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Page 27 text:
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FIRE-LIGHT Sitting alone in the evening In a large old-fashioned room, Before a fire fast dying, With naught else to dispel the gloom. Through the trees outside, -which autumn Had stripped of their summer ' s dress, The wind was sighing and moaning, Like some one in distress; It stirred the leaves in the corners Where they ' d stowed themselves away, And shook the rattling casement Till ghosts seemed holding sway. ' Twas an ideal time for dreaming As I sat in solitude, And strange, fantastical shadows, Soon gave to my fancy, food. As the flames shot upward and vanished, I saw in their fiery glow Reflections of happy moments And faces I used to know ; As they flickered and danced on the ceiling And transformed all things old, They lit up the faded hangings Until they seemed ' broidered in gold. The coals formed fairy castles, In which I reigned supreme, But the flames soon made them ashes And left me a vanquished queen. And as blessings are always brightest Just as they take their flight, The fire mouldered into ashes And left me alone in the night. MABEL G. WALTERS, June, 1900.
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Page 28 text:
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MISS DAVE Say, Pen, you can ' t guess whom I saw this evening, said Harry Fields as he walked into the dining-room. No, of course not, answered his wife at the side-board. Well, (with a bow) Miss Margerite Dave, or formerly, Maggie Davis. She didn ' t use to be so proud and mighty, but since she ' s an actress, she is above speaking to common mortals. As I was coming past the hotel, whom should I see but Miss Margerite descending from a cab. I know she recognized me, although we have not met for many years. ' Good evening, Miss Davis, ' I said, as pleased as could be to see an old friend, but she opened her black eyes in polite surprise and passed into the hotel. I can well remember the first time I saw her; I was then grocery boy at Pat McGuire ' s. One cold morning when deliver- ing at the same hotel into which Miss Dave swept less than an hour ago, I noticed a poor girl with a torn red shawl wrapped about her head and shoulders, with hands and face purple from the cold, standing before the kitchen door talking earnestly to the head cook. There was then no haughty pride in her face or manners, but timid humility. I put my groceries on the table slowly and so heard most of the conversation. She was twelve years old — her name was Maggie Davis — her mother had died recently, and her father was a drunkard — oh, wouldn ' t he give her something to do, just so she would have a place to stay and keep warm ? Her large dark eyes were filled with tears, as she looked wistfully into the cook ' s face, so after a few hems and haws, he concluded to take her a week on trial. I suppose that week must have been satisfactory, for she stayed month after
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