There is
a spiritual _oneness_ which refuses to divide.
In conclusion, let me add one word about the bond of union which the
love of Christ makes. If that is in any friendship you need not fear its
dissolution. If few girls begin their youthful friendships with such a
tie, can they not, will they not strengthen their union with it when
they see how it can bless and sanctify such union with friendship the
most perfect we can know on earth?
(_To be continued._)
THE SHEPHERD'S FAIRY.
A PASTORALE.
BY DARLEY DALE, Author of "Fair Katherine," etc.
CHAPTER VI.
JACK'S SMOCK FROCK.
Twelve years had elapsed since the shepherd first found the little baby
on his door-step when, one afternoon in July, Mrs. Shelley was sitting
working hard at some coarse-looking needlework, on a bench just outside
the house. By her side stood her two younger sons, Charlie and Willie,
both of them golden-haired, red-cheeked, chubby urchins, strikingly like
their father. Willie, who was now fifteen, was dressed as a sailor, for
he had already been three years in the navy, and was now at home for a
week's holiday, while Charlie, whom we last saw crying in his cradle,
was on his way to feed the pigs, and had just deposited his pail in
front of his mother to stop and look at her work.
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