THEY ALL PROCEEDED DOWN THE MEADOW IN SILENCE.

SHA RON:

[THE FURTHER HISTORY OF DOCTOR GARDEF’S LITTLE GIRL]

By Mary HartwkE_L CaTHERWOOD,

 

CHAPTER I.
DOCTOR GARDE LISTENS TO REASON.

HE run had gone down, and the Rocky Fork

was within its banks and falling every hour.

Hall, with a number of his neighbors, was raising an-

other mill on the site of the old one, and Mr. Pitzer’s

boys went down at recess and noon to watch the pro-
cess and get in the way.

Wreaths of drift on the play-ground showed where
the water had been, and the lower logs of the school-
house had threads of green springing in their cracks
and knot-holes.

Everybody had heard how Doctor Garde got into
and out of the Rocky Fork, and the geography
master met some rough bantering which he answered

as best he could. The young men in his night school
talked in knots in the grave-yard about tar and feath-
ers for him; but tar and feathers were a favorite sub-
ject with them, principally because they had never
seen any and had some curiosity about the effect of
such a combination. Mr. Runnells did his best to
remove the prejudice against him, and he was so
amusing, they forgave him, especially as Dr. Garde
had nothing more to say about the matter.

Doctor Garde was badly hurt; and one of the
other country doctors who set his bones made sad
work with the swollenarm, The whole neighborhood
on the safe side of the Fork got upon their plough-
horses and came to see him, according to custom,
Healthy as. his physique was, so many strains and
annoyances brought on fever, and Liza-Robert hovy-