The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1030, September 23, 1899

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1030, September 23, 1899

SOLITUDE. THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. UPS AND DOWNS. CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN RANCH. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. AYONT THAE HILLS. SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING. GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM. DIET IN REASON AND IN MODERATION. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. The glad tidings had been brought in by an Atlantic liner. It appeared that when the Slains Castle had got well over half of her Pacific voyage, she had encountered a great storm, and had foundered upon the reefs among a small group of islands, all her boats being lost or destroyed. The captain, disabled, with his crew and the solitary passenger, had however managed to land on one of the larger islands, whose simple natives received them kindly, and put them into the way of subsisting after their own fashion. There they had lived, roughly and hardly indeed, and cut off from all communication with home, or with civilisation, upheld only by the hope that some ship, in some way diverted from its course, might eventually discover them and take them off. Instead of such a ship, however, their party was reinforced by a solitary white man, who made his way to them from his own refuge on one of the smaller islands. How had he got there? they asked eagerly. He told them the truth: he was a bad charactera man who had done desperate deeds of many sorts, and he was there because he was a castaway from an American shiphe could scarcely tell whether by accident or design. He seemed to think the latter the most likely and the most natural alternative in his case. Hunger and solitude on a bare rock in the wide ocean, had somewhat tamed him, and the consciousness of a common fate soon absorbed him into the little brotherhood of the Slains Castle. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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