"Waal, I guess I'll let 'er go at that. I've covered up the most of it, anyhow. Guess we'd better go in."


[PART II.]

THE TEST OF ELDER PILL: THE COUNTRY PREACHER.

The lonely center of their social life,
The low, square school-house, stands
Upon the wind-swept plain,
Hacked by thoughtless boyish hands,
And gray, and worn, and warped with strife
Of sleet and autumn rain.