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"And in winter?"

"In the winter the ould howl through the 'big tree,' and

everything would be bleak and cold out doors We would be inside, of

course, and ould sit on the fur rug in front of the fireplace,

while the evening passed by, watching the 'geese in the chied dreamily "I love it It rests me"

She clasped her hands back of her head and closed her eyes

The young man looked quietly about him

"This is a wild and beautiful country," said he, "but it lacks

so I think it is the soul The little wood lots of the East

have so hts His

only experiences in the woods East had been when out picnicking, or

berrying, and he had never noticed these things "I don't know as I

ever thought of it there," he went on slowly, as though trying to be

honest with her, "but here it comes to me somehow or another" A little

fly-catcher shot up from the frond below, poised a s

"Do you know the birds?" she asked

"I'm afraid not," he admitted; "I don't really knowto learn more I know only the

very common birds, and one other Did you ever hear the her?"

"Never"