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The Matin's pacis correspondent at Vichy seis an soocuns of a visit to some at the wounded French soldiers, now under trastmans in the palatial hotols of that celebrated health resort,bae and all of which are transformed into military bospitals.
In our room was a member of an Afri." can, battalion, who had a huge batterily tattooed on his throat. I had another and a better one on my shin," he said, *** and he luck, would have it the bits of a shall carried it clear away. I don't miad the loss of my leg if it had only been the other one and they had left me my butterfly i "
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scrap without some cuts or bruises. admitted it was their own fault, perhaps, Just then he had a vivid picture of Mrs. that they were there. Their command. Kit's horror if he apposed at her breaking deer fell at the beginning of the fast-tablo with a pair of black eyes. What actica, and shortly afterwards they lost a fool he had been to come; but if he two outenants. Without oloers, and walked on tamely he would be a bigger regardless of what was pawing all round tool, and the laughing stock of Wastle them, thoy charged with the bayonot at ford into the bargain,
1,000 yards distatice, and, of course, "You'd better go pescatul," advised | wara, all struck down long before they Jaku You'd no business to some hare could reach the enemy's new. She sold ma-the ticket. Said her and interfere with our girls. You're brother was the secretary. I'd like to riled the fellows all night, sad if you reo something of local fifo.
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A SHORT STORY.
A CHILD OF NATURE.
By Anastala Call,
Miles Vaughan met her first very early one morning. The night had been hot, and he was going to the river for a dip and she was driving couple of cows along the track homeward. She bad
As first he thought she was a little girl, but when she came up to him he aw his mistake. She was a full-grown young woman, though a very small one She was blushing tividly as she glanced down at her bare, white ankles, and he could caly catch a glimpse of a smooth, rounded, chin and a pair if soft red lips. Then just as he passed she gave him a TEAKWOOD, &c.—Two Jrawing Room witt glance with a pair of bright hazel Saiter, Dining Rooey Furniture, &eyes, and smiled adorably sá he took off Arm-chairs and Sefas, Carpets and Rugs, bis eap. New Brass And Bra--mounted Bedsteads. When I got back to the parsonage, Toiler Tables, Wardrabas, Washstands, where he was staying for a few weeks. de, Bid boards, Dinoer Waggons, Ex-with the Standishes, he inquired tansion Dining Tables and Jhairs, etc.lived in the cottago near the river.
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Take my advice, and don't go. Is know every soul in Wastleford, and my calling brings me inte touch with all clance. I don't like to speak i people, bat some of the lads here are an rough a lot se you would meet anywhere The Winters are the worst of them all. and the father has a terrible name. ¿As for the dances they get up, well, your sort don't go to them, Miles, and you might get a warm reception there.
the better of me there's half-a-dozen others wailing their tum,"
"Oh, blow it si," grunted a surly vesco at the back. tow the gab, Jako, and bit him.'"
A gunner who was at the Heights of Benhomme would not speak of himself, but had much to say of his comrade in hospital, the champion gun-layer of the battery. It was he who blow up the cailway station at Sta. Maria aux Mines, one of the enemy's train supplios, And billi he assuredly would havu with one shot disabled an advancing been but dur
a timely interuption, Germaa bastery. He himself fall in his Ifad appeared suddenly amongst them. sura Both his legs were shattered, but She was a tiny mito of a girl, and looteductora being carried away he begged to smaller stall songst the tall non, yet be carried to another gun and to have
ca more shot she faced them all bravaly
You're a nice lot of fellows, ain't yousho aid scornfully. Call your bully, one man! A nice way to test visitor and a stranger, ain't it? You ought to be shamed of youraves. And let me tell you that Mr. Varghan cams here beco i invited him, and if you
suit him 133, more I't unver speak word to any of you again 1. **
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In another building three infantrymen with their heads bandaged were found
tad been, extracts from them. They remarked they did not roll so well as marbles, but in war time they must not | be too particular.
THE Undersigned have received instructhabby skirt that barely rouched her Under by Bublic notion ankles, faded, much washed blouse,
and wore a battered a mushroom-hat: Few men avoid a danger they were her feet were thrust into old shoes, and warned against, especially if there is alves met To all join together playing on the door with the bullets thit -be were no stockings.
womas in the ease, d Vaughan did not stay away from the social." Ezel Winter welcomed him warmly, and in troduced him to her sister and several other girls, and his programme filled
Another pasient said he had only, sac- counted for one Prussian, and had a spidly rough lot. Standish gsid, would be there. Why, it was as respect
right to four more. He would go and uhle a gathering as he had over attended.
Sho waited up close to Jaku, and find them before long, he added grimly, Many of the girls were in regulation spoke a few words in a low, imperious oblivious, apparently, of the fact that evening-dress, and most of the young tune. He still looked black and implate had lost one of his feet in the Vorges. men wore black clothes and white gloves.ble, but he began to put on his cost,-Dulzici.
A few chance remarks that be over while the others drited towards the in a letter addressed to Mrs. Low,, 10, heard between two girls rather startled buliroom again. Than Hazel tripped up incunt-place, Hunslet, and published in him.
to Vaughan, and slipped her hand is the Loods Mercury, har san Charles, a That tall bloko's fair gone on you. his arm.
unner on board a battleship, writes: Don't bother about me. I shall be This is our dance, isn't it? siber wheEthel," said cna.
Pooh!" exclaimed the other, a wetsaid, as the music began.
back by Christmas smiling, like a bad Eitle thing in white. "He's a regulär
Young blood is invariably but blood, halfpenny. I think the enemy will have galoot-enough to drive you silly."
and the proceedings only islamed Yaug- to go under. I don't expect it would But though some of the girls were not ban. Juke Mansell 'did not appear again, last twenty-four hours if we got into exactly refined, they were, agreeable and
Vaughan and are spent most of them. I am not funking, nor is anybody Two of them? bota aro pretty, and pretty; the music was good, and so was the evening in such other's company. else, for we mean to reap everything be the door; und Vaughan liked dancing. They had the last dance together, and for us and still be alive to tell the tale." Bold could he be heuring right? so he was enjoying himself thoroughly whirled round and round till the music A privato: writes to his uncle,. Mr. W. The girl I met this morning is an in Naturally Hazel Winter appropriated him died away and the lights wars turned Hardcastle, Leeds: "It is all right cocent little thing," he declared; "to's certain extent, and in between the low. Then he wrapped her cloak around being on active service. You have a lot dances, while the rest of the mon stood her, and they went out into the reato put up with, but the men are as jolly regular rhild of naturg."?
Oh. That's Mazel, Laughed. Mrs.round the doorway in groups Vaughan together. Deca bo glanced back, dud and happy as can be, so I have to be the Charles. he's the smaller and she sat with Hazel and her sister Daphne wa shadow following behind; a big same. I am hoping to get up a raffle worse-of the two. She has driven balfa larger and more forward growth from blues shadow that he had no difficulty for a German sausage when I come back. of the Wattleford boys out of their the anhe stem,
in recognising.
11 am sitting down resting by the road- Hazel had, introduced him to a copple sonses.""
When they got to Hazel's gate. the side as I write this, and the regiment Next time Vaughan met her she was of her brothers, and also to a young man shadow, was still visible in the moon is gatting ready to start off again for 2- property clad, and her shapely little geat named Jake Mansell As the night were light, and in a sudden wild spirit of other 150, miles." were covered with open work stocking, on Vaughan often found this Jake glower braszlo, Vaughan slipped his arm round
A Todmorden patty officer, writing to She was sitting on the river-bank, reading Bercely. at him, and wondered what the girl's waist and kissed her. She did his mother, describes the sinking of the ing a Duchess novelette, and greeted was the matter till Daphne Wictor not object; only laughed and put her Gorman mine-laying vessel, the Konigin him with the easy frankness of a child.lightened him.
face against his shoulder, so he kissed Luise, by the Lance, on which he is My word. Mr. Vaughan," she laugher several times more.
serving. hed you'd better mind. Hazel is Jak The dark figure took shape when he Wa sighted the Konigin Luise," he Mamall's bit of mustin. and he's awful was close to the parsonage, and proved, says, about ten am., and gave these jealous.**
as he had guessed, to be Jake Mansell. Wo fired a blank shot serosa har bows, During the supper interval someone The big fellow's face was distorted with but she would not stop, so we gare her me, I'll be bound," she said, and laughed topped him on the shoulder, and acted passion, is he shook his fist at him. ù"few rounda of lyddite. when Vaughan got red. He thinks him to come outside. A group of young Curse you, you cur!" he gasped, me a bad lot, because. I don't go reden were gathered in the moonlight savagely.I're half a mind to murder gularly to church sil Sunday-echool and, towering amongst them, Vaughan you then vanished into the night. And Mr. Standish turns up her nose at noticed Jake. Mansell's big, burly figure.
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Good afternoon, Miss Winter," he sukl. Mr. Standish told me your name," he explained.
A flicker of amusement came into her "Ho didn't say much good of ey+g.
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"We were ring from 12.15. until 12.20, and at 12.25 she heeled over and sank, but she was on fire half an hour 2 Vaughan was too much excited to before that. me just because I won't go to her sills The rest formed a ring round him, and sleep. He could not marry Hazel, of "We picked up five officers and old sewing clase."
course: but she was tempting enough twenty-three inen, some of whom ware Perhaps she was right, ho thought. "Look here, young fellow," he said. to draw a fellow of the straight path. terribly wounded. I don't think I shall Clergymen aro narrow and prejudiced"we're just about full up of your comDeicre mea's. but especially women's over forgot the sight. But we did all we where parochial matters are concerned,pany, so you'd better get your hat and faces man must conform to propriety; could for thom.
"This, when we were coming into and women are always unjust towards sept." Vaughan laughed, then looked but in the privacy of midnight and his
him up and down. Suppose I refuse?" own soul be in take off the chain and harbour, we saw the Amphion strike ons "Sho's a nizo one to give herself aim, Jake's oyes flashed fire. If you let his fancies run riot, and no one is of the mines which the Germans, lado. 59 The Peak (5 Cameron Villas).. and pretend to be goody goody," "con- don't agree to go, I'll spoil your pretty any the wiser, no matter how wild and been engaged in laying, and she went
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avenge their deaths. dish's romance before, so he only smiled. thing of the game, too, and had fists like If anyone else had criticised his friends, sledge hammers. The hero of a mielo- he would have been angry; but Hazel | Winter's face was so axemaively youth- ful, nad hor pretty petulance.so nivo and artless, bo caly felt amused.
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The afternoon alipped away with ss.. tonishing speed, and he reached the par sonage just in time for dinner.
I met that little Miss Winter," he said, in explanation," and stayed talking She's a charming little girl, and to her. I think you're mistaken about her."
Mr. and Mrs. Standish changel dances. Each always seemed to know what the other was thinking about. Then Charlio laughed outright. F she been spreading her note for you? Perhaps she'd ka higher game for a change. My dear Miles, take my advice, and steer clear of Hazel Winter. She's e most artful little puse.!
Artful! Again Vaughan falt "some, thing like anger. He thought of her smooth cheeks; her pretty kissabla red lips; the soft yes, with the long, outling Jashos. There was no gulle in theit limpid depths. Ignorant she certainly was, and unconventional. Just an uni cultured, natural little bush, girl, but 16 would be unjust, to blame her foc El Trommentfo
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