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December 15, 1909.
"I can stroke thy v<
Robert.
"He's not under therunning
up, "nor any?w
Uncle Robert went o
startling news.
"1 can hear thy gentle ]
They could all hear it.
had been composed witl
slowly advancing form ol
close, peered with mild
grave, and murmured in
Lottie hugged him witl
of joy poured down hei
"Oh, you rascal," cri<
rascal, why didn't you stJ
beautiful Sunday funeral
THE MUSK
The summer when H
years old, it was decidec
school for a while, and i
fields and woods nearly
why Hughie was left on
the rest of the family we
Of course, in a way, t
father and mother and 1
farm meant all kinds of
not have in the city.
What he wanted mos
This was because of tfc
Norman had given thenbegan
to get real sharp j
were very warm gloves
Uncle Norman said that 1
the muskrats himself, in F
Were there any more tl
dreds of them; and som
now and then, but not of
"Why, just think of it,
"If I had some traps I c
and catch muskrats enou
and a nice buffalo robe i
"Well !M said Uncle No
for the fur coat, but I c
robe. It takes an awful
a buffalo robe." And tli
said there were plenty of
some of them down an<
Hughie how to set and p
It was a great day for ]
first time to visit his 1
bright and the crust of t
walking was easy; but i
those fur gloves felt goot
muffler which grandmotl
The first trap, to Hugl
^?.?1 A. 1 1 1 -? -
uiusMdi, anu nau noi eve
same with the second on<
way off, and suddenly, be
rabbit jumped out of so
into a hole at the roots c
The traps were forgot
to the tree, and kneeling
THE PRESBYTER!
elvet fur," continued Unqlc
?lilac bush," pouted Chess,
here?around."
n as if he hadn't heard the
purr."
Uncle Robert's "epDertaoh"
i his eyes fastened upon the
[ Beauty Spot. Now he came
interest into the empty little
quiringly, "Poroo-wang?"
1 rapture unspeakable. Tears
cheeks.
?d Chess, "you precious old
ly dead till after we'd had our
?"
:rat gloves.
ugh Greenwood was eight
1 that he ought not to go to
nusi uc urn in tne air oi tnc
all of every day. That was
his grandfather's farm when
nt back to the city in the fall,
fughie was glad. He missed
lis sisters ; but being on the
out-door fun which he could
t was to do some trapping,
le gloves, of course. Uncle
i to him when the mornings
ind snappy with cold.. They
, made of muskrat fur, and
Oliver Brumstead had caught
lughre's grandfather's swamp,
here? Oh, yes, probably hunetimes
there were mink, and
ten, an otter.
Uncle Norman !" said Hughie.
:ould go down to the swamp
gh for a fur coat for mamma
tor papa!"
rman, "you might get enough
lon't know about the buffalo
lot of muskrat skins to make
len he laughed. But he also
traps in the shed, and he got
1 cleaned them, and showed
lace them.
ugh when he started out the
ine of traps. The sun was
he snow was frozen hard, so
t was very cold. I tell you,
I then, and so did the woolen
ler had tied about his ears,
hie's disappointment, held no
n been sprung; and it was the
;. The next was quite a'long
:fore Hughie reached it, a big
me bushes and dashed away
>f a big tree.
ten then, and Hughie rushed
; down, looked into the hole.
v.?
AN OF THE SOUTH.
The rabbit was nowhere in si
pushed his hand in, and then 1
around.
Still he could not feel any ral
find a little place, way in, throi
push his hand. Perhaps the
through. He pushed his hand
was no rabbit. And then, wh
1 l " * *
nana out, lie lound he could no
caught on something sharp ar
ice. Every time he pulled, the
fast. Perhaps if he pulled hare
come off; but he knew that if
away down into the hole, and
again.
If he could only get his knii
bigger! But no, his knife was i
and it was the right hand that
move it back and forth a little
little way, but he could not ge
Hughic began to feel very cc
running or walking fast hp v.
but lying still, face down, in t
tree trunk, the chill struck tin
Perhaps he would freeze to dea
him. The thought set him t
Grandpa! Grandp-a-a-a!"
It hurt him to lie so still, wit)
and he began to bear more of
in the hole. Something under
where his bare wrist rested 01
feel his hand and sleeve growi
After a long time, as it seen
tingled so that he just had to n
surprise, the hand rame nut nf
all on it. It was some icicles ?
that had caught, and his warn
long, had thawed it enough to
It was a very thankful boy i
away. The first thing he did \
up the two traps he had passec
others, and pulled them up-, tc
to the house.
"I don't want to catch any
anything else," he told grandm;
how it feels to be caught in a t
a muskrat and got caught, an
did, and anybody had heard me
have helped me out, would he
"No, my boy, not if the hunl
lo robe."
"Well, I don't want mine the
F. W. Frenz, in Youth's Comp
TEN COMMANDMEN
"Have thou no other sods
Unto no Image bow thy k
Take not the name of Got
Do not the Sabbath day pr
Honor thy father and mo
And see that thou no murd
In conduct be thou chastf
And steal not though thy
Of false report bear not t
What is thy neighbor's cc
II
ght, and so Hughie
lis whole arm. and f*dt
)bits, but his fingers did
igh wlych be could just
rabbit had squeezed
in and felt. No, there
en he tried to pull his
t, because his fur glove
id rough, that felt like
glove caught and held
1 it might give way and
he did, it would drop
he would never see it
te out and cut the hole
n his right hand pocket,
was caught. He could
way, and in and out a
t it free.
tld. When he had been
id been warm enough,
he shadow of the great
-ough him like a knife,
th before any one found
o shouting, "Grandpa!
h his arm stretched out,
his weight on the hand
t-?- 1 ? * ~
nis nana telt very cold
i it, and then he could
ng wet.
led to Hughie, his arm
love it; and then, to his
the hole with the glove
ind ragged edges of ice
i hand resting on it so
set him free,
who got up and walked
vas to go back and pull
I. Then he went to the
o, and took them back
muskrats or rabbits or
a, "because now I know
rap. And if I had been
d hollered as loud as I
i and come, he wouldn't
, grandpa?"
ter had wanted a buffait
way," said Hughie.?
>anion.
TS IN METER.
but me,
nee.
d In vain,
ofane,
ther, too,
er do.
s and clean,
state be mean,
he blot.
>vet not."
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