The Irish standard., 1904-01-30


him corner of the blanket and babe
him draw it around his shoulders,
which he did.
| The rain beat upon shingles and
spouted from the cabin caves. There
was snusness in being housed after so
much anxiety and eXertion.
I've wait here" The boy laughed
to Sieur Abe Lincoln, 'Antywine, he is
nothing but a squaw.' But find you,
and Shickshacll have not"
Did he call you squaw?"
4 "Me, yes; he call me that"
| "You are like a woman. Antywine,"
said Peggy, after considering. II want
you to be like woman"
1 "Tonnerre! Why?"
Because you are like one."
! Antywine turned this illogical rea-
son in his mind.
"How can we go home, Antywine?"
I'VE wait" he replied, until Shick-
shack and Sieur Abe come back. They
ride the horses you think will run
over you, and they not see you in the
dark. They chase the man to Boards
town"
! "Are you sure?"
/ II think so''
Peggy's mind at once turned back to
New Salem. II wonder what Sally will
do when we get home"
: ut is that woman that make squaw
of me- said Antywine. "Since my
father marry her she has been worse
than loup-sarou. l not mind the fist
or the sticl-bah!- her evil eye,
and the beard on her chin-saints! l
am crawl all oyer! 1t is not healty to
be scare all the time! l wear charm
! against her. When she take Shick-
! shack | think l will go to my fathers
peop' in Canada. But if I do she will
have nobody but you when she is en-
rage. And see what is done to you
! when we are but out of the house,
sweetheart"
/ Peggy busted herself in silence and
threw an object from her which bound
ed among the chimney ruins.
Il am not going to be peg-leg any
more,' she announced. "Ill not strap
that wooden leg to my knee again."
| But you not able to walk" said
Antywine. 81 carry you," he added, in
afterthought
! "Shickshack will take me on the
horse when he comes. It's so ugly.
Don't you think a peg-leg is ugly,
f, Antywine?"
Il have not consider" he responded;
adding, with French grace, mot any
thing that belong to you is ugly"
MY mouth" suggested Peggy cit
will not Shut
ut is like the wild Plum" said
Antywine, when the white bud is lust
break through"
almost year, Peggy and Antywine
felt that they were just discovering
each other. The tall, silent lad had
once in a While ventured on some kind
ness to the girl There was between
them the whimsical sympathy of COM
panions in misery.
And | am SO little" continued
Peggy, after a Silence. People think
am only ten years Old. Ann Rutledge
ID 1ul 80 6tlll Dcdulllul.
"Mam'selleAn Rutledge," responded
Antywlne, lis too large to be carry.
You are not too large to be carry"
But want to be" insisted Peggy.
me, think you will grow" con-
coded Antywine, indulgently.
DO you think l will always be
lame?"
81 not know. The doctor in Belle
. Vile cannot say"
THE doctor in Belleville put that
peg-leg on my knee. Sometimes I
think if try to use my leg, Antywine,
it will grow stronger. But l have to
, hop yet when Sally takes my crutch
from me-"
"Shickshack think, and me, l thinl,
| too, she have bring that lameness on
|, YOU"
F., II never contradicted her when she
, told him 1t was a fall; but she knows
} when she struck me and how it hurt.
! Don't tell him, Antywine. Shickshack
: is so good"
: 'She not fool me-" said Antywine
: Il think now will give you my charm
t to keep off evil"
3 'What is it?"
He took her hand in the darkness
3 and laid a small image on the palm
: She knew it was something which theil
1 religion taught them to venerate.
I Ito. Be Continued