Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-09-25

hero here, where everything seems
to preach tho love Of God aud yet
have SO hard heart toward His poor
wonder how many gentle, kindly
souls have moved about this house. /
should think there must be many
footprints of angels
She looked for no answer What
could he know about such gontlo
visitants? And together they passed
into fields that were fields Of flowers,
In among the moving grass al
most ready for the reapers the great
white daisies stood thiclily, and over
the higher ground, where the young
corn was springing vigorously up, hoy
cred larks singing Eloriously,
In the grazing meadows, where the
grass was fed down industriously by
deeply Contontod cattle, great dazzling
patches of bmebells reflected the
cloudless sky, The whole scene was
pure poetry, but they discovered prose
at the very heart Of the idyl in the
shape of bluff yeoman who seemed
harly able to take his eyes OF one Of
the animals which mnchod SO happily
near him
with an effort he wrcnchcd away
his eyes to pass the time of day, and
then they returned lovingly to the oh
ioct of his admiration
"Marnon, sir; you be como just
lucky TO see the last Of the bullIck
ri warrant youIl not see finer
butcher beast in the market"
He gave poke here and prod
there, to show the animals unlimited
capacities for beef, and his employer
looked critically on.
1T is very fair bulloclt-vory fair
indeed. You remember Warren. you
thought II would not iatten on that
sort Of cake, but know bettor?"
The balliG gave a Rrudging assent.
"l'd always boon used 10 the other,
and some cattle ls like some folks.
No matter what you do or what you
don't do, they will rattcn TO spite
YOU
"IIaye you got another dog YETI?
Warren shook his head sorrowfully.
NO. ! amt. sir. I've had the re.
fusal OF many, but one to match what
I've lost is hard TO come by. s'poso
you wouldn't believe that ! miss It al
most like a child. and sometimes o.
nights zim ! hear It scratching at Z
dairy door"
There were almost tears in the
mans eyes, and after leaving him
Nora turned scathingly upon her com.
panion
"Of course, he cannot know how
cruel you have been, or he would not
speak 80 nicely to you?"
why did you not ask him? lie was
there to speak for himself. As to
speaking nicely he must do that 10
my face, whatever he does behind my
back; he has a wife and family"
by this time they had crossed the
stilc, and were in the little hamlet Of
| about half dozen cottages
Even to the preiudiced eye they
! looked comfortable dwellings. and
there was evidently n friendly rivalry
between the cottagers as TO whom the
most dazzling garden should belong
! TO. The owner Of this apparent pros.
pcrIty may have been a sllnnlnt nay,
he was on his own showing but the
women and children seemed very
anxious to propitiate their hard land.
lord by coming out Of their cottages
J 10 do honors Of the place with smiles
and riendly words
Nora could not understand this IN.
en- she decided that they we're afraid
81 him. and had memorable rent day
j In their scared minds BE this as II
may. they were extremely yoluble--
as frightened women often are--and
! he answered them back in neigh.
borly way that might have deceived
1 the most acute.
! Mrs Morris's cottage was the last
one Of all, and before they reached II
stout figure showed itself at the gate