s were eloping outside. And what do you suppose they eloped
in. Why in Miss Jemima Parrs fathers slay. And when he went out they
were gone and his slay was gone also his horse. Of course my mothers
uncle Thomas didnt steal the horse. He just borroed it and sent it home
the next day. But before Miss Jemima Parrs father could get another rig
to follow them they were so far away he couldent catch them before they
got married. And they lived happy together forever afterwards. Mothers
uncle Thomas lived to be a very old man. He died very suddent. He felt
quite well when he went to sleep and when he woke up he was dead.

PETER CRAIG.

MY MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE

The editor says we must all write up our most exciting adventure for Our
Magazine. My most exciting adventure happened a year ago last November.
I was nearly frightened to death. Dan says he wouldn't of been scared
and Felicity says she would of known what it was but it's easy to talk.

It happened the night I went down to see Kitty Marr. I thought when I
went that Aunt Olivia was visiting there and I could come home with her.
But she wasn't there and I had to come home alone. Kitty came a piece
of the way but she wouldn't come any further than Uncle James Frewen's
gate. She said it was because it was so windy she was afraid she would
get the tooth-ache and not because she was frightened of the ghost of
the dog that haunted the bridge in Uncle James' hollow. I did wish she
hadn't said anything about the dog because I mightn't of thought about
it if she hadn't. I had to go on alone thinking of it. I'd heard the
story often but I'd never believed in it. They said the dog used to
appear at one end of the bridge and walk across it with people and
vanish when he got to the other end. He never tried to bite anyone but
one wouldn't want to meet the ghost of a dog even if one didn't believe
in him. I knew there was no such thing as ghosts and I kept saying a
paraphrase over to myself and the Golden Text of the next Sunday School
lesson but oh, how my heart beat when I got near the hollow! It was so
dark. You could just see things dim-like but you couldn't see what they
were. When I got to the bridge I walked along sideways with my back to
the railing so I couldn't think the dog was behind me. And then just in
the middle of the bridge I met something. It was right before me and
it was big and black, just about the size of a Newfoundla