. Inglenook, The (1911) . shion. When he was safely out of sight, heproceeded to enjoy his banana, keepingan eye peeled for the ever watchful cops. The banana was finally finished toHarrys regret, and the idea occurred tohim of having some fun, so dropping thebanana peel on the sidewalk, he se-creted himself in an alley near by towatch passersby slip on the banana had not waited very long until a slen-der little lady, pale and lovely in a neatfitting suit of black, came walking alongand not noticing the banana peel, slippedand fell heavily upon the stone pavement,crushing her left arm
. Inglenook, The (1911) . shion. When he was safely out of sight, heproceeded to enjoy his banana, keepingan eye peeled for the ever watchful cops. The banana was finally finished toHarrys regret, and the idea occurred tohim of having some fun, so dropping thebanana peel on the sidewalk, he se-creted himself in an alley near by towatch passersby slip on the banana had not waited very long until a slen-der little lady, pale and lovely in a neatfitting suit of black, came walking alongand not noticing the banana peel, slippedand fell heavily upon the stone pavement,crushing her left arm under her as shefell. She lay so still and white that Har-ry was greatly terrified, fearing she wasdead. Coming out from his hiding placehe ran for a doctors office near by. Come quick, he said, a lady outhere has fallen on the street and hurtherself so that she cant get up. Thedoctor hastily secured his medicine chest,hat and coat and followed Harry outon the street. When they reached the spot where the The Inglenook 643. He was angered to see Tom before him. lady had fallen a crowd of people hadcollected around her. The doctor or-dered them to stand aside while he ex-amined the patient. Administering arestorative, the lady soon recovered fromher swoon, whereupon the doctor made ahurried examination and found that theleft arm and ankle were broken. Thelady gave her address, a carriage wasordered and she was at once taken to herhome. When Harry was left to himself hefelt very sorry to think that he hadcaused the pretty lady to be hurt so bad-ly. He never thought of causing any-thing so serious as that but only wantedto have some fun. He tried to dismissthe subject from his mind in a revel withhis pals that night but he did not whollysucceed. The next day he was very much terri-fied when a hand was laid on his shoulder and he turned around to see a bur-ly policeman beside him. lie thought atonce of the incident of the day beforeand shivered. Perhaps they had foundout what he had
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