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Julie's
Has A
CANADIAN
IDYLL.
By
J.
Gertrude
Menard.
the
largest satisfaction
stood
So close,
roadside.'
to
the
that
the
close
in
.fact,
sidewalk wooden planks high the doorstep, and the almost touched and of wild caraway tangle chicory that all 'summer blossomed long at the edges of that footway creaking, the worn over threshold reached up with a and sent of wind every gust across whirl of blue and white petals the kitchen floor.
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to
with
its
green
see
of
bed only the high and yellow patchwork
brown,
Assets
life
other
that
formed
was
the
the
was
the
attraction,
buffet,
of
patchwork
office
A
quilt
it perhaps the with
impressive old age, or
to
ripe
was
POSITION
Large
Policy-holders.
A.
Forrest,
the
is
of
of
Future
is
conducted
on
1897.)
PERTH
£10,5t)8,995 than
larger
that
of
any
Test of StrengtlTand Bonuses. the
Mutual
Plan
;
all
Surplus
belongs
BRANCH: .
G.
Esq., H.
F.R.G-.S,
Johnston,
Edward
Chairman;
M.L.A.,
Manager.
Special
T.
Hooley, S. J.
Representative,
M.L.A.
Esq.,
Chenhall.
what
Pierre
true, old
an
is
one's legs, not
Is.it "
Yes, yes,
am
stiff
as
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much, But
so. me
one's
wag
bit
a
was
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I monsieur Come in an old turkey to-day, for piece of news you. !
as
And
J ulie
would
her
tale
in
and,
for forget sion, which affliction
Mere
For
I
!
J ulie
a
forthwith innocent
moment
weighed was
a
the upon
PRIZE
LIST
:
at
CUP,
July 8th. July 15th.'
GRAND
Free
the
truth
were
colour
thin cheeks, the silver hair,
in
youth.
the
And
while
ease
showed
delicate
a
fresh
and for
brief,
a
Julie
blushed
long-forgotten
beauty
moment
with
for.
SighkTesting
OPTICIANS
Royal
8
encompassed by
AND
SPECTACLEMAKERS,
cottage.
told.
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&
began suddenly
corner,
familiar
&
of colour
flashes its
faded
recesses,
its
foot
were
PLUMBERS
Sizes),
"Windmill.
Telephone
358.:
Julie
pleasant
and to
once
,
more
her
home upon
with them,
scarcely at evening when
attractive
'
were
contemplate
glamour of noonday a they made, perhaps,
-
less the
picture to faded a faint amber streak western at the edge of the and the deep hush of night plain, the had settled world. upon /Then the tiny and lamp had been lighted, sunset
Alston's
if
the
FITTINGS,
Melbeurne; & Son, Ltd.,. Fire London, Brigade Appliances.
the
if
thus
Perth.
Street,
FITTINGS
BRASS
its
polished length of a reminiscent pensive brilliancy untarnished The former splendour. touched here and there spinning-wheel, a of the with spider's glint dainty fost its air of perpetual handiwork, and seemed to stir and thrill repose
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in
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Perth.
Arcade,
cot
the treadle. Even the faded tapping took on a look of fresh rag carpet ness and the bedimmed picturesother ornaments and humble upon the walls, the infection, catching contributed a few fitful gleams to the of the hour. general magnificence
KNAPP,
&
CLARKE
,
of the
mistress
the
thus by tage was being rejuvenated of, the sun the magic touch genial was tak beam, a like transformation household ing place in the humble her. ancient articles around The and sombre a grim buffet, usually
as
,
if
'
good
little,
of blissful
one
feeble send forth from the depths of and to revive along
cripple.
to Hard sit hard at first. that bear the and tugged pains all day at her and wrenched muscles at her see to the spinning.Hard joints. and the loom, and wheel set aside, of all hardest to And the churn. at ths about watch .Pierre fumbling to make his stiff housekeeping, trying to their themselves adapt fingers but and succeeding woman's tasks,
poorly
to
A faint
of her
was
It
some
to
great her.
since was almost five years now little feet had clattered active house. Five the little about years since she had risen from a bed of pain in the clutches of fast to find herself dread enemy, rheumatism, and that the
the
sentinel
It
world henceforth four walls of the
the
like
place
content.
again
1899.
run
unfold diver
her
her
ga ve
it
unconscious
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i
please." that
J ulie
see
of great shaft the that entered through and sit there in door, basking
ness
MAY
as
much
to
departure, into
over her worn countenance. passed and Its multitude of lines tiny wrinkles seemed to fade and disappear. of suffering habitual The expression
in
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tongue.
:
as
her chair
At times, as the warm, penetrating her blood and re rays began to stir lax the tension of her limbs, dreary she would her eyes and drift bff close half into a delicious, dreamful state, half slumber. At these wakefulness, moments a sweet and subtle change
.
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
day,
taken
and
CHARLES).
cleanliness
pristine
was
move
but I have' a me not to tell for told it, Pierre would like to have me deaf and Pierre dumb as well as lame. However, he and since he is not I shall here, is not talk
J.
MONSTER
do
to
cannot
one
must
one so
If
too
says like
woman
day long?
"all.
Italk
!
for It
gossip.
in
'
too
is
in
saunter
Oh, monsieur
"
it
to
—
TATTEIiSALL'S
A.
in
times.
the golden flood brown fairy.
to
W.
—
pleasant
the
open
;
of Julie's
herself
had
-
valuation
Best
Guarantee "Society
-
the
gradually adjusted of young daughter had in to a been called neighbour and the to cook daily right cottage the and now, after five simple fare, more to was able once years, Julie
jerk her sunshine
31st,
Surplus standard
every
Surplus
of the
the
on
t
always ready
The
mer's
States.
(December
£49,349,231
-
liabilities in the world.
business
The
it perhaps her her with hair, snowy Julie her eyes, and nervous, gesti bright at the hands but, any rate, culating one that passer-by having given was and apt to give another, glance the welcome was in the end for
beauty
-
over
Surplus
and cheery.
bent,
it
United
FINANCIAL
rocking:
Perhaps
the
when
of neatness
on sum a pleasant, bright the rooms had been after the and Petite Alouette, put in order but diminutive efficient maid-servant,
Society
—
the tall stove midway m the quilt, 'the the wheel, partition, spinning the in table, and, somewhere buffet, half-buried in her the foreground, Mere herself, chair, Julie small,
Equitable
Assurance
_
much
Life
something
had
But matters themselves.
It
The
the
was
PtittTH.
STREET,
disorder,
of happier
-
for
WILLIAM
into and
degenerated
like
sun
he had passer-by,, only over to see to his shoulder glance the whole of the plainly tiny quite two-roomed interior. Not that there As
& Co.,
PURSER
home
to accustomed became at once unattain all indulge her had able luxuries, strong spirit chafed within her, and it had required to her powers of self-control bear all with some semblance of patience the her. evil upon days which had come
TERMS.
OR
tiny very
hundred' small excesses been which she had
Australasia.
CASH
her
.
house
little
better
gives any other drill
than
in The
and
sale
in
.
Mere
DRILL,
FERTILISER
AND
GRAIN
seven deadly sins inscribed Mere had Julie prayer-book added an eighth, the always mentally name was uncleanliness. of which order of the And so, when the austere
To the
FAVOURITE"
"FARMERS'
-
THE
.
S'TOKY.
OUR
had
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