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.ND UHOPPINB can! ed jam-mg. V he modern stand. (1 Famxly bled}. 3 notice and «ti-hath. muted. 33in. free. “1 unable. U" Oldest new We have a ten through Ha tho HINGLES AND L!” way on hm prepared to do all hit custom work. TMEAL and FE LAWMIL. nulls" com-mm}? 3' \\'a_..hmgwn . )lunn 3 Co Exam Vinfl Will he a_t the Commercial Hotel Lucille. first Wednesday in each 'll IRIS’I'FR. Solicitor. etc. 061cc oven-1 LGmnr-z more. Lowm' Town. my mom! of money to loam at 5 percent Ibrmpmperty. like all poachers. started for his night’s’ ”Ann presently the Weasel led the work about the time the pheasants, way boldly back to the bridge, and were rising to seek their perches among ' the firs and the hares come out into, ‘ p f A- :the moist fields to feed. Like a sha- it in his magic coat and was readyl [Mich-v .fi H ; dow he would steal along the old by- for another. A week after that he‘ 't . 'f‘ the only; roads and keep in the narrow strips was reconnoitring across a hedge not “War" in J of beaten footpaths that led by short far from that very bridge. Hi8 dog lcuts away from the turnpike. In the had wandered through apath on the z latter pedestrians were more than like. right of the hedge. and 08111.6 face t0 -. , 1 Ir to be astir, the chances being that face with the gamekeepel'. who shot the a“ . ”VG Aux, ; a gamekeener or. two would be among poor brute on sight. The Weasel’s life “in; 31153 Noah ..- l them. By these footpaths he could was bound up m his dog. and he knew 1% that 311. M1%- I am ' travel as silently as the animal for by poor Trusty’s yelp all that M 1189- there by the side of the grassy path picked up the hue he had shot, bagged I “he; EaplalMode ‘ Which he was nicknamed. pened. Without a thought of his mm W; you so 9.. ‘ . , I “ ‘Ay lad.’ the Weasel has often said safety he burned to the spot. and see- ‘l sld‘ “Lu“: “5]“ ' to me. as I trudged by his side, half ing the poor dog stretcbd dead in the In so ha ‘1 friBlitelled at the necessity that call- path.- with the gameheapor standing f’ r t. . . p ' ‘I § . . Ninth“ hi: agitate papa. ed for all this stealth and mines, but over hun. he ”tang-upon the, guardian 'Espla 861 'was a. houndxby the fascination of it all. of titan-merges. and-1;) he struggti: micaâ€"Fast door east of the bar. In Pharmacy. L‘aMer’s Block. 1 mama-First uuor was: ,I tht Eh: Mice. Durham. " D‘Vh‘m: 011K [mandate of .the Royal College of mwans, Edinburgh. Scotland. Of. gun.) Residence, opposue Temperance Hall. Holstein. RRIS‘IER vOfflce and Residence a short dis 0“! 0! Mc.lli§ter's HOtOl, 1:811:33: gmi3lflme‘k10w” Office hours from 22v:- 0"‘00 ' ”u” Md basin; .’ Mount of dmn'ts e8 . “9?“!- ‘g" ‘ A general Banking business. transact- anta issued and collectlona ma. :3“ points. Deposits received gnd in- ."eg: uncured at current rates. W tsrpj WU , . . - ' ° MIMI,“ “pmd. . . . .ooo,oou In all principal points in On- :g: Que , Mamtobt, United sums and England. ' Legal Dz'rectory Shoat A. L BROWN mat allowed on Savings Bunk do- gma of 81 and unwary; Prompt . . . mention and gvgry faculty “ford. an "Witatlon éd cwomem 'llvmg at aAdiltgnoo. 09080. as acall "“f". “cease Mill-1505' :- 3 A,” r6613"! but. he was never called anything but les‘ ,, 3 {firnisfieg ‘Weasel’ a name that was most appro- ' gpnate. He could turn his hand to ‘anything in the line of field or forest ow . , (Sport. He knew every by-path', every {,1 {u H “M" ’LLE, has l hedge opening, every turnstile for " m” " ‘t'nl is proper ;‘ miles around. He could imitate the rim”: ' ’ n «mey on real call of any bird that lived in the'woods. ~5dgt’i r, . ‘ . v.1 0H on the, His dog Trusty, a yellow and black 3' ‘ hr» ml Li! lneur f mongrel, he had trained so well that its 1e Des! you; «jompanie.; intelligence was almost humanr His ‘gwmlence tolgun, which he could separate into 3 ~11 wmted idozen pieces and carry in thb capa- ~ , a Icious pockets of his corduroy hunting L0‘801Vr fcoat; his net, and Trusty, were all he - . h L“ Ineeded when he went on his tours. Fandanf Bank of Canada Medical Directory. Durham Agency. {V attet Office. Sales ‘or‘ DENTIST. mad (Miro, Toronto. 0. P. REID. II TELFORD lluLT, 'if r. o-pc. McIntyres oun. (f_olfccpion and I? ‘1’“, Land "8 l“ Iu'Tmneer for tho «mmtlv nun-“3...: cu "My Public am ‘carchcs mad. f Manager. Dal-ties . “Many a time have I stolen away son, from home when a lad and joined the t Weasel in his nocturnal tramps over “88 the CSquire’s well-stocked domain. He. like all poachers. started for his night’s work about the time the pheasants ”1 were rising to seek their perches among 11 ' the firs and the hares come out into; â€"- i the moist fields to feed. Like a she.- __.. ; dow he would steal along the old by- lly. roads and keep in the narrow strips in J of beaten footpaths that led by short l cuts away from the turnpike. In the z latter pedestrians were more than like. =1 '3' to be astir, the chances being that l a samekeener or. two would be among ' them. By these footpaths he could m; travel as silently as the animal for is Which he was nicknamed. ‘ I “ ‘Ay lad.’ the Weasel has often said k- l to. me. as I trudged by his side. ‘3!!! der Visits to’ the , {preserves that a hty. In those da ' isevere penalties as fact, every side an echo a€ as the re L. port itseif, peated the sound. Th “S 18 now 100] Whose fathers 7 the ‘Sfluirn’u‘ the law and the looked appro- ' the . md to ring forest addiJ every a ha a for retre a the 1y ab woods. of st black sleep |at its and 4 His then nto a term; capa- then. nting , I hea Ll] ha i nnmis from the confines of aditch, saying: “‘Don’t thee go that a-way, lad! Coom doon quiet-like into the detch. The gamey’s lost 118. ’n us'll goo back:’n get the ’are.’ and n “81" night {Fee “'Ollld lad" lusty : upon out and; tt new and hd. his "0 8 ”8h mantle 18°: hare Jl. es that 13 793' stream. a and set; his Uflmnlro ring my hair and its weird presence adding to my terror. Now and then a hawk would be disturbed from its retreat in the hedge and fly aimless- ly about among the foliage. Wild cries of strange creatures aroused from sleep came from every side. Discovery and arrest by the gamekeeper, and then the inevitable jail, were constant terrors to my mind. You may imagine then. there was joy in my heart when I heard avoice, low, but distinct, and unmistakably the \"ea§el’s. coming from the confines of aditch, sayingq !I lay panting for an hour, bruised by l falls and scratched by bushes and brambles. Then I determined to crawl from my hiding place and endeavor to make my way to the turnpike, which I knew must not lie far away. I had gone, but ashort distance when a great white owl fluttered by me along the hedge, the wind of its. wings stir-i “Findiné myself lost this night. I crept trembling into a .hedge, after having firs}; ru‘n full agamst it. There on the trail. I afterwards learned that one had little fear from the pursuit of agamekeeper in the dark, the poach- er’s only care being the removing of himself from the immediate vicinity of the__enemy. . ' ;to seek agreeable l perch himself that night, and, with‘ation. you are cm ‘the poacher’s instinct, the \Veasel felt ' [his presence there: as soon as the shot was fired. \Vith acry of ‘Look thee. Had, and mind the way .I lead thee,’ and it was not many minutes before/ I found myself without. guide or friend, floundering about in a maze of come, darkness profound on every side, and A VENGEFUL GAMEKEEPER â€"-o-vl the poacher’s instinct, the his presence there as soon was fired. With acry of lad, and mind the. wax: 1 . ‘ .â€"_-~- :lhéubg [u LUUSB r0- [mantle days, the “, ' ‘ . ‘hare just beyond the old stone budge "Then, later on were nets to tal way spots, and sna renew. Then may visit to pay to the ing to the mere, h long untrimmed a1 and moor hens, V night to feed in th. would be a half h lusty perch and. sit upon the night-fee and. then away to and bare paths. . “w. w" ”u every ‘ now inexpressibly “ tired ” urancn a crouching pheasant ' -J wusuu LU app 'dow from the adjgcer hares came down m d [upland and fed and s settled among the bran mea' ' t t e and rose gradually, until it I ridge 0 he hung formed ' . , ,the landlord was 1 , covered thh {11‘ f tronize t growth. The firs: . , Many a ’acher k6! 111g place for ph'ea- ' p0 ° ot‘his 'duins SeDtember night mess that my eyes ‘ceuld not t8. but: the Weasel saw on every acrouching pheasant Nn mam. zed in the quiet Hooks”, There a half hours tempting of b .and sluggard tench. a raid ,ater on in the night, there;9€ to take up in out-ofâ€"the'1n and snares to look after and I to len maybe, there was a ' y to the silent stream lead- 8‘8 mere, hemmed in by osiers, ,flS mmed and haunted by coots ,‘ Lf hens, which came up at 1110 or} {n LL- other rabbit 1‘11 ins actual, and, when afi : succession the re- barrelled gun would nin'llh-l' . ‘fresh game that. did not come in m droves from the 5 regular way.” 1d sported about in 3 Presently tm phea- N“ ° nd enter 7 SIDE TALK WITH THE HUSRM be time darkness' _ 7, .fin those ro- Simply masses FORMS gistinct f all housekegper. and w‘ out a salaryâ€"when recognized services ing alone, appearing to his . t going m bringing it about how inexnrpnenmln “ 4 tSIDE TALK “WITH T only thin this, but ac many Weary WflTnDh .p, “ Large Sales and Small Profits. ” talk togetherâ€"nâ€" 3:011" .no. fangy_{picture; a _.... 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