Show be 1 11 S aumon or MC go colyle r ay T why d 0 o luve love in nv nance nt nce kid to ann in h gilr after ate the th honta n h O 0 n why 10 lo do t tw people 0 who found th the com cons pini p binl r hip tit each other othe r so agreeable before mir ariage find it 0 so o bore soma sorn after bardt wardt andl Is 1 the lack 0 of temperament M 0 r a fatal to wedded 4 happiness bapp lna that an excess of t it itt thee these u t alon Us are an n in this tory th there or in 1 re revealed revea ltd 1 the 11 0 creat great the one on and 4 only cause cau that under underlie leq a majority of mar inar ital ta shipwrecks oth other it n have dealt ith it but have hedged hedged it about with so much theory mor and ply I 1 I 1 that gy their 1 I conclusions have neS eod had no practical value hit stead a d croato it in a clear direct macner marner ith no high sounding or puzzling phrases or any ideas drawn from the th schools in the firlit pl ce stead Is 1 rarely in bitted eted in his hi ability fo to make the people his hi stories real real and living they seem to the just other folk with whom he be to I 1 surrounded rounded aur their so inq and rolner their action actions etc stern like hise bouc 9 dally daily contact contacts with people or ilist alk looking out of 0 a w window nd w at them th rn their belne bein enclosed la in the pages of a book ie Is I 1 alk k a closed window do the only thing that preveat pre veit vente ono ne from tAl kinic to 10 them thern grevette gre in thih this caia case he brings one into luit just ich a rife relation rotation with the charae of his hi elory which revolve vei s around two wo pr capa cipale a young wom woman a nand and yours your aaa ac f ave average raire young ab try and at like of your he tie re relle iles u upon on the very force and reality 0 of f h hi I 1 I 1 human u man to make it effective and he act amp lahee his ht purpose lou will nealise realise irby jean lane WAR was iliou in refusing to marry prank fran hall halt until bertion things thin ij had bad been corrected and why after thole those correction corrections vere were made there was a r t assurance ar urance that that their mar ruedi ri ed life would b i happy you will be inter interested 4 red ed in learra what the defect in prank frank was wa the detect defect which occula r in women aa as well aa as in rutn and which causen h ho many matri matrimonial menial voyages to come to in grief clef you vv v 11 learn that thia thin d 1 fact la is emilly corrected r i A b happy a atory story of the canadian n dia i k a true picture ai of V 0 adina in the the prairie prattle and foot oot h ellla noun country tro with its it hardships peril and rewards the author wa wan raland on an a homestead homei tead and in n various phases of life II 11 to followed lowed funning publish ing a country newspaper newa paper a ad d atle pursuits until he graduated into authorship authora hip lie ile ha has published several volume of poetry and avid is regarded regard e d a aa one oc at the foremost fore moat ift and roeta at of t CA canada ina d it lie 1 la alio ISO on one of the md ld inc ing of the country to the north and is 1 undoubtedly the chief in depleting epa et 1 n 1 the romance and realia of it tta w e a t ern phalna no regions re iilona CHAPTER I 1 my earliest earl leet recollection links back to a gray stone house by a road en bering a little ontario town across the road a mill pond and across the mill pond m was as a mill an old tah fah ta fa h boned woolen mill which aich buetti wu etti occasion and support of 0 the little ton heslie the will wea a a water sheel acel not a modern turbine but a wooden wheel which on sunshine days sprayed a rolet of jolela into the river beneath all with the of a fairy prince ta tie e mill pond was ras held in check by a stone drin which crossed from the r road so ad a I 1 in t in front of our door to a point on the mil itself the stone crest of thi this dam rise 0 about two feet above the level of the in the mill pond and was wan about ina feet wide alone along thie this crest m father waited walked on hie his way to and from the mill hut but I 1 bad strict order orders not to attempt the feat with lie the promise that I 1 would be bp thrashed within an inch of my life if I 1 did A and it 1 I now I 1 must introduce jean lane daughter of 0 our nearest nelah 1 bor sir peter lune jean lean Is e to travel with us through mot most of the charthern char tern ot of this somewhat Bome som what intimate account a and d yon may as well meet her at fohir four barefooted bare footed and golden haired and bloyed blu blue eyed with a all of white cotton dr drees f ss and a clear gleat of alite teeth set between ilesi of roseleaf rose leaf demurely Denro rely down don the road rhe he came carne to where I 1 lay sprawled on the river bank the leisurely pre carion of the water anter wheel bovo bovone nJ when lien she be reached ine me eat sat don lawn n and burled buried her feet tn in ahr soft sand of the bank 1 1 I want to go to the mill ohp wild when her little toes were well out of eight light nut but yon you cant ro to the mill 7 sale the IN authority of six fly ile yc im id fall fail in ft 1 I M int ni n I her herme phe chanced at rae elfishly frem under her yellow locks noti if yoa you yelped melt mett was as a situation here was I 1 a youns youn inon inan of pix snored li by a commission of prent great hullt from a young a at of fot fo my native natle gallantry fal lantry ne as all ell it 5 a pleasant of competence that I 1 immediately lead h hor hr r that two tao foot artrip of masonry but the parental eto anil and the pro promise niVie of beins thrashed an inch of my life sorely and ex it seemed to me unfairly curbed iny chivalry td like to take yon you over jean yeary I 1 conceded but my father wont let taa did you father any SAY you take roe me over anith ith aamott intuition she he thrust it st the vulnerable pot spot in the armor oc of my good be horlor no he say anything about you tian rii n you cau eau ale me I 1 dug my toes into the sunil sand beside hers bers but did not aisner if my it larf burner bruver john ans as here hed take roe me oer quick I 1 bile con linued alth a auh frici lip john I 1 inne fine N was as ax like me and no bigger the anum n to him is her continued on page 4 continued from pago two big brother who ho would take ber over quick and the quivering lip were too much I 1 scrambled to my feet come I 1 aid wd with ith masculine re kless nesa starting for the dam and elie she followed joyously we are about half halt way war over when something happened haip ened ed I 1 never knew what but I 1 plumped into deep water like a atone stone thrown from the bhore I 1 took a great mouthful and came up splutter fluttering ing choking choki nir frantic the alIp slippery pery wall gave no to trip grip for my hands bands and in a moment I 1 must have bays f I 1 11 jean jeans head came out over the ledge and her little arm arms were reached down to mine gone down again but jeans ben head d came out oer the lege leege and her little armet arms were reached down doin to mine I 1 grasped them ant on I 1 hung in water vaster to lay my deck neck while jean and I 1 both shouted lust lustily fly help came quickly to the person of ray my tat liei who villo had been seen the accident from one of the upper jin lowa of 0 the mill and had como come rushing out at it pace which had bad quite upset the on his route I 1 aas w as dragged drag bed up on oil the dam in a moment and I 1 can remember jean standing beside my father crying a little and saying please don scold hlin him mr liall I 1 made him bim do it I 1 expected my father to he her r but be he took her up in hia his anna arms and held keld her to his breast br youre a brave little girl jean youre a R wonderful little girl r beard heard him blin say and he kissed her on the face which he lafill did to me th ficen A rd U he fed red rie me wei wt ana roli frabe and speculating silently on jill atit may mean to be thrashed within an inu of ones one a me life a but tt it prove pr bvrd to 15 re day ef of surprise surprises I 1 waa was not thrashed within an inch of my life nor at all I 1 was undressed and rubbed with ft a warm towel and put in bed and given a large of hot floe cherry cherr wine because it rs still early in the season and the water was cold 10 and my little elter stater marjorie Marj orle ame tonj d looked at roe me with wills large dark comprehending evea eves and paid fald 11 1 I kaow know why by you get thrashed r chy N d I 1 d nt I 1 get thrashed I 1 ventured A mi you 0 were po to awful uw wicked when hii e youre awful bad you dont don t get 1 its only w when ea yourt a little bad he she explained eipl a ined I 1 had to star in bei for to the remainder in of the city which I 1 oink was birre a punishment than a it precaution to I 1 had opportunity to think on marjoriee Marj orlee philosophy it wae vas evident that she he wai as right I 1 bad had the proof in my mr own will experience I 1 had been very wicked and had escaped punishment 1 my of evil da ding however ho weier rested lightly upon me I 1 had escaped the strop which hung behind the kitchen doer and which was a much more immediate menace than any possible torment torments of the after world I 1 pent spent the remaining remal ning boun hours of the day in altug tlora in which I 1 would eave save jean from all kinds of disasters hext next morning fund roe me none the worse for my experience expert tic indeed my dip over the daro dam aarem ly deemo is more or less value recollection after breakfast I 1 ir de ide a journey to the big pine ellch grew at tue cie very end of our little faria far ia a surviving mon won arth arch of the forest that in some way had bad escaped the locust cloud of ax ar men which hod w armed the ehunt twenty years before perhaps it was AS I 1 lay under the creat vest pine on that tinny cummer summer morning and watched the filmy clouds float flout gently overhead that I 1 caught my first climp e shyly wonderingly Ir through the golden gates of it n os as a vision of jean a vis vision lorin which aich has rem remained allied with roe me through the yeara years growing thrill thrilling inq in mr moments of happiness fading failing in my lay hours of darkness hut but at no time quite obscure perhaps it 11 was wax my first glimpse of that vision which brought me on that morning to my feet 1 etere I ere the great gat pinea swaying lacework of bun sun and shadow patterned the green gross and ret iny heart lilting with the joy of being alive I 1 aran about to shape my lips for a whistle when I 1 berame conscious of a presence ence it was jean her golden docta loc s beld held together by a midget eun nun bonnet bonnit save f r ome some vagrant curl curls which needed nestled the peach pink bloom of her cheeks her chubby bare feet necking cover in the brool 1 I saw you going to the big tr tree he she explained explain eO no I 1 corned too vh uh huh hub I 1 commented cautiously being gripped with a sudden sense that this young woman had led me into difficulties only a day ago nen cannet be too careful she sidled toward me do yoo you know what you have to do for yesterday she be queried no I 1 eald said with some thinking that possibly my behavior nad ad been reported ported rp to the tanea to my die dle advantage advant grandma days says when a young la in dy saves save it young gen fleman tie nan man he hag has to maw y her she eald said breaking speaking very slowly nc at first but finishing her sentence een tence with a little run so you have to meshe ans beside me now and her face was radiant with the lie excitement of her secret kut but I 1 cant marry you I 1 only grownups grown upa d 13 I 1 1 finont ont we bo be gnon ura some dav 11 1 I guess so I 1 almit admitted ted and then with a sudden burnt burst of I 1 added and hen then ill man marr you she held her face up to iii and I 1 leaned le n 04 I 1 operand defied it eh ij then I 1 th tw 3 in ranil 0 we o retraced our ny vlen the coir path long along ohp tl rowa rows of carn by the stables and post peat our houe houte jean led ed me to her own bonia which was as next to our nurs doen the rond road I 1 lou oil han lune e to nek mill alle eh said B our ur little lures dropped weir a across 1 lanes kitchen floor this was moro than I 1 had bargained for I 1 was van beginning to discover dIr cover that miss jenn jean was a loung woman of action ae an well as decision but 1 I vt as game MM mrs lane I 1 aid said bracing tny ray lega legs for the ordeal 1 I want to marry jean jean a mother looked at TOP me with a smile tant broadened until it broke into open laughter 1 I am afraid you arc are very precocious children nhe phe remarked I 1 know hat hot that meant but she gui eme e lie us etch ch a doughnut en an I 1 we u vent ent away happy jean twirling hers on her finger for a wedding ong CHAPTER 11 II that same a eummer summer I 1 began going to school perhaps I 1 should ony that john lane and I 1 began going to school as it was aa something Bom ething of a joint nd venture we talked of it together for weeks before the great event erent at that time my objective in life in so far as I 1 had bad one war to b h a locomotive loco motie engineer but john had bad elected to be the of a woolen mill blandly overlooking the little question of capital and we discussed our school tim t ining in the light of these ambitions on the eventful morning I 1 remember tny my father coming into the loft and leaning over my bed where I 1 feigned sleep bleep iuta wee mee mannie I 1 heard him may dropping into be scotch tongue which he tie reserved for or moments omenta tu of emotion I 1 its it a a long rood road hes starting on and a hard one too or bell no be like the rest 0 us my mother scoured me well and dreese df me e in i n clean clan new iu ault it and aria goolt my cheeks between her hands and kissed me and told me to work worl hard and grow up a good man ike my father fattier at the gate grits I 1 met john and together Z we started don don n the ko of life wi ebent the day becoming accustomed to my new nev environment and marveling over a certain bald spot en on the teacher teachers head which stone re i spen aplon lent when the light strick it a certain way and wondering what possible advantage it could be to a locomotive co engineer to know t bow that A had two slanting Binn ting legs tied together in the middle two years later marjoree Marj orle and jean started going to school and we e were ere proud boys indeed as its we led them up the aisle to the masters desk daye dayn when large families were still considered proper two children aen were a comparatively small tra lm ped meat indeed it ws van commonly raid paid among the townspeople that the smallness of my fathers family had bad made it possible for him to pay fot for and clear his farm at an rate ny vy mother waa was a person of tenure 0 oy 7 comp comparison arlson with ith neighbor wonita who were tr ing to clothe clean and dir discipline ci ten or twelve children apece the lanes were la in the same happy as ourselves and being b e also our nearest beighl ore a con sid erable frienda friendship had s sprung rung up be tween t een the two families this developed as we ue children grew older and bad had mutual interests in studies and aporta jack jackee be was jack now and jean often came over to our bouse house on a inters In tera evening bringing their school I 1 boks and the four of us sat about our tic kitchen table portos over our studies or throwing or Inter a I 1 furtive glances between jack and marjorie and I 1 may confess between jean and frank jean was vini fair ath large blue eyes and clear pink cheeks and lips that always made me think of roses they seemed always ns as delicate and tremulous as a rose leaf utter after rain at eight te would close oar our books and mother would eay sr marjoree Marj orle yoa 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