Bonaventure

us lead singing and hitting from yonder dark mass descending on the flank, and the air full of imperious calls, "Halt!"-"Surrender!" a man disapp

the overgrown corners of a worm fence, found the poor remnant of him, put i

ender re-assurances. 'Thanase, though captured, had not been taken to prison. Tidings of general surrender had overhauled him on the way to it, near, I think, the city

Pass Manchac and North Manchac, and Pontchatoula River two or three times; and out of the swamps and pine barrens into the sweet pine hills, with their great resinous boles rising one hundred-two hundred feet overhead; over meadows and fields and many and many a beautiful clear creek, and ten or more times over the winding Tangipahoa, by narrow clearings, and the old t

rter of that distance should have been covered, how many chance

t he should find him,

t in order that Bonaventure in losing himself should not be lost, the priest gave him pen

Americans; would that I could say it to all our Acadian people! but I say it to you, learn English. It may be that by not knowing it you may fail, or by knowing it succeed, in this errand. And every step of your way let your first business be the welfare of others. Hundreds will laugh at you for it: never mind;

, by a light figure in thin, clean clothing, dusty shoes, and with limp straw hat lowered from the head. By and by, as first the land of the Acadians and then the land of the Creoles was left behind, a

oming back from the war, a youn

ne had s

d to tarry to earn bread, for he asked no alms. But after a while he passe

line. Might not 'Thanase be even then at home? No. Every week Bonaventur

n, green, and gold, and the long, trailing smoke of the last train-a rare, motionless blue gauze-gone to rest in the chill mid-air, he met a man who suddenly descended upon the track in front of him from higher up the mountain,-a great, lank m

dle thess ta

es

been gone from

ime before, because almost on his start homeward illness had halted him by the way and held him long in arrest. But at length he had reached the valley, and had lingered here for days; for it happened that a man in bought clothing was there just t