be the end of the story. Hut It
“1 ain not used to girls except my
had, so when Billy ran In head first
sisters."
DtLLT MOUSE was Inquisitive, be did not know that bls tall and
She laughed and answered:
there was no doubt about It. As body were outside. He thought be
"And 1 nm not used to heroes. I
soon as his father or mother came was all bidden In the box.
am sure you cannot be so scaretl as I
By and by back came hla father
home after hunting tn the pnntry,
am. but I rather enjoy it. 1 like to
Billy Mouse began to poke about to and mother from their hunting trip to
be scared—a little. This Is so differ
see what they had brought home for the dining item, and there they saw
ent."
Billy caught, us they thought. In the
breakfast.
"How do jou And time for It?"
I like you," he declared with a
Then when he wa» taken out lt^ the trap.
"Oh, we have leisure here- more
laugh.
"Oh, my poor foolish child," squeaked
pantry for a run when hla parents
CHAPTER I—Continued.
"I feared you would not like an Eng than you have. In England even jour
knew that Puss was not In the house, Mrs. Mouse. "He Is caught In a trap,
wealthy
young
men
are
overworked.
lish girl. So many North Americans
Billy Mouse always ran to the highest and 1 had such u nice breakfast of
They din«* out and play cards until
“We didn't have no mon* trouble hate England,"
shelf and peeked Into all the boxes. birdseed for him, and now bo will
three
In
the
morning
nnd
sleep
until
with them. I put one «»’ Bonescs' boys
“The English have been hard on us.”
And once he crawled up behind some uever eat anything again.”
middajr. Then luncheon and the cock
on a boss an’ hustled him up the val
“What do you menu?”
Mr. Mouse led hia weeping little
drawers and was caught fast until
ley fer help. The w hitmen captives
“ 1 hey send us governors whom we fight and ten and parliament! The
someone opened one and then he ran wife away, and then Billy, who had
best
of
us
have
only
three
steady
hab
was bawlin'. I to!' 'em to straighten do not like; they make laws for us
across the Boor and Fuss almost kept very still all the time, backed
" * wor'i an«! atudy and shs-p."
out their faces an' go with Jack an' which we have to obey; they Impose
caught him.
out of the trap, for bo did not know
Anti
tight
savages.
”
Mid
the
woman.
his father down to Fort Stanwix. They hard taxes which are not Just an«i they
One night when his father and he was In a trap, you see, until ho
"We do that, sometimes, but It Is
were kind o' leg weary an' excited, will not let us have a word to say
mother had planned to explore the heard his mother crying.
not often necessary. If it «ere not for
but they hadn't been hurt jit. An about it."
“I guess fsther and mother do not
other day er two would 'a' fixe«! 'em.
I think It Is wrong and l'n> going white savages, there would be no red
know how to get out of a trap,” said
ones.
You
Would
rind
America
a
gootl
Jack an' Ids father an' nmther tuk to stand up for you." the girl answered.
Billy Mouse. "You Just run in and
country to live In."
'em back to the pastur*. nn' Jack run
"Where do you live?” he asked.
run
out. That Is all there Is to it."
“At least 1 hope It will be good to
up to the barn fer ropes an' bridles.
“In London. I atu an English girl,
But Just then another silly little
sleep
in
this
night.
”
the
woman
nn
In a little while they got some hoofs hut please do not hate me for that.
mouse ran into another trap and there
under 'em un' picked up the chlldern I want to do what Is right and I shall swered. yawning. “Dreamland 1« now
be was fast Billy Mouse heard one
the only country I care for.”
Thia popular “movie" actor began
an' toddled off.
I went out in the never let anyone say a word against
squeak and a click and off bo ran for
The ladles and children, being near hie career on the legitimate stage. He
bush to find Buckeye an' he were dead Amerk-ans without taking their part."
homo.
as the whale that swaHered J mah."
1 hat s good." the boy answered. spent by the day’s travel and excite wae born In England and embarked on
Mrs. Mouse tumbled over In a faint
ment, turned In ao«Mi after supper • theatrical career on leaving college.
"I'd love to go to London."
So ends the letter of Solomon Bin
when she saw her son. "How did you
The men slept on their blankets, by He came to Ameriea and etarred In a
kus.
"Well, why don't you?"
get out silver* she asked when they
the tire, and were up befor» daylight number of road eh owe. The war took
“It's a long way off."
Jack Irons and his family and thnt
bad sprinkled her with water.
him
back
to
hie
native
land
and
he
bo-
for
a
dip
In
the
creek
near
by.
While
of I'eter Bones—the boys and girls
“Do you like good-looking girls?"
“Oh, I Just backed out; that Is all
they were getting breakfast, the worn camo noted as a boxer In the Royal.Air
riding two on a horse—with the cap-
1 <1 rather look at them than eat."
you have to do with some traps. I
force After the war ho returned ae a
en
and
children
had
their
turn
at
the
tires filed down the Mohawk trail. . It
"Well, there are many In London.”
guess," said Billy, thinking of the
creeksfde.
musical comedy baritone later being
was a considerable cavalcade of twen
"One is enough,” said Jack.
poor
little inouso that was caught in
1 hat day the relensed captives were Induced by a prominent producer ts en
“I'd love to show them a real hero."
ty-one people and twenty-four horses
the other trap.
In better spirits Sm> after no«>n the i ter motion picturea.
"How
Did
You
Get
Out
Al
Iver
Mra.
and colts, the latter following.
“Don't call me that. If you would
“You foolish boy." raid his father.
company came to u swollen river. '
Mouse Aeked.
Solomon Binsus and Peter Bones Just ealt me Jack Irons I’d like it bet-
"Don't you know that trap had been
where
the
horses
bad
some
swimming
dining room to find birdseed for break sprung or you couldn't have got out?"
and his son Israel stood on guard until ter.
But first you'll want to know
to do. The older animals and the fol
fast. Billy Blouse Jumped out of bls
the boy John Bon«?s returned with bow I behave. I am not a tighter.”
“But It Is full of cheese, father,"
lowing colts went through all right
warm bed and ran out In the pantry Mid Billy; "only I could not reach
help from the upper valley. A dozen
I am sure that your character Is
but the young station which Jack and
all alone.
“If I don't begin to go al! of It."
men and boys completed the disarming as good as your face.”
Margaret were riding began to rear
about myself L shall never grow up,"
"Gosh ! I hope it ain't so dark col-
of the band and that evening set out
Out ran Mr. and Mra. Mouse, and
and plunge. The girl In her fright
said be. "Mother and father think 1 soon they came back with the cheeM,
ored." said Jack.
with them on the south trail.
Jumped off his back in swift water and
am a baby, but I shall show them I am and such s breakfast they had of
“I knew all about you when you
It Is doubtful if this history would
able to take care of myself."
have been written but fo» an accidental took my hand and helped me on the was swept into the rapids und tumbled
birdseed and cheese. And while they
alwut and put In some danger before
First, Billy .Mouse found a meat pie were eating Billy Mouse said. "I guess
and highly interesting circumstance. pony—or nearly all. You are a gen
Jack could dismount nnd bring her I
which he nibble«! at until he could eat I am big enough to hunt by myself
In the first party young Jack Irons tleman."
ashore.
no
more. And then he should have now that I have found all of thia
OUR
NOSEGAY
GIRLS
"I
hope
so."
rode a colt. Just broken, with the girl
“You have Increased my debt to I
run home. But not Inquisitive Billy. cheese."
“Are you a Presbyterian?”
captive, now happily released.
The
you." she said, when at last they were T WAS dilly dallying alongside the He saw boxes and drawers to explore,
“No—Church of England.”
boy had helped everyone to get away;
Wise Father Mouse always shook hla
then “
“I was sure of that. I have seen mounted again. “What a story thia la! * beauty counters of a big store the so to the highest shelf he made his head when Mrs. Mouse Mid tbst Billy
there seemed to be no ridable
other mornln
rating my susceptible way and nibbled off the paper that was knew which trape were Mfe to look
horse for him. He walked for a d!*- Indians and Shakers, but I have never It Is terrfhljr exciting."
I hey rode on In silence, fwllng now nose to all the flne airs which blow
around a box to find what was lualde. Into. "I never could make out how
tance by the stranger's mount as the seen a Presbyterian."
In the box was some wire that had he found out that trap was sale. I
latter was wild. The girl was silent
When the sun was low nnd the com the beauty of the green woods. It had round these parts.
And It occurred to me thnt the fash been put in so tightly that when Billy wonder If something happened to
for a time after the colt had settled pany ahead were stopping tn make n become a magic garden full of new nnd I
Some power had ionable young woman of today. Judging
Mouse made a hole In the box the end drive him In there."
down, now and then wiping tears from camp for the night, the boy and girl wonderful things.
of the wire popped out and hit Billy
dismounted. She turned facing him entere«! them ami opened their eyes from the amount of money she hands
her eyes. By and by she asked:
But Billy Mouse never told what
I'be thrush's song grow fainter In the over those popular counters, must be
on the tip of hla nose and sent him happene«! on the top shelf. He kept
“May I lead the colt while you ride?” and asked:
tumbling over backward off the shelf.
"You didn’t mean it when you said distance. The boy was first to speak a sort of animated pot-pourri of all
to himself how he was cured of being
“Oh. no. I am not tired.” was tils
It was a good thing for Billy Mouse inquisitive.
I think that bird must have had a the most delicious scents that ever
that I was good-looking—«lid you?”
answ er.
that the trap had been sprung or this
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blew across Araby. or—er—the per-
The bashful youth had imagination long flight sometime." he said
“I want to do something for you ”
“Why?”
fumter's laboratory.
and. like many lads of his time, a ro-
"Why?”
I am sure that he has heard the !
Her toilet from her hour of awaken
“I am so grateful. r f«*el ffke the
musle of Paradise
f wonder if you ing until she lays a tired head on the
king s cat. I am trying to express my
are as happy as I am.
pillow of forgetfulness Is surely Just
feelings. I think I know. now. why
“I was never so happy." she an one delicate aroma after another.
the Indian women do the drudgery."
swered.
She 1» very liberal, you observe, with
As she looked at him her dark eves
By MILDRED MARSHALL
“W hat a beautiful country we
the lilac bath salts, and ahe dries her
were very serious.
fn! 1 have forgotten nil nhout the self on warm towels from a linen cup
“I have done little." said he. “It Is
danger and the hardship nnd the
board that is »m?ily with sweet ver
Mr. Binkua who rescued you. We live
men. Have you ever seen any placé bena. After that she powders with a
In a wild country among savages and
like HF'
gigantic puff.
the white folks have to protect each
No. For a time we have been rid |
Her teeth ahe cleans with a paste
By H 1RPINQ KINQ g
other. We're used to It."
ing in fairyland.”
tasty with wintergreen, and llkea a
"I never saw or expected to see men
”1 know why," said the boy
mouth-wash flavored with peppermint.
like you," she went on. “I have rend
REGINA
“Why?”
She washes her face In waters that
THE GRAY PINE
of them In books, but I never hoped to
"It is because we are riding together. are faintly milky with tincture of ben
see them and talk to them. You are
*TMIE queen of Heaven, Maria, ha»
It Is because I see you.”
zoln, which Is not unlike sweet !•
like Ajax and Achilles.”
XXFHERfVER the gray pine grows [
A votariea called by the Italiana Re-
"Oh. dear! I cannot see you. Let monds to the nose, and bathes the
*
*
it
1»
culled
“
the
unlucky
tree,"
“Then 1 shall say that you are like
glna or Reina. Reina waa found more
us get off and walk." she proposed.
sleep
out
of
her
eye»
with
eyecups
of
because it is supposed to bring bad
the fair lady for whom they fought.”
frequently In Florence.
In France,
They dismounted.
rose water.
luck to anyone who stands under It—
“I will not ride and see you walk
Regina be«-ame Heine and Relnette, the
“
Did
you
mean
that
honestly?"
Her
hair
has
to
be
anointed
with
a
ing."
especially to women.
former also being a favorite In Ger
“Honestly," he answered.
trifle of jasmine brilliantlne, and she
"Then sit forward as far as you can
This superstition is, apparently, a
many. All, of course, are translated
She looked up at him and put her touches up her lips with a stick that
and I will ride with you," he answered.
aurvtval of the worship of the Phry to mean queen.
hand over her mouth.
reminds you of cherry.
In a moment he was on the colt’s
gian god Attis, a worship Introduced
The natural condualon would be
"I was going to say something. It
Over her cheeka and neck she puff»
back behind her. She was a comely
into Europe through the Greeks. Attis that the name Regina la merely the
would have been most unrnaldenly,
a
rachel
or
naturelle
cloud
of
some
maiden. An authority no less respect
has been identified with the Greek god Latin word for queen given a capital
she remarked.
delicate powder that can be quite in-
able than Major Duncan has written
Adonis add by some, also, with the ized Initial letter, but another explana
There's something In me that will toxlcatlngly like a wild roae. or a aug-
that she was a tall, well-shaped, fun-
Egyptian Osiris. At any rate the At tion of Ita origin, and one most gen
jack and his
not stay unsaid. . love you,” be de gestion of honeysuckle after a shower
loving girl a little past sixteen and
tis cult was a most ancient one and erally accepted, la that it la one of the
FATHER. MADE |j/|^
clared.
cf rain, or a nodding violet.
good to look upon, “with dark eyes
profoundly Influenced European my
many evolved from the I Jit In rego.
J i A LEAN-TO.
She held up her hand with a serious , | Maybe It Is n dance night.
thology. Attis was supposed to have
and auburn hair, the latter long and
meaning rule. If auch la the caae It
look In her eyes. Then, for a moment,
Another bath—now with mu: tard In
heavy and In the sunfight richly col
met his death under a pine tree Into hu a hlatory aa full of adventure ae
the boy returned to the world of re It. She creams her neck and arms,
which bls spirit entered. At the festi an Arabian Nlghta and Is Indeed an
ored”; that she had “lender fingers
ality.
and wipes It all off with a California
and a beautiful skin .11 showing that mantle temperament and the love of
val of Attis, celebrated in the spring, heroic name for a woman to bear.
“I am sorry. Forgive me. I ought poppy toilet water.
ahe had been delie: ely bred.
He poetry. There were many books In
a pine tree, the Lnink of which was
The firat Rgnnnr waa that hardy soul
She uses her best perfume, v hlch la
adds that he envied the boy who had his fathers home and the boy had not to have said it,” he stammered.
wrapped In wool, was brought into who, after ravaging France, was put to
“But didn't you really mean It?” she very alluring and baffles description.
ridden before and behind her haif the lived his leisure in them. He thought
the sanctuary of Cybele and a young death In England, whereupon hie fierce
a moment and answered :
asked with troubled eyes.
And she goes forth, rustling In silk
length of Tryon county.
man tied to the tree trunk. Then the eone In revenge swept England with
“Yes, I think you are as beautiful
“I mean that and more, but I ought or taffeta, with the aroma of the looms
priests and the votariea gashed them merciless devastation. His name there
It was a close association and Jack
selves until their blood covered the fore became a dread one and In aome
found it so agreeable that he often as a young doe playing In the water not to have said It now. It Isn't fair of far China or Japan still clinging to
lilies."
You have Just escaped from a great them.
bound man. He was then unbound
referred to that ride as the most ex-
manner was changed to Rene.
At
“And you look as if you believed danger and have got a notion that you
And we don’t see her sny more until
and the pine tree taken out and once Renee became popular aa a femi
citing adventure of his life.
yourself,
”
said
she.
"I
she
comes
back
with
her
feet
like
bits
nm sure you are in debt to me and you don't know
burned. Originally the bound man nine name since the younger daughter
"What is your name?" he asked.
wou d like me better If I were fixed up much about me anyhow.”
। of hot lead, white shouders that ache
was sacrificed to represent the death of Louie XII of France bore It When
“Margaret Hare,” she answered.
a litt'e."
.
of the god, but later It was sufficient ahe married Into the House of Eate,
“How did they catch you?"
She stood in his path looking up at with the shlmmy-ague, and a head that
“I do not think so.”
him.
| feel» as If It's going to burst.
that he was covered with blood. This her name was changed Into Renata, a
"Oh, they came sud h aly and stealth
“How much better a boy's head looks
But she Is not too tired to wipe off
will explain why it is “unlucky" to form which la very pleaalng to the
ily, as thej- do in the story books, w hen
“Jack.” she whispered. “Please say I
stand under the tree—the person so Spanish and Italian. The old Dutch
| all that powder and lip-salve and coa-
we were alone In camp. My fattier with Ids hair cut close like yours. Our It again."
standing takes the place of the victim form, Renlrn, Is quaint and quite
and the guides had gone out to bunt.” boys have long hair. They do not look
No, It was not gone. They were still metlque with plain, homely cold cream,
so much like—men.”
of the old ritual.
or spray her pillow with refreshing
In the magic garden.
“Did they treat you well?"
pretty. The Teutonic Influence makea
“Long hair is not for rough work
That the tree is especially unlucky Itaelf evident In Relgl and Regl
“I love you and I wish this Journey eau de cologne.
“The Indians let i.s alone, but the
Oh, very nice I
for women is explained by the fact
could go on forever,” he said.
two white men annoyed and frightened in the bush,” the boy remarked
The aquamarine la Reglna'a Jewel.
“You really look brave »nd strong.
And how grateful we should be for
that the ancient rite took place in the Much auperstitlon centera about this
us. The old chief kept us near him."
One would know that you could do
our nosegay girls.
temple of Cybele—the mother of the atone and It haa therapeutic value,
“The old chief knew better than to things.”
Let us salute them.
god who was slain in this Inearnate since by Its paling color, It gives evi
“I, too, will wait," he an
let any harm come to you until they
“I've always had to do things.”
Taking respectful care of cherry-
form—and also by certain • orgiastic dence of the bodily weakening of It»
swered, ‘‘and as long as I have
were sure of getting away with 'h<dr
They came up to the party, who had
tasting cupId bows.
to.”
practices which characterized the sac ZTnT. ’L” *'T*,n he,d that ltB ^or
plunder.”
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-topped to camp for the night. It was
rifice. That the superstition In ques will ataln the flesh against which It la
“We were in the vnl' y of death and
a clear, warm evening.
After they
tion should linger about the gray pine worn a» Indication of some physical *
you have led us out ■ f it. I am sure
had hobbled the hors»» In a near
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and not other pines may be accounted derangement. Thursday la Reglna’a
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
that I do not look a;- if I were worth
meadow flat, Jack and his father made
for by suggestlteness of Its color—the 1 fortunate day and 7 her lucky number.
saving. I suppose that 1 must have
A UNE O’ CHEER
a lean to for the women and children
color of nshes to which the sacred The
'
violet la her flower.
turned Into an old woaiun. Is my hair
and roofed it with bark. Then they
pine of Attis was ultimately reduced_
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white?”
matter-of-fact father of an ero
cut wood and built a fire and gathered
By John Kendrick Bange.
or possibly the color of the natural
No. You are the best-looking girl
houghs for bedding. Later, tea was bryo poet handed some of the lad's ef
wool with which the trunk of the sa
I ever saw,” he declared with rustic
made and beefsteaks and bacon grilled forts to a distinguished author of
cred pine was covered at the Phrygian
frankness.
on spits of green birch, the dripping verse, and asked for his opinion.
WHY?
festival. Also as the sacred pine of
“I never ha I a compliment that flit being caught on slices of toasting
“Well, whnt's the answer?” queried
Attis was always burned so the prin
pleased me ao much?" she answered, bread whereon the meat was presently the successful stockman.
HY yield up to despair,
cipal use of the gray pine Is for fire
as her elbows t htened a little on his served.
Surrendering to care.
"Ains!” sighed the real p<IPf, "those
wood.
hands, which w । e clinging to her coat,
With tears and downcast
The masterful power with which the things are so good, Fm afraid you'll
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"I almost love«’ you for what you did stalwart youth and his father swung have to support Henry the rest of his
When
In
the
morning
sky
to the old villa i. I saw hlood on the the nx and their cunning craftsman life."—Writer's Monthly.
The glorious sun of cheer
side of your head. I fear he hurt ship Impressed the English woman and
THOSE DEAR
Is shining bright and clear,
you ?”
And shedding on your way
girls .
her daughter and wore soon to be the
The golden light of day
"He jabbed m ■ once. It Is nothing.” topic of many a London tea party.
Miss Old: I'd
To lead you from your stress
Prof—You should think of the fu
“How brave jou were I”
Mrs. Hare spoke of It as she was eat ture.
Out of the wilderness
Just like to see
“I tnlnk I am more scared now than ing her supper.
If you but seise the gold
•ny man kiss me.
Youth—I can't. It's my girl’s birth
The flying minutes hold?
I was then.” Mid Jack.
“It may surprise you further to learn day and I have to think of the pres
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“Scared! Why?"
What a hopeless
that the boy Is fairly familiar with cnl.
SYNOPSIS. — Solomon Binkus.
terän scout and
Interpreter,
and hia young
Irons,
paaain«
through
Horae
Valley, New York. In September,
17as. to warn settlers of an In
dian uprising, rescue from a band
of redskins the wife and daughter
Colonel
England.
Through the Qlad
Eye» of a Woman
CfheWhy
What sin a Name?"
Superstitions
Expensively Good
W
Relative Term
ambition.
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