. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE LITTLE TWISTS OF TAIER. Go get my cap, he said angrilv. I wont, answered Lott. If you had n tsaid anything about my boots, I should nt havetouched your cap. And I m glad I did now,for I ve shown everybody how you get yourpretty curls. Will you get that cap? repeated Tom. No, I wont, Lott replied. •Then I 11 make you, said Tom. I d like to see you do it, was Lotts retort— although this was exactly what he would notlike to see. There is no need to describe a boys quarrel the smaller boys during a pause in the fight. Soit happened that Toms was but a barren vic-tory—
. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE LITTLE TWISTS OF TAIER. Go get my cap, he said angrilv. I wont, answered Lott. If you had n tsaid anything about my boots, I should nt havetouched your cap. And I m glad I did now,for I ve shown everybody how you get yourpretty curls. Will you get that cap? repeated Tom. No, I wont, Lott replied. •Then I 11 make you, said Tom. I d like to see you do it, was Lotts retort— although this was exactly what he would notlike to see. There is no need to describe a boys quarrel the smaller boys during a pause in the fight. Soit happened that Toms was but a barren vic-tory—like nearly all those a boy gains exceptwhen he conquers himself. Lott and several friends of his went away tocoast down another hill. Tom, when he hadrecovered his wind and stanched his wounds,joined in the sport with Cissy and HarryZachary. But when he left the slide and went home tohis dinner, he bore with him the scars of war inthe shape of a swollen face and an unmistaka-ble black eye. TOM PAULDING. Chapter A NEW-YEAR S-DAY DEPARTURE. OM did not quiteknow what to doabout his black knew that hismother would seeit, and then shewould be sure toask him about it,and he would haveto tell her thewhole story. That she would not approve ofthe fight Tom felt sure; and he was a little indoubt whether he himself quite approved of had often thought that sooner or later heand Corkscrew would have to have it out ;and if the combat had been really inevitable,he was glad that it was over and that he hadnot come out of it second-best. But even inthe glow of victory, he did not feel altogethersatisfied with the way in which war had beendeclared nor with his own conduct in the begin-ning. His reference to Lotts keeping his brainsin his boots was altogether uncalled for. It istrue that Corkscrews throwing of the cap down-hill had slight justification. But, all the same,Tom had an uneasy consciousness that the realcause of the anger that had burned so fiercelyin his brea
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