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November 17, 1909. would not tell. But nowhei en path, or any "blazed" tre canvas of the tents. He was nearing the top c hidden among the dense br and begun again, when sue oned. Was the voice faint* iner awav. What could it n It was dangerous, burn trail; but he went back fr< bush, twice as fast as he ha ing, at the base. There hung the waving 1 moss-grown log. but no sig shouted, listened, and then, through the undergrowth. "What's the matter?" sh "She's gone." Ethel was crying now, ai "Ruth!" shouted Billy at come back! Come back lu It seemed a long, long ti voice answered, in the woo "I ca-a-nt come back! E Ethel's tears burst ou very bear-like. Could it be child away? They dared i <k>; they could only press o "What's the matter?" hi with you?' "He've got me by ve d\ bad?let go, or I'll stwike y And the rest was lost ii sobs. The rescuers were hurrj but there was danger of them. They looked this wa once more. "Ruth, Ruth!" he comm you can! We'll be there it And, in obedience, came growth, in broken and int the child's voice, but braver "Vere's a FriendAbove?ve brigl A Friend?" And then, as they burst and hazel, they saw it all teeth firmly set in Ruth's lentlessly along, in spite ( holdings back. That night, when Billy Is he so loved to hear had be canvas roof, he called: "How did Watch happe mamma?" "Aunt Lida sent him. i seen the children for a Ion and he started right off. a: meant." "But I think," said Billy children" helped a good de< THE PRESBYTERIAf rc was there a sign of bcate or a glimpse of the white tf a little hillock, and Ruth, ush, had finished her song Idenly he stoooed and list er? Or?no. It was movlean? ring?one might miss the Dm broken bush to broken d come, and stopped, pantlandkerchief, there was the n of Ruth or of Ethel. He next moment, Ethel burst ? ? i C C13MTU. id very badly frightened, the top of his voice. "Ruth, :re!" ime, and then a wee, small ds far ahead. [e von't let me!" t afresh, for this sounded some animal dragging the lot think what they would n. e called. "Tell us who is vess?let go, you naughty, ou?I'll?" 1 a sound of scuffling and dug as fast as they could, having no sound to guide y and that, and Billy called landed, "sing, sing loud as 1 a minute!" through the matted undererrupted snatches, tears in y as well: of little chil'ren? it?blue sky? through a tangle of sumac ?faithful Watch, with his skirt, and drap-p-incr li#?r re. oo o ^ )f her cuffs and kicks and ty snug in bed, and the rain gun to fall softly upon the n to come looking for us, ^hc said. 'Watch, I haven't g time. You go find them,' * if he knew just what she , "that 'the Friend for little il."??Youth's Companion. *4 * 1 OF THE SOUTH. IN C Oh ! said Janie, one d or a bee!" I low mamma latiHiPfl o she said. "Do you want t "No, but I was just thi to live in clover all the t It was June, and Jamie enjoying it, and felt as if of it. .\11 around him were a the air wa$ sweet with til Hundreds of bees am and there, sipping the s\ And Jamie, too, enjoyed little tubes. But he wa interfere with the flower Every morning Jamie a nice basketful of the cl Bunnv W'pp cmJtifr J . , agoII it fresh, for his supper. Bunnies are very fonc Prince was?Jamie said and asked him if he wai "sniggered an(l laughed," And Jamie felt very h off with him on his back Did you ever find a ni< clover field? What good times! Can you find any swi seek ? By the way, did you e dark? The two side le are folded together wli and clasps them. Some one said, "The cl ed its hand to say its pra Clovers usually have find four leaves in a clu: luck." When you hear peop clover." that means they And Jamie certainly " mer, for he had the m< ever had.?The Child's < . 4Miu.ua, aaacu lllllt we going to heaven son "Yes, dear, I hope so,' "I wish papa could f fellow. "Well, and don't yoi mother. "Oh, no," replied Fre business."?Tit-Bits. Never until one realize price at which it was pur as intense and personal in our soul, shall we be ti lost. 11 LOVER. ay, "I wish I was a little bird ! "Why do you wish that?" o fly to the top of a tree?" M Lr i M rr ? !?- ? ' * nun guuu ii wouia icel ime." : was in the country. lie was he just could iiui get enough cres and acres of clover, and ic perfume of many blossoms, i butterflies were flying here veet white and red blossoms, drawing the t>%veet from the s always very careful not to the bees had selected, went to the field and brought lover, with the dew on it, for 1 late ill the ?* ... .... mivillUUII IU gCl I of clover, and ponies, too. when he went to tiie stable ited some clover, Prince just he was so happy, appy, too, as Prince cantered to the clover field. :er place, children, than a big Jeter place to play hide and ver look at clover leaves after aves, which are its "hands," ile the third leaf leans over over was alseep and had foldyers." three leaves. But when you >ter, it is said to bring "good le say "they are living in are having a splendid time, lived in clover" all that sitm>st splendid vacation he had Gem. s three-year-old Freddy, "are le day?" ' was the reply. jo, too," continued the little i think he will?" asked his ddy, "he could not leave his ' l l4>iU ;s the value of a souY and the chased, and never until a love as that of a brother burns nuch used in the saving of the '.'i ;r,a 3