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5 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927. Scientifically Packed "SAMOA" As free from dust as tea can be. THE RABBIT BY DOUGLAS NEWTON. PART II. | trustworthiness. He wasn't really He was a fine bushman, Val Grim- | second-in-command of the Concession mond, and his hiss was perfect. It | --Val was that nominally--yet it was was the deadly, cruel hiss of a snake j the Rabbit who carried things on about to strike. A hiss of ghastly! during such times as now, when terror, unless one knew. j Maurice was away; it was to the Rab- Everybody there did know. All! bit all instinctively turned when prob-save one laughed at Val's joke. But j lems had to be solved, difficulties one knew and did not laugh, and that j overcome and advice needed, one was the Rabbit. He leaped at the j They turned instinctively only. Ap-sound. There is no other word for it, parently he was regarded as that sort he leaped wildly and spun around; of negative little person, the school with a cry that was half a yell. The "swat," whose only justification for card pack tumbled in a shower on to, existence was his ability to mug up the table, his chair went flying, his things that better, manlier men hands rose> in an unpleasant gesture hadn't time or desire to bother about. I of sheer terror, and even in the j His reliability, his efficiency, did not1 candlelight his face was not good; add to his standing; ho was just a to see. i queer little brainy worm one made The others laughed at him, but ■ use of. Never more than that. Helen could not laugh, and Val Grim-' Helen could not help studying him mond did not laugh. ! during the few days that followed her "Real man, isn't he?" sneered Cal. rejection of Val Grimmond, and she "I've tried that trick on him a hun- couldn't help feeling that in certain dred times and he always buys it. A ways he was rather fine, fine, courageous, manly lad, eh?" | There was a quietness and self- "Most people are afraid ojVsnakes," respect about his nervous shyness said Helen, feeling rather sick. ithat was rather refreshing. His mind "Quite! I am myself," sneered Val. was alert and his brain well stocked. "But a real man keeps his funk in He wasn't limited in his talk to sport hand. Besides, that's not real-man and hunting and "shop" and the high funk, it's the sheer, panicky, back- spots of Belem, as the others were, boneless terror of a creature who He knew depths beneath his work, the hasn't it in him to be a man. And folklore of the Turpi Indians about that's your paragon of all the vir- them, the legends of the place, the tues." ] reasons why cne should go carefully He rose and stalked contemptuously with, the customs of the land. And into the house, and, in spite of Mir- outside that, he knew the jungle as lam's protest, lit one of their too few Val and his hunting kind did not candles and settled himself in a chair know it. He knew the loveliness and to read. j ugliness of the vast, tangled, hungry Helen made her excuses not to join tropic bush that surrounded and the card party and went in her room, threatened them. To him his work and there, sitting in darkness, for she at Chiripa wasn't merely a "job"; was unwilling to waste even her half it was a romance and an enthusiasm, night light, she found herself obsessed f Outside that again he was cultur-by Val's words, "a creature who ed; bo.->ks, plays, pictures, philoso-hasn't it in him to be a man." 1 phies, movements were interesting to And the Rabbit, she had seen, had him, and he could make them interlocked it. . esting. An attractive and interest- The knowledge wiped out the fleet- ing little man when one broke through ing impression of fineness she had his shyness. Time and time again thought she saw in him. Had put Helen caught herself being fascinated him back into the rather contemptu- by him. ous place in which the others on the But she always caught herself. Chiripa Concession held him. He was always realized that lack in him a feeble, effeminate, impossible little absence of real manliness, man. interest in cultured things seenn She could not alter that opinion, insist on it. He was so intei though, now that her attention had because he wasn't a man, becaui been so markedly drawn to him, there lack of manliness drove hir seemed many things helping to make such things. His very attracj her alter that opinion. I made her miserable about him. There was, first, his handling of the were only a real man, could prov« native workers. As she had sail to he had the courage' and fibre Val, he got more out of his workers man like Val, she could honor hii with his apparently mild ways than Yet she almost hated the R: all the hazing and bullying of Val too, because he was the only all Grimmond and his muscular compan- ative to Val, a backboneless, pai tens. ; thing, as Val had called him. And it wasn't coddling or backing man couldn't like a man like th; down before them, either. He could When Miriam fulfilled her tL keep even the most truculent workers and became really ill, dangerousll . up to the mark in a way no one else the Rabbit's effeminacy seemed t] could. come more pronounced. It w Queer that such "a little runt," as saved Miriam's life. Miriam called the Rabbit, should yet The others were sympathetic, be able to handle difficult, tricky and up" about it, eager "to help in sometimes dangerous brutes with bet- way, but it was Calvin Boldre ter success and without any of, say, did things. He seemed to know Val's effort. It spoke of character, to taekleher peculiar brand of ji it spoke of something in him they fever at 0nce, though he had couldn't see; though, to be sure, her ]ess experience of local con brother, Maurice, seemed to see it, for than Val. He had Miriam in bedj he trusted the Rabbit absolutely. prescribed the drugs and treat] And that was another thing, his that pulled her round. He s with her for three terrible r With his own hands and will, it ed, he pulled her right out of t! jaws of death. "He's rather wonderful, Calvin," j said Mrs. Frew, the third woman on j the station. "The way he tackled the danger, absolutely like a doctor." "Or a trained nurse," said Val Grimmond with a sneer, and, though Helen hated him for that, the truth of it seemed to stick in her mind like a bur. Since Calvin Boldre wasn't like a man, a doctor, his handling of his patient, his gentleness and sureness, seemed womanly. Perhaps it wasn't fair to think that. A doctor would have acted in the same way, but her mind, obsessed by his lack of courage prejudiced her against him. If the Rabbit had only proved himself a real man. If he could prove himself that now, things might be different. But she doubted that he could and in a queer way was strangely miserable. That was her state of mind right up to the night when Miriam's scream struck them cold with fear as they sat on the dark verandah of the house. They had to sit almost in the dark. J Maurice was not back yet from Belem with the repaired parts of the electric plant, and therefore that wasn't working. Also the three nights of | crisis with Miriam had all but ex-j hausted their small stock of lighting materials. A few night lights rigidly j rationed among the women was all that they could depend on now. The I men had nothing at all, save matches. They were not quite in darkness, i for through the door and window of j the sick woman's room, left »pen be-j cause of the terrific heat, the faint | light of her single night light wanly shone. Rather errie, that light. In the itense hot darkness of the jungle night they were in a nervous state already, so when Miriam's scream came it seemed to slash; right through them in cold horror.! I They all sprang up, and it came { again, a wild, almost mad scream for help. Then there was a crash in the I sickroom, and the light was gone. | They stood in stark and terrible darkness about Miriam's door, utterly unable to go to it because of the terror that lurked within. (To be concluded.) Before We Had Clocks. Before the invention and manufacture of watches and clocks, our forefathers employed several devices for recording the hour of the day. The sundial is the earliest instru-j ment of its kind, and sandglasses were used from an early date. Alfred the Great' used graduated candles, the burning of which marked the passage of time. The art of clock and watch-making j is believed to have originated in Germany. The early watches were made in j curious shapes, such as pears, skulls,! purses and crosses. Some were set in the heads of canes, some in brace-! lets and other piec es of jewellery.; These instruments had to be wound. at least twice daily, and differed from ' the correct time by about an hour a ! day. It was not until the discovery of the balance-wheel in 1658, by which the mainspring unwinds itself evenly and regularly, that they could be relied upon to record the correct time. I THE FIRST CUP MAN DRANK FROM Minard's Llnin s tired feet. Although our primitive ancestors probably used pieces of bark, shells and scoop-like stones as cups, the first drinking cup worthy of the name was Just how far back some ingenious man recognized the practicality of an animal's horn as a vessel to drink from is, of course, not known. But the discovery, or invention, that in I time was almost universally adopted is usually credited to some nomadic herdsman of antiquity who, inspired by necessity, quenched his thirst from the malted or broken-off horn of one of his beasts. Later the invention was improved \ by plugging the large end of the1 horn and putting a removable stopper in the small end, so that the thing could also be used as a personal and easily portable container. Even after cups were made of wood j and metal and glass, many of them ; were modeled after the first real i drinking cups "that man had. The' museums of the world hold many col- i lections of cups whose shapes plainly show the influence of the ancient drinking-horn. EARLY SAXON CUPS. The early Saxons had cups that were horn-shaped and which had to be held in the hand until emptied. Subsequently, some one devised a cup with legs so that it could stand by itself. Scandinavian folk lore tells of Thor, the mythical god of thunder and lightning, being required by a giant to drink a huge horn dry at a single draught. Putting the horn to his lips. Thor took a mighty drink which he thought would drain the biggest cup that ever was, but he was amazed to find that the horn was almost as full as before. Again he tried to empty the thing, but in vain, for one end of it was in ; the sea, which he had noticeably j lowered. Thus did the o!d Saxons ac- ; count for the rise and fall of the. tides. There is evidence that the people of England and Western Europe use! drinking horns long after the Greeks I and the Romans had their beautiful cups of gold, silver and porcelain. But even the "rhyton" of the cultured Greeks, graceful and ornate as it is, was fashioned after a ram's | horn and frequently had a beautiful curved ram's head at the small end. Many of the finest vases made in the so-called golden age of Greece are decorated with fingures of dancing youths and maidens holding drinking horns in their hands. ANCIENT INK HORNS. As time went on many uses were | found for the horn that began its long ; career of usefulness as man's first ;real cup. For centuries hunters and soldiers carried their powder in horns, and even a short half-century ago' American nimrods carried powder horns as a necessary accessory to their "muzzle loaders." As far back ^s Biblical times we find references to the ink horn, and the prophet Ezekiel saw in a vision six men clothed in line, a-med with swords and carrying ink horns in which they dipped their pri -., ive pens to mark the foreheads of those chosen to escape impending doom. In mediaeval times the homer was a highly respected artisan of the com- | munity, and he made many useful and i beautiful things .of horn--not only' drinking horns, powder horns and' ink horns, but containers of many kinds. 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