When the first men and women were created, forces were set in action which have resulted in this Me that to-day thinks and wills and loves.

Every aspect of the universe leaves new impressions on us, and our wills, in their world-sweep, daily desire different things.

"Course, I know you'd be shot before you'd do it, but what I'd like, would be to hear you say you wouldn't kick up a hell of a row if Father Wills happens in to the House-Warmin'.

In ten minutes they were on the trail, Andrew leading, with Father Wills' dogs, Kaviak lying in the sled muffled to the eyes, still looking round out of the cornersno, strangely enough, the Kaviak eye had no corners, but fixedly he stared sideways at Mac.

It was only when Mac had marched off, glowering still, and sternly refusing to meet Kaviak's tearful but grateful eyesit was only then, bending over the sled and making fast the furs, that Father Wills, all to himself, smiled a little.

"Yes, we always wash them first of all," said Father Wills, noticing how Mac held the little heathen off at arm's length.

"You must get him to give it up," said Father Wills, "and burn it.

As Father Wills proceeded to enforce his order, and pulled the leather string over the child's head, Kaviak rent the air with shrieks and coughs.

Mac condescended to ask Father Wills.

With his back to Kaviak, the Boy, O'Flynn, and Potts crowding round him, Mac ripped open the little bird-skin pouch, and took out three objectsan ivory mannikin, a crow's feather, and a thing that Father Wills said was a seal-blood plug.

The song ended, the Colonel, as toast-master, proposed the health ofhe was going to say Father Wills, but felt it discreeter to name no names.

Father Wills told about his journey up here ten years before and of a further expedition he'd once made far north to the Koyukuk.

He handed Father Wills a piece of dirty paper.

But Father Wills had shown the Colonel the piece of dirty paper the Indian had brought on the night of the Blow-Out.

" "Father Wills come."

Father Wills heap mad.

Father Wills was right; he ought to buy a parki with a hood, but he had meant to have the priest's advice, or Mac's, at least, before investing.

"We have heard of you from Father Wills also.

" "Well, give me" He was on the point of saying "Father Wills," but changed it to "a man who is tolerant.

This didn't always happen either, though to drink snow-water was to invite scurvy, Father Wills said.

He was going to the steamship Oklahoma on some business, and promised Father Wills of Holy Cross that he'd stop on the way, and deliver a letter to Mr. MacCann.

Finally, to enable him to forget it, as it seemed, he got up and opened Father Wills' letter, devoured its contents in silence, and flung it down on the table.

" Having demonstrated this to himself, Musgrave went into the house and drugged his mind correcting proofsheetsfor the Lichfield Historical Association's Quarterly Magazineand brought down to the year 1805 his "List of Wills Recorded in Brummell County.

Then he sighed and went back to the tabulation of his lists of wills.

We must defend the right of every man, not only to join with others in protecting his interests, whether he is a brain worker or a hand workerfor without the right of combination the individual would often be the victim of giant forcesbut we must vindicate the equal right of an individual, if he so wills, to depend upon his own strength.