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He moved his wife without cereâ€" side. The ocean does not love the mony from the farm to the house on captain‘s wife. A big, big hole! the beach. She was past all reâ€" "I gee something float past when monstrance then. And each wints" 1 nave wiped the ealt from out my threreafter, while ice spread over eyes. Two somethings, out that skyâ€" the water, Gustaf Erickson sat by the light. I hollered. Hollered loud. The stove, night after night, in this same captain came. It was all awash in whitewashed kitchen, and told monâ€" the cabin D;n-k fie toung no. dok strous tales of the five fresh lakes No wife ~ " © and the seven salty seas. His black-“ * eyed wife, and his son who was â€""It was a good dog. We feel sorâ€" blond as he, shivered those nights TY that dog was lost. But the woman? when he talked. Their manners anâ€" She give nobody enough to eat! gered Gustaf. Why should they tear‘; "The Gottland, me, nobody else evâ€" the true stories he told, stories out er see such a storm. We was from of his own reckless past? Tales of Halifix for Rouen that trip, with a riot and starvation they were, of muâ€" cargo of leather. Twentyâ€"eight days tiny, brutality, great storms, her0 out we eailed into Havre, and a little ism, despair. He had mastered @ll jug with paddle wheels towed us up these dificulties. Hadn‘t he sailed on the river, and on that left side thera the schooner Gottiand? § n t & . mie Only once in the years that Norâ€" man‘s mother kept his house, did Gustaf strike her; that night she had protested when he flogged their son. He got out a piece of halfâ€"inch rope because the boy had sniveled like a baby over Gustaf‘s favorite story of the captain‘s wife and dog. "It was a good dog," old Gustaf had said, "a big dog, strong, hairy all over. His name was Nels. We liked that dog. The schooffer.......ah, the Gottiand, she was a fine strong schooner, a five master! Nobody ever jump ship off her, I tell you. Till that captain‘s wife come aboard for a voyage. Why, you think that woman come anyway?" Old Gustaf scowled. "We hate her, us on «chooner. Sho mever give nobody enough to eat, not even her old man. Always skimp, skimp! The cook........what could the cook do at such stinginess except swear? She was punished for it! It blows three days down off Newfoundâ€" land. Blow? How can I tell it. The third night...... by Mackinac, we all was glad when it gets dark that might so we don‘t have to look no more at the waves! I was at the wheel. The captain, I know _ not where the captain was. He was all over. He was a good sailor. But his woman, she sit with the dog in the cabin. Jupiter, was she scared! We‘d of been glad she feel bad, all of us on schooner, if we was not so scared ourseives. And then that big wave come along, two, three times big as all the rest. The biggest wave in the world. It smashed in the caâ€" bin skylight, tore right through the tarpaulins................push, right in! It took out all the bulkhead on the port Only teas grown 4,000 to 7000 feot above sea level. |=e=or>ls »icure of Ais mother ] From habit it ufyst be in the kitchen. gm._ L“&_@:--.-_ ___,'_’,.-9"’: !llo saw her. waiting. always in an per }â€"lb.â€"Buy it at [ Gustaf never forgot that nighl‘s' scene, any more than Norman did.’ f'l‘he sympathy that grew up between [hnis faithtal, harassed little wife ana | Ihis son seemed unfair to him. He| watched it suspiciuusly.‘ He assigned ‘ Iall his failures with Norman to her,' :anribmed contemptuntsly to back-} hills French blood the sersitive spots ;ih his son‘s plian: adolescent mind. ‘To be sure he regretted his wife‘s labrup: removal from his life. It was a shock to discover one morning that | Tshe had gone to bed quietly and died. iHe stayed ashore all week from the {fishing banks, watching his son wear !lhe faded blue apron. I "The Gottland, me, nobody else evâ€" er see such a storm. We was from Halifix for Rouen that trip, with a cargo of leather. Twentyâ€"eight days out we sailed into Havre, and a little tug with paddle wheels towed us up the river, and on that left side there was grgen fields and on the right side there was green trees, and $ erything was peacéful, so peaceful us‘on schooner could not believe it. Only the captain, he still felt bad ovâ€" erâ€"his dog and that woman ... it was a good dog." Gustaf would light his pipe at this point, puffing contemplatively over the merciless justice of the sea. covers. [ his lungs room. "I‘ll make that boy a sailor yet!" he heard old Gustal storm to his mother. "Why should an Erickson act so?" Many nights he repeated the tale in his grim, weary singsong. The lake wept on its beaches, and his son, Norman, fleeing whiteâ€"faced to bed, lay awake under the handâ€"hewn shingles, hour after pitiless hour, with terror sitting atop the flannel covers. pressing the breath out of his lungs, tormenting sleep from the Norman cleaned the house carefulâ€" ! ly after the funeral. He had only one‘ supper." _ Old Gustaf growled. "Get in early," he ordered. "And tell Hans (Milfer what I say. Tell him you‘re through drivin‘ wagon. You‘re going to have a man‘s job!" | CHAPTER | 11 I Lightning It was two o‘clock when Norman walked out soberiy from the house. ‘}His father, who spliced float lines on the back step, watched him go ‘gloumily, without taking the trouble to answer his hallâ€"hearted goodâ€"by. Norman made deliberatély across ‘the beach while still within sight of his father‘s wrath. But once beâ€" }yom,l it, he turned aside and proceedâ€" ed north, up toward Ottawa Lake. He had small idea where he was going. Except that he had no inâ€" |wmiun of seeking Hans Miller, this afternoon, or of fmparting to him at once his father‘s decision that he must go as helper in the boat. He hated the Great Lakes intensely that minute. He bated fishermen. He hated boats, the smell of boiling ‘nets, wind, waves, threeâ€"day blows. He kicked his chair back from the table. Norman arose. It was apparâ€" ent as they stood side byâ€" side how mych taller he was now than his father. He was thinner, his back was straight. In his pink Erickson face, there showed clean untested lines. "I‘m going out," Norman said. He nodded indefinitely in the direction of the town. "I won‘t be back for l "You been layin‘ around land long Lnouh." Gustaf grumbled that noon when he finished the pickerel and }poutou. "Near twenty years old, ’ud where you ever sailed? Madrid Bay! That‘s fine sailin‘ for a grown man, now ain‘t it? I was twice around the Horn when 1 was twenty. My paw and my grandpaw didn‘t die ashore. Why I name you Norâ€" Me yaw her, waiting, always in aB : _ _« _ _a%tt~ apron, for his father‘s boat to come| â€" Through either 1 ashore. He but on the apron without boro, Fencion Falls distaste when ‘necessity drove him|irect Canadian Nati to do her work. It did not occur to|Pring you to the 1 ‘him that it might be a soft womanâ€"| dstrictâ€"as pretty : ish symbol to his father. as you could wish t Life was extraordinary. Here he was, his mother dead not a week, and this thing he had dodged all his life immediately caught up with him. A job in the fishing fleet! He had worked more than three years for Hans Miller, who owned the store in NMadrid Bay, helping the fat Dutchman put up ice and do other odd jobs in winter, in summer delivering the ice and fresh green vegetables to the back doors of te sort cottages along Ottowa . Lake. From the beginming his father had objected to the wagon. The day Miller took him on....._he was past sixteen, but still barelegged....... the boy had run down the wharf to his father‘s fish shanty to tell him the news. Gustaf was mending gill nets. He was bent like a cobbler over his flat whalebone needle, while the fine string flashed backward and _ forâ€" ward and his guarled fingers drew the intricate knots in the mesh. "Your name‘s Erickson!" he exâ€" ploded when Norman paused â€" for breath. "An Evickson driving a groâ€" cery wagon!" Norman still remembered it reâ€" senifuily. His mother had taken no part in that quarrel. Her bewildered black eyes were troubled at the arâ€" gument, but she offered no counsel, Only once, and he remembered now the anxiety on her face, she had takâ€" en him aside and reminded him duâ€" tifully, but with no conviction, that other boys fished with their fathers. Norman knew these other boys. He had gone to school with them, played ball with them on lively Sunâ€" day afternoons. fHe was of them and apart. The lakes had baptized them young, iniated them fully into the windâ€"bitten brotherhood of the fishâ€" ing coast. Early seasons and late, on clear days and in cold pommeling winds, they drove their boats in from the fishing banks, only half grown spindling fellows some _ of them, putt%ng in safety at the dock with heary smelly loads of fish. It was the winds Norman dreaded; the rage of waves dismayed him: Always during the tempetuous weaâ€" ther of threeâ€"day blows, he rememâ€" bered Gustaf‘s story of the schooner Gottland and the captain‘s dog. He‘d not tell his father that. q* The 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay, always popwlar for summer holidays, are now provided with a special Canadian National train serâ€" vice that affers excellent opportunâ€" itles for weekâ€"end holidays. The Canadian National Railways operate special trains to the main gateway of the 30,000 Islands through Midland @hd Parry Sound. Now there is a new direct boat serâ€" veie provided between Parry Sound and Point au Baril. Full information and literature from _ Canadian _ National 'l'l.ckv& Agents. districtâ€"as pretty a summer place as you could wish to see. Just a short distance from Toromâ€" toâ€"popular for the sport they offer in fishing and general holiday diverâ€" sionsâ€"ready to give you suitable accommodation at fair pricesâ€" Kaâ€" wartha Lakes are even now welcom ing old friends and new. _ ~ Fuil information and literature from â€" Canadian â€" National Ticket Agents. Timagami is the land of adventure for the fishermanâ€"a change to enâ€" joy old clothes and feel the thrill of the rod. From Toronto, Canadian National Railways provide a through sleeping car service. A comforable night‘s sleep on the train and you are in the wilds of Northern Ontario ready for all the sport that Timagami will n»a. direct Canadian National service will Canadian National Summer Schedule a Boon to Vacationists vide. SPECIAL TRAIN AND BOAT SERVICE TO 30,000 ISLANDS OF GEORGIAN BAY NIGHT‘S JOURNEY TO THE NORTH BRINGS FISHERMAN ADVENTURE 8500 TO SAIL as HARVESTING usti Owing to inadequate steamship acâ€" commodation, it will be impossible to transport to Canada the ‘full quota of | 10,000 unemployed which were to go ‘ toâ€"Canada to work in the Western harvest fields, J. Bruce Walker, dirâ€" ector of European Immigration for ; Canada stated. | Gustaf made that "pfaugh!" an ugly word. He had a way of thrustâ€" ing it into Norman‘s flesh like a fish knife. To ‘be sure he need never hear it again. He had stayed in his father‘s house because of his moâ€" ther, hadn‘t he? He tried to perâ€" suade himself that this was true. Toâ€" night, tomorrow, he could start out unmindful of winds and weathers. He could leave the lake and all its disâ€" ‘tastefnl memories, could _ settle somewhere beyond the hills. Full information and literature from . Canadian â€" National â€" Ticket Agents. "A dam‘ poor Erickson," old Gusâ€" taf would complain. "No stomach for winds, pfaugh!" And farm? He walked a bit more rapidly at the thought. He hated farms. Five times, during vacations from school, his mother had sent him back in the hills to her father‘s misâ€" erable forty acres. It had surprised Norman. once there, to discover that there actually was a smell of soil as well as of sea. He preferred the sea. strangely. H edid not enjoy feeding stock or battling obstinate weeds. He liked the girls among his many French cousins. They remindâ€" ed him of Julie Richaud, a little French girl he knew in public echool. But he disliked the boys, for no parâ€" ticular reason, except that they were farmers, young blackâ€"baired yeomen, ‘hnrrying through their chores, smellâ€" llng of sheep and the barn, built each ‘nne of them like a full sack of poâ€" tatoes. He had walked adrift these Frenchies, a blond thinâ€"legged stranâ€" ger, tall, with a promise of being taller. He despised the farm. But the lake? The lake bewildered him, plagued him, worried him, bullied his thoughts. * | _A reliable antisepticâ€"Minard‘s. Liniment. sport that Timagami will proâ€" (To be ‘continued) girl going into womanhood, when I first found benefit from Dr. Williâ€" ams‘ Pink Pills 1 was a sufferer with cranips and pains every month and was hardly able to move around at all. One day when I was very sick a friend came in to see me, and she said to my mother, ‘Why not try Dr. Williams‘ Piuk Pills, I know they will do her a world of good." The result was my mother got six boxes and I began their use, and I soon found benefit from them.,/ By the time I had taken them all I felt an altogether different girl and no longâ€" er suffered from cramps and pains. ‘Then a few years ago I was atâ€" tacked with influenza, and was sick forâ€" six weeks. Again I started takâ€" ing Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills, and again they brought me good health. I am the mother of a family and do all my own work, so you see 1 have to keep in good health, and depend upon these pills to keep me so. Now If you are suffering from any conâ€" dition due to poor, watery blood, or weak nerves, begin taking Dr. Wilâ€" Mams‘ Pink Pills now, and note how your strength and health will imâ€" prove. You can get these . piMlis through any deal in medicine, or at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Wik liams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Charles A. Lindbeagh, famoys American airman, earned more than $204,000 during the last half of 1927, according to a report as to his inâ€" come tax payment to the governâ€" ment. New Heaith Came Through Using & Dr. Wiliiams!® Pink Pills Mre. Caspar MiMer, Lourdes, NB., says that twice in hor lifotime she has reason to be thankful for what Dr. Wilkiams‘ Pink Pills did for her. I always recommend Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills to any of my friends who may be sickly. Reliable information .places his federal tax payment this year at elightly more than $30,000. Joseph McCoy, treasurer actuary by a lightâ€" ning calculation, figured that Lindâ€" bergh‘s minimum earning must have been $204,000. FAMOUS AMERICAN FLYER EARNER OVER Which recalls to mind that Lindâ€" bergh landed in Paris with his enâ€" tire savings invested in the airâ€" plane which carried him over the Atlantic. ‘ Minard‘s Linimentâ€"the Universal remedy. Where will you stay while in Toronto ? WAS VERY Toronto papers are already advertising acâ€" commodation for Exhiâ€" bition visitors. If you are going, we suggest that you make reservaâ€" tions in advance. The quickest and surest way is by a Long Disâ€" tance telephone call. The advertisements usually give a telephone number. A Stationâ€"toâ€" Station call will serve rate is lower. and the IN 1927 L. W. BHUKH ~ â€" _ â€" . _ President W. G. WEICHEL â€" _ Vioeâ€"President J. Howard Simpson _ Oscar Rumpel Richard Roschman Edgar Bauer Jas. 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