Kilmeny of the Orchard

She shook her head.

“ Oh, no,” she wrote, “ I do not mind at all. Of course I am sorry I cannot speak, but I am quite used to the thought and it never hurts me at all.”

“ Then, Kilmeny, tell me this. Do you know why it is that you are unable to speak, when all your other faculties are so perfect“? ”

“ No, I do not know at all why I cannot speak. I asked mother once and she told me it was a judgment on her for a great sin she had committed, and she looked so strangely that I was frightened, and I never spoke of it to her or any one else again.”

“ Were you ever taken .to a doctor to have your tongue and organs of speech examined? ”

“ No. I remember when I was a very little girl that Uncle Thomas wanted to take me to a doctor in Charlottetown and see if anything could be done for me, but mother would not let him. She said it

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