he sat until two or three stars came out, and for the guinea-liens, Angie said they had John had helped himself to a little. And up the minister’s book, and the mistress’s 
then pretty soon the moon shone out, so better tie him up there, while they went to then A ngie began to laugh and think it was bonnet, and then to scare the minister be- 
briglit and beautiful, that Bernard could sue the hens. very funny indeed. I sides; I don't know what T shall do to you.” 
see—not only down into the little garden • Bernard tied John to a stick that was And then she went and got a beautiful After (he pic-nie, Bernard worked part 
... , ’ in the ground, and went with Angie round wreath which she had made to put on John’s of the time everv day in his little garden; 
w heie hehad been hoeing the corn and po- to the hen-house. neck. It was all made of large, yellow hut the summer‘was nearly over, and then! 
tatoes all day, hut he could see ever solar The guinea-liens were so pretty—all so marigolds, aud looked like a great, golden alter a time, the autumn came, and Ber- 
very funny indeed. 
see—not only down into the little garden, , Bernai . id t!c ; d Jo] ! u V>* f ck tl,atwa j An( J u, , e !> , sl ‘* went and got a beautiful 
B . ’ tu tlie ground, and went with Angie round wreath winch she hud made to put on Johns 
wheie he had been hoeing the corn and po- to the hen-house. neck. It was all made of large, yellow 
OO 
Rtabtng. 
HE KNOWS. 
beautifully speckled, Bernard wanted to chain. 
NARD used to think what should tbev do 1 KNOW not what will befall mo! God hangs a mist 
While Bernard sat there in the cool, look at thorn for a Jong time, but he knew At lust they got the baskets and other when the winter came, and nothing would f 
pleasant, evening, lie heard a strange sort of ] ! (! n "K llt to g° borne and work in bis corn- tilings in the cart, and off they started. Ber- grow in the garden, and there would he no ' a<wne» lorise ,nyon ' varcl pRtn Hera ^esno W 
a noise com ill"’ from a little hollow Disco b'ld; so he and A no IK went round the house nard led John along, aud Angie walked grass for John to eat. Every day he used And every joy lie sends me, comes as a sweet and 
>i ♦ ,i . ftii ’ to where they had left John. on the other side of him. to wish he could do something to get money glad surprise, 
where a brook went along. Iliere were so But where was John ? No John was Such a bright, sunn y morning!- how to help his father and mother , , . ,, ,, „ 
many trees and bushes growing there that there! pleasant it was; and pretty soon ihev came Well, one day. a gentleman came to their 1 see "”^‘ 8 ^ p before me ’ M 1 tread the da y s of the 
Bernard could not see what should make . “ Why, where is lie?” said Bernard, and to (he place for the pic-nie. A good many little house, and he said “ Bernard, you But the past Is still in God’s keeping, the future His 
the noise, but that he heard something he for '<} minute he did feel so troubled; he was of the children had already come, and the have a donkey and a nice little cart, haven’t I mercy stmti clear, 
will very mirs ,.<w i„> i,«,i !1,| nid John had run away and he should teachers aud the minister and the minister’s von?" and Bernard said “ Yes, he had.” And whst looks dark in the distance, may brighten as 
i ' t , o . , ,,ev « r ,in<i ***»»• wife, too. “ Well," said the gentleman, whose name Untwnesr. 
* ‘ ' ' '' 11 bmgei, he Uiotight lie would “ Oh, dear!” said Angie, “ I wonder where Then they took all the baskets and put W«8 AlvoRD, “I want some boxes brought For perhaps the dreaded future has less bitterness 
go soltly nown the stairs so as not, to wake he has gone to; dear, dear! But we’ll hunt them in a nice, slmdy place till it was time over from Brownvllle, two miles off you thin t think, 
his father and mother, and he would find all around and we will find him.” for dinner. And Bernard look John out know. You bring them for me in the cart, The Lord may sweeten the waters before I stoop to 
out what could be down there among the “1 think,” said Bernard, “ that it would from the cart, and tied him with a long rope, aud I will pay von." drink: 
hushes. be most like him to go to Squire Preston’s ; ao liiat lie could eat all the grass he wanted. Bernard said he would, and that he ° r * 011,81 be Mamh ' He wiI1 stun<1 heside its 
Ileran along the road and over one or two he don’t know that he isn’t going to live All the children thought John looked so should like to do erreiicls for people, and 
fields, till he came to the place, and now he there any longer." pretty with the wreath of flowers round his earn a little money. So he harnessed up itmny be, thorn is waiting for the coming of my feet, 
heard the noise very plainly, and he knew, “ Oh yes,” said Angie. “ and lets go right nock; and they patted him and played with Juliii and off they started for Brownville. I So,uc Ki,t " f suoh rttre blessedness, some joy so 
have a donkey and a nice little cart, haven’t 
yon?" and Bernard said “Yes,he had.” 
“ Well,” said the gentleman, whose name 
drink; 
Or. if Marah must be Marah. He will stand beside its 
brink. 
heard the noise very plainly, and he knew, " Oh yes,” said Angie. “ and lets go right ] neck ; and they patted him and played with 
too, pretty well, what it was (hat was there away, may he we shall find him on ’the him end pulled his ears, and talked to him 
Bernard sal in the earl, on the seat which 
lie had made, lot' he had begun to teach 
John to draw it and to go along as he ought. 
And John behaved that day like the very 
strangely sweet.. 
That m y lips cun only tremble with the thanks I can 
not speak. 
O, restful, bitssful ignorance! ’Tis blessed not to 
know— 
by t he brook. Bui he pushed along through road.” for a long time. he had made, for he had begun to teach uol speak 
the small trees and through the hushes, and Bo off they started, almost running down Then what a good lime the children had ! John to draw it and to go along as he ought. 
then he climbed down asleep place and the lane that led to the road. They had not First, they ran about under the shady trees, And John behaved that day like the very °> rps >f" , .J>it»sful ignorance! ’Tis blessed not to 
there was just what lie expected to find—a quite reached the gate, when Angie’s and they picked flowers, and I don’t know best donkey in the world ; he must have r, 
donkey, that belonged to Squire Preston, brother called to her, from the lit tic porch at what they didn’t do. They played games, understood that they were on important mogo. Q ot et 
who lived over the hill the side of the house, to tell her not to go and after a while, when they were tired,they business. But along the road he trotted and And hushes iuy soul to rest on the bosom which loves 
The donkey didn’t try to run away when off without heimm-lmt; so Bernard waited, all sal. down on the grass, and one of the Bernard sal on the seat and held the reins, moso. 
lie saw Bernard coming,mid it was just us and Angie came running back. gentlemen told a story, a very funny story, and John didn’t once atop or jump until i i , ,, 
well he didn't try, for he cnifldli’t move at She remembered she had left her sun hat about “ A Merry Cobbler, and how he lost, they came to Brownville. Then Bernard i would raitim walk on in the dark with G^than go 
all. A rope around his neck had got caught, on the piano in the parlor, so in she ran, for Ins shoe and found his fortune.” The story got the boxes and started for home. And ulunn In the light; 
gentlemen told a. story, a very funny story, and John didn’t once stop or jump unti 
about “ A Merry Cobbler, and how he lost, they came to Brownville, Then Bi.rnahi 
1 So I goon not knowing. I would not, tf I might 
RNA 11 D I would lalliiM- walk on in the dark with God, than go 
And nhinn In the tight; 
all. A rope around his neck had got caught, on t he piano in the parlor, so in she ran, for his shoe and found his fortune.” The story got the boxes and started for home. And alone in the light; 
in a little tree, and it was twisted round and the door was wide open, and then — dear was so funny it made them all laugh very as they came along the rond Bernard met 1 would rather walk with Htm by faith, than walk 
round, so that the donkey could move only a me ! dear me 1 what was there? John, sure much. Squire Smith, and he stopped to tel! the atone by sight. 
very little wav, and J rather guess he did not as the world, standing up in front of the After this the minister said “ Now let’sall Squire that he, was doing mi errand with his My heart shrink* hack from trials which the future 
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very little way, and I rat her guess he did not as the world, standing tip in front of the 
want to run away, Perhaps lie thought mantel piece. 
sing some songs," and he took a hook out of cart and donkey for Mr. Ai.vord, and that may disclose, 
Beunard would get the rope loose for him, Fora minute I believe Angie was frighten- his pocket that had pretty songs in it and he should like to do sill the errands for peo- Tet l never had a sorrow but what the dear Lord 
and BERNARD did, and then he started with cd to see a donkey in the pat lor, but she they all began to sing: and they sung one pie that lie could. Ami donkey John stood choau: 
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the donkey to take him home to Squire ran to the duor,and called Bernard, and he song and then another, all together, the still while Bernard said tnis, hut he field 
Preston’s. was surprised, sure enough. children mid the ladies and the gentlemen. up his ears a little, as if he would say—"Yes, 
Bui after he had gone a little Avav. Ber- John wjissoon marched out, and Bernard As for Donkey Jolin, he seemed to he en- Bernard and T mean to do a great deal.” 
nard l bought tloil all (tie people at Squire talked to him a great deal, about minding joying himself'very much, eating the grass, Then after Bernard had talked with 
Preston’s might have gone to bed, and that his manners better in future, and Angie and not nineli noticed'ul lie take of the funny Squire Smith a little while, and told him 
lie had heller lake the donkey onto with laughed very much, and said she should story or t he singing either. Quietly he kept how his father had got the rhumatism again 
him to keep till morning. So , <>. turned make her mother guess who the company walking along, nibbling the grass close by they trotted along and pretty soon they met 
hack, and when ho got home he pul the. was, that had been in the parlor. where they nil sat, till all of a sudden, in .Squire PttKSTON; he stopped to ask Ber- 
donkey under a little shed near the cow. Then Bernard went home, hut. before lie the midst of one of the songs, if John didn’t nard how he liked John. And Bernard 
As for Donkey John, he seemed to he en- Bernard and T mean to do a great deal.” 
joying himself very much, eating the grass, Then alter Bernard had talked wi 
chose: 
So I send the coming tears back, with the whispered 
word, ” He knows.” 
-- 
A BEAUTIFUL SCENE. 
The early October sunlight resting with 
such ram tenderness upon the hills and 
burnished tree tops seemed indeed Heaven's 
lie had belter take the donkey time with laughed very much, and said she should story or t he singing either. Quietly he kept bow his father had got Ihe rhmnatism again The early October sunlight resting with 
him to keep till morning. So . <> turned make her mother guess who the company walking along, nibbling the gross close by they trotted along uml pretty soon they met such ram tenderness upon the hills and 
hack, and when ho got, home he put the was, (hat had been in the parlor. where they Jill sat, till all of a sudden, in .Squire Preston ; lie stopped to ask’ Bek- burnished tree tops seemed indeed Heaven’s 
donkey under a little shed near the cow. Then Bernard avciiI. home, Imt. before he the midst, of one of t lie songs, if John didn’t nard how he liked John. And Bernard own «mlle of lenswininee m it... ,i.-i , < 
And then he said Now, donkey, there is went to work, he got some branches of trees stick his head right over the minister’s showed the Squire the little cart lie Imd , ' ' ] - ‘ llm ' 
no knowing, perhaps von haven't had any- and made a little house of them for John, shoulder, and then such a noise! such a made,and told him if he could do errands me1, * IC beech and maple flung out their 
thing to eat, all day." So Bernard got j because he thought it would be cooler and noise as in; made was never heard before. for any body, lie should lie glad, because he gorgeous banners—the triumph signals ol 
some hay for tlm donkey to eat, and some John would like it belter than staying all 
water for him to drink, and then he shut I the time in the shed. 
the door of the shed, and went in, and softly 
up the stairs to bed. 
The minister jumped up, lie was so star¬ 
tled, and then lie laughed, and all the eliil- 
wanted to help his father and mother. 
the dying victors who had braved the storms 
Squire Preston said that was right, and and blasts of another year. The ivy ehiMicd 
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The jtexl-day BwitVAiiD snw Angie coin* dren laughed a great deal more limit they that come to tlduk of It, next week he crimson tendrils vet closer nnnirnl il * 
ing down the road, ami glie came running so had before; they couldn’t sing any more, should want, to send his bay cutter down to u , ! 
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file first thing in the morning, Bernard fast he thought she. was coming to tell him they laughed so much; so the minister laid 
showed I lie donkey to his father and mother, someth ing. And so she was. 
and then he gave him some hay for his ANGIE came up all out of breath, and 
the hook down on the ground and said it 
was lime for dinner. 
the Lake Village to have it mended, and ,i? nidged trunks to which theyhad 
tlml if he sent Sam wiili It he would forget clllll £ through the Summer in lendergreen- 
lo come home, just ns he ill ways did. So he ness, vivid now, us passion glows deepest 
breakfast, and then I 10 started off with him then she told Bernard tlicrc was going to Then they went to the place where the told Bernard to come the next#Tucsday at the last. Every leaf and blade was Hi hu- 
to Squire Preston’s. be a pic-nic. All the Sunday School was baskets were, and where a little brook ran with the donkey and carl, and lie would mry to the general brilliancy and lar nw-iv 
Bernard found the Squire, with his man going, mid Bernard must, go Ami Angie along under the trees, and there they spread have the hay cutter ul) ready. 
Sam, very busy at work in the field, so he thought, perhaps if they could get a little the table cloth on the grass. And then the Bernard leit very much pleased as he 10 gutgeons scene s icleiie.i, losing itst-It at 
went up to Inin, leading the donkey by the carl.il would he nice to put the baskets dinner—nil the nice biscuit aud baiter, aud slarted along again ; and pretty soon lie met last m the dreamy blue of the distant hills, 
rope. and other things in, and have John draw it. the pies and the cakes, and everybody was the doctor; and the doctor stopped and he In the garden a few Asters still lingered, 
“Oh, there he is, is he?” said Squire “ If only we collld get the cart and tlieu the so hungry. The children all thought’noth- said—“Why, Bernard, you’ve got a flue and obe Morning Glory had withstood the 
Preston, when he saw the donkey. “I harness too,” said ANGUS. ing ever tasted so good before; and then <:!,, 't there.” And Bernard told the doctor fi-osla and was covered with pure while 
though l he had gone off on a journey, trav- Bernard said lie had begun to make a there were the appltvgud Ike uul», which I that he made it hiiuseil, and that he had ’ . . ‘ . . . 1 * 
eling round somewhere.” cart, and lie would work on il all he could, had utmost'forgotten. One of the boys said been to Brownville on an errand for Mr. - ,<)S8 °ksi nat inner lue initit sunlight dul 
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blossoms, that, under the mild sunlight did 
not close their petals through all the day. 
“ Now that’s just the thing,” said the doe- I I sat at the window looking out upon it, all 
“ Well, John,” he said to the donkey, “so mid go to the village and buy some wheels he l bought there was more fun in cracking Alvord. not close their petals through all the day. 
you’ve opine home, have you?” for it, ami some leather to make a harness, ihe nuts than eating them, but the girls said “Now that’s just the thing,” said the doe- I sat ul the window looking out upon it, all 
John BlOOd half asleep, winking and blink- and he was sure he could get it done before they liked the eating part best. And all tor, and then he said he very often wanted unconsciously echoing the “Melancholy 
ing, as though he didn't eate whether he the pic-nie. t his time while they were so busy with the some one to take parcels for him, and that Days" though I think ilien we re I’ c 
was at home or somewhere else. So Bernard worked away on the cart nuts some ol the ladies and gentlemen told he should remember and send for the little , a ' - S'-iene- 
“ Is his name John ?” asked Bernard. and the harness; for the harness maker in such funny Stories—one about Mit Milting expressman. ly happy amt open our souls ton melancholy 
“ Is his name John ?” asked Bernard. 
“ Yes,” said Squire Preston, “ his name the village find given him some pieces of 
is John. A good Christian name, and it's leather to make it of, and some pretty col 
all that is Christian about him, and seems to ored pieces, red and blue, for trimming, 
me you're Mr, Barton’s hoy, the other side Bernard worked away all the time In 
of llm hill. Mini yon ?” could spare, and the day before the pic-nit 
“Yes sir,” said Bernard, and then he lie got. it all finished; the cart and tin 
told how lie had found the donkey the night harness too, and in the afternoon Angii 
before down among the hushes. But while canto down to see him try the harness on. 
Bernard was jelling the Squire about it lie But sueii a time as They had! The) 
So Bernard worked away on the cart nuts some ol the ladies and gentlemen told lie should re 
and the harness; for the harness maker in such funny stories—one about Mit Milling expressman, 
the village had given him some pieces of made them all laugh till they cried. Bernard 
iven him some pieces of made them all laugh till they cried. Bernard went, home feeling very much gladness that comes whence we know not. 
of, and some pretty col- But after awhile it began to be nearly pleased; and when be took John out of the One month ago we had laid away our 
id blue, for trimming. time to go borne, and lin n the children and cart he patted him, and told him how well Uabv_my summer child, who came with 
ted away all the time he t lie ladies went to get their hats, which they lie had behaved. “Ami now John," he ’ ,. oses .,...] ul,e„ R,. n 
he day before the pic-nie hud left tied on the little trees. Donkey said, “ I hope you will always be good after “V V * A , V bep J 
Islied; the cart and the John was there eating the grass still. Hf.s Ibis, for you and I must do *a great deal of lcnil,n shadows were clearest. How I 
in the afternoon Angie eyes were half shut, and lie looked as thotrgh work.” And Bernard begun to whistle, watched my little Katy, my little threc- 
him try the harness on. he didn’t care whether he cniuc to a pic-nic and John, 1 think, was happy loo; he went year-old, who run about in such childish 
ne as they had ! They or not; it was nil the same to him. Bui lie into his place in the shed and ate his supper glee out there in the warm Autumn air. Her 
Bernard was telling the Squire about It ho But such a time as they had! They or not; it was nil the same to him. Buthe into his idace in the shed and ate his supper 
put his hand on John’s neck and pulled him. brought John out and began to dress him looked so good, and so gentle, you would 08 though he hud a very good appetite. 
“Areyou the boy that 1 see hoeing the up ; but for all the harness was so pretty, never have thought he ever did any mischief While Bernard was eutnig his own sup- 
corn and potatoes, when 1 tro over that wav John didn’t seem at all delighted with it; in his life. 
sometimes?” asked Squire Preston. 
per he told his father and mother all about 
little spirit seemed imbued with a sense of 
the beauty all around her. Her face was 
he would seem to be half aslyep, then all of Oil there now! What was that, the first his trip io Brownville. “And now, lath- i radiant and her eyes beamed with strange 
Bernard said “ Yes,” that he was the a sudden lie’d give a great jump, and they thing Bernard saw? There lying on the er," said he, “ I mean to be an expressman, light, while Iter yellow curls and fair, white 
dy son his father had. could hardly do anything with him. And grass was the minister’s book, all chewed John and I are going on errands for people, brow made her a picture almost too fair for 
only son his father had. could hardly do anything with him. And 
“ Well,” said Squire Preston, “ that po- Angie said:—“ I should think, John, with 
lato patch of yours looks pretty well. T such long ears, you might hear wha|. was 
guess now you arc n pretty smart hoy, and j told you, mid learn to behave yourself." 
your father line llm rheumatism and can’t “But, oh dear!” she said; “Bern. 
work much, can he?” 
“ Not very mueli,” Bernard said. 
“Well now,” said Squire Preston, “I 
tell you whirl, if you would like that donkey 
suppose to-morrow,at the pic-nic, lie should a bad beast ns you are! 
lie jumping about, and act so bad?” 
, ... , tuuuv wv* »-• iwittvau IVG lull 1 GI 
and chewed to pieces. Squire Preston says he thinks 1 shall do ,,, , 
Oh John, Jolni! What have you been very well ; that he shall want, me next week . ' \ 1,1 " ,u 
doing? Oh dear, dear! after all I’ve told to go to Lake Village, At first, yon know, leu me Row how tendeily I watched her 
you. Well. 1 ought to have known il. Such I shan’t get very many errands to do, hut every movement. She pulled an Aster from 
a had licast as you are ! alter a While 1 guess I shall.” And Ber- the stalk, slopped for a moment and gazed 
Ami ilien Bernard told Angie just what nard went to bed that night feeling very auesUoninglv into its brilliant dcntlis. Then 
And then Bernard fold Angie just what 
the stalk, stopped for a moment and gazed 
questioning ly into its brilliant depths, then 
Oh, no,” paid Bernard; “ I’ll lead him John hud done. “Oh Angie,” he said, happy, mul making a great many plans . . . all around • llll r 
along light by ibis bridle all the way, ao I «i.«n »«« <u.f» I nlimit wl.ui hn ......iSn to <i<> | lonkut uiystutotisi) all aioiiml ami uhis- 
you may have him, I guess, as I’ve had he’ll have to go on good, and very soon I’ll 
about enough of him.” 
Bernard had begun to like John yerv at all.” too, they fell so ashamed to tell the minister, painted iiis little cart; and lie painted “ Ex- 
miteli, and when Squire Preston told iiim The next .morning, bright and early, BER But Angie said it couldn't lie helped, and press” on each of the sides, because Ber- 
he might have hint for his own, I can’t tell NARD put on his best, dollies and tlmn lie. she would ask her father, when he went to nard said he meant to he a real express- 
yon Imw delighted he was/ John stood all dressed John out in the pretty new harness, town, to buy unulher hook just like it for man. 't hen he pulled John’s ears, and said : 
this l iiue just the same, half asleep, hut. Ber- Yon can’t think Imw fine John did look in the minister. “Now, John, alter this I shall he the ox- 
wlmt shall we do ?” 
Angie felt, very sorry about il, and tears 
about what he meant to do. 
One day he went to the store, and the pered Johnny s gone, gone then 
tench him so lie won’t think of acting had would come in her eyes and in Bernard’s Storekeeper gave him some paint, and he laughed merrily, chipped her little hands, 
at all.” 
too, they fell so ashamed to tell the minister. 
nard thanked Squire Preston over and 
over again, he was so pleased to have John. 
the harness, all trimmed with rod and blue. Now all the ladies and the children began pressman, and you are to he the express- 
mi d ran ou. 
What spirit in the Autum air whispered 
to my little daughter of her dead baby 
brother? Were angels hovering in the 
golden sunlight ? What, association in the 
And then he started to go home, and John i nard meant to pul in a seat, so he could sit 
trolled along, winking and blinking, as in the cart and drive, when liu had taught 
And then Ihe earl, all new and nice. Ber- to put on their tilings; Imt the minister’s mau’s donkey. Bo remember, now, and beauty ol llie scene or flower made hei think 
wife kept looking and looking all round, as | none of yom pranks any more.” 
though she. had lost something. 
And John seemed to know how import- 
of him, or did his angel form appear to her 
pure, childish sight ? How I longed to 
though il was all the «ono to him whether John to go along nicely; hut to-day he “ What are you looking for?” asked one 'ant he and Bernard were getting to be; l ,,iru r cluiuisti sight. H<>'v i longed to 
he lived willi Bquoc Preston or with Ber- thought liehiul heller lead him by the bridle, of the ladies. and though alter this, it is true, he would vend the screen ol years ami sin which made 
nard. When all was ready, Bernard led John The minister’s wile said she couldn’t find once in a while slop right still in the mid- me blind, wilh sunshine all around me, and 
When they got lAme Beunard tied John to Angie’s for the. baskets, which were to go her 
under a tree, and men he went to tell his in the cart; he led him round by the kitchen, om _ 
fat her and mother that Squin* Preston had Imt Bernard saw through the open window So then everybody begun to look all would stand still till be was pleased logo ''Monme'co'VY 1WI 
given him the donkey. His lather said that llinl no one was in the kitchen, so he left about everywhere; every one hut Bernard, along. Sometimes he would all of a sud- ‘ ” ' ” \ 
r bonnet ; she thought she had tied it to dl_e of the road, as though he was thinking look, as I believed she had done, upon tit 
' of the trees, but sin: couldn't, find it. of something, or else taking a nap, and he face of tnv dead Imbv N 8 
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il t.lie ilimkry had tan mod to draw a carl,lie John a moment wiiila In* ran into llie parlor. )iu was busy pnttiin? John into (ha cart; tlcn give a great jump, when there was nolk- PFTTPTnrR TTFMft 
could help Bernard about working in the Angie was in llm parlor, and she was all hut all the rest kept looking for the bonnet; ihg at all to jump at; and once in a while fyr.hHj lUUO llijiao. 
potato palely ^ dressed in a while dress, wit Ii a blue ribbon and alter they had been looking and look- he would be so silly as to stop right in the TnE total contribution's to the American 
round her waist, and her hair was curled ing, some one found il behind a hush, and middle of the road and kick up his heels, T , f ™ 
and tied with a blue ribbon. But Bernard there it was! all broken and mushed up,and and then everything would go Using out of ot * oie, ia n missions last jta 
Bernard hadn’t, thought of this, hut now 
he began at. once to think that lie would 
make a cart and a harness lor John; and soon ran out to see to John ; and there now chewed to a wisp. 
G'li'he ran, for he wanted to sec John all the was that mischievous John! his head was ANGIE knew the minute she saw il, that 
time; and lie palled him and talked to him in the kitchen window, ami he had bitten John had dragged it down off the tree and 
n while, ami then lie untied him and stalled the. wing off a chicken, and there lie was chewed il up. It was well lie. didn't eat it 
n while, and then lie untied him and started the. wing off i 
off with him up the road to show him to chewing°it up. 
Angie. “Oh, John 
Angie lived a little way off; sin* was near- here! what a 
the cart; lint as a general tiling, John be¬ 
haved pretty well. 
After a little while Bernard had errands 
to do every day, and pretty soon he had so 
up; perhaps it had some pins in it, which much business he could hardly attend to 
ly as old as Bernard, mid Bheand Bernard Bernard looked in on the kitchen table 
were great friends, what, else had John done?—there was an 
Angie was delighted wilh John, just as apple pie eaten almost up! “Oh, John, 
“Oli, John!” said Bernard, “here! he didn't so much enjoy; but such a look- ball; he got so many nice tilings for his 
here! what are you about?” And when ing bonnet as it was ! father and mother, aud alter a few years he 
Bernard looked in on the kitchen table Angie hurst right out crying; but the had money enough to buy a nice house for 
$429,160.60. 
Fifty priests in Hungary intend issuing a 
proclamation establishing a national church 
independent of Rome. 
The Indiana Methodists protest against 
tailin' and moiher, and alter a lew years he horse-racing, theatricals,circuses,card play- 
!'! ce ing. dancing and base ball. 
Bernard thought she would he; she patted 
what else had John done?—there was an minister’s wile laughed, and held tip the them to live in ; aiul he bought a beautiful 
apple pie eaten almost up! “ Oh, Johu, bonnet, and made everybody laugh, and chair for his mother and a horse and wagon The mneh-talked-of union between the 
John, I am ashamed of yon !” said Bernard, Angie had to laugh too. The minister’s fm'his father, just us he used to say lie should. Baptists and Congrogatiomdisls of England 
him, and put her arms round his neck, and and poor Bernard felt as though he could wife said thought il was very funny, Imt They were all so happy; and everybody 
she pulled his long ears,and then she laughed 
to see John wink and blink and almost go 
to sleep. She pjayed wilh him a long time, know whether to laugh or to cry. 
cry, lm was so ashamed of John’s behavior, it was time to go home, so she straightened said that he and Angie were going to be 
Then Angie came out, and she didn’t out tho bonnet and put it on, married, and so it Anally turned out. And 
seems likely to bo consummated. 
The Lutherans have been overtaken by 
And now the sun was going down, and Angie used to put her arms around John’s the woman movement, and intend to have 
and then pretty soon she thought of the Ihink,” said Bernard, “ when I gave him so they all started with the empty baskets to neck and pat him and play with him; and deaconesses and feminine preachers, 
guinea-hens her lather had bought the day much break fust heshould BCt so;” and Ber- go down the road. On the way home, Ber- she used 1o ask him if he remembered the The churches oi'thediffer'mtdenoinina- 
hefore, and she told Bernard lie mustconie nahd'k face got. very red, ho felt so bad, but nard ami Angie scolded John, that lie luul first time when lie came to see her and walk- . .’ r , ’ . ir ', 
to see them in a lew minutes Angie’s mother came out, behaved so badly ; but John trolled along, C'l right into the parlor! but Donkey John tm*' 8 in taXiiacia propose to observe tlie lot 
But as Johu couldn’t very well get into and she said there was more than thelmskets and didn’t seem to care at all. “Just to stood winking and blinking as usual, aud ot Xovember as a day of thanksgiving lor 
the hen-house, and he wouldn’t care much could hold, aud it was no matter if Donkey think of it, John,” said Bernard, “ to eat never answered her a single Avoid. the abundant crops. 
