Show A GOOD OMEN terrible indeed was tho fato watch menaced tho pasc ngoM and crew 0 the wrecked chip hilda lill an orphan with her widowed aunt had taken pas siKi upon alio hilll for and her pretty taco and winning ways had hariu for glicr in nil hearts eclie had broucht oa lioard a w oito carrier pigeon hid helplessly doin at her feet alio year before maimed by a shot from sportsman A billet had been fastened andr ita wing but ita controls acro in n unfamiliar to ahw lio panned it an I 1 it donld leavo been thrown carelessly away had it not born I 1 by lilli sho had nursed hack to health and il eventually to put alio billet in ita altre 1111 pinion and it forth into alir rr inn 0 space aho had not yet into parting with it an indulgent relative had pro for I illa a lUdi cata chain 0 that she coald fasten it about one aloa ler leg annl thus keep tho bird a partial lilla s course and fortitude hid been tho ono bright spot on board ni the hours which tho enry of tho storm w kiich had wrecked the staunch ship ko murmur canio from ani tho refused to lake jim 0 o sustain life sabins eliat w h bad tho work of pumping and tho it more alun ad idler liko f tho sight of her gave tha boor ago i they felt that no croft would go down with lucli a on boar I 1 but weary ilams awod syi ol 01 buccos and hungry n rl cold itkor cour fleo sank at las lillas cheeks were no longer llott ft loso thap to aron and with each passing lay ono inor nin with only ii awo 0 biscuit each fuai nd lillah threw olf the wandi hul thus tar kept her silent on tho subject ind said lct m all kneel down ani pray lo 10 gobber tharo ji n promise t ait nhen two or three in floda kiino their requests shall bj crant cd wi can surely say tho craycr cesry ono of us thou lalli knelt down glicr whit bird upon her shoulder and her gaia ins a little 01 their nati iril color in aba elevation of the moment they commenced with tho arst words of that prayer the ino it floii ind conr in tho world and without ono exception uio oilier voices added ot 1 theao 1 who had forgotten it or it may be had never known it fol lonin after word by nord jt wai a solomei and eano novar to ha forgotten by ano acro participants in it alter alicy li id rissia from their knees again a cry brolio broin lillaan lips and looking towards glicr to ihu sur prisa of all alic biuso ws fetn the pet pigeon had broken 1 lin 01 ill chain and had into ihn blau sky which above in a seeming sunny mockery 0 their desolate my bird lias deserted ino was ail 1 l p latic rv r 1 t IM shirll inT cring had failed to call to her eyes I 1 hem now dont cry ono bouvo kept up so tar and it you way there s not a mau of us lut will blubber too dont set us a bad now t with a bradu lilla controlled herself but she could not put tho sorrow for lier bird out 0 her heart sho kept chinkin th inkin to herself now I 1 ian never do my duty and bead tho billet trai iw that at such n sho could bear in her mind but her own hut so it was and it alduh a pan to the lom of glicr pd cut marcellous marvellous marv ellous to relate glisn iho noonday sun was glaring down upon tho famished croup i spick in tho eky and coming nearer toon attracted alien in a few seconds it caino down with a coo of content aud alli kited upon lillaan lil laa it to their eyes liko a spirit it is a good was whispered around among them god hia bot for goit n us and inspired by this thought the sailors acain turned their anu ayea tho broad expanse of to seo if any sign of lito appear in sight several hours went by and then a dim appeared in alic it grew more distinct and at last proved to bo a brig bearing down towards ticia oh that tho man on I 1 ho lookout look out should see tho bignal raised by tho dis crew the sicken in but at last to they acro for alie fiig hoac to an i lowered her boita by a competent crew propelled towards them thir were a time and taken on board now comes tho wonderful part 0 our story tho man at iho wheel was steering in an entirely opposite direction tho one which would iliavi brought to iho relief of the caud irett ahrn a white bird taw hiis face and its wings in such wiy alio llio astonished sailor did not diro d iro to op in his cyca hilo the assault cout iliad tho captain witnessed tho singular oc and blint like alt men superstitions ho s iid it me eliat is a incan iii in aliis wo must changa our courso aing to this tho course of the bris and by means of it many lives ceru s ived as wo have seen after abia lillis pet pigeon was ai h natural considered a most wonderful bird and wai mado tho theme of talks for das after abo rescue whilo lilla herself lay prostrated upon a bed jeaa tho boiu despair to liopo had couo what her distress had not bum ablo to do and it was long babore aho was enobia to como upon deck when sho did so ho iho i was but a shadow of herself but youth millica quickly abul and sho soon was 13 merry and blooming na boford abo caplain an old mail and hafl heart warmed toward lalla m a fatherly manner 1 I luie n son at homo to her ono day who would his eyes for a pigeon ako that pointing to billas net which was as usual perched on her shoulder lies that fond of into tho ways of dumb creatures that lw goo 1 lor nothing ciso not but hua ila a rood thing of it for ho ia now professor in a colleda which 11 in ant bih bi h things ho over the anil im prowl of hidu if I 1 ilo say it who ho is greatly taken wilh this kind of pishon ami quito a tt liili ago bo let an c lucila 1 E tako gioino ono ot his pit I 1 with alio llio that ins let him goow when he got ho nr nin hia way back beinin bi inin my aoi a letter oi liia arrival eliut perry baa never lieari from libin or when I 1 was homo lost limu 10 lo baya robit probably boino accident liaci on hia trip hod loos eo was it asked lilan jt was about two years 1 I my lying almost wounded to leath just about tint lime baij and he under lne wins with thu looking writing on it I 1 SIH 1 it it caino cocu llie lust I 1 ill gut the not 3 and show you can in lo 10 bo honorable and let alio iii 0 o i it lo 10 its proper alian 1 unald creaturo nako up to part pretty aad luh put glicr bright li r i to her bt a livin dont do u i i 0 o lm I 1 youve rot an ini loinal i ri it to atia bird that would bu au of jilla J illa aitho captains ro gardino four agrees nith my but 1 dont quito think it do my eho eaid hut I 1 will get aliu it proved to be as much 0 a to thy ciji iain as to lilt i sio they lud to ajit fit ita solution until eliud vas i reached J hat tima soon ol and iliin lilla WM who liaa flinoil up nil ut vi ilicin in lafr lint clr alima inest leavo alio 01 others which hal bovit up fur lout una evening iho i i lii to cco glicr by hi lra I 1 nan shy anil il in fiig lilli it lini lit liim ery but s ie out her ali aall as coull talk ati matli glicr like a navo nt vo nd once ud 10 lna lost alio lomness which had at first gummed to catill lilli tho pet canio iu for his full bottro 0 ho did not grovu to bo tho old abo icil spoken of KM aboto translate alic continio con tinis of thu bilal hii in 01 ol 01 tho s inch ho 1 jt lul been in i spirit rou tanco uy mum m i noreisa uni M kity aind listen ja ii oon clr fiill r lion like a alio would mako it liu white binl auono iroc tout it like bihy ihy sk inthis glinc trl one li it ins proved a true pi ophrey lilla and thu professor aro to bo in tho sinoi |