delicate face a head leaning a little down a quiet voice and way � timid a most that s em ly we silently observed him as he sat still looking at the fire some thinks he said as her affection was some as her marriage was broke off by death no one knows how tis she might have married well a of times but uncle she says to me that s gone forever cheerful along with me retired when others is by fond of going any distance fur to teach a child or fur to tend a sick person or fur to do some kindness tow a young girl s wedding and she s done a many but has never seen one fondly loving of her uncle patient liked by young and old out by all that has any trouble that s em ly he drew his hand across his face and with a sigh looked up from the fire is with you yet i asked of david he replied got married r in the second year a young man a farm as come by us on his way to market with his � a journey of over five hundred mile and back � made offers fur to take her fur his wife wives is very scarce and then to set up fur their two selves jn the bush she spoke to me fur to tell him her story i did they was married and they live hundred mile away from any voices but their own and the singing birds mrs i suggested it was a pleasant key to touch for mr suddenly burst into a roar of laughter and rubbed his hands up and down his legs as he had been accustomed to do when he enjoyed himself in the long boat would you believe it i he said why even made offers fur to marry her i if a ship s cook that was turning r didn t make offers fur to marry i m � and i can t say no fairer than that i never saw laugh so this sudden ecstasy on the part of mr was so delightful to her that she could not leave off laughing and the more she laughed the more she made me laugh and the greater mr s ecstasy became and the more he rubbed his legs and what did mrs say i asked when i was grave enough if you ll believe me returned mr stead of saying thank you i m much to you i a n t a going fur to change my condition at my time of life up d with a bucket as was the personal history and experience standing by and laid it over that ship s cook s head till he sung out fur help and i went in and of him mr burst into a great roar of laughter and and i both kept him company but i must say this for the good he resumed wiping his face when we were quite exhausted she has been all she said she d be to us and more she s the the the helping woman r as ever draw d breath of life i have never know d her to be lone and for a single minute not even when the colony was all afore us and we was new to it and thinking of the old un is a thing she never done i do assure you since she left england now last not least mr said i he has paid off every obligation he incurred here � even to s bill you remember my dear � and therefore we may take it for granted that he is doing well but what is the latest news of him mr with a smile put his hand in his breast pocket and produced a flat folded paper parcel from which he took out with much care a little newspaper you are to r said he as we have left the bush now being so well to do and have gone right away round to port harbor s what we call a town mr was in the bush near you said i bless you yes said mr i and turned to with a will i never wish to meet a better gen l man for turning to with a will i ve seen that bald head of his a in the sun r till of david i a most it would have melted away and now he s a magistrate a magistrate eh said i mr pointed to a certain paragraph in the newspaper where i read aloud as follows from the port times the public dinner to our distinguished and port district magistrate came off yesterday in the large room of the hotel which was crowded to it is estimated that not fewer than persons must have been with dinner at one time exclusive of the company in the passage and on the stairs the beauty fashion and of port to do honor to one so esteemed so highly and so widely popular doctor of house grammar school port presided and on his right sat the distinguished guest after the removal of the cloth and the singing of non beautifully executed and in which we were at no loss to distinguish the bell like notes of that gifted amateur junior the usual loyal and patriotic were given and received dr in a speech with feeling then proposed our distinguished guest the ornament of our town may he never leave us but to better himself and may his success among us be such as to render his himself impossible i the cheering with which the toast was received description again and again it rose and fell like the waves of ocean at length all was hushed and presented himself the personal history and experience to return thanks far be it from us in the present 