The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23


 on a pole-flags and pockethandker- chiefs fit to make a hedghog laugh. In fact, I think we are the only sensible people in the world. l know you think sol You could sit right down and prove 1t, too, dear wiseacre of my heart But I shouldn't love you if yod were the least bit different. For right well do I know that though you can run a thousand men, and make them glad to fetch and carry, you can't run your small petticoated Janet. And that is why you love herl
 And yet-and yet your Janet would fetch and carry for you to the worlds end and back again. And that Is why she loves youi
 "Oh, yes, and Phil Calmont has made a little pully-houly railway which you load with stones at the top of the Heugh and the weight of them pulls the person up from below MT. Romer lives with them up in the managers house. Vida is so kind to him. But I think he prefers Phil--understands him better or something. He fusses almost like his old self if Phil Is five minutes late for a meal. I think it is so sweet of them, don't you-now when MT. Romer is so poor? But then. of course, they wouldl Dick and Billy stand shift at the lighthouse and would not let anyone else touch the handle of a door-that is, if they could help it. The 'Northen Lights people (whoever they may be) sent them an assistant. But he only remained n week. saying that For all the wages Tn Trinity House he would not stay there to be ordered about by couple of dis agreeable pernikkety old men9
 From his point of view, l should not wonder if there was something in what he said. You will be glad to know that they have got Gregson to look after the house for them on terms of mutual equality. He is tired of service,' he says. and always liked lookin' through them telescopes'- which he seems to consider the whole duty of lighthousemen. But Vida says that he keeps everything shipshape. Young Gregcon. the buttons boy who was with James. Kahn, carries oil and coal and Is trusted with odd jobs down at the lighthouse. Billy says they may be able to make q real lighthouseman out of him some day, but Dick shakes his head and refers with feeling to the spilling of a can of whitewash. lie predicts n bad end for Gregson Junior hanging being obviously too good for him.
 But the best I have to tell you, dear, my gossip, is about Leebie Callum- you don't remember Leebie, I am afraid. She was the little servant maid who has been so long with the Nunsbys You may remember Mr. Nunsby. James Kahn's shadow. You will have to, anyway when you get back. He has been making himself so generally disliked that the clerks in the office would not stand 1t. So, in heir turn, they made things too hot TJo a mendations. dated good way back, and Is, I believe. Out for his temper). a clever man. Well, finally he has got another situation down about Wigan, and of course, poor Rose has to leave the house. and especially the garden, they have had so long-just when she had got 1t so pretty, too. It Is a shame!
 well. I told you about Mir. Iron gray. and how he had made Rose so angry by refusing to receive her fath . CT at the communion table. Being En- fish of course she did not understand that. in his position. he could do noth- ing less No one could explain to her. Rose should really have arranged the place of her birth better. There Is no other remedy. You suffer from this, too-though your Welsh blood, dear owen Tudor Llewellyn Glendower ap Jones, saves you rom tne stoiiuest anu most English mistakes. Though, all the same, you did come near to mak- ing a mistake about me-thinking that I didn't love you when (put your head down) I dol do-twenty times more than ever. There. don't tell anybody not even Violet, this time!
 What am writing now is what Rose told me. as near as l can put 1t down.
 "She was sitting sewing and looking over the garden at the Calmont' s