. St. Nicholas [serial] . -bury Academy. When theboys came trooping out atthree oclock they found himloitering outside the gate, acomplacent, almost conde-scending smile on his lips. Hello! cried Nat Mars-ton ; back, are you ? Well,you did some great playingyesterday; but why did ntyou keep it up ? The Lincolnville fellowssaw me talking to you, andthey say I gave away thegame, said Chris. They do? Well, Illsend in a letter thatwill knock that ideaout of their heads. Say, Chris, inter-rupted Fred Tobin,with a laugh, whowas that old fel-low you got tohelp you off theother day ? I dlike to hire h
. St. Nicholas [serial] . -bury Academy. When theboys came trooping out atthree oclock they found himloitering outside the gate, acomplacent, almost conde-scending smile on his lips. Hello! cried Nat Mars-ton ; back, are you ? Well,you did some great playingyesterday; but why did ntyou keep it up ? The Lincolnville fellowssaw me talking to you, andthey say I gave away thegame, said Chris. They do? Well, Illsend in a letter thatwill knock that ideaout of their heads. Say, Chris, inter-rupted Fred Tobin,with a laugh, whowas that old fel-low you got tohelp you off theother day ? I dlike to hire himby the week todo the same kindof work for , saidChris, with an air of deep mystery, there area good many things you dont understand thatwill be made clear before night. WTish you would make my geometry lessonclear, said Scotty Jones, with a grin ; but Iguess it would take more than you to do that. I could do it in a minute, if I wanted to,replied Chris; but just now I have other andmore important work on CHRIS AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP. 63; What are you driving at, anyway, Chris ? asked Will Bent. See here, boys, said Chris to the groupthat had gathered around him; what wouldyou say if I told you that it was in my powerto fly like a bird ? I should say you were talking through yourhat, laughed Scott)-. Well, it s a fact that I can do it, main-tained Chris; and I m going to prove it. 1 11go up to the top of the Methodist church stee-ple and fly down. When you see that, you 11believe I knew what I was talking about, wontyou ? Yes, replied Nat; but I d rather see youfly up to the top of the steeple. Cant you dothat ? I could, and I will later on, said Chris; but I 11 begin the other way. Come on,boys ; and he started in the direction of theMethodist church. See here, Chris, interposed Scotty; this isonly one of your tricks, and we aint going tolet you drag us over to the church. It s out ofour way; we re all going over to Simmsspond. Fellows, cried Chris, I mean ev
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