Judy of York Hill

lidays brought a

unshiny room; "bed at nine o'clock, breakfast at nine o'clock, and any amount of skating

d to have, and after a long night's sleep and a peaceful day devoted

little Bobbie and Baby Hugh, and something very nice for Nancy. Nothing seemed good enough for Nancy, but at last she found a little string of white coral faintly touched with rose which she was certain would look

sled was afraid that she would have to pull him on bare sidewalks, and that the stories of Santa Claus and h

next morning the sky was so blue, the sun so bright, and the ground so dazzling white

's exactly like a Christmas-card Christmas if only

thers were far away at Christmas-time. Judith had never had such enchanting presents-a string of beautiful amber beads from Daddy; the daintiest of shell-pink crêpe kimonos with satin slipp

ut ran upstairs to have another peep at the new fro

for a sixteen-year-old, and I expect you have worn them so often already that you never want to see them again. Hannah

and happily into the mirror, she made a picture of herself dancing in her silver frock with Catherine, admired by Nancy and Josephin

hastily donning her new skating outfi

ittle 'possums, had turns riding in the new sled to the park, and then the whole family were pack

ays with Nancy in Quebec. Judith had just been thinking about them and wishing

ncy's father is awfully keen about the monuments and things and I'm getting to be keen myself. Jack has a couple of R. M. C. boys here for the holidays,

t Nancy had included her in the invitation. She was right in her surmise that Sally

ing-room across the hall, and now, to her surprise, Aunt Nell

ear's week-end with them. Mr. Nairn is going to Quebec by to-night's train, and could take you with him and bring you back on Tuesday. I don't know whether I ought"-but at the sight of the ecstatic joy on Judith's face she did not finish

-tale was going to happen when they planned their gifts?-But, of course not. Where were her skates and ple

and as Judith caught sight of them she realized with a joyous leap of her heart how homesick s

rim of her little fur hat. Nancy had a thrilling tale of Christmas presents to tell, and they had not reached the end of the Christmas happenings wh

gave her aunt's messages to her hostess so prettily and so mode

e food, and Judith gave him scant attention. But Tim, the elder brother, who had been in the Flying Corps and had several enemy machines to his credit, who still limped from injuries received during an air-fight, and whose grey eyes had the keen, piercing, and yet dreamy lo

from Mrs. Nairn, they asked the girls to come and watch the fun. Neither Sal

Nancy as they started off. "I don't want Judith to

go while it's clear-though, of course, the

and the town. Think of being Jacques Cartier-the first to see it. For a while, you kn

by the way, is the Wolfe-Montcalm Monument-see, shining over the tops of the trees-I

ox, if you please-no, half a pound will do, for I c

ve Them a C

a Comm

ty a Common

but of course you looked it

omised to take us to see the sights as soon as Judy came

its snow-clad banks pierced here and there by tiny villages each with its heavenward-pointing spire; to the north were the Laurentian Hills, now g

rn told me the most interesting thing about it-there's a lamp there that was lighted over two hundred years

r. Nairn's personally conducted tour-we, I might ob

deal place for the thrilling sport-for there were a number of high places where experts could take high jumps, and lower slopes in plenty for the lea

s to skate, while Tim and Jack gave Ju

ment of the long clumsy skis that at the end of an hour the boys left Nan

e, and neither she nor Sally May was sorry when Nancy declared they could

shadows of the pine trees had lengthened considerably. She drew a deep breath of unconscious enjoyment drinking in the wo

k darkness. In some way the long curved wings on her feet had tripped her and she had pitched head foremost into a deep snow-bank. Nancy

without difficulty-and wi

t?" said Jac

ggled to ge

pening her eyes, her mind evidently still

into reliev

ouldn't have left them so soon, but she seemed to get the hang of it very quickl

inner-table, and she was glad enough to accept

, but found to their astonishment that Judy seemed asleep almost as soon as her head touch

mp. Judith was smiling happily, for in her dreams she was flying, flying through sunlit skies