The Associate Hermits

quired Mr. Archibald, after examining, with a moderate inte

it for them. He's a splendid cook, and he found things in their hampers that they didn't know they had. They said his coffee was delicious, and they h

"for it is spri

p, and the rain soon began to come down in a steady, practised way, as if the c

be conveniently invited, Margery retired to her room and

wing and darning, which had been reserved for just such a day as this. Mr. Archibald, in a water-proof suit, tried fishing for half an hour or so, but finding it both un

ower, and they spent the morning on their backs in their tent, talking and smoking. Of course they could not expect the bishop to depart in the rain, so they had told him to make

kin coat, came to Mr. Archibald and said that as there was nothing he could do that

shop?" asked

se two young men. I don't suppose they'll send him off in the rain, and as he

hibald, "and if we want a

nt to do yourself, you can get him to do it; but if you want to know

ound that ponderous individual seated in his rolling-ch

cried. "What's w

le piazza outside, and after carefully wiping h

ce, there's a tramp out there, and it looks to me as if

nce?" roared Peter. "That's a

my camp. The young men have took him in; but I expect he'll come over with them as

said Peter, "is h

is," said

ork as he did. It was cash down, and good money. Not a minute of wood-splitting more or less than the market-price for meals and bed. I'd like to have a

"but he's trampin'. What are you goin

oin' now?" a

for those tw

t the parson alone for a day or two, and if he does anything out of the way just you take him by one

e fellow that you hired a gun to don't know the fust thing about usin' it, and the

e. "Phil Matlack," he shouted, "what do you take me for? I hired th

lack, "but the trouble is he

e handled them I could see that most likely he'd never handled one before, and so I set him up all right. He's got a good gun, and all the cartridges he'll be likely to want; and the cartridges are all like this. They're a new kind

it crumbled to

se they'd find that out; but with this kind they might sit all day and fire at a baby asleep in its cradle and never disturb it, pro

make my mind easy, but if that bicycle man hunts much he'll ge

ich is what is wanted," said Sad

f her head and her shoulders, and I want to know if that rule of yours is going to hold good this summer. Women is gettin' to do so many things they didn't use to that I didn't know but what

nd talkin' about changes. Women in my camp don't go out in boats by themselves, and it's easy enough to have that rule kept if you've got backbone enough to do it. Keep the boat locked to the shore when it a

arlor-fishin', which she's took to quite lively, and she's got used to the woods. The boss, he sticks to fishin',

asked

he others isn't," replied Matlack

p standing by her, putting bait on her hook, and taking the fish off of it when any happened to be there. Out in the boat sat Mr. Archibald, trusting that some fish might approach the sur

eful sweep, and then, with another sweep and an easy inclination of his body forward, sending the fly far out on the smooth surface of

the edge of the wood were

I guess they're hankerin' to take a share in her edication; but i

chibald; but before he reached her he was

id, "which will be greatly to the lady's satisfaction,

N IN FLY

said Matlack. "You lo

is is a gutta-percha collar, and I can wash it whenever I please with a bit of damp rag, and it is my custom to shave every day, if I possibly can. But as to leaving you, I shall not do so this

u as cook and general

h a smile, "they are kind and