he church-as it chanced, in the back row-and sang with her nex

ace, how sw

d a wretc

and they were in the m

dangers, toi

already

g M

as approaching her at that instant from the rear and so

at brought me

urned and started as she saw her husband's fa

go to the country?"

leave church to go,

is right her

her, where she had propped it a few minutes before, with some misgiving lest it

will lead

e bustle of sitting down the congregation would not notice her departure.

the swift transfer. The doctor did not reply.

essed you to com

ve around there and Mollie said you had

o have gone

n sitting in the church." The horse switched his tail over the reins and the d

ouldn't be apt to hear in there," she said. Then the re

on the side-walk anxiously watching his approach. There was earnest interest in the blue eyes and the black. Near

rl-all men with or without titles are Mr. t

hat is i

to bring my

u d

me wants a little brother," chi

mpt. "You don't know what you're a-gittin' into," he said. "If this one hadn't never learned to

to pick up the toddler who at that instant fell off the sidewalk. He gave him a vigorous shake as he

e do, a little bit of a one," said M

ur mamma tells you, maybe I will find a baby one of these

uld almost burst for joy. Their father is just a

m nor too cool for comfort. A soft haze lay upon the landscape and over all the Sunday calm. They turned into a broad, dusty road. Mary's eyes wandered across the meadow on

They passed unchallenged those wayside sentinels, the tall mullein-stalks. The Venus Looking-Glass nodded its blue head ever so gently as the brown eyes fell upon it and then they went a little way ahead to where the blossoms of the elderberry were turning into tiny globules of g

topped at a big gate

of that gate," and the doctor got out. Mary took a rein in each h

ut to slip out of my glove." The doctor gla

dn't los

n, my dear. Now open the gate

ever drove through a gate in my life that somebody didn't yell,

re they drew up to the large farm house in the field. Mary did not go in. In about twenty minutes the doctor came out. The door-step turne

mer, "but I should think you'd be the

hing. "Yesterday I was walking along with a lady when I stopped to remove a banana skin from the sidewalk

the doctor, "and mending broken steps a

be an established fact?" as

will be the medic

he future, then, for I really

tered the woods. "Ah, Mary, I would not worry about leaving church. The groves were God's first temples." After a little he said, "I was trying to think what Beecher said about trees-it was something like this: 'Wi

a group of trees they were passing,

he roadside-often standing where it can't possibly do any harm. H

ing the Spanish needles and Black-eyed Susans which starred the dusty roadside and filled the field

prevailing color in the w

but when we look around and see the grass and the trees and the vines growing everywhere, it seems to me that green might be his favorite color. But what makes you think it is red?' 'Because he put blood into everybody in the world.' Quite staggered by this reasoning and making an e

a large snake stretch

s born in him. When I was a lad every snake I killed was promptly b

suppose it ever d

oted; before she knew it she had set her foot on the cold, slimy thing. The way she yelled and made the dust f

eetheart. Mary knew at a glance they were sweethearts. They were emerging into the highway from a

ey walk instead of rid

hear you. Isn

ne direction, while he sprang on his horse and galloped away in the other. "Here! yo

lled back, dashing on at so mad a pace that

u know

w them

ooked in another direction. When he finally looked around it seemed to Mary it would be a little awkward to bid him good morning now, so she tried to think what to say instead, by way of friendly greeting; it would be a little embarrassing to sit facing a human being for some time with not a word to break the constraint. But the more she cudgeled her brain the farther away flew every idea. She might ask him if he thought

" she rejoined, raising her voice. He curved

hought Mary, "I wish

I only said, 'I see they

ver so trivial a matter. Looking toward the house she saw a tall young girl coming down the walk with something in her hand. She came timidly through the little gate and handed a pl

ld man in the wagon, as a low-branched pine stood between the wagon

h. She laughed merrily and explained things

e girl went up the walk and disappeared into the house. Mary did so want her to come out and draw the water, dripping and cool, from the old well yonder. She came out, went to the well, stooped and filled the glass from the bucket sitting inside the curb. Mary sighed. The tall girl took

nd, with swift strides down the walk. The gate banged behind him and he

asked that girl to

d. I'm ver

e than to want to drink wher

the brimming glass. The doctor climb

ake! what wil

down the road. Mary cast a longing, lingering look beh

r's growth," thought Mary as the buggy bumped against a proj

ing is never to drive fast down hill

t mean to be cross, Mary, but I

d me beforehand, then,

ere," she continued. "'A woman's intuitions are safe guides' but s

ly and looked off across the fields. A Black-eyed Susan by the roadside caught the smile in her eyes and nodded

ry asked the doctor if there was any typhoi

do I

be able to divine whe

rink," he answered indulgently. They stopped, Mary

kind in sight," he announced coming ba

the curb. If there is do break it lo

ide the curb-

ce paling. Blessings on the woman who put it there! The doctor filled and

id, "I'm read