"What part? Maidstone ways? "No, from Feversham side; but I know Maidstone pretty well, too. Are you from that part of Kent?" "Ay! lad; but not from your Kent. I come from the Kent of fifty years ago, I be old Heywood's son, him as rented Squire Merton's cherry orchard, that sloped from the back of his old park right down to the Medway. But, bless me! Squire's dead years ago; dead and mouldered away into dust years ere you were born. So you're from Kent, eh, lad? It's many a day since I've seen a man as knows ought about Medway banks. Well, you're welcome, that's all I can say." The coincidence of them both hailing from the same country set their beards a-wagging. Caldecott and Old Bill talked far on into the night. The cheery possums were noisy in the trees. Heavy beetles droned through the yellow air. The sheep lay like a sheet of white on the dark umber of their dusty yard. The sheep dog lay before the embers, his head between his paws, and with "one eye's black intelligence" thrown back upon his master, the lord of his faithful heart. Yes! Caldecott and Old Bill talked for hours-the latter doing the lion's share of the work. Forgetting the chasm of years that intervened between his age and his boyhood, and all of action or suffering that chasm contained he went back to the hours when, as a little lad, he wrought in his father's orchard, the happiest little cherry-picker in the Shire of Kent. It was about midnight, when the dog, starting up suddenly, gave a low growl, and ran outside the fire-shed. Old Bill left the gunyah, and looked towards his sheep. They had not moved. Presently three notes of a low plaintive whistle were heard from the ridge beyond the sheepfolds. Bill, putting tips of the first and second fingers of his right hand upon his lips, gave out two loud shrill calls. man The sound of a horse going at an easy canter was next heard; and, before Caldecott had time to ask any questions, a darkfeatured powerful-looking flung himself from off the back of a large-boned chesnut mare at the door of the gunyah. (To be continued). THE WAR NEWS. Owing to the "fault" in the cable, and the consequent fact that our daily contemporaries have had nothing to publish about the progress of events at the seat of war, we are in the position of the knife-grinder-" Story, God bless you, we have none to tell you." K. M. S.-Declined with many thanks. Albert.-Your handwriting is good, but your orthography is defective. It is hardly correct to say "Having noticed in your first issue of this magazine an algebraical sum. I having ventured to do the sum, I now submit it to you." The answer was given in our last number. Sara C.-Botany street. 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