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Durham Review (1897), 10 Nov 1932, p. 2

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"Oh, I‘d forgotten all about it!" she assured him, surprised at his percepâ€" tion. be sweeter? And don‘t worry, your boyâ€"friend‘ll come around all right. Keep a stiff upper lip, and remember what you‘ve got now to knock sense into him withâ€"that whisky bottle!" She didn‘t wint to hear him talk about it. She was more grateful than she could ever say for the surety he had just given her. It made her course clear. But personally, he had become faintly repulsive to her . . . that deâ€" elaration of his was shocking, someâ€" how, centred as her emotions were in Dirk, and Dirk only. Perhaps she drew away slightly; her feelings may have shown in her face. "Listen, forget what I said a while ago, will you?~" he saia. "I ought not to haveâ€"but hell, yeu asked for it! And I know it doesn‘t make any dif-‘ ference to you." . They stepped out into the lobby. "Hungry?" he asked. "Better have a cup of coffee before you go. You look done up. Did you eat anything at Shay‘s?" He remove from a dress hibits carefu drawer, locke "It‘s only 1 in the elevatc in beddyâ€"bye be sweeter? b He bent his eye to the magnifying glass, moving it from one to the other back and forth. "I‘m no expert," he said, at last "but if those thumbâ€"prints avren‘ identical, I‘ll eat ‘em. I‘ll get an ex matically, "Now!" He laid on the table the sheet ot paper containing the fingerprints obtained from the gun. Beside it he placed a fingerâ€" print chart and a magnifying glass. Occupying the place of honor stood the whiskyâ€"bottle, srect, its powderâ€" blackened sides showing a variety of fingerâ€"smudges. HMe propped the door of his room epen with a book i=4 laid his purâ€" chases out on the table, the precious bottle cccupying an open space all its own. After that, they did not bother to talk. Bowen set to work and Mary watch, absorbed. The thumb print came up clearly, the others were, as he had said, too faint to be of much Presertly he raised a flushed, per spiring countenance and said dram "Forget it! We‘ll } ave Evmily Ann begging your par.on on bended knee before we‘re through." "Emily Ann Ruyther reads it," Mary said worriedly. "I suppose she‘s in the midst of a pink fit by now." "Oh, who reads that lousy little sheet anyway? A handful of nitwits with more money than brains, who know it anyhow, and about a million repressed schoolteachers whe won‘t understand it after they read it. Forâ€" get it." When they were out of hearing of an exoticâ€"looking couple who went up in the elevator with them she told him. Bowen did not seem impressed. In the elevator she vasl;ed”i;itt'efir?y, "Did you know what was in that magazine you gave me?" "Oh, don‘t leave me here! One more black mark on my reputation won‘t Lurt. I‘m going up with you." "What‘s the bottle for?" Mary askâ€" ed, bewildered. "Don‘t touch it!" He drew it away f.om her pointing finger. "It‘s hisâ€" The 2ly‘s. He drinks a special brand. Mike sneaked it for me while Jack‘s back was turned. Let me get upstairs with it, quick, tefore something hapâ€" pens to it." He was laboring under strong excitement. "Can y‘ imagine it? I been carrying this down the street like this. Afraid to wrap it up and smear the print. Wonder J wasn‘t pinched." He started off and Mary followed. "Sorry to be so long," he explained, "but I had to buy some powder and some other junk. . . I got a pretty good thumb print, I think, but the rest are not so good . .. wanta wait here a liitle fonger till I go up and develop this? T‘il hurry. . ." Bowen came hurrying in, his arms full of packages. In his left hand he held a whiskyâ€"bottle carefully by the neck. CoÂ¥ere a (_2..._ .+ Pexuct Feportâ€" #T, discovers a racetrack crook called The Fly to whom Eddie owed money. Mary meets Bowen in a speakeasy where The Fly is said to be hiding. Dirk, her fiance, comes to take her home. He is n his way to lock up the Jupiter necklace in his office safe. Just as Dirk locks up the necklace there is a crash outside. Bowen lets the thieves smash into his ctar rather than overtake Mary a 1 Dirk. Dirk disbelieves the existence of The Fly and Mary goes off with Bowen. CC ETD. Rich old Mrs. Jupiter is robbed m:rdered ‘cmr!nl the engagement : urderaa 3. °_._" <CPHEF is robbed ana murdereq during the engagement party she gave for her secretary, Mark Hai;â€" nes®. _ Suspicion points to Mary‘s broâ€" ther, Eddie, who is killed by a car as hne #oes to meet her. Howan narmin‘ it H CHAPTER XXII.â€"(Cont‘d.) 10 1 an And ‘on points to Mary‘s broâ€" vho is killed by a car as ne her. Bowen, police reportâ€" & racetrack crook called whom Eddie owed money. L W a v SYXOPSIS Ar of clean shirts r, laid his exâ€" in the empty they went out. * he whispered 1 be home and . What could the message, he come down at once, and took the first boat. An‘ if his pa wants to know where come that perâ€" fume from, the man in the barbershop "Oh, sure, he‘d a bunch of excuses at his tongue‘s tip. He‘d sent a friend out to send off a cablegram, he said, and how was he to know it never went? And it was only a fortnight ago that he got the news, indeed; he was that high up in them Alps mounâ€" tains, paintin‘ pictures of glayshers, and the like of that. An‘ wher he got Mraclks ces & a thing one did every day, but Mary excused herself on the ground that she had to know what Bruce was goâ€" ing to do, before she could decide what to do herself. Della paused for lack of breath. Discounting the obvious Celticisms, Mary was still able to form a good idea of what Mr, Jupiter had said and meant, in greeting his only son. / "What did Mr. Bruce say?" she prompted. Pumping servants was not home, and yer mother lyin‘ dead! Too busy to send a cablegram or a wreath o‘ flowers for her coffin! How have ye the face to walk in here with the black conscience on ye, dressed like a dude and smellin‘ of rotten perâ€" fume?" " "Did they row! Faith, and ye never heard the like! Says his pa,, "You‘re a skunk and a scalpeen lallygaggin‘ ‘round Europe with them low foreignâ€" ers, too busy spendin‘ money to come l "Oh, I‘ll be getting married one of these daysâ€"don‘t look so dour," Mary assured her, "I‘ve this and that to do first, that‘s all. Did Mr. Bruce come?" "Yes, and gone away again, alâ€" ready." Della thumped pillows about grumpily. "I don‘t know whatever‘s come over the world that a nice young man like Mr. Bruce can‘t set foot in his home without his own father layin‘ it onto him. Faith, and if I was Mr. Bruce, I‘d never come home, that I would not!" "Della! What do you mean?" | Della set sturdy arms akimbo, andl gave forth the details with relish. "An‘ a fine mornin‘, too, as could wish for a weddin grumbled. No ie e s o emete "I‘m not g&ing away just, yet, Della," she told her. "Don‘t ask me any questions. I can‘t bear to talk about it, And put those things out of sight, won‘t you?" She pointed to yesterday‘s purchases piled about the room. Then she turned her telltale eyes away. Della thrust her head in the door and demanded: "Aren‘t you ever goâ€" ing to get up, Miss Mary? Think what day it is! And the packing! Who‘s to do that, if I don‘t, and how can I do it at all if I don‘t begin?" Mary gave up trying to feign sleep any longer, and forced herself to face the old servant:s ecurious eyes, Mary clutched Bowen‘s arm. "I krew I‘d seen him somewhere! It‘s Bruce Jupiter, come home!" she cried. â€" arisienne." When the cab came up, he said loudly, "Can you take me, please, to Jupiter House, at the Point, Pleasant Hills?" Mary and Bowen made amused grimaces at each other. In the doorâ€" way they gave an exoggorated imitaâ€" tion of that partingâ€"all but the kiss. And howled with laughter. The dandified stranger, cane over Lis arm, small waxed mustache bristling, paced the curb impatiently as th» doorman sought a cab. Mary ard Bowen, waiting their turn for a taxi, watched him involuntarily. He was like something out of "La Vie "Au revoir, my darling," muttered the siren, in a guttural voice with a markâ€"c accent. "Mus‘ you go?" "I must, sweet." He tore himself from her arms, and }urried out. The couple passed out of the room just abead of them, pausing in the coorway to kiss passionately. "I was supposed to cover a Red riot in Jersey City tonight," he observed. And added complacently, "The hell with it." After that he did not talk at all. "Not much," she confessed and folâ€" lowed him, almost wobbling with faintness and. weariness, to the grill, which was empty except for the couple they had seen in the elevator. Mary recognized them without more than a brief glance. The odor of the woman‘s oriental perfume was overpowering. The man with her was oddâ€"looking, tooâ€"foreign, apparently. Such of their talk as drifted to her ears was in French, and his clothes sloppily‘ worn, his hair thick and long below his large black felt hat. He wore a s .all waxed mustache. | Mary began to feel a peculiar unâ€", essiness. She had been unconvention-l' al in going to that room, if anyonc‘ chose to be priggish about it. She ‘ would not have given it a second‘ thought if it had no. been for thes:‘ exoticâ€"looking people. Continentals of that type always made her rush for' safety to the ideals of her Puritan' ancestors. She drank hot coffes gratefully. Bowen did not talk much. CHAPTER XXHI. anyone ‘" ""she "Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose."â€"Tacitus. "Pretension is nothing; power is everything."â€"Whipple. "The highest power may be lost by misrule."â€"Syrus. "God is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power."â€"Mary Baker Eddy. "Power obeys reality, and not apâ€" pearances; power is according to quality, not quantity."â€"Emerson "Power dwells with cheerfulness."â€" Emerson. Gems from Life‘s Scrapâ€"book Power "Patience and gentleness is power." â€"Leigh Hunt. He‘s the "big cheese" a Mississippi youth, at a : and won the $750 prize. The Moosonee Bureau is establishâ€" ed at James Bay Inn. The wind inâ€" strumen‘is are on the roof and the other instruments are set up nearby. James Kingston, manager of the Inn, has been placed in charge of the station. son says, but reports every six hours and observations by means of planes would greatly facilitate the work of forecasting accurately,. The Meteorological Service works under what is known as the "polar iftent method," which was worked out in Norway during the war years. Creat strides have been made durâ€" ing the past few years, Mr. Thomâ€" As at other outlying stations, the Moosonee bureau will wire reports twice daily to the Toronto observaâ€" tory, stations are already establishâ€" ed at Fort Churchill, Chesterfield Inâ€" let and in the Hudson Straits, and the new one will fill a gap and greatly assist the service, accordicg to Mr. Thomson. 1 The bureau, ranked as a first class station, will record temperatures, hours of sunshine, precipitation, wind velocity and other information neces. sary to the work of forecasting wea. ther conditions. The Dominion‘s newest weather bureau at Moosonee on James Bay should prove of great value to aviaâ€" tors, according to Andrew Thomson, chief physicist of the Dominion Mete. orological Service, who has complet. ed a visit to several northern staâ€" tions. ‘ Thess showers thai doscend will deepen soon To burnished pools upon the auâ€" tumn grass That seems to mirror some refulgâ€" ent noon Whose sun is held immobile in the glass, â€"Adelaide Love, in "Voices." i What golden ichor rose through trunk aud bough From unimagined springs within the earth With soundless flow the summer long, that now This fountain luminously comes to birth And spills upon the frosty air a spray That stairs with gold this blue Octâ€" ober day? s \ "That I don‘t know," Della denied, "but I do know I‘d have got married meself years ago if I‘d have found me as fineâ€"lookin‘ a younrg man as him!" squirted it on him by mistake, andâ€"‘" Mary burst into peals of laughter. "How does he explain those waxed mustaches?" she demande., "Don‘t tell me he keeps them like that in selfâ€"defence?" ‘ Aid to Aviators Autumn Maple (To be continued.) Champion Cheese Taster se among the cheeseâ€"tasters. Donald Smith, a recent dairy show in Detroit scored highest "These are some of the things that he may learn from his toys, and he will if his play materials are chosen with that end in view. Many of them is the shorter is the time he can stick at any one thing. It is, thereâ€" fore, necessary to have on hand a variety of toys, especially things to manipulate and experiment with at first. Later he will need more conâ€" structive materials to use his increasâ€" ing abilities. When children are "canâ€" takerous‘ it is often because they are bored. They have exhausted their immediate environment â€" and have grown restless for new worlds to conâ€" quer. ‘I don‘t know what has got intoi Johnny, he is so naughty.‘ It usually means that John Jr., having been pro-, vided with no suitable play materials | of his own, has appropriated the kitâ€"| chen clock, or the family carving set. _ "At the age of six, if not before, a child must go to school to begin his formal education. But what a lot he must have learned to be ready; for this; to manage his own body| skilfully, to climb and run and jump; l to find out about the world immediateâ€" | ly about him; to know the meanings of a great many words; to distinguish between different sizes and weights, between things hard and soft, thingsl round and square and how these all | work together. | "Children who are supposedly hayâ€" l|ing the best of modern care in superâ€" ior homes, in hospitals or in instituâ€" â€"| tions are being _ almost universally hampered in their growth through lack â€"|of proper provision for play," Mrs. Thoempson said. "Active, constructive | play leading to growth is by no means a panacea for the difficulties of childâ€" hood, but the implications in the soâ€". cial, emotional and mental developâ€" ment are such that one can no longer afford to ignore the subject. ' Seck Selfâ€"Expression. | "A child is always seeking selfâ€"exâ€"| pression. Just like a grownâ€"up, he’ feels the thrill of accomplishment. In the cradle ho wants to wave a rattle.! because in moving his arms and mak» | ing a noise he feels that he is really.‘ doing something. He is making things happen. After he begins to walk he, is conscious of new possibilities. He 'wlshes to carry things, to push things about, to build things and take them apart again. He sees his father and j mother doing things he wants to emuâ€" 'J late. Picture books, smallâ€"sized houseâ€" ; keeping toys, such as mops andll brooms, miniature garden tools, enable P him to fulfill this desire, while such i things as blocks, paint, clay, ham-li mers, nails and pieces of wood will q give him the opportunity of carrying out his own ideas in an original way. A "At all times a healthy child is & |/ dynamo of energy. ‘The younger he!,? New Haven, Conn.â€"Children develâ€" ~p tantrums â€"because they are bored, according to Dorothy Cannon Thomp son of the Yale University faculty and director of the Cannon Nursery School of New Haven, a laboratory of child life where students in the Department of Education of Yale University study child development. It is Mrs. Thompâ€" son‘s belief that the lack of proper provision for play is probably â€" the most common cause for the ‘cantakerâ€". ous child." | Play Things Help Learningâ€" Children Bored Without Adequate Play Proper Toys Aid Selfâ€"Expression In Children Fourâ€"fifths of t;u ~ycles are in Europe Turbulent, discontented men of quality,in proportion â€" as they â€" are puffed up with personal pride and ar. rogance, generally despise their own order.â€"Burke, The scientist predicted the future would bring considerable chango in the types of prows. One of these would be designed with a bulge both at top and bottom, leaving the centre concave,. Another proposes a straight profile, jutting forward at the top. Tests of this, the ‘barge" type, have indicated it is better adapted to rouzb,‘ gons seas, mo ooat OeCOy research is under way on the shapes of prows and sterns. Dr. Zeicky said the principal experiâ€" ments indicated, that if most ocean liners were severed in the middle and a section inserted, increasing their lengths but slightly, an immense imâ€" provement would be obtained. He told of tests near Hamburg, Gerâ€" many, in which parafin steamship moâ€" dels were propelled at the rate of 30 miles an hour, From these tests have come the theory of an improved design through increased length, the‘ physicist siid. and annallo in muines <lO ARCHIVES TORonto Longer Ocean Liners A change in the design of steamâ€" ships, involving a five per cent. inâ€" crease in length which would bring an increase in efficiency of almost 100 per cent. is near birth in the experiments of German scientists, Dr. Fritz Zeicky, physicist of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, California, said. same time." "Yes. Understand that not more than one ticket speculator will be alâ€" lowed to tackle a single patron at the "Any changes for the better in ball this season?" ' Every new step on the path of knowâ€" jledge has opened to our vision unâ€" |charted deserts of human ignorance. If the goal of scientific progress is the production of human happiness, we of today may become objects of severe criticism fifty years hence for not having better utilized the scientmc‘ discoveries of this generation. _ It behooves us to acquire the "oldâ€" time" doctor‘s human understanding, kindly disposition and humble attiâ€" tude, for these are fundamentals of our calling, and ‘also in order to neutralize any criticism of our own shortcomings which in years to come is bound to be made. ' The paucity of his scientific inforâ€" mation was offset by a great breadth of character and a wealth of human understanding. â€" These qualities will ever remain the most distinguishing signs of greatness in any physician of whatever period. By Dr. J. Bentley Squeir, President of ’ American College of Surgeons. The passing of the "oldâ€"time" pracâ€" titioner has been made a subject of much lamentation, and, from a purely sentimental angle, deservedly, for emâ€" bodying, as he often did, the attributes of friend, priest and physician, he held‘ a very personal relation to his patient, and his virtues have been loudly ex-] tolled. are appealing to the child psicholog- ists for guidance." "Toys should fill some need of the }child. and it is only by studying chilâ€" dren that it has been possible to deâ€" termine whgt these needs are and how best to satisfy them. That is why modern toymakers are rapidly abanâ€" doning their conventional designs and ,need not be purchased. _ Packing ‘boxes, boards, orange crates, as well ‘!‘as spools, pieces of cloth, wrapping ‘paper and kitchen utensils, presented to him for his ‘very own,‘ help out ’tremendously in the family toy budâ€" !get. There are other things that may ‘need to be bought and these should ipass three fundamental tests: they should be simple and durable, should be suited to a variety of uses requirâ€" ing ingenuity, and should fill a definâ€" ite development need of the child. i Toys Which Please Parents, "Far too many toys are bought simâ€" ply because they @ppeal to the father| and mother. ' ORANCGE PEKOE BLEND The Doctor‘s Task , and equally ln;p&tant the world‘s motorâ€" resh from the Gardens" TEA foot D PE Apdivtalits tedisink s M 225 Every druggist has Aspirin, and it you ask for it by that name you are sure to get relief, Aspirin is a tradeâ€"mark registered in Canada. P MiPintrinndfies lc css is to unexpected headaches, sudden }colds,. Quick relief, without any harmful effects; Aspirin does not deâ€" press the heart. Just look each time for the name Aspirinâ€"and the word genuine printed in red on every box. Weennquss" mEC Oc3 2C I You can always relieve that ache or pain harmlessly with Aspirin. Even those deepâ€"seated pains that make a nan‘s very bones ache. Even the sysâ€" temic pains so many women suffer. They will yield to these tablets! Asâ€" pirin has many important uses, Read the proven directions in every packâ€" Age; and don‘t endure any needlen} pains from neuralgia, neuritis, rheuâ€" matism, ‘ Keep a bottle of these tablets in the house; carry the pocket tin if subject | S T deialne it ons Among the Royal . s in addition to H.M. 1 are the Queens of Ita gians, Prince Leopold of Sweden, and King F Plants were raised recently in Kew Gardens, London, from lotus seed found in Manchuria and believed to be more than a century old, and even‘ four centuries, or older. Layers of children‘s teeth built up when sunshine is deficient lack lime and are easily attacked by decay which spreads to the healthier parts of the teeth, Dr. Tonney said. He added that lack of Vitamin D, supâ€" plied by ultraâ€"violet light, prevents mothers from absorbing from their food the extra calcium and phosphorus they need during pregnancy and the nursing period. Dr. Emerson found that children who have had rickets are especially susceptible to bronchltls.‘ pneumoni+, measles, whooping cough convulsions and tuberculosis. "We can now provide a health moâ€" tive for the clearing of the skies," Dr, Tonney asserted, "a motive as fundn.-" mental and far reaching as those that‘ brought about the control of water-‘ borne and milkâ€"borne disease," Dr. Tonney explained that smoke ’palls hanging over cities, especially In" winter, often have such farâ€"reaching| and unsuspected effects as making | teeth more liable to decay, endangerâ€" ing health of mothers before and afâ€" ter childbirth, and lowering reslst-l ance to disease. Rickets, due to lack : of sunshine, is one of the most prevnl-! ent of childhood diseases. | Decreased sunshine may increase activity of the rheumatic fever virus. There is no rheumatic fever in Puerâ€" to Rico, Dr. Emerson said, which has plentiful sunshine. Dr. Haven Emerson, of Columbia University, reported there are even indications that it may be a contributâ€" ing factor in causing rheumatic fever that results in illness and death of many children. The amount of heart disease in childrenm caused by rheuâ€" matic fever falls off steadily from Boston south to Atlanta, he said, serming to correspond to the increasâ€" ing amount of sunshine as one moves south. â€"Dr Fred C. Tonney, of the Chicago Health Department, told the Public Health Association meeting here that ill effects ~n health of shutting off the sun‘s ultraâ€"violet light by smoke, soot, dust, fog and other impurities are more serious and widespread than genâ€" erally realized. Washington.â€"Polluted air, preventâ€" ing human beings from re~eiving their due share of ultra violet rays ranks with polluted milk and water as a health menace. ISSUE No. 45â€"‘32 Disease Carrier Smoke, Soot and Dust Cut Off Ultraâ€"Violet Rays Polluted Air Relieve tha t pa in safely _to H.M. the King, there eens of Italy and the Belâ€" ce Leopold, Crown Prince and King Fuad of Egypt. Danger in Smoke Royal stamp collectors subject candies at the rate of 195,000,000 pounds a year, Labour costs represent twoâ€"thirds of the annual expenditure of British railâ€" ways, the total wages and salaries bill of the four companies in 1931 being £102,000,000, as compared with £47,â€" 000,000 in preâ€"war years. And then the pleasant sound of the horse being put into the shafts, the rough shaking over the cobblestoncs, and shw was more than on her way. Now the lovely sound of the horses‘ hoofs on the road, the smell of sumâ€" mer fields, the rough kindliness of the villagers to make the little maid comâ€" fortable. **Been here all dayâ€"bless the child !" "She‘ll sleep well toâ€"night." And sleep she did! ""You have curis like your mother," said one. "She always looked as if she came out of a bandbox," said anâ€" other. Six o‘clock came and the arrival of the passengers of the morning, and expressions of surprise at the extra one already there. But she was roâ€" cognized, for her mother was a native of the village. of the cart she heard the wondering remarks that passed amongst the ostlers. But safc in Harris‘ cart, she was oblivious to all else. She was on her way. American children are eating penuny Right to the back she crawled out of sight, and the awning completely hid her from view. Happy was sh>? There is no doubt. Happiness is a matter of degree. Six hours of perâ€" fect joy she slept in the van, living in blissful anticipation, and free from the fear that dogged her childish life._ In her secluded spot at the back "I1 want to get into the cart." "What! Harris doest‘t start till six toâ€"night." _ Another kindly glance. "Hold onâ€"up with yer." And she was hoisted into the cart. oN THE WAY. A few steps farther, and she reached Harris‘ cart, and looked at the shafts, wondering if it would be posâ€" sible (when no one was looking) to get into the cart by way of the shafts. And then a kindly ostler asked: "What do yer want, missie?" First she peeped round the gate, then auvanced timidiy. One or two ostlers, busy with their work, winke4 and vent on again. Here was all the bustle of an inn in the early moraing, ostlers running about with pails, washing down carts, grooming horses, the noise of vehicles over the cobbleâ€"stones, and then a very little redâ€"faced maid in a long ulster, clutching a huge carpet bag, obviously not full. ' Why not sit i. the carricr‘s cart all _day? She was sure she would be quite happy. She timidly supggested it to her mother, who looked with tears into the flushed, anxious face, and, unâ€" cerstanding, halfâ€"consented. "But you‘ll be so tired, dear." "No, I won‘t. Oh, please let me do it! I‘m sure I‘ll love it." AT THE INN YARD. A little packet of sandwiches was hastily prepared while her mother kept saying: "I don‘t like to let you go!" But she got her way, and after gratefully huzg‘ng her mother she grasped the carpet kag and happily made her way tc the inn yard. The carpet »ug (of the period) was ready packed in her bedâ€"room, By dint of coaxing and worrying hor mother she was all ready by 10 a.m.. Even now something might prevent her going. Fear gripped her!l If only she was +~ hor way, out of the hous», in the strcet, she would feel happy and content. The night before the great day no sleep closed her wakeful eyes. Foar lest something should happen to preâ€" vent her going kep. her turning and tossing and longing for the light. The morning found her tipâ€"toeing about, collecting little treasures to be packed, â€" She was only eight, but how she loved the sight of the carrier‘s cart and Harris of «J.fe! For, of course, there were other carriers who came from other towns, but Harris of Clife spelt enchantment, joy, peace, freeâ€" dom, happy days, holidays,. Once a year, every August or September, as swon as she was old enough to leave her mother, she was invited by a kind and motherly aunt to stop and play with her cousins, for a lons, happy month, in the lowâ€"ceilinged country home at Cliffe. Harris, the carrier of Cliffe, a little village in Kent not far from Gad‘s Hill (famous as the home of Dickens), ambled into the town of G. and put his cart away for the day, leaving his horses for rest and refreshment till six o‘clock in the evening, when the © shoppers would return, laden with all kinds of goods unpurchasable in tht little oneâ€"eyed village of Cliffâ€" atâ€"Hoo. She lived in the days of carriers‘ carts. In case you should not know what a carriers‘ cart was, it was a vehicle used for carrying packages of a‘l sorts from place to place in the rural districts. Often, too, the vilâ€" lagers would come into the market town with it in order to do their shopping. These carts plied once or twice weekly between village and wown to enable the villagers to do their shopping. LONGING FOR DAYLIGHT. The Carrier‘s Cart â€"London "Answers"

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