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GOLDEN WISHES.
I ask not for yon a life
Of honor, aa roaiiv have done;
But thnt the cold wo rid bring you
Glud triumph when victory'! won.
I ask not for you a life
All earthly, a queen of love;
But that from worldly contact here
You are made to shine truer above.
I ak not for you a life
All radiant, as others have done;
Bnt that there mat be shadows enough
To temper the rays of the sun.
I ask not for you a life
Unsaddened, ns many would do;
But that life-trials anil labors
Shall gladden the life of you.
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' I ask not for you a lift '
All holy, na others may say;
Bnt that find's discipline bring you
A hallowed life every day, .
I ask not for you a life
That reaches just into the grave;
But rather tie life thnt forever
Shall brighten at home with the saved.
Bbioham.
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Tne Maid or Killeena.
BY WILLIAM BLACK.
Author of 'The Prln" of Thnlo," ,-A Daughter
of ncttr." etc.
CHAPTER ITI.
AILASA'S PROMISE.
From time to time, at considerable in
tervals, news enme of the young man in
Glasjiow.tindit was good news. Ho was net
ting on well at college ; his master was in
every way considerate ; he was ready tn
help him to some sort of work better
suited for him. But nt the end of each
of those lotters wh-ch Ailasa read aloud
to her mother tho pirl said to herself.
"And why docs he not come back to see
his old friends?": ? , J H j t i .
One day there was a great commotion
in Darroeh and Killeena. It was known
that young Alister Lewis, who had been
to the college, and was likely to become
a school-master was returning for a few
days. t.o the place of his birth. And
Ailasa went down to tho son, and herself
pulled across the narrow strait, and walk
ed to the 'farm in l'arroch to see if it wos
true. True, indoed it was ; for thero was
Alister Lewis himself coming to meet
her.
While ho was yet at a distance her
heart grew cold within her. He was no
longer the fisher-boy. in his rough and
homely clothes, that had played about the
shore; wiH her", and got her tho sea-birds'
eggs. Ho was a young man now ; ho was
smartly dressed ; he seeir.ed a stranger.
"Ailasa V" ho cried, as he camo neur ;
"and aro you very well? And I was
coming over to Cam-Sloan at this very
moment !"
Foinehow she could not speak. Sho
turned aside her head, and bagan to cry
silently: ; ' " " "' 1
"Ailasa," said ho. "what is the matter?"
"This is the matter, Alister Lewis," she
said, simply, between her sobs: "it is
another way you speak now, since yon hef
been to Glasgow; and I was thinking it
was no longer yourself-; that l jaw, but a
stranger; and you hef come back to Dar
ro.h like a stranger, and you will speak
no more like us, and you wassbe for grow,
ing ashamed of tho people that wass your
friend, long ago."
"It is a bad welcome that you will give
me this day, Ailasa," said ho, sadly ,' "and
it is hard words you hef spoken."
They stood silent for a minutsor two
silent and embarrassed. Thou he said, ;
"Were you going on tq the. farip, Ail
asaT'''f ri.J ri -M k
I was coming only to see if tho news
wass true ; apd now I am going back to
Cnrti-Slean." .
"I will row you across tho water," said
he j and then tho two walked down to the
shore of the island.
Ho pulled her ooross the narrow chan
nel, and mooted the boat in the liitle creek.
"Icnoswim back," saidj he, iih( t
smile, "if I bar) not forgotten the way of
the swimming,
"And you will not come over to Cum
Sleao and' see my mother?" the girl said,
timidly. "It is many the night we will
hef spoken about you : and when I wass
writing a letter to you sho would nlways
say, 'Now you will put the good English
into your letter, Ailasa. for Alister Ixw-
it be will be a great scholar now, and he
will be learning the good English.' I did
Dot know when 1 was writing to you, Al
ister, tbat--thttt--" . J-..,,,'! "
' "That there was any change in me?"
the yoVtiguian said, iudignantly. "Well,
thero is no change in me, but if there is
fcnv change It is you that are " changed,
Ailasa Macdonald, that you have forgot
tan your old friend. And maybe there
are new friends," he added, with a sudden
wild suspicion, "for a young lass has many
ii look after her."
The gir! blushed jose red.
"I hef no iinds that I had not when
you went away to Glasgow, Aliatcr Lew
K" she said, wiih i her eyes- cast down.
"Who in it that wou.'d be for coming to
KilleenaT It it. a very lonely life that we
are living at Killeena."
'Yes, indeed, said he f "aud many
was the night in Glasgow that J was think
ing of you and of the farm, an.J , ot Iho
hard lifo in the winter-time. Hut then.
I was saying to mysslf. that will not' be
always. J hern will no coning tne you";;
man from Uig. or from Hums', vho . wil!
many hor. and he wilt'lakc her aTay from
the lonely life in Killeena, ai.d maybe he.'
will take her up to Storuoway, and give
her a fine house there." "
"Then ycu wass ferry much mistaken
Alister Lewis, "she said, with some asper
lty. I here is not anv young man com
ing from Uig, or Harris, or Stornoway, to
io any such thing. "And you would bet
tor hef been wiih your books than think
ing such nonsense !"
"Bat a young lass must marry, Ailasa,"
he said.
"There iss no need for that there iss
no need whattffer," sho snid, proudly.
"Because, Ailasa, this was what 1'was
thinking," he said, with the handsome fine
face and dark eyes turned timidly ns well
as sadly toward her "this was what I
was thinking tunny a duy and many a night
since 1 went awuy from Durroch, that if
there was none of the young men coming
about to marry you, Ailasa, if there was
no one at all ibat you were, thinking of,
that 1 would ask you, Ailasa, to bo , my
wife some day, when 1 had sime money
gathered together, aud wuss ready to give
you a housa."
"And this is what I will say to you,
Alister Lewis," she said, turning round to
confrot him, and yet with her eyes cast
down aad her face pule, "that if ever I
marry any young rjuu, it will be you your
self that I will marry, aud no other one
that is what I hef sai l to myself. But 1
do not think 1 will ever marry you, Alis
ter Lewis, bekass when you hef money
and you hef become a nub. man, you will
not think of a poor lass that wass living in
Killeena, and that it is what I expect,
und 1 will not bo angry wiih you 'vhen you
will not marry a luss that will bring shame
on you bekuss sho has not got fine clothes
and does uot know tho good English."
"Ailasa, it is a bargain that you huve
niudfi between us two this day,", said he,
puying no heed to her depreciation of her
self. And so they drew near to Cam-Sloan,
and they waited hand-in-hand, as they
had r.ftiin done iu their childhood. They
spoke little, there was a pr6ud and confi
dent look on the voung man's fuee. Mrs.
Macdonald was warned of theircomingby
tho sudden scampering oft of a collio to
meet them, and when she cime out, she
poured out in rapid Gaabo her praises of
the alteration in Alister Lewis's appear
ance, and would have him drink agbmsof
whisky in his own honor. The young man
refused that friendly offer ; but be sat
down on one of the big stones by tho door,
and proceeded to tell Ailua's mother, with
an occasional stammer in his Gaelic, of all
his adventures in Glasgow. She was great
ly disappointed that ho had not seen the
Duke of Argyle, nor yet Sir James Math
esoo J but when he told her that his mas
tor knew the Lord Provost of Glasgow
and several of tho bailies and town coun
cilors, she recardod the young mao with
something of awe, and then, with the
shrewdness of ago, hoped that, he would
reap some praol'cal a .vantage from even
tho remotest relations with those great
peopK
; Then he rose to take his loave, after
having eaten a piece of oat-cake and drank
a glas of milk. ,
Yon will take the boat oyer the water,
Alister Lewis," 'said Mrs. Macdonald.
And John Cameron he will bring it back
in tho morning."
"It is no use the trouble," said Alister ;
"i. is many the time I have sworn across."
" And with all your fine Glasgow olothcs
,n V said the mother, indienantlv. "That
. . a .
is indeed nonsense." ' , . ;
"Ferry well, then, mother," said Aila
sa, who seldom followed them into the
Gaelic, "it is no quarrol there will be
abtut the crossing, for I will go down and
toic Alister aoross, and bring back the
boat.".'; " '""-'
' The young man was in no hurry to pro-
test against her taking all this tronble.
On the contiary, he accepted her offer
eagerly, and the mother thought him a
prudent lad to think of his clothes.
"Ailusa," naid he, as they walked across
the moor io the twilight, "you will never
forget that it is a promise you hef given
ino this day."
"I will never forget that, Al'ster Lew
is," sho said, simply. "But if you forgot
it, that will be no sl'.amo to you, for it iss
not every one that would come back from
Glasgow to marry a poor lass in Killeena'.'
A poor luss!" said he. "There is
no such lass any where not one in Glas
gow, Ailasa, Gt to wear your shoes. And
you have grown hull u won an since I li'I't
Darroch. In a year or two. if you will
wait so long, you will he tho handsomest
bride that bus ever gone to a wedding in
all the Western Islands. And it is non
aense you speak about my becoming a rich
man ; it is fur less you can uiake with all
1 the co'legu learning than at the fishing.
It is a poor man you will marry, Ailasa
Mae.ouald, a.nd that is tho truth."
"And thero iss" nn fear for me id that,"
said the girl, "uot i'.you wass a poor aa
old Sandy MKiilop'sine they hef taken
away his pipes'.
He pullud the boat across the channel,
and thou surrendered the oars to her. It
was nearly dark ; tho ripples thut plashed
against the boat struck white stars of fire ;
there was a strange glow over tho northern
heavens,
"Good-night to you, Alister Lowis," she
said; "and you will come ovr to-morrow
to tell us moro of the nows."
"Good-night to you, Ailasn Macdonald,"
said ho, holding her hand ; "and you will
never forget the promise that you huve
made to me this day."
CHAPTER IV.
SOME FESTIVITIES.
So the time weut by, i.nd Ailusa Mac
donald mtuked it no longer by the recur
rent seasons, nar yet by the going away of
the men to the Caithness fishery, but by
the loiters sho got from Alister Lewis in
Glasgow. And eeh of these was moro
confident and buoyant than its predecess
or, for the young man got on well at the
University, and his master took a great,
interest in him, and some of the bullies
and other great persons had been pleased
to notiee him, and had even hinted that
they might use their influence iu his favor.
At last' thero came one letter, more im
portant than all tho others, and straight
way there was a great stir and noise of
rumors throughout the islands.
"But I hef seen Ai'asi horelf, and she
was.showing mo the letter,"' said Nieol
Lewis to his eldest brother, who was an
grily expressing his disbelief in the news.
"And it iss ferry well that ho can not
write to his own pooplo, but to a stranger
lass that hiss nothing to do with hiin,"
Duncan Lewis said, gloomily smoking bis
pipe.
"And who will a young man wiito to, if
not to the lass ho is going to marry?" said
Nicol Lewis. "And it is furry proud
Ailasa Macdonald is this day that ho will
bef done the great things in his classes j
and who wass ('.linking when they built
the fino stoue school-bouse over at Maol
beg thnt it wuss our own Alister will oomo
to bo the ferry first school-muster, yes,
and mirovcr. And he will hef tho piece
of land too, and what will hinder him from
keeping a cow? And I wass saying many's
iho lime that it wass no great harm to a
young mau to hef spoken with the Lord
Provost of Glasgow, and the great magis
trates, aud they will seo our Alister ho
liass a head on his shoultcrs, nnd he is
ferry right to say that the day he will
come buck to Darroch that iss the day he
will come'back to be married ; but the
foolish young things to hef said it will be
in the middle of tho harvest, and a man
will have to dunco all night and go away
to the shearing with his head full of the
whisky, and not half an hour's sleep for
for him between, that wass ferry foolish ;
but we will hef a good spree for all that
by Kolt, it is tho good glass we will drink
when our Alister marries Ailasa Mucdon
aid.". j..., ..,
"It iss a very sure mm you are, Niool
Lewis ; but you are too sure of that," said
the other, rising and going away, with a
dark look on his face. "It will be a bad
glass you will drink when Alister Lewis
marries Mrs. Macdonald's lass a bad
glass for her, and for you and for bini."
Niool pufd no heed to the words at tho
time! for, indeed, hi bad grown accus
tomed to hear his eldest brother talk io a
strange fashion about Alister and Ailasa
Macdonald. He remembered the words
afterward.
Muunwhilo. however, there was nothing
but joy and the hurry, of preparation
throughout the islands of Darroch and
Killeena and throughout one or two
neighboring islands besides for every one
knew he would bd asked to the wedding,
and they wero all busy in making op use
ful presents for Ailasa, and in sending to
distant parts for the best whisky that could
be got, just in eise the bridal prscession
might come their way. The people were
well disposed toward the young lass of
Carn-Slenn ; they knew her mother bad
not much money in the bank ; and so they
bought blankets and made clothes and Net
aside portions of their own furniture for
her, and many was the visitor who travel
ed all the way to Killeena to ask the blush
in. Ailasa what she would like. Then,
one day name a letter from Alister Lewis,
addressed to Mrs. Macdonald, and tho
postman made her sign a receipt for ibat
letter, mu'di to her wonder. And i.isido
there was nothing less than a parcel of 1
bank-not;s ten in all ; and Alister asked
tho mother if she would take that to help
in buying Ailasa 's outfit, when she went
toStornoway for that purpose. Moreover,
tho young man had long ago sent back to
Nicol Lewis all the money tho brothers
had lent him when first ho loft Darroch
bo was clearly prospering io the world.
Then Alister Lewis came back to his
native place to claim his brido, aod he
wis more thnn over overcome with won
der and delight at the beuuty of her
bright atld tender faee, and he was vastly
pleased to see how smartly sho was dress-
cd ; while she, trembling, proud, and glud,
dared hardly speak to him, lest ho s'.ioulJ
think she had not as yet quite mastered
iho good .English. And all tho friends,
relations, and dbtant acquaintances of'lke
two families came over to Hector Lewis's
farm in Darroch seven days before tho
marriage to celebrate the forth-coming
event.
It was a great gathering. If Alister
Lewis had been going to marry a princess
they could not have mado mon stir. For
they cleared out the barn, and put long
tables into it ; and Nicol Lewis mado a
woudorf'ul cliaudlier out of spars of wood,
and this was hu'ng from the roof of tho
burn, with no fewer than twclvo candles
on it. Then for supper they boiled twenty
fowls iu the boiler used for preparing tur
nips for the cows ; and such as could get
seats at the board had tho soup and the
fowls placed before them just as if they
were kings. Others were well content to
have theirs outside under the clear star
light, while they eat upou grindstones, or
burrows, or even on the grass.
That wa- about eleven at night. Theu
all at. once there was a wild skirl of pipes
inside tho barn; and presently all tho
people roso. and the piper, playing "The
Cumpbells are coining,'' marched proudly
down tho middle of them, und camo out
into the night air, the gteat company fol
lowing. Then whun ho hid come outside
the musio was suddenly changed . into a
roel ; and in the strange glow shining all
over the midnight sky there was enough
light to show (he people how to form rap
id groups for th- danco. It was a great
festivity. There was more than one guest
there who had himself sent over a five-gal-1
len cask of whisky to help tho storo j and
there was no lack of the best Lagavulin
from Isluy or of the purest Campbelton;
Curitire. All ibo night through tho stur
dier members of tho company mostly
married men und women kept up the
danoing with, many a wild shout und kur
rah, even until tho day appeared in the
east on. the sun began to shine out and
over the sea. : Then those who had farms
near went off to uttnek ths work of the
harvesting, wl ile thoso who had come from
great distance!! lay down in tho barn or in
some empty cart to have a snooze befare
setting out to go home.
No one noticed that Duncan Lewis had
absented himself from this gathering no
ono but Alistor, who was surprised and
grieved. Next day Alister wont to Aila
sa. and said,
"Ailasa, did you know that my brother
Duncan was not among the people last
night?" '
'1 did not know it, Alistor," she said.
' "It is something bard ho is tninking of
us, Ailasa," her lo?or said. "Now there
is no ono who can win over a man like a,
young lass; and if you would go to my
brother Duncan you would learn what ho
is thinking about, and be would be friendiy
with us again."
"Oh, Alister, I can not go to your
brother Duncon !" tho girl said, almost
with a look of alarm. '
"But rhy will yon not go?" her lover
said, startled by this look.
She remained silent--her face downcast,
her manner showing greut embarrassment.
"I hope it is no secret you havo from
no, Ailasa," eaid ho rcprouehfully.
Still she would not answer, aod the
young man began to grow proud add dis
tant. "If it is a secret you have," said ho,
I will not take it from you."
She hesitated for a moent, and re
garded him with an appealing look j taen,
finding nothing io his face but disappoint
ment and coldness, she suddenly exclaim
ed, "I can not hef you quarrel with me,
Alister, and just before our wedding-day.
Thero wass a secret but but there iss
no wrong in it it was that your brother
Duucan he did ask me, a few years ago to
marry him that wass all. And now you
will knjv why I can not go to him with
the message."
"My brother Duncan !" tho y sung man
said, profoundly .surprised, and yet find
ing iu the circumstances uu explanation
of much in his brother's recent conduct
toward himself. "Aad is ho angry with
you thut you would not marry him, Aila
su?"
"I do not know," the girl said, simply.
Since that day ho will not spe.k a word
to me not one. When I hef seeu hiin
coming along the road be would go across
tho moor to be out of tho way. It wass
many a time I will be ferry sony that I
hof don" him any harm; but that is the one
thing a girl can not do to marry the
man she hass net in her heart ; and she
should uot be blamed for that."
All this set Alister Lewis thiuking.
"He is an angry mau, Ailasa, when he
is crossed," he said ; "and yet the people
will talk if he does not come to thu wed
ding. I will speak to him myself, dpd
maybe he will come to the wedding."
Alister hud no difficulty in finding out
his brother, who was at work in the fhlds.
He remonstrated with hiin for not having
joined the festivities of the provious night.
"And wass thero Dot enough to go on
wi' the drinking and dancing ?" Duncan
Lewis said, angrily. '"It is a good thing
there iss wan to look after the farm in
stead of filling his head with the whisky
and going to sleep in a pyre."
"But. there is not a wedding evory day,
Duncan," the younger man said, "and
there was no necn to drink more'thanyou
carod fur. If you had come to the sup
per, there was a good bed for you at auy
timo."
"Ay," said the other, scornfully, "it
iss a fine thing to hef many friends and
much merry-making, when you gif them
all tho fowls about tho farm and more
whisky us they cau driok. It is a furry
good thing to hef friends who will tell
you you wasa doing a gcod thing in get
ting married to a lass that hass not a peu
ny." "I hope you will como to tho wedding,
Duncan," the younger man said, humbly.
"What for should I come to the wed
ding9" the other said, sulkily.
"The people will tall, if you do uot
come ; and Ailnsa Macdouald, she is a
good lass, and you do not wish to her peo
ple say (hat you would uot come to hor
weddiug?"
"Do not ask me to oome to the wedding
Alister Lewis," said the other, going on
with bis work, (he younger man stood
patiently there for a moment or two won
dering what sort of argument ho could
bring to bear. At length, io the ineau
tiousnes? of youth, ho blundered upon a
djngerous remark.
"But this is what I think, Duncan,"
said he, "that people will tulk about you,
too, if you do n t come to our wedding.
Yes suro enough, they will talk ; and
what will hinder them saying you wanted
Ailusa for a wife yourself ?"
The man dropped his scythe as if he had
been shot. He turned and confronted his
brother but on tho face of the latter
thero was no expression of seorn Ho
wus merely waitiug bis brother's decision.
"Then, by Koit," said Dunoan Lewis,
with a flash of anger io his black eyes,"l
will come to your weddiog. It wass you
yourself, Alister Lewis, that asked mo to
come to th9 wedding. And if I hef no
ferry fine doilies to give the lass, and if 1
am not good at tho dancing woll, thai
iss no matter, for there uro many more
who will bo ferry glad over the wedding.
But, oh yes, I will be ut the wedding,
Alister you can tell Mrs. Maodonald's
las I will be at the wedding."
Alister Lewis was himself sufficiently
quick-tempered, and might at another time
have resented the scornful way in which
his brother spoko. But a mau who is
aflout to be married ought to be forgiving
toward a disappointed rival; and so he
went back to Ailasa. and told her that his
brothor Duncan had consented to come to
the marriage.
c ha Iter v.
ailaSa's we&dino.
The great day of the marriage arrived,
and at the earliest dawn tho Tends of
bride and bridegroom left their srrmJl farms'
and cottages to join tho big proccssiofr.
Thero were two procession', indeed- thai
of Ailasa'- friends, who had their owo
piper awaiting them at Killeena, aod that
of Alister Lewis's friends, whose piper
was at Darroch. About! itH o'clock these'
parties landed at different poinM oo the
great island adjoining tfco miu'-fand it
was generally cbnsidered-'-'and proceeded
by convergent routes across the moor to
ward a eertairr small inn where tho cere
mony was to take place;
It was a beautiful morning- the it'
was sweet wiih ihe rcsifjouw gale growiug irf
the marshes, the sua shooc rWiitly oil'
the blue sea all arou.d the inlands. The'
people walked in couples, the ptpor a.
thoir head marching with his proudest stop,
letting his ribbons fly, and playing his
most gladsome tunes. As they passed tho
solitary farms, tho old nud withered per
pie came out to watch them with bleared
eyes and give the young man a good wish ;
somo would have had him tak glass for'
good luck, and he thanis them' in- suck
Goo English, and be looker, so hnndsome'
in his smart Glasgow- olothes, thut be quite
won tho old' Women'--hearts.
Just before the inn was reached a wild
cry of alarm was' raised. Was not that
tbu bridti's party a thin, bright line of
color far over the moorland? They. could
hear the fuiut sound of the pipes., litrwas
Ailas'-i's party, sure enough, and shame
would fall on the young mau if she-' otiil
her friends should reach tho place of apr,
poin'ment first.
"By Kott," cried N'ool Lewis to. tho
company behind him, "it is you old onea-
you can stay behind if you will, but Alls--
ter and me we will hef a run to the inn;,
aa sure as I am alife we will not hef Nr..-.
Macdonald's friends be first at the iouJ"
Aod they would have rushed on by ;
themselves, but the piper swore a dread-'
ful oath that the bridegroom - should' coV:
go to meet bis bride unheralded by music,
and the old man set out running: too;;
whereupon all tho people followed him,-,
with wild shouting and laughing and help
ing of tho elder folks, uutil, sure enough,.
thoy wero at the ion first, the old piper'
recovering his breath sufficiently to be
playing a splendid strain when the youngs
bride and all her people arrived. .
There was a great greeting of friends.--
and every one was looking at Ailasa and'
her Gne clethes that hud come fromStorD--oway.
Then she came forward to shake'
hands with them all ; and most specially:
she came forward to Duncan Lewis, and
held out her hand. Alister Lewis had
askod her to make frionds with his brother,,
sinco he was coming to the marriage. ,
"And it is ferry glad 1 am to see yoUr-
this day, Duncan Lewis," tho jouog girK
said, shyly.
"Oh, ay," said he, looking at her SO'
that she turned bor eyes away ; " young'
lass is ferry glad to seo any one en- her-"
wedding-day."
That was all be said to her; and p'reS- '
ently they went iuto tho ion. the eenftrtil '
room of which had beeu cleared ;' and'
there wasa great noise of talking, anda
calling for glasses of whisky atdf pSetfes"
of bread and cheese, until the nw.'we6
round that the miuieter hod come. . Their
a hash fell over the assembly : and Ailasa
standing noar to Alister Lewis, bega'f to
ook frightened. Tha minister camtf int-S-
the room a small, thin whito-ha-tred", -V
kindly loking man, who looked as-though.''
he had been a fisherman in his youth:
There was a small eirole cleared fit"' the' '
crowd, and theu the ceremony, began." ' It"'
was all in Gaelic, for there were many 1
old people there who did not -know "much '
English ; and some of these old 1 comes- J
may have thought Ihe oxbortatioW excised- '
ingly long, as they were tatid,i,n'g"ll' the""
time. Aut at lergth it wustrlf'o'ver, and
then tho minister shook htinds 'with Mhe-'
nowly married pair, and drdtik to ' th&ir' '
health a glass of, whisky, '- which Lieot--
with great cuurtcsy, brought' ih 6u a plate. -
Ttcu the pipes struck u-p outside'.'nnd-the "
pooplo trooped out to tho"daiiinjj; whilo-''
tho old woman of tho inn aiid'b'er' daugh--
tors began to arrange jlS'Mt- u)iuiB;' bo '
that the guests inijbl Ixjv 'soitie'ihing :ttf-"
eat by-nnd-by. " 1
Tho great festivity, fidw-evo'f, wa. tdbe "
hold at Hector Lewis's Tidns-- in DdrrocK' '
that oveliing, after which the'youBg peo '
pie wero to go over to- Curtj-Sleany where.
Al'uteo Lewis proposed1 to' remain' for a -few
days until tfto cut I add attached to the''
schuol-house of Mnot-fieg was fislshedand i
ready for them, ho tho-'poople 'did'not
stay long at Iho inn. 1 Shortly after id-
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