OUR
Woman's
WALTER
Way.
The
A. of
Pioneer
Binder.
tilts
the
quitoes,
E.
Joyce
mumbled
a
past,
uncertain hoarse vpices
"
an
"
"
good-night,"
then
halt.
Two
wavering out
rasped
self.
he's,
the
the
behind the
ot
red lowered window. Both
cottage coughed.
both
;
yer, light
ain't
HOLLER
ter
promised
eh?"
asked
Kit,
with
furtive
eyes.
meet the
watching boots
LIGHT
BEARINGS.
For
RELIABLE
IN
WORK.
in
let
thar
out
slide things Wall (he drew bearded chin),
William
chance.
still
W.
A.
(C/o
"
Kit
and
other,
and
me
hours on with shuffled lagging even Ned's heart, in paling stars, of its grew joy triumph, oddly bitter Lesbia he re when against flected that by winning her he might himself on lose his friend. He raised his elbow at last, yawning drowsily.
107
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A LL
ter
it's
no
was
playin'
see
good
There
Kit.
'for
we
about
lyin'
"
I
sh'd
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
march,
an'
But
it.
MONSTER I
a
pause,
broken
whine of rusted protesting hinges and door. creak of an opening Then the soft rustle of a calico they heard the crunch of a light dress, footstep on the cindered was path, and Lesbia over
leaning a
purring ".Ned."
the
gate.
once
he
more
heard
and hurried laughter, on, held high and his lips drawn
head
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2nd.
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Day,
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1st,
1900.
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reached
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But
cattlei
hev bin different.' wooden
it
at
January
of New
South
1900.
26th,
January
run
5,
3rd,
"
1900.
bridge
Wales.
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arms
a
and
affirmative
growl,
"
She
in
so
"
COLLEGE.
an'
"she
friend), an' Kit, was—
talkin'
was
an'
brave book."
a
Lesbia
thar, his ekal
in
ter
Maine.
I I
gal," the hull
ole
'bout
how
say in' like jest
right ain't
TERRACE,
Lesbia air ter the goin' the he arter said. war," ain't let on thet much 'zactly I guess, but she many words, An' 'lowed she didn't object. over close to his (Ned rolled
Florida
good he "
sez,
"
sez
;
show
He's
Y'ar thar frum ez
straight
"
PERTH.
a
pine
—
There freezing This
Co
is
lege well-furnished large, play-ground. The
Pupils Examinations.
are
beautifully classrooms,
boarders
younger
prepared
are
ft
situated
under
tained Government
on
banks
the
dormitories,
airy
the
care
Adelaide
passes During 1897 twenty-one students— viz., by the College
fine
a
of
Swan
River.
It
gymnasium,
and
extensive
and
seventeen
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were
four
at
the
&
PLUMBERS
FITTINGS,
a
Wish
sweet
Now
and his
biting
A
lips.
dry
luck,
yer little
old
gal,
so
She's
man.
be good
to
her.
up."
The sun came up beyond the river; and the blue smoke from the scattered the stream. frame- huts wisped across amid the bustle of groom Presently, horses and of arms, a cleaning ing down the pony panting yellow loped and its rider hill, to the slipped Kit rose from the in ground. lazily saddle on which he was verted seated, "
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both Ned
growl,
hand towards him, crept face was hidden though it's owner's from sight. He pressed it fervently, as muffled voice drawled out Kit's
contemplatively
Sizes),
?
paused abruptly,
"
Perth.
Street,
FITTINGS &
another prolonged,
knotted
Scholarship
S TUBES,
IRONMONGERY,
GENERAL
was
and
:
Government
examinations competitive at the and University
public
has
Matron.
ejicriehoed
an
University
in
the
of
Examinations.
the
his on rail. paused, resting and hisst-d below The water gurgled him, and the bats winged past in The moon ghostly flight. peeped
Me
parson
Kit
BUILDERS'
(
was
?"'
throat and spoke Ned cleared his with tremulous nonchalance a non chalance that was badly simulated.
1899.
—
Bates,
Kit
avvake,
ye
irritable.
sorter
tight. " he solilo So it's Ned arter all," he charged as his pipe. "I quised, one kinder reckoned different time. me that Mebbe it's can't tot the Ef it can't be me, I'm wimmen up. Ned. it's Ned'll be good an' glad ter the ef the war kind don't gal him off. I'm choke Yes, mighty or Nicholson proud it's Ned, an' not
Air
There 10,000
whistle and a whisp The men had moved
Ned -went back, his heart singing, and Kit stole off softly into the gloom. A of girlish drifted ripple laughter after the him through sultry night. He had a tawdry locket hidden in the of his breast tunic,, bought from a and intended as a wandering pedlar, He took it out, for Lesbia. present reverent and began 'to fondle it with Then
Boulder,
HANDICAP,
Presently
away.
lingers. the girl's
:
DISTRICT
by the
the
LIST
BOULDER
fair." was
PRIZE
—
like
too," the gal
said
twenty
wrapt in their greatcoats cottonwood. big-limbed the rear guard of Garton's
the
"
An'
bridge When the main
the the
CHARLES).
J.
lay the
the
through
tottering
Ned were next to one an neither had closed his eyes the The hot night. throughout silence between them had been un and uneasy. Once or twice natural
Perth.
TATTERS
?
way
along the
Horse.
as
across his thumb his I'm Kit. far, playin' strolling jest by on the off the cargo." Thet's
was
making
They were
& Co.,
street,
uneasily
own
lumbering
dust, rock,
under
PURSER
12s
went
men
"
'
camp.
beneath their weight. the East, the dawn streaked out of sight, but body was
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Ned shuffled his spurred the thick dust, fumbling with the frog of his belt.
his
were as blinking towards and lurched
eyes
the scouts strag midnight " and the boot in, gled bugles sang The and saddle." creaking waggons
in
men
Lesbia
ered
good. Ned."
it's
pleased
Towards
two
it
came
growled, rough, Yes I'm
the
blinds
t
real
—
But his blue he swung round
;
.
"
good
he. "Ned's
off.
Kit."
glimmered
I
Ned,"
glad it's shambled
he
but
carefully uniforms of sergeants of the Army, turned back and faced another one old exactly opposite Harsier's A gate. light suddenly
"
I'm
"
as
Ned."
The brushed Federal
saw
mos
horse
a
or.
downright
doubtfully
of
neigh
camp
up
Two
Murray..
A luminous haze the top rimmed to herald the rising of the hill moon. came Two men along the baked road, the warped and almost skirting fence, one stumbled before against the other Harsier's There was unpainted gate. a each as growl from they swung ,
shrill
wag
the air. through baking his three times Kit lighted the tobacco would but somehow pipe, not burn. At last he tossed it angrily the stream him into and straightened came
By
hill
rounded
WOOD, the
the
top and silvered of the clustering buzz of the waking gons, the the of with mingled droning the
over
-
A
STORY.
Yer
might
chewing be
for breakfast, hurry " What's the row ?"
in
a
straw.
thunderin' Abe," he said. a
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