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CHAPTER X II— Continued
triarch basal the slightest ohJectMa
to It."
"That’s not my point at all. As a
matter of fact. I ’m not a Roman Cath­
olic curate and I’m perfectly free to
marry If I like.”
“That wouldn't hare mattered, any­
how," said the king. “ The patriarch
would have absolved you from any
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rifically powerful In that sort of way
and can give you absolution for prac­
FAIRY QUEEN’S TRIP
tically anything. The trouble about
him Isn't that he can't give absolu­
The Fairy Queen took a trip on the
tion ; but that sometimes he won’t "
hack of Fly-High, the Elves' bird and
"How can a curate marry a prin­
when she was back In Fairyland thal
cess?" said Tommy.
"That's my
evening all the others sat around while
point. I f she really Is a princess— ”
the Fairy Queen told them wbat she
“ She Is,” said the king. “ From the
had seen.
point of view o f any one who atcepta
"W ell,” she said, “ I saw a little ca­
legitimate theories, she's most cer­
nary bird named Teddy who belonged
tainly a royal princess. But I hope
to a little girl named Marian. Teddy
I needn't say that I don’t attach any
was singing such s beautiful song I
Importance to the fact. We are living
did enjoy listening to him.
In a world that has been made safe
"H e was out of his cage flying
for democracy and nobody cares a pin
around a big room and I had gone Into
for those old-fashioned Ideas There’s
nothing to prevent any princess from the room when no one had seen me
before Teddy had been let out of the
marrying an English marquis.”
cage. I bad gone in through an open
"But I ’m not an English marquis,”
said Tommy. ” 1 keep on telling you window. O f course when they let
I Teddy out they were careful not to
that and you won’t believe me."
| have ar open window.
“ It Isn’t that I don’t believe you,”
“ But there I was perched on top of a
said the king. “ It’s simply that I find
It very hard to remember. However, high mautlepiece. wearing my Invis­
the main thing la not to let any old- ible robe so 1 could not be seen. I
almost was seen once.
“They said:
“ ‘Oh, what is that light on the wall?
It must be a reflection from some­
thing.'
"Marian said:
“ 'Maybe we'll see a fairy.’
“ Well, I had to he careful and I had
to quickly get my Invisible robe well
around me. It was a little off my
shoulder when this had happened.
"And then they said:
" ‘Oh, It was Just a shadow, that was
all.'
“ But Marian still looked a little won­
dering.
“ Well, Teddy got out of Ills cage and
he sang again and again.
“And then he discovered a mirror In
the back of the sideboard. He stood
in front of It and sang tn the little
canary he saw opposite him.
“ He sang as he had never sung be­
fore and he saw that the other little
canary was singing for him, tool
‘‘Then he put Ills face to the glass
and his beak against the beak of hlr
her. that. In fact, YOD ARB NOT
LORD NORHEYS."
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The king gave a pleasant and
Caslmlr waa tired, worried, over­
excited and was drinking too much smiling Imitation o f Tommy's emphat­
champagne. In hla soberest senses he ic assertion.
“ I don't think you quite understand
does net understand English very well.
He certainly did not understand what me even now. I really am not Lord
waa said to him then. Hut he readily Norheys."
The king waved his hand airily.
promised that Tommy should have
“That’s a tremendous comfort to
every opportunity of explaining him­
self to the king and Calypso. The me,” he said. “ It gets us out of the
king, so he said, meant to travel with Miss Temple difficulty, and, to tell the
the party as fur as Breslau. Tommy truth, that affair was becoming se­
could talk to him In the train.
He rious.”
"W ho on earth is Miss Temple?"
would have several hours In which to
say all he wanted. Afterward he asked Tommy, desperately.
“ Oh, an actress, I believe," said the
could talk to the princess, all day
long If he chose, for three whole days. king, smiling, "Or a dancer. But it
It would be at least three days before doesn't matter, does it? Lord Nor­
heys, It seems, has foolishly promised
they could leave Breslau.
Next morning Tommy and Janet to marry her. Even that wouldn’t
Church went to the Friedrich Strasse really have mattered. You could have
station In good time for the train to kept her In the background—”
“ Don’t say ’you,’ ” said Tommy.
Breslau. They found the king and
Calypso waiting for them. Caslmlr "I'v e told you over and over again
arrived a few minutes later and saw that I am not Lord Norheys.”
“ O f course you’re not. I know that
them off.
and I ’m very glad o f It. It simplifies
The princess and Janet Church trav
eled together. The king and Tommy things Immensely, for though Lord
Norheys might have married Calyp­
took their places In a smoking com
partment. Fortunately they had It so In spite of Miss Temple, I'm afraid
to themselves. As soon as the train Calypso wouldn’t have married him.
started Tommy braced himself In an Miss Temple wrote a letter to my
daughter, a most pathetic letter, beg­
effort. He wanted to get an explana
tlon of what was happening, and he ging her not to take Lord Norheys
was quite determined to muke his own away from her. It affected Calypso
grcutly. There was something In It
position clear.
about a ‘one ewe lamb,’ and Calypso,
It was the king who began the con
having lots of flocks and herds. It
vernation.
“ I’m glad," he said, “ that we have seemed to me rather on odd descrip­
this carriage to ourselves. I want to tion of a young man. The patriarch
used to quote thut parable to me, but
have a little talk with you.”
"And I want to talk to you,” said then It always was— well, a 'ewe'
lamb. That stuff never made much “ Are You, or Are You Not Really a
^ omniy.
Impression on me, but Calypso wept
King?"
By way o f showing that this tnlk
was going to be of a very serious kind when she read It. She said that If fashioned Ideas about disparity of
you'd promised to murry Miss Tem­
he stood up and set his hack against
rank trouble you. The whole matter
p le - "
the door of the compartment. The
has been arranged."
“ Hut I haven’t."
king settled down In a corner and lit
" I wish I knew who arranged that
“ So I told Calypso. I told her tt\at
a cigar.
«
she must not mix you up with Lord I am to marry a princess."
“ Are you, or are you not really a
“ Well,” said the king. “ There were j
Norheys. She said that even If you
king?”
hadn't actually promised to marry her, several people In It. I was one.”
The king turned his cigar over be­
you had certainly stolen awny her
“ Why?" said Tommy. "W hy did you j
tween his Angers thoughtfully.
young affections."
make such un extraordinary arrange­
"That," he snld, "Is rather a hard
ment?"
‘I haven't," said Tommy.
question to answer. I certainly was
'Of course not.
Their affections
“ There were a good many reasons," [
a king once. I f you asked Caslmlr
Climbed Up a Ladder.
are seldom ns young as all that. At said the king. “ I couldn't go back to |
he’d say I am king still, since I haven't
least, that's my experience. Those I.ystrla myself. The League of Na­ own reflection and tried to kiss the
abdicated. On the other hand, the
ewe lambs are generally pretty well tions wouldn't let me. I ’m not sure other little canary In the glass!”
statesmen of the Entente powers. If
able to take care of themselves. But, that I want to even if they would.
“ Oh, the poor darling, the cunning
you ask them, would say that I am not
of course, It would have been no good I'm enrnlng much more In the Mas- little thing,” the fairies all said.
a king, because they have definitely
saying that to Calypso, or for the cotte than you'll ever get out of Lys-
“ And then I heard two people talk­
turned me out. However—" here he
matter of that, to the patriarch. The trla. But I'd he glud to see Calypso ing about not being able to see the
smiled pleasantly— "It doesn't really
patriarch Is a very simple-minded old hack on her ancestral throne. It'll he head or tall of something and a third
matter, does It? As I told you Inst
man. He believes In young affections some sort of provision for her. poor one said:
night, I don’t keep up any kind of
und broken hearts and all that sort of girl, anil she hates dancing In the
" ‘What in the world does that
state now. You needn't remain stand­
thing.
However, fortunately,
we Mascotte. You may think I ought to
mean?’
ing up. I’d much rather you sat down
haven't got to argue with him and provide for her: hut I can't. At least.
and were comfortable. Have a cigar."
"And one of the two answered:
Calypso along those lines. AM we’ve I'd much rather not. I ’m earning a
“ ‘When you can't see the head or
Tommy sat down and took a cigar. got to do Is make them believe that good enough salary, but the cost of
"Now,” snld the king, “ let’s tnlk you are not Lord Norheys. Once they living Is terrific. We middle-class pro­ tall of anything you don’t know what
about this unlucky Mias Temple bus­ believe Hint, all our difficulties vun- fessional men— thnt’s the class I be­ It Is; you're all confused. And so when
iness. I’m sorry to tell you thut Calyp­ Ish. The marriage can go on."
long to now—are being squeezed out people say they can't see tfle head or
so feels very strongly about It, ab­
D o you mean to say,” said Tom­ of existence everywhere In Europe. tall o f anything It means they're con­
surdly strongly. In fact, I hud the my, "that you're still willing to al­ That's the reason I want to see Calyp­ fused and can't make out clearly what
It Is all about.'
so safely inurrird and on a throne."
low me to marry your daughter?”
“ But most wonderful of all the
“ But why did you choose me?”
Of course I am,” said the king. "I
1 things I saw on my trip was an or­
always was. I never took thnt Miss
" I didn’t choose you. The fact Is
dinary, plain dog, named Blackle, of
Temple business In the least serious­ that the Lystrlans knew very well that
no great dog family and without pride
ly. These things will happen. Every­ they couldn't get a king at all unless
body except Calypso and the patriarch he was an Englishman. The Entente or snobbery or great looks.
“ Blackie saved four puppies and a
knows that.”
|H>wers would have turned down any
one else. And the Lystrinns wanted family of kittens from a blaze that
"Hut It hasn't happened," snld Tom
my. "A t least. It hasn't happened to a king, all of them. There's the pa- rame up suddenly in the house where
'cd.
me. It muy possibly have happened trlarch, for Instance. He hates play- \ b a,,?,wn*
"Blackle saw the smoke from the
to Lord Norheys. I don't know any­ Ing second fiddle to a Megallan man
thing about that.”
vv ho's merely an archimandrite, hut ; yard and n9 he could not Set ln as the
Just wlmt I said to Calypso, and has taken to wearing s gold chain door'» * ere clo,ed’ cllml,ed up a l,,dder
just what you will have to say to the round his neck much thicker than our ln th* back yard to the kltcben wln‘
patriarch. Then the only obstacle to patriarch's. O f course, as soon as Lvs- dow- * ave ,he alarm to ,he f " " ' » *
tria gels hack Into tha position of an whlch wus A1''" " ln ,ime to PreV(‘nt 8
the marriage vanishes."
bad fire, and carried hla little charges
"No, It doesn't," said Tommy. “ At independent kingdom, our patriarch j
will be top dog of the two. Then and even the cat's charges (for the
least, thnt one may. But there's on
there are the Caslmirs. There are i cat, too, was In the yard) down the
other obstacle, a much worse one."
ladder to safety,
“ I f there's another,” said the king, eight or ten Caslmirs, all counts, and [
"That was the most wonderful thing
for heaven's sake don't let her write there’s the rest o f the aristocracy.
I saw on my trip. But a very cunning
to Calypso. Who Is she? Don’t say They're nobodles In a large repuhlle
sight was thnt o f two children who
It's Miss Church. I f II Is, we're done." like Megnlla. but they’re very Impor­
fell asleep on a trolley car and to
I never saw Miss Church In my tant people In I.ystrla. Besides, they |
like haring a court to hang shout. watch them trying to button their coats
life till yesterday," said Tommy.
and their coat belts with their eyes
1 thought It could hardly be her. You can't imagine how those fellows closed and while they napped was as
love
dressing
up
In
uniforms,
putting
She really Is rather too old for that
funny a sight as you'd ask to see.
sort of thing. But If It had been her. on swords and attending state halls | "Even If you asked to see it you'd
And
the
way
they
eat
I
I
assure
you
i
would have been awkward, very
that a bullock roasted whole and s j uot be apt to see such a funny, cun-
The Princess and Janet Church Trav­ awkward Indeed. She'd have gone In
couple
of pigs go no distance at a sup n'n:' pair o f sleepy children on a
person to the patriarch, and nothing
eled Together.
per
table
In I.ystrla. It used to be a ' tr<>l*cy C:,r
you could have said would have
greatest difficulty in getting her to straightened things out. However, If frightful expense to me. I needn't tell
Riddles
start this morning. If I hadn't come It Isn't her, It doesn't really matter, you the Megallan President doesn't do
Wliat room can no one enter?
with her myself, which I didn't par­ so long ns the other one doesn't tele­ thnt kind o f thing. He can't, poos
fellow. His salary won't run to It
A mush-room.
ticularly want to do, I shouldn't have graph or write.”
• • •
Thnt’s another example of the strait­
been able to get her Into the train."
“There Isn't another one."
Why can E never keep dry?
Tommy felt that his opportunity
"You've Just told me there la,” snld ened circumstances of the middle
Because It is always in water.
had come. He stood up again. He the king. "You snld. 'another and a classes."
"I still don't see why the Lystrtsns
felt Armer and more determined when much worse one.'"
chose
me,"
said
Tommy,
“
If
they
did."
When do rabbits resemble does?
he was standing up.
“ I said another obstacle," said Tom­
(T O BE C O N T IN U E D )
When they eat cabbages and bark.
” 1 want to make it perfectly clear my, "not another girl. As a matter
to you.” he said, “ that I am not Lord of fact, there's no girl at all and nev­
Pitcatorially
Appraised
What Is the difference between a
Norheys. I know that you've at sue er waa. The obstacle I mean Is far
Applying for a divorce, an old Geor­ hungry man and a glutton?
how mixed me up with him, you and worse than any girl."
One longs to eat and the other eats
Count Caslmlr. Rut It's a mistake. It
“ Couldn't potelbly be worse." said gia negro said to the Judee: "H it only
really In. I AM NOT LORD NOR. the king, "from the point of rlew of coat me a string er fish ter git mar­ too long.
, , •
ried, Jedge; but Lawdy, Jedge, I'd give
U K YU."
the patriarch."
Why la the letter K like Saturday?
"That." said the king. "Is exactly
’T h e obstacle Is this," said Tommy. a whale ter git rid er her."— Boston
Transcript.
Because It only comes once In a
what I told Calypso. You said as 'T m only a curate."
week.
much to mo last right, and I've been
" I don't regard that as an obstacle
• a a
Or Think They Have
repeating It to her all day. I told her at all.” said the king. "Our patriarch
Wbat Is that of which the commop
There are no fools so trooblsome at
that you know nothing about Miss doesn't believe In the celibacy of rhe
Temple, that you’d never seen the clergy, He Isn't married hliuself, but those that b ar« WIL — Bcnjanur >ort la tha beat?
Scnsa
girt, that you'd never even heard a t lota of our prleata are. and the pa­ Franklin.
(C o p y rig h t, 1925.)
20— C o l l e c t e d , a s le a v e s * w i t h
a eer*
t a in I n s t r u m e n t
1— P r n d e n t n m l n a g n r lo u a
22— L u b r i c a t e s
6— V a r le K H t e d w i t h M pota
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M a k e s a la c e e d g in g
12— A l in e o f llfr h t
25— T o w in d s p i r a l l y
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A fls k
I .I— S o u th A m e r i c a
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A m e a n * o f p r o p e llin g ? n b o a t 20— A l o n g , f l e x i b l e a p p e n d a g e
30—
T o d ip w a t e r fr o m
17—
A p r e p o s it io n
31—
A n e g a t i v e p r e fix
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A M o u th e rn a t a t o ( a b b r . )
33— H a l l o o
35— D i s a g r e e a b l e
16— A t in o a p lie r o
37— A s o le m n a ff i r m a t i o n
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42— L a r g e tu b s
24— D e a e r l p t l v e o f a p la c e
41—- A N o c la lL s t n o m in e e f o r p r e s i d e n t
2(1— F ly in g ? m a m m a ls
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27— I t e « iu e a t
46— C o m i n g a t t h e e n d
2N— A lo n g:, n n r r o w a p e r t u r e
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4H— E r a d i c a t e
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32— A n e x p r e s s i o n o f I n q u i r y
50— A g i r l
51— A p r o n g
34— A k i n g d o m
In s o u t h e a s t e r n
A s ia
52— M a le s h e e p
54— V e h i c l e s
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16— A f a l s e h o o d
41— E x i s t s
61— A h e a p
62— P a r t o f a s h o o
12— A s o u t h e r n n * n te ( a b b r . )
65— T o r e s t u p o n t h e h a u n c h e s
43— A m a n 's n a m e s h o r t e n e d
68— A t e a r
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4f»— A n o t e In t h e d l a t o n l o s c a l e
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A s u ffix d e n o t i n g a n a g e n t
46— A m a c h in e w h ic h h o l d s a p ie c e o f
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A p o in t o f th e c o m p a s s
m a t e r i a l w h i l e I t Is b e i n g c u t
73— O b j e c t i v e p e r s o n a l p r o n o u n
49— F i n e d r i v i n g l e y p a r t i c l e s
52—
On th e o th e r han d
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03— B e f o r e
E x is t s
A n o t e In th e d i a t o n i c s c a l e
P r in te r s ' m ea su res
A c o - o r d in a t in g p a r tic le
In s u c h a m a n n e r
A s ly a r t i f i c e
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In s tr u m e n ts f o r m e a s u r in g
M o re p ro fo u n d
Solution of Last Week's Puzzle.
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HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS WORD PUZZLE
W h e n t h e c o r r e c t l e t t e r s a r e p la c e d In t h e w h i t e s p a c e s t h i s p u z z l e w rlll
s p e l l w o r d s b o th v e r t i c a l l y a n d h o r i z o n t a l l y .
T h e f ir s t l e t t e r In e a c h w o r d Is
I n d ic a t e d b y a n u m b e r , w h i c h r e f e r s t o t h e d e f i n i t i o n l i s t e d b e l o w t h e p u z z le .
T h u s N o . 1 u n d e r t h e c o lu m n h e a d e d “ h o r i z o n t a l ” d e fin e s a w o r d w h ic h w i l l f ill
t h e w h i t e s p a c e s u p t o t h e fir s t b la c k s q u a r e t o t h e r i g h t , a n d a n u m b e r u n d e r
“ v e r t i c a l ” d e f in e s a w o r d w h i c h w i l l f i l l t h e w h i t e s q u a r e s t o t h e n e x t b l a c k o n e
b e l o w . N o l e t t e r s g o in t h e b l a c k s p a c e s . A l l w o r d s u s e d a r e d i c t i o n a r y w o r d s ,
e x c e p t p r o p e r n a m es. A b b r e v ia t io n s , s la n g . In it ia ls , te c h n ic a l t e r m s a n d o b s o ­
l e t e f o r m s a r e I n d ic a t e d In t h e d e f in it io n s .
IF I WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL
sooner one gets control of the shaking
kuees, the quivering voice, the halting
flow of words, the better. The high
school course offers a great many
chances for practice, and If I had an
opportunity once more to be on the
program at the debate, or at the Fri­
day afternoon exercises, or In the
class meetings, I should use it even
if at first I should fall.
I should learn to play some ath­
letic game well, not only for the fun
and honor to be gained from such abil­
ity, but for the lasting physical good
which It would be to me. Few things
bring more real pleasure and profit
than clean, healthy, rutof-door ath­
letic exercise. Such exercise adds to
the number of one’s friends, increases
one’s physical powers, and develops
one's mental alertness. Real Inter­
est and skill in athletic games is of
more than passing benefit to a young
fellow; It becomes a permanent Inter
est, and later In life when the ten­
dency grows to sit at the desk or to
stick to the business, to grow fat and
overfed, to the neglect of one's phys
leal health, the old habit draws one
out Into the open air, renews one’s
youth, develops one’s muscles, and ban­
ishes Indigestion. The young man who
has developed ln the high school a
permanent interest ln such healthy
sports as tennis, baseball, swimming,
golf, rowing, skating and the like, has
done much to keep himself perennially
young and vigorous.
I f I were again a high school boy
I should cultivate as fully as possible
piy friendship for other boys. I en­
joyed the companionship of girls, as
do all normal, healthy boys, but I
believe I got the greatest good from
the dally rough and tumble contact
with hoys of my own age. The high
school fusser is usually ineffective.
npOM, aged fourteen, is just finlsh-
ing the grammar school, and since
be and I are friends, often as we walk
down together he tells me his plans
for the future and, among these, what
he intends doing in the high school.
These thoughts have set me to think­
ing, and sometimes I plan what I
should do If, like Tom, I were to have
a chance once more to enter the high
school.
I should not look so eagerly for
"snaps” us I did then. I know that
it may seem foolish to work when one
can get out of I t to take a difficult
course when one can get Into an easy
one, but I have learned that It is only
in doing hard things that we gain
strength, and It Is only In overcoming
difficulties that we learn to depend on
ourselves. The easy course may give
us credits, but it does not make us
strong or efficient.
Even the thing
we do not. like may he of the greatest
benefit to us If we will only have the
determination to carry it through.
I believe I should not study so
much, but I should study harder. I
learned little concentration and much
of the time I prided myself I was
working when I was only getting ready
to work, or simply holding a book in
my hand while my thoughts were wool­
gathering. I should try to settle my
self into a lesson and stay with it
without shifting around until It was
mastered, even If It took an hour
or two hours.
I should learn to do my work my­
self. "Did you fellows get the tenth
problem?”
I heard one high school
hoy ask a group o f his classmates
only a few days ago. And then he
copied in his own book the informa­
tion which was offered him. The act
was not quite honest, and It gave him
I should want to keep up my studies,
no l raining.
In real life we must but I should take part in general
work things out for ourselves; If we school activities rather than devote
find ourselves in a hard corner we all my time to study; I should get
must use our own wits to get out.
well acquainted with as ninny of niy
I should learn to speak on my feet teachers as possible; and above all
grammatically, correctly, without using ' Rhlngs I should stick persistently t «
slang. I f I were ever called upon to Some one subject, and try to learn It
make a speech I should do my beat. more than passably well. I should try,
Every man at one time or another must at least in one subject, to be su ae
■peak In public, and correct speech Is
thing more than commonplace.
largaiy a matter e f practice.
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