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THE COTJ&lEfc.
SHORT STORIES.
IN THE
lie was the oldest boy in
the country school and
stayed to kelp the teacher
CHICKEN sweep at night.
They grew confident Ul
,COOP. and the boy fin illy told
of a boy's club he had be
longed to the year before called the
"Boy Robbtrs of the Slough."
"Wo had a cave," he explained, "up
the slough where we would go of even
ings and have gay tinea. We stole
green corn from our fathers' fields and
spring chickens from our mothera' hen
houses. Then some of tne boys would
bring biscuits and we would have a
Bpread. We got caught though."
The teacher smiled.
"IIow?" she asked.
"I guess it was my fault; the gang was
out one night and sent ma into Old
Haskin's chicken bouse. They tolJ me
to go in and feel along on the roosts till
I felt a pair of feet and then grab for
the neck so that the chicken wouldn't
equall. 1 filt along on the lower roost
where the young chickens usually stayed
but there wasn't any there. Then I
felt slowly aloDg on the next pole. Sud
denly I touched some spurs. 1 knew
this was an old rooster, but I wa9 afraid
he would make a racket anyhow now
that I hnd touched him, so I grabbed
for his neck."
The teacher turned the key in tho
school bouse door.
"Well?" sbe asked.
The boy answered succinctly, "I hadn't
noticed which way his toes went. I
grabbed his tail."
She Ftrings them all out and when she
gets through every chair in tho room
has a pile of tbiugs on it, from bindicg
braid to crinoline. Strings and wrap
picg paper are scattered promiscuously
around the parlor tho truly aesthetic
girl never thirks of s iwing anywhere
except in the parlor. And in the fraini
her woikbox has been tipped over on
the parlor table and some dozen spools
of white basting thread aro rolling
treacherously on the lloor. Now she
feels ready to take up the dress in true
bobemian fachhn, whichever part comes
first to hand. This is all very enjoyable.
And then the training to her patience is
so delightfully thorough. If a man bad
to baste up a dress and rip it out about
five times, stitch it up and then rip it in
various places, and alter all wear an
ill-fitting dress, ho would swear or else
stuff the dresa in tho stove and order
another from his tailor. A woaian can
do neither. She calms tho recklessness
that siezes her heart at times and goos
on to the bitter end. As i resuit, when
she grows old she finds her character is
absilutely petrified. She think3 then
that is a the apathy of a disappointed
life that nils her but it is no'; it is just
the at:ophy induced by uncongenial
work.
Some men are
THE NEWSPAPER afflicted with what
one might call the
HABIT. newspaper habit.
At the breakfast
table he swallows coffee while he reads
the columns of crime, and then tho col
umn of "smiles." A little later at the
office ho reads tho same things over
again to an enthusiastic circle of clerks
who themselves had the p per for break
fatt. Off and on during the morning he
finishes up tho rest of the paper. At
night he rides home on the car and
reads, everybody on tho car reads, the
evening paper which, French fashion,
gives them warmed up for supper just
what they had for breakfast with a new
sauce of jakes, and some patent insides
telling about Pharoah's mummy, the
manufacture of pins and the fan of
Marie Antoinette. At the supper table
he tells his wife he forgot to bring up
the morning paper for her to look over,
there was nothinj in it. Perhaps he
gives her a brief sketch of a lynching in
Alabama, a murder in New York, an
execution in Ch-cago.
Later in the'evening the minister calls,
and while his wite entertains the com
pany, the man of the house sits by the
stand and fingers a pile of newspapers
making desultory remarks for politeness
Bake, while hel-eeps his finger at the
point when stopped reading.
Somebody could gain the gratitude
of the race by inventing a gold cure for
the newupaper habit.
A girl liks to do
SEWING sewing. It has the same
element o f pleasure
that threshing time has for the hired
man.
When she begins she lays out about
twenty bundles of different shapes.
There is a dres?. She could never think
of all the things at once, the liniogs and
the thread and and the Looks and eyes
and all the rest. She bought things
piecemeal ju6t as th inspirations came
to her. Now she opens the bundles.
She does not need anything at first ex
cept the linings but she doesn't know
just which bundle has the lining in it.
CHILD
He is a newspaper man
now. lie attributes all of
his cuccess to tho early
STUDY days of his tchool life.
He learned his alphabet
from Iettarson tho rim of a little lava
plate. He was then sent to school and
read in the firet reader. Here he got
his first idea of what a gloriously clean,
simple stjle should bo. Ho read thrilling
stories like the follswing:
Does tho boy go up. Yes; the bny does
go up. See the boj gj up. It is a game
of 6ee saw."
When the child read this fluently he
wa3 sent on up to tho Eecond reader,
where he read tho earne kind of stories
embellished with a few adjectives and
beaut Hid "by geras'of thought," some
thing after the style of:
"Come when you're called,
Do as you'ie biu,
Shut the dwr after jou
And jou'll never bo chid."
Now it was considered the proper
thing for the little boy's re atives to
send him picture books for Christiias
Among them were 6om9 that proved to
be his salvation. Without thm he
might have come to think that the
single "sea the cat catch the rat" stjle
was the only one U6ed by literary people.
In these picture books ho came, for the
first time in his 1 terary cireer.upon the
lnavy involve 1 s'y'e so suitable in after
years foi impressive editorials. Toen,
too, he learntd about many thirgs that
came in handy when he ran out of copy
the habits and names of all the animals
from Greenland to Borneo in the form
as the introductions said, cf "easily com
prehended explanations of the most im
portant i lusTdtionp."
From this point oa his stjle develop
ed naturally under the influence of
Mother Goto and fairy etories, Sunday
school books and at last the newspapers.
It is no wonder that his pen as he him
self puts it is "fluent and trenchant,"
When he was a cadet
RETORT he went to the encamp
ment. She sent him a
COURTEOUS box of cake, with a
dainty note.
Dear Tom:
Ono of the cakes I baked myself
and I think jou had better gixe it to
some other boy. I have marked it. It
is called angel f Kd, 6o it might not agree
with jou. Give it to Clements.
Sincerely,
Ethel."
He answered her letter with evident
haste.
My dear Ethel:
How can I ever thank you
enough for warning me against the
angel fcod that jou made. 1 gave it to
Clements and it made bim horribly ill.
The curious part of it is that I am sure
even jet he i3 a perfect angel. There
must nave been something else tho
matter with the cake.
Gratefully,
Tom."
'ANNIE PREY.
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