. The chief. uiveringframe, and listened patiently to the chattering teeth. At length, bursting into arumbling laugh, he staggered about and hurried to the house. From behind thedoor he grasped a rusty old blunderbuss. He next began to search for his powderhorn and some salt and pepper or some otherextract of the pantry, which might awakesome enthusiasm in the luckless indiivdualwho had trespassed on Bills premises. Fin-ally he found some beans, so beans it wasthat Bill poured down the barrel of his forty-two centimeter. When Bill reached the door, he saw hisyoung friend, or enemy, beating a r
. The chief. uiveringframe, and listened patiently to the chattering teeth. At length, bursting into arumbling laugh, he staggered about and hurried to the house. From behind thedoor he grasped a rusty old blunderbuss. He next began to search for his powderhorn and some salt and pepper or some otherextract of the pantry, which might awakesome enthusiasm in the luckless indiivdualwho had trespassed on Bills premises. Fin-ally he found some beans, so beans it wasthat Bill poured down the barrel of his forty-two centimeter. When Bill reached the door, he saw hisyoung friend, or enemy, beating a retreatthru the nearest thicket. Nevertheless, Billraised his gun and fired just as the fast dis-appearing Mr. Sherifif stumbled headlongover a root. The sheriff is now getting along nicelyin the hospital at the village, all the beanshaving been extracted without much disfigur-ation to his carcass. As to Bill, he is still athrifty man of leisure down in Cleaver Hollerold old Kentucky. Herman Krickenberger, 50 THE AWAKENING OF IDA. Ida Elaine Jallis opened her geometry book and, while futilely wonderingat which point to first attack Proposition No. 328, she fell to dreaming over theprinted initials of the original owner, Stanley Kent. Secretly she was very muchin love with the unknown person, and she had all year dreamed and sighed overthe many small bits of wisdom and learning that had been written by the adoredStanleys pen upon the well-thumbed margins of the pages. Pensively she claspedher hands together under her chin and then slid them along one cheek til her headrested coquettishly on one side. In this attitude she worshipped her hero untilnidely aroused by a poke in the back. This, from Sarah Saxon, her best chumand the sister of the boy who knew and had once been a chum with the StanleyX. Kent, the S. N. K. This, and the fact that she was one year Idas senior, made her the adoredone of the time being. Ida squirmed to a half sideways posture and turned at-tentive and
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