, seeing how grievous had been my punishment, forbore to make any
reproach.

The next day began our journey home, and I have never since returned to
London; but when I got back to the place I had so foolishly left I found
it sadder than before. Many friends were gone away or dead. Some honest
lads, with whom I had jested at fair-times, hung withering on the
ghastly gallows by the wayside; others lay in unknown graves; others
languished in gaol or on board ship. My father's own brother, though his
life was spared, had been sent away to the plantations to be sold, and
to work as a slave.

It was some time before Tom Windham--that had, at considerable risk to
himself, sent my father to fetch me--ventured to settle again in his old
place; and for a long time after that he was shy of addressing me.

But I was changed now as much as he was. I had seen what the world was,
and knew the value of an honest love in it. So that, in the end, we came
to an understanding, and have been married these many years.

[Sidenote: What is girl life like in newer Canada--in lands to which so
many of our brothers are going just now? This article--written in the
Far North-West--supplies the answer.]

Girl Life in Canada

BY

JANEY CANUCK

If you leave out France, Canada is as large as all Europe; which means
that the girls of our Dominion live under climatic, domestic, and social
conditions that are many and varied. It is of the girls in the newer
provinces I shall write--those provinces known as "North-West
Canada"--who reside in the country adjacent to some town or village.

It is true that many girls who come here with their fathers and mothers
often live a long distance from a town or even a railroad.

Where I live at Edmonton, the capital of the Province of Alberta, almost
every day in the late winter we see girls starting off to the Peach
River district, which lies to the north several hundred miles from a
railroad.

[Sidenote: A Travelling House]

How do they travel? You could never guess, so I may as well tell you.
They travel in a house--a one-roomed house. It is built on a sled and
furnished with a stove, a table that folds against the wall, a cupboard
for food and dishes, nails for clothing, and a box for toilet
accessories. Every available inch is stored with supplies, so that
every one must perforce sleep on the floor. This family bed is, however,
by no means uncomfortable, for the "soft side of the board" is