. Harper's young people . edas it settled deeper and deeper into the water. Papa, where is mamma 2 Safe, dear. Some steamboat men brought her in-shore, and I found her late last night. Oh-h-h! Well, then, papa, get my kitty and pool-old Biddy. Oh dear! my neck and my shoulders hurt. As the boat neared the shore she opened her eyes inamazement, almost in fright. Thats mamma! she cried. Standing up! , youll hurt yourself! But mamma met Pearl at the very edge of the led her to the house whose friendly doors had beenopened to them. Doctors have talked learnedly of suchcases—about
. Harper's young people . edas it settled deeper and deeper into the water. Papa, where is mamma 2 Safe, dear. Some steamboat men brought her in-shore, and I found her late last night. Oh-h-h! Well, then, papa, get my kitty and pool-old Biddy. Oh dear! my neck and my shoulders hurt. As the boat neared the shore she opened her eyes inamazement, almost in fright. Thats mamma! she cried. Standing up! , youll hurt yourself! But mamma met Pearl at the very edge of the led her to the house whose friendly doors had beenopened to them. Doctors have talked learnedly of suchcases—about will power, nerve force, and other thingshard to understand. All I can tell about it is that thegreat excitement and some very serious thinking hadworked a wonderful change in Pearls mother. She now looked out at the house, and saw the waterpouring in at the window from which the idol of herheart had just been rescued. With arms tight about her,she said: He has taken care of us. Pearl, better than we couldhave CANADIAN DAYS ISY EDWARD I. STEVENSON. I. EINCES SETTLEMENT,where Cal Culvert as rough a Canadianvillage as one oftensees. Seven or eight log-houses straggled alongthe lake shore. Behindthese rose the a pine one. darkgreen and dense. There were few boysof Cals own age (seven-teen) in the place. In-stead of going to school,since school there wasnone, they had to trapand hunt. In place of playing marbles or ball they dressed skins or made snow-shoes and leggings. Occasionally they spent the wholemorning together, fishing from the rude wharf, where oncea fortnight only a small steamer touched, bringing sup-plies and the mail. Culvert endured more or less chaffing from Job WallI er, Gabriel De Zouche, and some others of his cronies as• being the worst shot and the unluckiest trapper of themall. He had some excuse. The Calvert family had arrived in Princes Settlement only eight months before, andCal could hardly have been expected to bec
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