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- W - i i i 1 n , 1L VrM-A NLf ' U . Xw. . i -, , (Copyright, 1910, by The North American Company.) j v O x POLLY ,! ' : r-? TTn r- ? '"""V il W r' , Vf; fJU ) 1 n . m - .1 v-T uvd)- l. -J "-C3 i r Grade and Benny "Making Up" GRACIE and Benny wr "mad," and they , were never going to '8pek"no. neverl You see. "8peak"no, father had brought home a, nice, new Utile bucket, with bright red and yel low stripes, and a handsome little hovel. ' "It will be splendid for the kiddies, to use, When they are playing . ii the sand," he had .said. But Grade wanted the bucket and ehoveI for ha very own,', and Bny f wanted them for HIS very own. Then they liad "words," so mother took the bucket and shovel and would let neither - i Grade nor Benny have them. -: And the little boy and girl became '"mad." . Of course, -, dag v "mad," Grade 1 wouldn't play with her brother. She 1 - f found big umbrella and carried tt to s the beach, where she cuddled , in the eand. But he didn't feel happy, . t Nor was Benny happy. After a while tie walked along the beach: He tried to - whistle-i-but a merry kind of whistle iwouldn't come. ' On the beach, Just be-'" 1 yond reach of the water, was a big ' umbrella. Benny watched it for a ' long, long time.- It didn't move an inch. ' , ''Somebody mut Rave left it there," said Benny to himself. And, as he felt 't juite warm, be thought be, would go '-. down and sit under It. : - ' - 1 ; Benny came up to the umbrella from behind and, without looking, ; threw' arlmaelf on the rround beside it Then ' i he gave a. look of big surprise. Grade - - iso wore"TrtookDt FOTPTtseTCor BH; . . . . i . ... i ... WBS ommia X' uniureua. Benny tried to frown,, but It all in funny that he . laughed - Ineiead. Oracle laughed, too. After that, they just HAD to "make Up." And a mo ment later they were going home, hand In hand. Mother saw them coming and "'. emlled. She gave them the bucket and ehovel, and together they went to the . frveach to join in the fun of building douses 4n the eand. They found it was ever so much nicer-to share the-lr new possessions than to fight over them. G LARA, listened appreciatively to the song of her gondolier as he vlg - orously poled the light craft down the Grand Oanal. She observed the water fall away from the boat below the notched; prow; she watched the ahimmering allvor trail revealed by the -swinging paper lanterns. And for a while the Yankee lass ceased to think of the scolding 4ier aunt was bound to give, her as soon as she reached the hotel. Clara's explorations among the pictur esque byways of .Venice had been pro- : longed until after duek. Save for a few tnouthf ulsk of delicious Neapolitan spaghetti and' some fruit, she had eaten nothing since morning, and now her long-delayed dinner would surely be spoiled by Aunt Nancy's severs reprl- , mand. Yet, amid the witchery of her. fairylike -surroundings', she ceased to complain. Anyway, there was plenty of . time left to worry; for the gondola had - not even passed the doge's palace. From a mansion further down the - ; cecal came a familiar sound of fluting' and Jingling of a tambourine. Clara heard,-also,, a booming noise like that made by a bass drum. Soon the man- ' ion itself was In view,; - ' As the gondola glided pest the build ing, an object thrown from the lighted ' window soared over the balcony and fell,- jangling, almost Into Clara's lap. The girl jumped with surprise,' but quickly recovered,- and picked up what proved ,to be a tambourine. She exam ined tt as carefully as the flickering light would permit. On one side of the 4(f firm yrrt srTwn'a " iti 1 flgmrnr duokeyj like a tattooed drawing in blue lr.k, . . , "Where ba I seen this beforer ind-sed riars Tnen she remembered a litvie girl who shook Iter tambourine III 1W.'isj XX - , - VVWwM ' ... t i . aim t St K r- .. '"pPftpS Iff ; f-K A V.f7.1- ..... ... ... : ? FTKB ' the baseball game between the Homevllle "Bloody Robbers" and the Newville "Mighty Midg-: ets,", Oaiptain ' Billy Mumford, of the ', "Robbers." was -"downright mad." '"Those Midget chaps beat us 13 to 6, 'and all on account of you. Shorty!" he said, accusingly. -''Why .don't yuh quit ; ryln" outi yer ; grandstand stunts, an', yer tryltt' to make a hit With jer fancy plays?- If you'd played . good, honest ball, tbere'd tieen entirely different core. I can tell yuhj" "Why don't yuh "blame yer own bum playln'. at first base!" growled Shorty. "Didn't you mtsi a dozen I sent yuh?" . y "Yes; you DID send me a, doaen,' but ; yuh were so busy doln theigraceful and fairylike that th ball, either went a mile over my head or tore up the diamond two yards Inside the base. ' ;, ' "In tired o' this foolin'!" thundered Captain Billy. , "Now, I'm going to bring Pete Hamilton In from field an' put 'Ira In at short. He r-lays fer all that's' In lm even If e isn't such a shinin' staf as you think yuh are! An' you're goln' right out in left field, I tell yuh right now!" , , "I ain't goln' out in a field' said Shorty, sullenly. . "Then yer fired!" retorted Billy. ' -And -Shorty stayed fired For a long ; time he even kept away from practice, - and avoided most of the "fellers,'" esne dally Billy, as much as possible. But after a-while he "dropped around occa sional," as Skinny observed, and soon attended the practice regularly, ' even : volunteering to "bat out a few., Al ' though ha had made' no overtures to - Captain Billy, he seemed on very good term with him at the time a meeting of the "nine"' was held In Jack Warner's i hayloft. Shorty was there. A frown deeply, creased the brow of the bold captain as he made the fol lowing announcement: .' "Beln' as we were scheduled to play the Newville 'Mighty Midgets' on their own grounds this Saturday" "An, lick m, too!" yelled Tommy - Bowes. :.r"If Mr. Thomas Bowes will kindly shut i up. '1 will contlnoo," said Billy, with great dignity. , . ' : "Aw, talk United States,1" grumbled Tommy, while Billy went on: - "Bein' as 'the game was so sched uled, I ast our treasurer, Skinny, jjarhat-Waa tae state or -our nances, , oiu Dycii.iv. aii . aiq uy u leim me that the , treasury, ain't- got but I cents. Now, there ain't many of us as, has got enough to pay our fares and It's askin' too much of any fel ler to make 'lm walk. So we've got a fierce nut to crack right here. How'll we do ltr ; V ' Shorty rose quietly " from his place In the hay. "I want tuh suggest Mil' , and danced to the accompaniment of her brother's piping. Last evening Clara had seen the pair : of musicians playing along the Atrlo, by shops and cafes. The tambourine, she was cer tain, had' also bourne .the jplcture of a donkey. " She would have ". returned the Instrument to the mansion, but the boat had passed beyond, and ahe was not positive from, which house it had been thrown. i '.MAiKtk''--rs- For several days thereafter, when- ever Clara went. out in her gondola, she stowed away the .tambourine that had come to her ; in such a strange manner. Aunt Ttfancy laughed at her, but the lass; would reply, "I feel cer tain that before long I shall meet the little musician who owns it." - And, sure ; enough, - her' patience was ; re warded. V;..v 'i,v'ilf z','' t,: Clark's gondola bad Just passed be neath a big stone bridge, west of the Piazzetta, when she saw approaching anodet little clack gondola, in which were two passengers. Clara , looked . Bteadfasay a them. Pretty soott she recognized the boy piper and his sis ter, the dancer. She reached for the tambourine. Then, as the gondolas were about to pass, she extended the tambourine and hailed, pleasantly: I ' '"I beg your "pardon! Is this yours?"-. The little. grl accepted the tam bourine joyfully. She thanked Clara again and again, in Italian she said t "The American lady Is very kind to restore the tambourine. We are so noop that xrm niil1 nof attnrA tn knv an6fn'ef7"and 'Vliav'e noTenable'to dance so well without it." .Then, as Clara explained how she , had found - tha tambourine,: the girl ', laughed. VH ws the fault of our don key, Cortez, ma Jj a wjqaIuIjU. hcaij v i . ?r omethlngj' said he. "It's a long time since I've "used the aeroplane that Cap'n Hall, of the Aero Club, made fer me at Cap Grove's boat--house, but she's all right, I'm ure. An' It'd be lots of fun fer me to take yuh fellers,1 one at a time, over to Newville on the aeroplane. It'd give you some style, too-omln' Into town Ih-such a waV. I'd be mighty glad to do It. Just say tha word." -! ' -"Shorty, yer a real sport, ol' fel ler!" howled the ;."nlne.M. In jshorus. ; On Saturday afternoon the mem bers of the ball team, clad in their uniforms and aglow with confidence, gathered on Rocky Lot. They had been practicing all. the 1 'week, until now the team was working together like clockwork, , Victory seemed as sured, There was also the prospect of a thrilling trip in Shorty's aero plane to the game and then a speedy return. Hurrah tor Shorty!" they shouted, as the 1 aeroplane cam: iw'8 through ' the v.air, gracefully circled and descended at a long slant. t "I'll take you first, Bill Brandt," aid Shorty, in a quick, businesslike tone. Soon Billy was seated in the passenger's place, , and.' accompanied by the cheering of the; boys, the aero plane soared into the air. Leaving 'Homeville behind, Shortly suddenly caused the aeroplane' to veer to the Is Cortes. We tie a hard bag to the' end of his Jail, and he thumps a drum in perfect time; so that he helps us . make money when we play at private houses. But sometimes Cortes is ' wicked. While you were passing the house at whfch we played, he kicked the tambourine from my hand, and it flew over tha balcony." -7 - - Clara wa very much amused, and when the young musicians asked, "Would not the kind lady like to see Oortez?; ehe Immediately said "Yes." Then the three sought the Atrlo, and, jumping from -their gondolas, walked along that busy thoroughfare. Maria and Manuelo, Clara's , new friends, nodded' to many of their acquaint ances, such as the old letter writer, who sat at a stand and wrote letters for people who could not write, and the story teller, who, for pay, related anecdotes to an Interested group. They passed : the time of day with many , smllUig venders. ' , - . ' Finally, Manuelo led the way Into a little alley, off the Atrlo. Soon they stop- Jed before a tiny dwelling. "We live n. the two rooms of the- ground floor,'.' explained Maria; "and Cortez dwells in tha courtyard behind" -. ; ,, Although the small rooms contained , very little furniture, Maria kept them spotlessly clean. She and r her- brother were orphans, and lived ,by themselves. Clara was praising the little girl for', her skill at housekeeping, when a loud "Hee-haw!", challenged them from the courtyard. '! ; : , ?' - "Cortez likes company and he always wiishes to be 1 noticed," remarked the boy, with a laugh. ;. So Clara was escorted to the wee -courtyard, wjiere she .. quickly made . friends with Cortez, a spirited, mis-., chievous little donkey, .who was ever so proud of the -rosettes' and gayly col- : ored ribbons with which he was adorned. . "ThiB, Cortes, is the friend we have gained through your prank," said Maria, as the donkey gravely presented a fore-, leg to Clara. Cortez said, "Hee-haw!" politely, and then began to nibble at tne buttons on Clara's dress. lasting one.- During the rest of her stay in vrnice, iara was mown hundreds of charming, out-of-the-way places -by the young musicians. And she. in turn, recommended them to all her friends. o that Mannlo and Maria became quite.. vv w-MAI..' 1 J right. A moment later, he descended In a 'field near Sandy Bottom, at the " creek. ';", s ''..' J : -; .? "Something's wrong with the dyna mo,,,; Billy.",- muttered . Shorty, to ljls surprised comrade. J "DO ' you yuh ' mind gettln out a minute?" ' BUI climbed down 'from his seat. .Hardly was he out of position than . Shorty started the machine. The aero plane swept forward, bowling over the astonished Billy, and had soon qllmbed to some little distance above ground. ""Goodby, Bill!" cried Shorty, wav ing his hand in the most tantalizing fashion, while Billy shook his fist at How Accidents Help : Dollmaking , DOLLT was not always the wonder ful person she is now. In truth, -, at one time she looked very much like stick of wood or 'a knotted rope. Strangely enough, she has been im proved, to a certain extent, through v accidents, ' , - ' 1 The old Hungarian magician, Ferdi nand . Maugsch, -was 'simply trying to make a new, unbreakable dolly for his children when he mixed paper pulp, 1 rye flour and sand together. But out of the "papier mache" thus formed great ly improved dolls and other toys came. to gladden tho hearU of little folk. So, too. when the artist,' Emmanuel ' Poli-ee. became almost blind. - he lltcle thought that bis affliction would bring about a great gift for childhood. But, finding that his eyes would stand heavy, . rough lines and 'broad splotches of rolor. he passed the time by making the .fascinating "art nouveau" toys, which - are crude and wonderfully artistic at tho same time. - ; . r A workman la a factory of Sonne-be-rg, Germany, one day, many years ago, dropped a thimble -Into a big vat of melted wax. When he fished It out, he discovered that there was a nice, even coating upon the thimble. There after, Instead of varnishing the dolls by hand,. the figures were dipped, and thus coated in much better fashion. , . ' WE BUNNIES'have to forage -' " V V. yor gtuff to make our porridge;' So, by the white moonlight, - , While folks are sleeping tight,1 k I'll scurry quick across the srrass "(Do- hope-TioOffrvnneentaOasgj: In, the garden there And lettuce, green, and radishes. ' I'll take some home and make a f cflit For my Bunny friends, from great To least, - -. ' r Afargaret G. Hays BOP the departing aeronaut . , Back, to Rocky Lot sped,. the aero plane. "Tou weren't gone very long," observed Skinny, when Shorty alighted. . 'JNo, . you'd ; be surprised how near Newville Is when you've got a jim dandy aeroplane," replied . Shorty, carelessly. , Then Joe Hongler was Invited to take his seat -AS -soon as the. aero plane was in motion, the aviator steered In a direct line for Possum Hill. He descended ' near the old schoolhouse. (There he played a trick similar to 'that played upon Bill Brandt Joe was i left; behind, and Shorty made the return journey to the rest of the "nine." One player after another was lifted Into the air and deposited in some out-of-the-way place, a long distance from Homevllle, while Shorty pretend ed to make some repair In the ma chinery. Captain Billy was , taken RS. HERRING GULL dldn't'wlsh follow the customs of , her friends.- She thought it clever to do things in a different way ana u there was one quality Mr. Gul4 prided herself upon,. It was her cleverness. So, wheit thes rest of tha lady gulls hatched their eggs and bred the young on the coast of Labrador, Mrs. Herring Gull flew south to New England. There, in -a rocky cranny by the sea, she made a nest of marshweed and laid three large eggs, which ..: were of brownlsh-ollve color, with heavy splotches -of brown. By the time the young -gulls were feebly stirring In' their neat, Mrs. Gull was Joined by some of her friends. They said to her: "How very slowly your babies grow! "And you look quite thin. Let us help , you. Suppose you catch the fish, since you are so clever on the wing, and we shall carry them to your children. In this way, you will not waste so much time in flying to and from your nest." - Now,. Mrs. Gull was greatly flattered by ' the reference to her cleverness. Therefore she replied t ''I shall be only too glad to-' accept your kind offer." Then she darted toward the sea, wlth the speed of an arrow, seized a herring that swam a little below the surface and brought It forth, gripped In her hooked beak. She presented it to one of the gulls, who, Instead of bearing the flsh to one of Mrs. Gull's children, flew behind a . rocky crag and gobbled the tidbit ; ; . Ever so busy was Mre.-Herring Gull. AH day - long her widely-stretched, slate-colored wings could be seen cleaving the air in wonderful twist Ings and turnings and flourishes and her square-tipped tail brushing the waves. Many . a fish ... she caught;, many - a clam she dropped upon the , rocks, breaking the shell. Soma of the dainties she swallowed, but most of them she turned over to the gulls who i promised to take them to her Jables. ' - - "How la it that my young ones do ' not seem to thrive, in spite of the big'' number of fish 1 catch ' for them?" she asked one day. "When I bring them a herring, -upon my last trip home, fromhe sear they: grab are cabbages, furthest, being left , two miles the other 'side of Bubbling Springs. Jfle was the fourth passenger to be car ried. Shorty had told him what a great reception the Newville popula tion had given Bill Brandt, Joe Hong ler and i Pete Hamilton, whereupon 'Captain Billy, had swelled with im portance and suggested that he be taken next, "so's all arrangements for the game could be made la plenty o' time." - When all the members of-the team were scattered about the country. ; Shortly flew to-the boAhouse. where he "stowed away the aeroplane. After ward, he rushed home, hurriedly dressed and arrived at the railroad station Just in' time to ' catch the train which was to bear him to his grandfather's home, thirty miles : away. There he was to spend three weeks. Not until he sank panting into his seat in the ' train had he f time for words. Then, to the amuse i men t of his ellow-passengers. he broke Into . a , laugh, and murmured . softly: . i . . ....... . . ., , i r "Well, I guess I got about the dandiest revenga on Captain Billy , and the bum ol' team that anybody . ever could get. I'm satlsfied-I am!" Several hours later, the "Robber" baseball players came straggling into town.- With one accord they headed ..for their , meeting place in , the Warner hayloft' There wasn't much said until Captain Billy arrived, last of all,, Then -. the indignation broke loose. Shorty would have been Im mensely pleased to discover how very unpopular he had become. "Meanest feller I ever knew!" said Billy . Mumford,. emphatically. "Lost us the game by forfeit the team that .belongs to his own gang, too! That's loyalty, fer yuh! An' I'd meant to give lm is or place at shortstop! fow 'e has as much chance fer. makin" the team again as a klc has of jumpln' over the moon!" Proverbs and , Phrases. Men make the best friends whi. yera " - , - : - Never, never has one , forgotten his pure, sight-educating mother. Richter. - Nature Is the master of talent: genius is the master of nature. J. G. Holland. Conoentratlon M the secret of strength in politics. In war, in trade In short, in all management of human affairs. Em erson, i - ; Liberty is worth whatever the best civilization is worth. Henry Gtlea O life! An age. to the miserable, a moment to the happy. .-Bacon. Light is the first of painters, There 4s no object so foul that Intense light will not make it beautiful. Emersow - , UH; .'tt it as though they were half-starved. And' they are so weak and scrawny- " looking!" , - ' - "You do not give them enough food, we fear' said her friends. . Th!n Mrs. Gull worked harder than "ever to - provide' food --for her chil dren. But they grew; more sorry looking ' than before. The poor mother had - become discouraged. So . one afternoon, just as she had given a flsh to a friend to carry to the nest, she decided to visit the babies herself.- .What was her surprise- to find - the flsh .she had caught dlsap- pearlng down: the, throat of the un "I WANT to be an engineer,", said Johnny, emphatically,;,' as'; he' .watched his big cousin Dan put the flnishmgtouches,on a model .for an electric- locomotive. V "Why not own your own railway, and . then take any Job on It you wlshj" suggested Dan, with a hearty laugh. . - Johnny pouted as he answered, half: reproachfully: "Now you are making fun of me, Cousin Dan' i "No, I'm not," said Dan. "I'll give you a railroad, if you'll wait here for an hour or so." ' Placing, the : model to one side, he, picked up a baking powder can and a large tin box. "Holding the empty can In a horizontal position, he tacked two vertical- strips of cardboard to-the bot tom of the can nearest the closed end rand Inserted a spool with a nail axle between the-strlps.- "There's the boiler" of your locomo tive, and a front wheel," he explained. A large - spool provided an excellent smokestack. Then, holding the tin box upright Dan cut a slip across the lower edge, bending the tin at right angles. -Upon this ledge he fastened the back of the can boiler. A long axle he passed ' through the outer edges of the box, and , attached can-lid "wheels" to the axle, f A piece of pasteboard was tacked to the , front of .the boiler and a candle stuck ; on-it to give the pilot and light "Most looomotlvoB; run by, steam, but . yours will .run - by., elastic,", observed -Dan, . ' Taking a piece of elastic as long as the distance between, the ,rear of tho tin box and the pilot,, he tied an end to the middle of therear axle. He then -ran the elastlo foMvard through ' the ' . opening in the box and -on through the holler to the front of the can, where It was firmly secured. "Bv twlntln? - the rear axle." he ' re- 'v-''-'-:';''.f.-:-'-- Lost, Strayed 3 or Stolen fiTT'EEP close watch over tha w sheep, and see that none be . comes lost, strayed or stolen." said the chief to his son. The boy said he "would be very watchful. Then he drove the flock of sheep some little distance from the camp to a new grazing ground. ' ' The tribe to which the lad belonged was encamped in a large oasis. Round about this green, well-watered place lay ,the desert. Gazing this way and that, the boy saw nothing that could harm his sheep. So,' forgetting his father's command, he lay down beneath a palm , tre and fell asleep. . 1 v As he slept another boy crept up to the flock. He thought If would, be a pretty joke to carry off one of the sheep. Therefore,, he ran away with a lamb s while the shepherd still slept, ' . When- 4he boy awoke it was nearly sundown, Without pausing to count his . sheeD. he drove the flock back to camn. "A lamb is missing." said the father sternly, while the sheep were drinking. irom a Dig canvas irougn. ;v The- boy was dumfounded. He was sure that no savage - beast had come from the desert to steal the lan-ife. How could it have got away? "I was certain that no harm could comSvto the sheep, so I went to sleep," he confessed to his , father. . . - At this moment the bov who had bor rowed the lamb came up with It and told of t,he trick he had played. The shepherd bov was very glad to see tha lamb, and he vowed that never again would he disobey his father, who was so much wiser than he. ; V v:.. A y A i x, mm. faithful gull, who had retired to eat the morsel. "The greedy gulls "have doubtless teen eating all the food which should have gone to my children I" , cried Mrs, Gull, as she pounced upon tha robber. "And I have been supplying the lasjt thieves with most of their meals! No wonder that they praised my skill in catching fish!" Mrs. Herring Gull's vanity was deeply wounded. But she did not re gret the lesson, and her Joy in soon making her little ones well and strong caused ' her ; to forget her --anger.. :--.; ';.,; ;.,'." . ' , marked, "and then placing your locomo- -tive on the floor,' you will find that If . will travel quite a distance. It will also pull the rallw .bulld for. you. ull the railway coaches ) am about to f Thus saying, he constructed a . halt dozen little coaches from matchboxes, using spools for wheels. Bits of string served as coupling pins. "r - Dan gave the completed "train" to his little cousin, with the remark: "Now you can form your own company, and be everything from president to Drake man.".. . , ........ -i-,. ' Johnhy' pranced around the workshop Jn Joy, Soon his "stations" were estab lished between' different ' benches, the : elastic was wound, -and the Tin-Can' Hs'Twav fomninv wm in fniUcexilio - . : . 'a : A f
