Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-10-18
@he Silence Of
Dean QaitIand.
BY WR<MELL GREY.

"bVSS lHON-ulS uNtll lLI(h VII NliN
study Of natural facts, Everard mad
many doubts, and often feared that
the Christianity so dear to him through
instinct. training. and association.
night be, after all, but fairy dream.
But the atmosphere of Malbou"uc, and
more especially the influence of MI,
MaitlandS genuine and practical piety,
together with Cyril's bright enthu-
siaSm, Queuched these doubts as moth
ing else could and now the village
bells fell like balm on his troubled
soul. and he responded with CHEEKY
good temper to Lcnnir, who came
bounding over the lawn in the proud
consciousness of trousers. crying,
Come along. Henry. and look at Lii
ian's donkey
lie thrust the paper in his pocket
and, taking the little fellows hand,
trottcd off with him toward Winnie,
who was approaching them ut head
long pace. with curlS streaming in the
wind, and soon seized his other baud.
and led him to the meadow, where he
beheld one of the SorrieSt beasts he
had ever set eyes on, cropping the
frosty grass, and Winking lazily in
the sun.
What can Lillian do with such Il
creature" he asked,
ION, she makes ii happy like all her
things" replied Lcnnie. won't you
stare when YOU see her thrcc-leggcd
cat, and the fox with the broken leg
She has in the Stahlcr'
she lil,,S Nuw tlinq,. commented
Winnie. while Icnnic related how Lii
ian met this donkey one day IN the
road leading over the downs. 1t was
harnrsSed TO a cart laden with vege-
tables. and had fallen between the
shafts, where its owner, Il brutal bad
fellow, we'll known in Malbourne. was
furiouSly bclaboling it.
Didn't he stare when Lillian caught
him by thecollar and pulled him off the
Donkey said Lennic. Then he fell
all of a tremblc, and Lillian told him he
would be sent to prison or fined. And
he said he was too poor to buy another
donkey, and couldn't help this one
growing old and weak. So Lillian gave
him ten Shillngs for it,"
Dear Lilian"' Everard said to him
self, as he looked at the wretched
beast. with its stiff limbs and body
Scared by old sores and stripes
(Which do you love best, Winnie. Lii
ian or Cyril
Cyril" replied both children, UNI
heSitatingly, but could give no reason
for their preference, until Lennie, after
long cogitation. said He does make
fellow laugh So"
Evorard smiled, and thought of
Wordsworth's boy with his weather.
cock. The day was warmer now, and
bidding Lennie run indoors with his
great coat, he set off to church with
the children.
IL was a matter of time for a person
of any consideration to get Melbourne
Church-yard for there, grouped upon
either side the porch lounged little
crowd of Mnlbournc worthless, Solemnly
passing the church Goels in review, and
headed. of course, by Granfer In a
clean white SmOck frock, and with his
hale old many-colored vSage and
yeined hands looking purplish in the
frosty air Tom Hale was there, max
ing bright center to the cool-toncd
picture in hi' red tunic and Spotless,
wclI-bl1lShed clothes; while Jim, with
open breast and sailor garb, lent IA bit
Of picturcsqucncsS that not even the
sunday coats of Bain"S'S manufacture
could quite subdue.
7 Mi I,;S
that his trousers were making deep
impressions; while Evcrard stopped
and wished good-morning TO them all.
smOck- frOcks, sunday coats. and uni.
forms. and received Il little dgnilicd
patronage from Granter who had al
ways regarded him with some dis
paragement as being neither
SwayncStone nor a Maitland, but a
mere appcndage to the latter family, a
circumstance which helped to render
Granfer the delight of Everard's life.
The present moment did not find
Granfer conversational, his mental
powers being concentrated on obScy
ing the animated scene before him,
There was Farmer Long with his wife
and daughters in their warm Seal'lets
ard puppies, to Scrdtinize Is they
strolled along the road and over the
churchyard path then the more dis
tant farmers, who drove up to the lych-
gate in old-faShioled gigs. and, having
dropped their families. FASTENED to the
sun 10 put up the strong, coarse
hmhed horses: then came the Carrots
from Northoyer, uew people, whom
Melbourne regarded. with mixture
Of scorn and envy, as mere mushroom
pretenderS. They came on foot tne4f
own gates being but stone's-thrOw
from the church, handsome family Of
sons and daughters. ooeval with the
Matlands. To them Granfer's salu-
non was almos tinfiniteSimal in its elab-
crate graduation. Then. blending with
the drowSy chime Of the three bells.
arose the clatter Of hoofs and the roll
II wheels, and the SwayneStone
landau. with itS splendid housekeeping