80 TBE STRIKE AT SHAKE'S. 



Shane; *' but it's the strangest thing lever heard of 

 that they'd all come back at once." 



''''Perhaps God sent them back on account of your 

 good resolutions to he kind to all his creatures " said 

 Edith, and she knelt down by his bedside and put her 

 arms around his neck. ' ' Promise me here in His name, 

 papa, that you will keep that resolution.** 



''I do," he answered. 



*' Well, I never seen the like," shouted Tom, as he 

 came bolting into the house. "Them horses are just 

 prancin' an' runnin' all over the pasture, just like they 

 never had anything the matter with 'em. Seems like 

 Mike's treatment was purty good to cure 'em up so 

 soon. I think old Hodges had better take a few les- 

 sons from him." 



" Tes, and don't forget to take a few lessons your- 

 self, Tom, for you may have to practice in that line. 

 Listen to the birds, too," said Edith. 



"By gracious I hadn't noticed *em. It begins to 

 look like the old place was coming back to itself, don't 

 it ? " and he caught her around the waist and whirled 

 her away in a fantastic dance, until she broke loose 

 from him to go to her mother's room with the good 

 news. 



In the morning, as Tom went out to the barn he 

 saw three or four cats running about the barn, and 

 picked up a stone to throw at them. *■ 



" 5e aisy there ^ noic" said Mike; ^ ifs agin the 

 rules to do that noio,'* 



"Right you are," said Tom ; " but I can't get used 

 to it. What arc they doing here, anyhow?" 



