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WHAT WAS HIS CREED?

He left a load of anthracite

In front of a poor widow's door. When the deep snow, frozen and white,

Wrapped street and square, mountain and

That was his dend

He did it well

What was his creed, ?" I cannot tell

Blest "in his basket and his store," In sitting down and rising up; When more he got, he gave the more, Withholding not the crtist and cup

He took the lead

In each good task; "What was his creed ?”.

I did not ask.

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His charity was like the snow-

Soft, white and silken in its fall; Not like the noisy winds that blow

From shivering. trees the leaves; a palk.......

For flower and weed,

Dropping below;

* What was his creed ?". The poor may know. -

He had great faith in loaves of bread,~- For hungry people, young and old; And hope inspired, kind, words he said To him, he sheltered from the cold.

For he must feed

As well as pray. "What was his creed p

I cannot say,

In words he did not put his trust,

In faith his words he never writ: He loved to share his cup and orast With all mankind who needed it.

In time of need

A friend was he. "What was his creed f

He told not me.

He put his trust in Heaven, and

Worked ever on with his hand and head; And what he gave in charity

Sweetened his sleep and daily brand.

Let us take heed,

For life is brief! "What was his creed " "What his belief TM"

CIVILITY,--Civility is a beautiful word, coming from the old Latin civilis, which means, relating to the community, or to the policy and government of the citizens and rubjects of a State; thus reminding us in its root-ides of the fast, that we are members one of another, that mere individual care and solishness is not civil, and that we are related to those around us in multitudes of ways. An uncivil man by his conduct says, "Your pleasure, your comfort of mind, is nothing to me. What care I whether you are happy or not " But a civil man desires by his very conduct to see those around him In the enjoyment of the pleasant sense of satisfaction and good-will. Thus it happene that civil cotas, in its secondary sense, to mean gentle, obliging, well-bred, effable, kind; and let this be a satisfaction to citizens-it means, having the habits of a city. This surely is one of the greatest compliments that can be paid to those who have to endure a city's smoke and noise, that they are supposed to be especially civil. Certainly it is a sign of good breeding to be civil. It manifests that delicate and instinctive appreciation of the feelings of others which is the essence of true gentle manliness." Manifestly there are dangers in this, as in every other aspect of life and duty. We can easily understand in physics how too much of sweets nausente instead of pleasing the palate, and so in morals we can quite well understand that there is a danger fest courtesy should merge into a ridiculous and empty excess of mannerism. There are rooke on either hand here as elsewhore, but there are wide seas between in which we may safely steer our vessels; and if we are to be affrighted from one position because of possible excesses, we had better confess at once our inability to steer between ex- trames. The danger of excess in this respect is not one-hundredth part so great as the danger of neglect. We are liable each day

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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of the rust apon. It might be the rust of poor Ja's blood:23 20

meroy. We only did this in self-defense, they started in the dead;pf@night, for fear it was not dark enough yet for me to do em, the said, "but you soal of the dead and appeal for justicetuPLATESN

"Hallo, mate!" exclaimed Jo the Tin- man,What, the davil: do you carry so much brass shout you for 1, to value pa "Brass!" screamed the simpleton. "It's as much brass as you are! It's gold that's what it is! It's gold !"

you were in them. He would hold ou like I have seen that dog before, mate," he grim death, and in former times had bedti į said. the terror of every dog in the neighborhood" "Long ago 1" I asked in an easy tone, I went back to the dog; he was standing He was cut and bitten all over from the although my heart was beating very fast. in the middle of a hole he had aeratol antis battles he had fought. How the dickens **As matter of more than a year ago, I and was whining in a most awfully die. Dutch Troule managed to keep him, and dare say, ho answered { iz duten tressing manner over some charred bones. how he got hold of him at all, was more *There were two men, with him then, As the dog raised his head to the skies, E than I was able to discover. The best part mate, 1-yeatured to day in a careless saw the tears running down his face, and of all this came into my hoad while I was manor, and pretended to do something to his whines sounded like a lamentation for baving my ten in a grog-shanty, for after the dog's collar. oaught sight of Lion I crept quietly away;

wasn't one of I thought, how strangely things came anything, and I did not want Dutch Lonis No, I went aid shout. Here was a foul murder discovered

wasn't, I

good-day, all through a little match-box not worth to see me akulking about his tent. "I'made mate." enquiries about Dutch Louis, and I heard

ww Batwopence. I know how the murder had And I walked away; only for a dozen been committed as well as if I had seen it. that he was generally disliked that he did yards, though, for, turning around to where Here was my poor old mate, asleep. There not socdate with any of the gold-diggers, the man was standing looking after us, I was Datoh Louis standing over him with and that he was apoken of by nearly every said- body as a miserable, rich, curly Datch thief.

an axe, hungering for his gold, Down comes the axe, once, twice age; again and One thing I made up my mind to, and that

again, to make pare. Good-bye, poor solut was to have Jo the Tinman's dog that very night.

you've got your ticket-of-leary, in real earnest, and nobody can cancel" it now. Then Dutch Louis had burnt poor old fo and had buried what he couldn't get rid of, I hadn't had anything, to eat all abs day, if

but I didn't feel a bit hungry was fled with something else. I knais before Lion,- answered win with him" remarked and told him the whole of the story, as it

The dog was I

had passed through my mind and Lion "Yes," he said, looking at Lion, "the looked at me solemnly the while, and, when ::: dog was with him-all bloody, as though I finished, his face grow as stern as mine, he had been badiy beaten."

was he had made up his mind to avenge his master's murder!"

Did you see them when they came back, made 1o ARE AMT) sa to sto su

I saw one of 'em," he said, į. My back felt as if a bucket of loe water had been, poured down it, as I asked

Which one

He laughed and looked at me queerly, as he thought, I had s

tlla loose.

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into my throat which prevented me from know where it was. Dutch Louls was de- quowering her, and I went out of the house termined not toistop Bendigo another dazed like for alb bul? ale! day glue thasinmaided with him: Tey When we were well away from the sheep were determined; sons I' and that night station we got off our horses, and het down two parted" off oddanet, parad "ody red to our mutton and damper. Weered The fett morning I was off to Melbourne, the end of our meal when a horseman with my gold in at belt fastened round my galloped upon us through the bush, and alwals, and my life preserve alting bandily most sent, as flying Wa were up in on my wrlat, Dutch Louls and the moment, and in a twinkling the flying Tinman started for the country where the horesman was on the ground roaring for gold was lying in big, humpe on the surface we thought it necessary to search him, for they should be followedtion si jet bazares un fear he should have any loaded weapons I was hot borty to part from Dutch About him. Sure enough, we did find a Louis; he was too treacherous for me. But neat little revolver, a bowie knife, and a I did regret parting fedmintear oil Jo. We small chamois-leather bag, full of yellow hat shared many dongoza and hardships metal.

togathor, and he had always stood by me like a man. We were baca pretty nearly starved, too, in the bush another hour would have cooked us I bellever. That sort of thing binds fallows to dach other, you know. Jo the Tinman and I didn't whimper So when it got dark I watched Dutch when we parted. Tgave him a match-box Lonis out of his tent he was living all by Simpleton or not-and he must have been-a-matal one--that I had bad for a dozen himself, and not with two mates, as he had mad, or something, very near it, to lot out year, and he gave me a luite a first-rate { told me--and when he was well out of sight | the secret to such a rough-looking lot as we Davor and we bade ogch other good night, I crept near to the dog's chain. Lion's woro-ho would have been a dead man in a as it we were to meet the next morning.

chain rattled as I approached, and I knew yery short time, if it had not been for me, I never saw him again alive t

by that and a low kind of growl that ho for Dutch Louis had thrown himself on tho I soon gave up my spree and went back used to give a growl that would last for fool at the first mention of gold, and was to Jackass Gully, but I found, when I got five minutes together without his seeming pressing the life out of him. He was a there, that the best part of the gold had to wait to catch breath-that Idon was deyil, was Dutch Lands. You were never been dug out. I went from one gully to aware that there was some person hear his safe with him. I had to hug him pretty another, but, although I could always get tub, who, perhaps, didn't have any business tightly before I could got him off; and gold, I couldn't get it in such quantities as there. There was an old tune that Jo the when he did let go he was almost as black when was mates with Dutch Louis and Jo Tioman used to whistles tune that I in the face as the man he was trying to the Tinman, fused to wonder if they never heard from anybody but himself; he choke, I am not over particular myself, ever reached the diggings where the gold called it "The Ploughman's Delight," So, but the dying horseman had never done me was lying in Innips on the surises, while the dog was growling, I commenced any harm, and, besides, I wanted to get enquired for them wherever I went, but to whistle this tune, la exact imitation of out of him where he had found the gold. nobody could tell me mything about them, my old mate. As I whistled, Lion's growl We had beard of gold being discovered, and it wasn't till fifteen months afterward lng grow fainter and fainter, until it and did not know whether to believe it or that I came plump apda Dutch Louis at a stopped altogether, and then I knew that Lion wagged his tail in the dust, as much not; but now it seemed as if we were on new rusk, about thirty mites from Bondigo, the dog was puzzled and was considering as to say, "I could tell you if I could the track of it. Upon our promising the "Hallo, Loo I exclaimed glad for he and I had always been good friends, speak, but you ought to know without my flying horseman that we would not hart enough to see an old mate. How are end he had heard me whistle The telling him, he told us that he had found the gold you getting along 1 that

Ploughman's Delight" a good many times. to Bendigo, and there were a hundred

I whistled the tune right through, and then people there digging as much as they could

called, "Lion 1 Lion darry, and that we could gat a ton of it if Te Hked.

You may guess how excited we were. We determined to start off at once, and we made our new mate go with us. He refused at first, but when we threatened to hang him unless he obeyed orders, and, indeed, had a rope round his neck, he changed his mud, and led the way. We went a little of the track to borrow tools from a shep. herd, and we succeeded in getting two shovels and a doubled-headed pick. We reaobed Bendigo all right, and as to work at once. We couldn't get any ground in Golden Gully, where the diggere were making twenty ounces a day, so we grossed hill into the next valley, where we began

*Mein Oott! Bo-kes!" he cried, making though he would jump out of his skin with delight, although I knew at once from his face that he was far from pleased at my coming across him,

But we did the first thing that old mates always do when they meet; we went and had a drink. When I asked him about Jo the Tinman, he told me in a way that I thought was a little bit furried that they bad not been able to agree and had parted I was not surprised to hear that, but I was surprised to hear that Jo the Tinman bad gone home to the old country. For Jo the Tinman had told me, half a desen times, that if he had the choice, and had len thon and a year, he would not go back to the old country, but would prefer to live and die in Australia. If he had the choice, I say, to work at once. Three fest down to came because he didn't have the choice, a to gold. We called the gully Dead Dog might have found it too hot for him in the Gully, because we found two or three dead old country, for he was sent out for life by dogs there. We worked there for a forta paternal government, blows it -the same right, then we shifted our tent to Murder- as I was.

How should I know which 'one?”

That was enough. I bade him good-day again, and walked away. When we were out of sight of the tent, I threw myself on the ground, and Lion stretched himself before me, watching me with his bloodshot eyes.

"Shake bands on it, Lou, "Isaid. And he placed his paw in the palm of my hand, with fire in his eyes..

I was no time fluding my way to the hut again, and making, friends with the hut Two of them wont this way, Lion," I keeper. I was no time getting a back, and said, and only one of them came back placlog la it everything I could and that which one, good dog, he? which ous? Jo would prove the murder, and placing fal, the Tioman or Dutch Louis

too, the few remains I could find of Jo the Tinman, I was as little time con possible getting back to the new rub, where Dutch Louls was working. I walked Mthe way with my swag-on-my back and I do know," I said, just as if Lion had the sack safely secured in the middle t spoken the words. "If it had been Jo was night when I got in. I don't know: the Tinmen who brought you back, you how it was that I didn't think of taking. In a moment the dog came toward me as wouldn't have been bloody Tour own anybody with me I was too excited, far ne the chalu would allow him, and then governor never gave you a blow; he had suppose. I walked straight to Dutch Louts I took courage to crebp oloser to him. no need to. You knew every note in his tent there was a light inside, and I kicked "Lion!" I called, and I put out my glad to obey when he spoke. It was Dutch dressing himself, came and asked with an voice, didn't you, Lion 1 and you were too at the door. Datoh Louis, who was un band,

Louls who brought you backs, and who beat oath who was there. you into submission. Then where did you leave your old governor and my dear old kick way to soak

Bo-kee!" I cried, and

l I gave another mate tell me that Lion !"

. He opened the door, and I pushed my way in, with the dog at my heels. at

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He knew me directly. He Hoked my hand, and I crept right up to him, and played with him. He jumped about me with such delight that I thought he would break his chain. And sure enough he did break it, snapping it clean away from the side of the text. I could not have wished anything better,

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I made off at once into the busb, the rattle of the chain along the ground telling me that the dog was close on my heels and, when we got to what I considered a safe distance, I knelt down and wrenched the collar from Lion's neck, and throw it away.

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The dog rose, and sald in a sorrowful bark,

*! Come along; I will show you where we left him!"

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Got dam Bo-kee!" he cried, "what the devil brings you here 7-My dog, too!"

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suppone there was an expression in my faos that made him pull up abort. He was about to say something else, but instead of saying it began to wear waited until he was quiet, and then I said to a LE...

Do you see this sack ". He nodded, "Yes," and looked about him-aneasily, overda

Do you know what there is in it" 1. askell.

"No," he said.

Can you guenn 1

"No," again, with the blood deserting

his lips.

I solemnly swear that 1 had nothing to do with it. I was like a man in a dream, waiting quietly to wake up to find out something which, wasn't clear in my mind; That deg plaked out the places where we damped for, the night, picked out the grog shanties on the road and made me stop and **Now, Lion," I said, placing his two drink, pioked out the creeks where I got torpana against my shoulders, and looking water to boll for dinner and tes, and led me - into his eyes it was dark, but I could see through thick and thin, until we came to a his eyes blastng"Now, Idon, I want you wooden hut, a dozen miles away from any to find out what has become of do the tent on the road. It was noon when we Tinman, your governor, my old boy! Iasme to this hut. The dog had behaved don't believe he has been rightly dealt with, himself very strangely all that morning.

"You cursed villain" I asid almost and if anything foul has happened to him He wouldn't let me have a moment's rest. choking. Jo the Tinman's bones are in I'll find it out, so help me God and you He was whining and jumping about the it I've been home for them. You mür. shall help me to do it,"

whole of the time, and running before me dared him, you infernal scoundrel, and you Upon my life the faithful old rip knew if I wasn't quick enough for him. We had shall swing for it, as sure as there is a God what I was saying as well as I did myself, been out for five days, and had walked, I in heaven. and I do believe that he swore an oath as dare say, a matter of a hundred and forty I had scarcely Anished when he levelled strong as mine, that he would help me to miles. Within the last mile or two I had a revolver at me. I wrenched it from his discover what had become of his old noticed a few shallow holes sunk a long hand. He turned, caught up a short- while singe, and I thought it likely they had handled shovel, and was swinging it down In a week from that time I was in Jackass. been sunk by Jo the Tinmen and Datoh ngon my head, when Lion seran upon Gully, on the very spot where I had last Louis. But with the exception of my bim, and bearing him to the ground, tore seon Dutch Louis and Jo the Tinman notion that there had been foul play, and away at his throat. I went to the door and together. The old tent was there, very my faith in Lion, and my belief that he was fired the revolver into the air. A hundred ragged and dirty, but the man who lived in leading to a place where I should make a gold-diggers rushed to the tent, and I told it did not know anything about my mate. discovery, I had no clue to golde me. thein the story in a few words, and took I was pretty hard up at that time, and When we came to the wooden hut, Ldon the dog away all bloody about the month, fossicked about in some of the old spots, behaved as if he had really gone mad. He and tied Dutch Louis hand-and-foot. which were not rich enough for us when barked and whined to such a degree that we first went there. I went down the hole he got two other dogs at the back of the hut wo sunk when we had got so much gold, barking and whining in chorus. The noise and, as luck would have it, I did find a brought a man to the door, who asked what little bit of the golden gutter which we had the hot place I wanted about his tent for neglected to take array, and out of that bit and whether I saw anything that did not of earth-not four bucketfuls altogether belong to me that I had taken a fancy to.

Do you take me for a thief, mate?" I knew it by my own feelings. I wouldn't I washed ten ounces of gold. That was

Yes, I do," he said, "and that's flat, have parted with the knife he gave me for suflicient for me just then, and, blessing asked in a pretty quarrelsome manner, for

my blood was up

log Flat, where the gold was not found in Datoh Louis told me he was doing well such large plecss as in Dond Dog; but that he had a good pisse of ground on the there was more of it. Then we went to new rush, and that he intended soon to give Jackass Gully, where we came upon a up gold digging. We didn't get along nugget which weighed saventy cunces together very well in our talk, and Dutch Altogether, we did very well. Wherever Louis felt awkward, I think, and be pulled we went we found gold, and, as there were out his pipe for the purpose of having a not too many diggers on the gold-field. for smoke. the first few weeks, there wasn't much It is wonderful what a great deal comes aquabbling about the ground. There was out of a very little. If Dutch Louis hadn't more than room for all of us who were pulled out his pipe, I should'nt have pulled there. We washed a hundred and twenty out my pipe, and if I hadn't pulled out my ounces out of one bucket of dirt, and we ripe I shouldn't have been able to tell you might have made big fortunes if we hadn't this story. For if you want to smoke a been a parcel of fools. Bat we took to pipe you must light it, and to light it, if drinking and knocking our money about, you haven't a fire, a match fa necessary, and and laying stupid wagers. We got the gold matches are kept in a match-box, and the an easily, and thought so little of money, match-box that Dutch Louis pulled out of that when we went to a grog stop to drink his pocket, when we were going to light our we would give the man a big pinch of gold pipes, was the very mateb-bor I had given for two or three glasses of whisky. If we to Jo the Tiuman fifteen montus ago. wanted new shirts or boots, we would go The sight of the match box gave me into a store and fit them on. We were abook. I'm not s nervous man, but the very particular about our watertight boots sight of that little metal match-box did liked them to fit well and look smart give me a most awful turn. For, says I to and never asked the price. When we myself, had bought the things we did want, we used If Joe the Tinman la the man I take to throw a wooden match-box filled with him to be, he wouldn't have parted with gold on the counter, and say to the store- that match-box willingly." keeper:

Take out of that, mate."

to be put out by so many things-to And the storekeeper did take it out of

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What mates ?" I asked.

"What mates!? he shouted, in a furious passion, "D'ye think I'm a greenhorn,

hanged for it! The evidence was too Of course the black-hearted villain was strong for him. I have got the match box to this day (concluded Bo-kee, pulling it out of his pocket and helding it in the bright glare of the blazing fire a match. It is strange, isn't it, that such and I often think of poor Jo when I strike.

coldest blooded murders that was over a little thing as this should have been the means of bringing to light one of the

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A HATTER in Dundee, "three sheets in the

a hundred pounds, And then, says I to my stars, I started off the next mor have the angry spirit, the grumbling spirit, that. We never knew how much there was myself again,

yell ngalih, tam dash, sort this in the direction that Dutch Louis and Joan the discontented spirit awakened in us that in the match-box, and we never knew, and it requires a marvellous amount of energy never cared to know, what the storekeeper match-box willingly, he parted with: I look for the surface gold & hundred miles hind you ?? bot to put this essence of unpleasantmeas took. He would pretend to be very parti. unwillingly, and if he parted with it unwill.ever. into our mannerism towards others. Who cular about it, would open the box carefully, ingly, what then it ha has not felt it to be a great wrong that he and put a few pinches of gold into the scale,

On the afternoon of the first day I was phould suffer Smith's snappiahness, because and put a little back, and take a little more, was lighting my pipe, and I determined, to the right, ous to the left, puzzled which now that dog there? The last time I saw put up his shutters. The wind, which blew All this ran through my mind while I standing at the opening of two tracks, one you; skulking thief? D'yo think I don't wand, on a very stormy night attempted to in the morning Brown happoned to be oross and squint at the scales just as they balanced, combat would, to find out if my old to take. I bad made up my mind to take him, the two, skunks that were with him a perfect hurricane, caught the shutter, and with Smith F It is difficult indeed to rid and then look at us as much as to saymate Jo the Tinman really had gone home the one which was the most trodden, and stole my tea, atole my mugar, and stole my himself in the middle of the street before he ourselves of the feelings of the hour; but if

See what an honest fellow I am Or or not, and, If he hadn't gone home; to find had walked along it a ducen garde when I as, curse them! They wouldn't have stole brought up. Losing his reckoning, the man we all tried to be civil and courteous to each sa much as to say: How wrong it is of out what had become of him. When I felt Lion bulling at the obain which I had much more, I can tell you, if I had caught of hats steered his course to the opposite making a lug-call of the batter found other, in court, and camp, and shop, in you to be so careless with your gold. But sakep Dutch Louis hove they got on when put around his neck. I didn't take much them. I would have shot them as lief as side, where he very considerately put the street, at home, and abroad, we should ours if you can't take care of your money they went out prospecting for big nuggets notloe of him at first, but when his togging would a dingo." the evil at a stroke; and just in proportion yourself I must take care of it for you." he told me a run sork of a story, about got inconvenient, and when I heard him I was divil in a minute. as we personally cultivate a courteous spirit,

I have heard diggers lots of times, when their travelling a hundred miles through the whining as it in trouble, I turned to see That was more than a year ago, mate!" deliberately walked into the baker's shop to shatter on the window of a baker's shop, do we diminish the discomfort of the world. the boxes were handed back to them, say about which was the proper track to follow, so than Lion forked the obain clean out of Yes, it was more than a year ago, mate, his stook of hats had been at once trans

bush, and that then they bad quarrelled what was the matter. I had no sooner.dons I said.

Having accomplished this feat, the hatter Popular Educator

to the storekeeper:

Here, take another plush, mate," as if and had parted. When I asked how he iny hand, and ran to the other track, where he repeated, in such a scaring manner that formed into leaves of all shapes and sizes. get the other shatters, when, lo and behold, knew that Ja the Tinman had gone home, he stood looking at me and wagging his old And the storefreeper would take another he said he had had it from a mate in tail. Now, that made me consider what was as much as I could do to keep my Staring at the strange phenomenon, all that pinch--not a amail one and ask them if Melbourne, who aald that he saw Jo the could be the reason of Lion's anxiety, and know anything about it, do you Look Well, I'm blowed !" There is no mistake hands down. "And you pretend not to the amazed hatter could do was to exolaim They would ha a gluen of grog. That was Tinman on beard ship an hour before it why de didn't seem inclined to follow here now. I'm going to fetch my gun, and about that, anyhow," remarked the baker a thing they never refused. And after that, sailed,

if you are not off when I come back I'll put You just take off that shatter and be And strike me dead! (exclaimed Bo-kee, a few slugs into your thieving carcas blowed back again." so excitedly that he made my blood jump With that he ran into the hat to fetch through my veius), if it didn't come upon his gun.

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THE MATCH BOX AND THE MURDER

A STORY OF OLD SENDIGO. By B. L. Farison.

trendember (continued Bo-kee, nursing

his knees and looking, as much like a hedgehog as possible), I remember the first

perhaps, they would buy something else That is all I know about it Bo-kee," they didn't want, and throw the match-box sald Dutch Louis,

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to the storekeeper, that he might help himnodded, and said I was sorry I had not

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time heard of the gold-diggloga. We self again. The: storekeepers of the gold-seen Jo before he left the country. I never me like sudden daylight, that the dog know I knew he meant what he said, and as I

PHONOGEITHIO CLOCKS FOR THE MILLION. Were camping near the "Produpine--do the diggings made a fine thing out of the folly maid a word shout the match-bòa, the real that my two mates had taken i didn't want to quarrel just then I walked pardanity, if they, carešto neize it. They Clock-sellers have now, their golden op- Timman, Dutch Louis, and me. The cotin- of rackles gold diggers.tel Bad 1921 Can you give me a shake down to try was raggad enough at that time, I can

Beery night we need to assemble at a night, Loo Leaked and wanted to lead me to where I could with passion, and doubt, and fear that I pieces, and their fortunes are assured : For tell you. No tobacco or tea to be bought shanty called the Go-a-head restaurant, and

know that I'wanted to take the same track sway, I was so confused in my mind, what have only to advertise the undermentioned No, he said, be couldn't. He was so

varieties of phonographically vocal time for love or money. We had nalthes love there we would drink ourselves blind, some. sorry to refuse me that he was almost ready and sozie blue. There's more to dogs than did not for a long time discover that we invalids. A clock that shall say seductively. mor money, so we were forced to help our times ending up in sight in which knives to dry his tent, he said, was only eighs we know of, mate. They can't speak gurere off the track, but when I did notice it, Galves from the nearest sheep, station. We would be used, and some ugly wounds gitch, fest by ten, and tws of his mates alept language, but they have got almost as mine is did not trouble me, for Lion was sond patient's favourite physician, Now, I

in perfect imitation of the tones of the tied up the overseer and an old woman, Lucky diggere would play cribbage, or brag, it as well as himself

zone it we have. They are better than diuglalong in front of me, with his chalu threa, my dear air. Time to take your slaughtered a sheep, mada up a little asort or enghre, for plaches, or outter, or nuggets Ch, bol" thought 1, you've got some too, for they never forget... ment of four, tes, and sugar, pooksted all of gold, ond bundreds of pounds would be thing in that tent gon don't want me When that dog stood upon the track I back every minute to make sure that I was and you'll feel twenty per cent. better, Straling loose on the ground, and looking phyto! Hold your nose, and get it down, the tobacco we sotild lay hands on, took lost and won ie sú hour, en droh nibur dale moon in out of the paddock thres of the best horses One night when we were at the Goa-head With that I wished him good-bye,

bad left and looked back at me, I made up following him not forgetting the saddles and bridle restaurant a digger related a story about

my mind that he could take me to every we must have gone about six miles from the lowest of whispers, "Young people, it's For Lovers, A slook that shall remark, in and then made tracks as far as we could an aboriginals who had told him that big I tracked him to his tent that evening. It had passed in their prospecting tour, and Ibush when Lion suddenly stopped till, you don't like. Wouldn't interrupt your But, I didn't lose sight of him. Not I spot where do the Tinman and Dutch Loals the hut, and were in the midst of a thick eleven o'clock. But you need't hear me if with our booty. Dutch Louis wanted to lure of gold were lying on the surface & wasn't an eight by ten-the lying thief. made up my mind, too, to let him lead me about fifty yards ahead of me. Ele appear spooning, or hint that it was time.dar Alas fill the old man, who must have been hundred miles agay. When the digger It was double that size. But what do you where he liked. So walking up to him, Ted to be very agitated, and when I reached to go, for worlds!". For the Convivial-A heater sixty years of age than fifty, and I had asked in what dizestion the wonderful line think was chained to the side of that tentt stooped and patted the faithful beast'e had his side he was scratching at the earth clock that shall chuckle huskily;:!! Ona to threaten to shoot him if he made a lay, the aboriginal pointed in the direction why, Jo the Thaman's dog wy old mate's and, holding the chain loosely followed at furiously and tossing it wildly about o'clock, ole pals! But whatah odds? Charney movement to harm her. Je the Tidman, of the Murtag river, and said to tear dog Lion, that he wouldn't have parted his heels, Helwan wiser than a human too, swore be would ip him open if he "White man find plenty yellow stone with for his life and directly! I cast crossrestore; he never hesitated a moment

---When I saw that, I was prepared for pleass, genelmen-We won go➡hicl wasn't quiet, and the pair of us got him off there ar

on the dog i gald to myself, direct Sometimes we came upon three or four everything. without any mischief being done. Ed Was The diggers topfiles were very busy perBokep, there has been foul play with tracks, leading different ways, but Lion I went away from the spot where Lion "BABKALEY, Sept. 1889.Gentlemen, I

but every inch of blin, was Dutch the story and nothing she was folked of our old man, and you find out what always took one of allem without besitation we tearing at the earth, and the dumb is a duty owe to you to op Laikas black-hostted a thief sa over all the night 45 no walked home to off the night of that dog did give me a turn, with a fawbottles: of pluger-beer upon a thought I was going to give up the search rived by taking *Lorton's Camomile Pills*

has become of kira l' : breathed. Bat the devil's got tight kold of too, Jo the Tinman and Dhich Leds, sho

blaas et impede, an On the second day we came to a large tank beast looked at me, wistfully, an if he gratitude for the great beneût I have de him now that's one bunsolation

Fil tall you something That old woman could to persuade me to dart on a prospect up my bestry I had the plotto stand; I didn't ingat his chats, but to do that. I was going farther into the for the above-named Pills, for wind in ans Were trattientfotily excited, dia el, chez | Itals as if a lack of figlicninethed lighted bench outside. There: Lion midele died at the last moment. But I didn't intend I applied to your agent ir Ball, Berkeley, called se just as I was going out of the Ing tour to these unknown diggings, where and in a moment, but the tallest of them going into the tent naked the owner if he bush to see if I could discover somethings stomach, from which I suffered excrucias room. She was tied tiny and couldn't geld could be found in big lumps. But I fall was the plot of do old to had anything stronger than ginger beer did not know what, perhaps a button of ting pain for a length of time having tried more, so I had to go back to know that had led a hard. Hle of it in the high for Fintan Iping dead upon the ground, and After looking at me for a moment to see Jo the Tinman's dothes, perhaps a cap, nearly every remedy prescribed, but withi Siis tanted.

"You're a bad, wicked man," she is, go down to Melbourne on z prodire the finest and most faithful beseffever dhanty, and detectives were down upon debed down into the earth with the rain, taking two bottles of your valuable Pill

many years, and had made up my mind to Dutch Louis grinting over him. Lion was I was a detective for it was a sly grog handkerchief, anything. And I did. Bod. out deriving any beseft at all After but you're not as bad as your mate posed that the three of thould make knew, and had pan hear to the Tinman those shops for selling spirits without a buried beneath fallen twigs and branches was quite restored to say trual state of orking her head if she would have liked to tracks for Melbourne, spend a fertilgut day that he would rather be poor beaver license the man seemed satisfied that I with its handle worm-eaten and rotten, and health. Please give this publicity for the jack if at Dutch Louis. You have a little there and have our spree, and then stats all his life with Lion for a solidales, bed wasn't an informer, and he served me to steel black and rusty, I found-an se beneft of those who may thus be afflicted good left in you. Have you get a mother for the interior. No they would 501 rich man withon Falls He was a brave pm of gts, and took one himself my

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