Wells 3/nltlv
odded down the main
guiltily back over the
where straight rows of to-
their broad leaves ripe for
There was deeper guilt in his
when he thought of the pro-
which he was bent. Never
had he done anything that he
have been ashamed to tell out
»-meeting at the little cross roads
where he was one of the younger
, The tall, gawky shadow he
>ng the white road seemed a sort
nonitory figure of that beMer self
ould follow him the rest of his
e an accusing angel. And it was
account of a woman; not that she
blame, except for the fact that she
>ft white skin and fair hair, and
liest of -feet that made his own
ponstrous, and the daintiest little
the kind that a big muscular fel-
;e Wesley yearns to hold in his
ley had never been a ladies’ man
he school teacher came into the
^orhood but he bad been captured
the evening he drove to the sta
nd she had sat beside him in the
ipring wagon during the five miles
lad to go in the September twi-
The scent of her gauzy handker-
played about his senses for a week
Hard; it was different from any
ne that had entered his nostrils,
: acccustomed to the odors of
t basil,” marjoram, and a gen
sprinkling of musk in the closely
1 little chapel of Sunday mornings,
pinquity, that strong promoter of
ender passions, sealed his doom,
le school teacher boarded in his
house and came to bear upon him
e varied and wonderful charms of
nan.
felt himself the most highly fav-
man in the universe to be able to
inder the same roof with her, and
ep the little box behind the sheet
stove filled with wood sawed and
to a nicety, to handle a refractory
behind the school house as an ex-
: to all others who should dare to
the teacher’s authority, and a hun-
other offices that a big, strong man
perform for a young and fragile
her of his household, that brought
unspeakable joy.
far, however, from believing these
!S were gaining for him the desired
ir, Wesley would have dispensed
Silas was seated on a high chair behind
the counter regaling himself with the
latest postal card news that had come in.
“Howdy, Wes’," he greeted, reluctant
ly placing the cards in their respective
pigeon holes as the visitor came behind
the counter, “Air ye through cuttin’r"
“Well, I-I ain’t clean through,” was
the embarrassed answer—“but I lef’ off
for a little spell, as I got a matter I
want fixed up, an’ I thought this would
be the bes’ time of day to ketch you—”
“Well, ef it's that little loan, I
reck’n—”
“No, I ain’t after pesterin’ you ’bout
that, Si,” Wesley interrupted, to the
other’s relief, and tattooing awkwardly
on the desk, he blurted out:
“Si, I’ve come down here to git you
to do sump’n I can’t do myself, an’ that’s
to write a letter fer me I”
“Oh, that’s it, is it?” Silas asked, with
a grin, noticing the other’s embarrass
ment. “Well, I reck’n I kin ’commodate
you," he added, taking his pen from be
hind his ear. “Who’s the lady?" eye
ing Wesley suspiciously.
“I reck’n you know,” was the answer,
with a responsive grin to hide his em
barrassed flush.
Then as Silas began to drawl the
school teacher’s name, writing it at the
same time with many flourishes at the
top of the sheet he had spread before
him, Wesley grinned broader, and con
fessed with more blushes that that was
the young lady in question.
“Now about the beginning?” was Si's
next question with his most professional
air, making ready to start. “You kin
make it a little stronger by adding some
words on the next line.” Silas indi
cated with his pen the line below the one
upon which the lady’s name was in
scribed, for the benefit of the uninitiated
Wesley—“but that’s accordin’ to your in
tentions to the young lady.” He paused
for Wesley to intimate.
“Then you might make it a little
stronger,” the other suggested sheepishly
after a pause.
“To the young lady that has my
heart, how is that?” Silas poised his pen
inquiringly.
Wesley nodded approvingly. “That’s
it,” he said, and as Silas waited for
further instructions he squirmed awk
wardly in his seat and began to wipe the
perspiration off his face.
“It’s kinder hard to know what to say
when you ain’t exactly certain ’bout the
look her in the face, but began to walk
at her side, forgetting to offer to take
her books as usual, until they had gone
some distance and he made an awkward
attempt to relieve her, dropping half
of them on the ground in his confusion.
As he stopped to gather them up the
fateful letter rolled out from between
the pages of one of the books, and
there was nothing for him to do but to
pick it up and hand it to her. A
shamed, side-long glance at her face
told him that his doom was to be set
tled. He walked along, waiting for the
verdict like a hero.
“Did you tell Jack Crawford to put
that letter on my desk?” the school
teacher asked, at last.
“Yes, Miss Elmira,” was all he could
say.
“Then I presume that you want my
answer?” was the next question deliv
ered in a suppressed tone.
“I-I—come here to git it,” Wesley
stammered.
“Then I’ll give it to you now, and
it’s just no!” she said bluntly, not
slackening her pace and looking straight
ahead of her.
It came like a thunderbolt, even though
he was in a measure prepared.
“Miss Elmira, I’m sorry, but—"
“I hate Silas Mansur, and he hwd no
business writing that letter,” she in
terrupted.
Wesley hung his head, his face
flushed to the roots of his hair.
“I didn’t know you’d be able to tell
by the writin’, ’deed I didn’t; I reck’n
it wam’t actin’ square, but Silas kin
write an—”
“I don’t care if he can write,” she in
terrupted again. “Do you suppose I’m
going to marry a man just because he
can write; and after all, I’d rather mar
ry the man I loved if he couldn’t write
his own name than one I don’t care a
straw about, even if you are so anxious
to make the match for Silas Mansur,
and I thought you’d be the last one to—”
She broke off with a sob, turning to
dash away the tears that sprang to her
eyes.
Wesley felt the earth slipping under
his feet, the sky seemed a dazzling,
crimson vortex whirling above him
through the dark tree tops.
“Miss Elmira!” he cried at last, “did
you think that was Silas’s own letter?
¿or it wam’t. ’deed it warn’t!” he pant
ed. “It was my letter, Miss Elmira,
every word of it, only I got Silas to
write it fer me, ’cause—’cause,—well, I
ain’t shamed fer you to know now, I
can’t write my own name.”
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The southern migration of wild fowl
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to have been especially severe sufferers.
The large black-headed goose is a
strong, hardy bird, generally remaining
on its own native water until the ice
forms firmly. In the South it is only
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tershed, or perhaps on some inlet in
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birth.
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of the talk about the leadings of an
extra sense. Like a ship without a
rudder, the V-shaped flock will make
for any low places.
Once a flock came tumbling into the
street of an Eastern township’s village,
where the half-blinded things became
the easy prey of the boys and the dogs.
In another place a farmer chanced
one spring to find the frozen carcasses
of more than thirty fine geese in a drift
in one of the fence corners. The birds
had evidently come to earth in some
blinding storm, and, imagining they
Royal Quarrels Over Chess.
were nearing water, found instead the
hard, snow-covered ground.
King Edward, we are told, is devel
There are several instances recorded oping an enthusiasm for chess. In that
of flocks of geese in a storm running case, according to a writer in Tid-Bits,
full tilt into the ends or sides of farm he is only following in the steps of
buildings. A large brood flew at full many of his predecessors on the throne,
speed against the rigging of the whal including his namesake, the first Ed
ing steamer Dart this month off the ward. Says the writer:
Newfoundland coast. A damp, snow
Whether or not players were more
laden wind was blowing at the time, irascible in those old days than now, it
and eleven dead or dying geese flut is a curious fact that chess was often
tered on to the deck, the others alight j more stimulating to the royal tempers
ing in a half-dead condition upon the i than is golf in these latter days, and
“MARRY A MAN JUST BECAUSE HE CAN WRITE”?
waves.
1 many a game peacefully begun ended
A more pleasing story is of domestic in broken heads. When Prince Henry
rith half of his muscular power to re young lady’s feelin’s,” he stammered,
geese
in
a
large,
well-appointed
farm
—afterward Henry I.—once paid a vis
“
but
I
like
that
beginnin
’
an
’
I
reck
’
n
lace a deficiency that he feared would
e an unsurmountable barrier between you kin put it more fancy like; but I yard hailing with their hearty honks, it to the court of France, “he wan so
want you to be sure to say I’m waitin' a short time ago, a passing drove of much at chesse of Louis, the king’s
im and the young school martn.
It was a common enough falling In for her answer very patient, an ef she'll twenty-two black bills. The strangers eldest sonne, as he, growing into chol-
the neighborhood in which Wesley lived, say yes, I'll be ths happles’ man in came down and followed their tame re ler, called him (a naughty name) and
and six months before, the fact that he Chinkapin Hundred, an’ ef she says no, lations into the stable, where they have threw the chesse in his face. Henry
takes up the chesseboard, and strake
could not write his own name, would it'll drive me to do what it will hurt her since stayed.
Louis with that force as drew blood,
not have embarrassed him a great deal. Tell her I’m able to take kere of her,
that
I
’
m
workin
’
the
place
on
sheers
and had killed him had not his brother
Since the school teacher had come into
Re-Using Old Shoes.
Robert come in the meantime and in
his life, however, it had become a real this year, but pa, he’s promised to deed
me
a
strip
of
lan
’
down
by
the
fur
gate,
Janitors collect the shoes cast away terposed himsclfc, whereupon they sud
thorn in the flesh. Vainly he struggled
an
’
ef
she
ain
’
t
a
mind
to
live
with
the
by tenants and send them to auction denly took horse and gat away.”
with the little imps of the alphabet in
King John in his younger days had a
his room by candle light when all the old folks I’ll, build her a house on my rooms, where they are sorted into piles
own
lan
’
,
an
’
say
I
’
ll
make
her
a
sober,
marked “Men,” “Women,” “Children.” similar experience; for a game of chess
other members of the household were
industrious
husband,
an
’
’
ll
treat
her
in
which his opponent was one Fulk
In
a
recent
sale
in
one
of
the
big
wrapped in slumber; but the goal of his
ambition measured a distance that was like the apple of my eye, which she is, cities, says the “Shoe Retailer,” several Warine ended in a royal row, during
beyond the feverish impatience that pos an' ever will be, even if she don't rerip- poor people made fair bids, but the which Fulk gave the prince “so griev
ercate my affections, an’ then you kin auctioneer did not seem eager to sell. ous a blowe as almost to slaie him on
sessed him.
Wesley had Seen trembling on the win’ tip, Si,” he finished, taking the first Finally, a red-faced man pushed his the spot.” John never forgot the blow
verge of a proposal many times and breath, “only as I'm partic'lar ’bout way through the crowd and offered to nor forgave his iraclble opitonent, and
would have committed himself long ago folks signin’ other folk’s name, suppose cents apiece for the whole lot. His bid punished him, when later he came to
the throne, by withholding his heri
but for this barrier. For the idea of you jes say good-bye, my angel, till I j was successful.
I “I was killing time with talk waiting tage—Whittington cartie—from him.
addressing the school teacher in writing hear from you, an’ that'll do.”
It
seemed
an
age
before
Wesley
had
William the Conqueror more than
for that fellow,” said the auctioneer
seemed to have fixed itself in his mind
as being the only method of procedure converted all this in a sure enough let afterward. “He always pays High for once lost his tempet over the game,
ter,
even
taking
into
consideration
the
■ these shoes and he does not want them and on at least one occasion with ser
through which he could hope for a re
He was playing
ciprocation. So it was an overwhelming beautiful flourishes with which it was for wearing, either. He wants to beat ious consequences.
embellished,
and
he
had
it
in
nis
coat
i them out for the leather in them. He with the son of the king of France
desire to settle his fate, coupled with a
hopelessness of attaining the educational pocket on his way to deliver into the j gets what material there is, puts it when a dispute led to hot words, and
qualification of being able to pen his hands of the school teacher. Then it through a process and makes stamped culminated in William bringing down
own epistle, that led him to procure the seemed another age after he had in frames, bags, pocketbooks, penknife the board so heavily on his opponent’s
agency of another party, upon which trusted it to the care of one of the j holders, and even chair backs and seats. bead as to render him nnconsciotw.
children and watched through the i He finds a ready sale for these novel
Louis XIII. of France was so infatu
errand he was bound this afternoon. * school
open window to be sure it was laid on ties and gets a good price for them.”
ated with the game that wherever he
The party he had decided to utilize the
’s desk, before school was let
went he was accompanied by his chess
*
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was one Silas Mansur, postmaster and out, teacher
though at last when he saw the
board and men and invariably played it
general groceryman combined; and as children
There
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eberry
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at
the
Salem,
pouring out the door, the pret
in his coach when he took drives
Silas was under obligation to him for
school martn bringing up the rear, a Massachusetts, Museum wblc„ con- ' abroad. Charles I. found it so fascin-
a small loan, Wesley thought he might ty
I tains the fac similes of one dozen sil | ating that he almost literally played it
be glad to have it canceled in this way. real stage fright possessed him.
The idea of flight presented itself, but ver spoons. They are so small that I to the foot of the scaffold; and when
He had choser, a time of the day when
once his game was interrupted by news
he would run the least chance of en he dismissed it with a manly determina ■ tbelr shape and finish can only be die- I I that
the Scots had decMed to sell him to
countering loungers about the store, and tion to stand his ground. When the tlngulabed by the microscope.
| the parliament he proceeded with his
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