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A night owl hooted in Tessibel's ear as she ran A bat whirled into her face--then took himself off Over the shadowy rocks which cut and bruised her feet, Tessibel flew

Daddy was ho his nets She rerinned at her as with one hasty look she had fixed his face in her mind He had lied to her Daddy was in the hut, and if he were up waiting for her--there passed through Tessibel's sht of how joyfully she would hop to the bowed shoulders, and she longed for the kisses she kneould be hers She halted before the dark hut and waited Insects whizzed about her ears as though they little feared her The long branches of the weepingdragged thehostly sound This was Tessibel's night of heart experiences--her first day and her first night Oh! to go back to yesterday, with the hidden fear of the student sleeping soundly in her breast and a Daddy, a dear stooping old Daddy She slipped open the shanty door, lighted a candle and looked around The frying pan lay bottom up on the floor where she had dropped it The tea pail was on the table; a cut loaf of bread lay beside it, covered with a host of small red ants All this was familiar to Tess She kicked the pan froed stool which her father used at his meals Portions of fish and plenty of bones were spread about upon the floor, but the littered shanty did not distress her newly found notions of cleanliness

Daddy o away to the black place where they had taken the Canadian Indian, who had killed his squaw Tess re how he had been carried to prison, twelve uilty of the criroan--the Canadian Indian had been carried to the place where the rope was

Daddy Skinner and the Canadian Indian Tess dared think no longer She caught a glimpse of herself in the cracked mirror which Skinner used when he plied the pinchers to his beard--and her wild eyed bronzeness caused her to give a startled ejaculation Daddy was gone; and Frederick the toad, was her all The thought of the reptile she loved brought her quickly to her feet Frederick should sleep in the shanty while Daddy ay Tessibel halted apprehensively in the open doorway

Froht with their sonorous cries--while in throaty discord, a s bellowed farewell to su waves in eternal laps, the rhythaze pierced theon the strong nature, untried by e fear, and Tessibel advanced a step to the pebbly path Once outside in the darkness, she lifted her voice and repeated as of yore, "Rescue the perishin' Care for the dyin'"