Purple Springs

elds, waving his arms to her with every evidence of strong excitement. The other children were on

the people from Purple Springs, and the women are going to bring pies and things, and there will be eats, and you are to make the speech, and then maybe there will be a foot

riations. "You are all to come, and there will be a letter tomorrow telling you all about it, but it is a real big day that is going to be at school, and all the big people, too, and it is to hear Pear

on, professed some doubts of t

she can stand right up and talk like a preacher, she'll forget what s

oped in the long days when he worked on the section. Although his shoulders had sagged in the long hard struggle, there had always burned in his heart the hope that better days would come-and now the better days were here. The farm was doing well-every year they were able to see that they were making progress. The

that had come to her heart was still with her, and impelled her to speak. There were things which should be said-great matters were before the country. Pearl had attended many

and listened to the flood of invective with which the cabinet ministers smothered any attempt at criticism which the Opposition might make, she had longed for a chance to reply. They were so boastful, so overbearing, so childishly important, it seemed to her that it would be easy to make them look ridiculous, and she often

, that the liquor interests of the province were the strong supporters of the Government, and the source of the major portion of their campaign funds; that the bars were the rallying places for the political activities of the party, and that to do away with the bars would be a blow to the Government, and, as the Premier himself had onc

l not do it. The social instincts distinguish man from the brute, and they must be cherished and encouraged. Your request is not in the best i

heart, the wordless rage of the helpless. After that she attended every meeting of the Suffrage Socie

ed in the homes of the district. Mr. Donald sent to each home a letter in which he invited all the memb

ce he went on that farm, and this last splurge for Pearl is just too much. I won't be a party to it! It is too much like makin' flesh of one and fowl of the other. Mr. Donald always did make too much of a pet of that girl, and then all those pieces in the paper, they will spoil her, no girl of her age can stand it-it is only puttin' notions in her head, and from what I can hear, there's

take place before the year was out, he was glad of this chance to address a few remarks to the electors. He had been seriously upset ever since he heard that the young doctor was to be

shed off in that light, easy way which careful preparation can alone insure; and Mrs. Steadman had decided that she would wear her purple silk with the gold embroidery, and ma

at Tommy brought home the news, a condition which Pearl did her best to relieve

don't think the teacher should have asked ye, you could do all right with just the scholars, for any bit of

or tomorrow's cooking, w

the pasture fields in his bare feet, and then how he climbed the ladder of fame, rung by rung-that is fine stuff, every one likes that; and whenever he got stuck he told about the flag of empire that waves proudly in the breeze and has never known defeat, and the destiny of this Canada of ours, and the strangers within our gates who have come here to carve out their destiny in this limitless land, and when he thought it best to make them sniffle a little he told about the sacre

should not feel so careless about makin' speeches, it is nothing to joke about. I wish you would be for writin' out what you are goin' to say, a

, "I'll be making it up now

-wrapped box in his hand, which he gave to Mrs. Watson, volunteering without delay, all the information he had regarding it. Bertie never fa

didn't give it to her when she was in, for she was in his office

what they were, and what Pearl said, and what her mother said-and if there was a note inside-and all the other good stu

phone if there is any need, and I know

had happened, he found himse

s, and Mrs. Watson had partially recovered from the shock that the sight of flowers in the winter, always gave her fo

ghteen-going

e years will b

jo

in into the envelope there was a folded note which she did not read to the assembled and gr

been a bright spot in my life, and you will always be that-like a red rose in a dull room. Your success will always be very

ACE

then impulsively pr

ips trembling, "it sounds like the last of some

over her face as she clasped

ords were taunting her; "the doctor thinks more of blue blood than he does of money,

te of her determination not to believe the sugges

t them in by the car-load to vote, like cattle, and that's blue blood, is it? Sure it is-you can see it in his shot-silk face and his two bad old eyes swollen like oysters! If the doctor wants him he can have him, and it's blamed little frettin' I'll do!... My dad eats with his knife, does he? All right, h

mittened hands were red and rough, and bore traces of the work he had been doing. In his hair were some of the seeds and straws blown out by the mill. There was nothing very attractive about John

und his neck. "Did you know that I am going to speak in the school, and they

d close to his, and he pa

ie, that I do-you can do whateve

like that, and you with your good dress on; don't you see

he said, "It is clean dirt, Ma, and it will brush off, and

hile, I think. I saw two geese leggin' it back as fast as they could go, and each one scoldin' the other one-

o good to last," said M

the Spring, it was

was a threat of snow in the whining wind, and as she w

th a sigh which broke into a sob in th