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PART I "Stubby, I feel as if I had escaped from prison to get out of that lone some country full of insects, snakes and centipedes. Oh! how refresh Ing thia salt breeze smells," said Billy when he and Stubby reached the ocean shore. "Yes, but I smell something sweeter to doggie nostrils; thats the smell of frying meat. There must be a fisherman's cottage around that bend. Good-bye, I'm off for some of it, and I mean to have some, even if I have to steal It from the red hot stove." "Don't be in such a hurry and I'll go with you." "No, you had Jbetter stay here. You are so big they will see you, while I am little and so near the color of the sand that I can sneak in and not bee seen, and after finding out who lives there and getting a piece of meat, 1 will come back and tell you all about it." "Very well, but bring me back a bunch of carrots or a cabbage if you find any, for I am as tired of eating leaves as you are of going without meat." Stubby crept cautiously round the bend and then laid down behind a bush out of sight so that he could watch and see who lived in the house. On the doorstep sat a stoopshouldered man smoking a stubby pipe, while in front of him on the sand played three or four little children, bare-headed, bare-footed, with only faded calico slips on. Through the open door Stubby rould see the wife and mother leaning over the stove cooking, yes, he knew it by the smell, the selfsame steak he was longing for. He , sneaked cautiously and quietly round to the back of the cottage and there Oh, be joyful he spied the remnants of the heifer that had been killed so that the family could have a taste of fresh meat, which was as great a treat to them as to Stubby, for they generally lived on said meat and fish, which the father caught, for he was a wisherman, i and took to a little town 10 miles up the coast for shipment to large cities. After Stubby had eaten all he wanted of the fresh meat he ran back to Billy and told him there was a small garden or vegetables back of the cottage where he could do as Boon as it was dark and have a feast. The tired, sleepy heads of the fisherman and his family had hard ly touched their pillows when a large, black goat could have been seen in the widst of a vegetable garden, eating cabbages, turnips and lettuce, while a little yellow dog sat on a brown speckled rock and licked hia chons after a meal of fresh beef and cold boiled pota-l Just for Fun "YES, MA'AM" Teacher: "What liquid will not freeze?" Pupil: "Hot water." SPEED RECORDS BROKEN "r'ri.n in r hnma frAm (tnwnlnwn on the street car last night." saidj V'Ulll'Ufe Hiring v.. ..... v. .... , sandy to Jim, me car lurneu n corner suddenly and I covered three laps In ono minute." GIRLS, GIRLS! Headline in newspapers: "Girl Carpenter Drives Nail Like Lightning." The meaning probably Is, she never hits twice in the same place. WELL DRESSED Johnny The day wore on. Roby Wt did it wear? John The close of day. i

toes he had found just inside the kitchen door, nicely chopped for breakfast. Presently Stubby gave a sudden, sharp back of alarm which made Billy throw up his head to see what was the matter, when what should he see but the rock Stubby was sitting on, walk off with four legs with a queer flat head sticking out

from one side. Stubby jumped off in a hurry and was nearly bitten in two by a quick snap of the jaws of this queer beast, bird or fowl. They did not know-which to call it as they had never before seen or heard of a snapping turtle, and that is what this was. Stubby had tak en its shell for a large stone, as it had its head and feet drawn in out of sight when he jumped upon it. This turtle was a huge one that the fisherman had caught the day before and was going to take to town in the morning to sell to a hotel keeper to make turtle soup of. PART II The next morning Billy and Stubby kept out of sight until the fisherman bad loaded his wagon with fish, vegetables and his turtle, and had started on his way to town. Then they ran out of their hiding place and followed him, taking great care to keep out of sight and in this way they soon came to the seaport town and followed him down to the wharf. When they reached the town they both walked under the wagon so that people

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would think that they belonged to the fisherman and would let them alone. When they armed at the wharf where lay a vessel ready to sail for San Francisco, the fisherman got off his wagon to unload and then, for the first time, he spied Billy and Stubby who were still under it and he was very much surprised to see them there I can tell you. One of the sailors said, "What will you take for your goat?" Without letting on that Billy was not his or that he had never laid eyes on him before, he said, "Well, as he is pretty fine, big goat, I can't let you have him for less than ?5." "All right. It's a go." said the sailor, who had lots of money at present, having just received his pay and not having had a chance to spend it. "And what will you take for the dog?" asked another. "Well, I don't know as I care to sell him," said the fisherman, thinking if he held off they would give him more money. "You can't expect to get much for him," said another. "He is too tarnation homely." "That's a matter of taste," drawled the fisherman. "Looks an't ev erything in this world, and you can't find a smarter rat dog along this coast." He threw this remark in for he knew it would catch the sailor as the ships are always infested with rats. "Well, I'll give you a dollar for him." "No, I couldn't think of selling him so cheap," and he climbed into his wagon, as if he were going off and did not care to part with him. "I'll give you $2.50 and not a cent more." "I don't care to sell him, but as he has cleaned out all the rats at my place I guess I'll let you have him." The sailors gave him the money for the goat and the dog, and he drove off a happy man, but he did not let the grin show on his face until he was out of sight of the sailors. , Now this was a great streak of luck for Billy and Stubby, and was just what they wanted, so they followed their new masters on board without giving any trouble and by night their ship had sailed out of port and was on her way to San Francisco. (Copyright by the Rani field Publishing Co., Akron. O.)

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IKDOOiiAGIC Twenty-one cards are taken from a deck and are offered for shuffling. They are then handed back to you, and you proceed to Heal out the cards in three piles, one card to each pile in turn, seven cards to the pile. While doing this have someone mentally select a card from one of the twenty-one and ask him to observe carefully into which pile it falls while you are dealing them out. When the three piles have been made ask the person . to indicate into which pile the card was placed. Put this stack botween the other two one of the others on each side, that is. Then, without shuffling the cards again, deal them out as before, into three piles. Once more ask that the pile into which the chosen card has fallen be indicated. This pack is then placed between the other two as was done after the first dealing. Without being shuffled they are dealt in tho same manner for the jhird time, the chosen card once more being carefully noted. When the cards have been piled into the thrte stacks request that the pack into which the chosen card has this time fallen be pointed out. This done, you will then know just what the chosen card is, for you must note carefully the fourth card of each pack when dealing the cards for the third time. The fourth card of the indicated . pile will be the chosen one. A very mystifying trick. hoof You write 'era! We print 'em! Shoot 'em. in! Shoot 'em in! Editor's Yell. Cock-cha-lunk Cha-lunk-cha-lec! Cock-cha-lunk Cha-lunk-cha-lee! HI yo hippity yah, Hullaballoo, bailee, ballaa! Trinidad High School, Rah! Rah! Rah! Trinidad High School, Trinidad. Colo. By Ad Carter

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Chuck's Old Book. "H'lo, Chuck," called Scoot McGee, "ain't you sorry school's bogun again?" "Betcher life I am," said Scoot in disgust. "Say, what you got there, your physiology book? Gee, that's too bad. Joe Good told me not to get one. He took it last year and he said the fellows that didn't have books and had to wait for them to be ordered by the book store didn't have to recite the first two weeks. All the old smariiea that got secondhand books got fooled and had to do all the studying." "Aw heck," said Chuck. "Sister always saves her books for me. Ain't that the worst luck? Say, couldn't I do something with it?" A bright idea struck him. "Thera goes Otto Love, I'll give it to him. He'd study anyway, probably borrow a book if he didn't have one." "Hey, Otto," he called. "But what'll you tell him?" Scoot asked as Otto came across the street in response to the call. "Tell him the trutli to shock him." . "Say, you want a book?" Chuck asked Otto. "I don't want it, because if you don't have one you don't have to study." Otto looked surprised. "I should think you would want to study," he said. "You mean to give it to me for good?" "Sure thing. You can have the pleasure of studying for me." "Oh, thanks," cried Otto, as he hurried on to school, reading as he went. School had taken up. Chuck and Scoot were seated in the back row, grinning over their secret. Miss Smith, the teacher, stood before the class and began an announcement. "We are to study a new text in physiology this year. I am glad to find that there are enough books for all at the book store, so there will be no delay, as in former years. The principal asked me to say that all those possessing .the old text may trade it in and receive reductions on the new." Chuck sank out of sight to avoid. Otto's grin. Agnes Millar. BOYHOOD STORIES OF FAMOUS MEN Alexander Graham Bell "Ow ah oo, ga-ma-ma." Sounds like Greek or something worse, doesn't it? But not to Alexander Bell, who for a long time had been trying to teach his pet dog to talk. He helped the dog move his lower jaw with the result that the dog could say, "Ow ah oo, Ga-ma-ma," meaning "How are you. Grandma?" Alexander Graham Bell, inveninr of the telephone, has devoted his life and brains to studying the science of sound. PUZZLES & RIDDLES 1. In this sentence Is hidden a girl'S name: "Seth, Elenhardt and Tom will take the train for the country tomorrow." 2. We ride on the waves; beheads us and we are food for a beast of burden. What are we? 3. Find the name of an animal hidden in this sentence: "Good! O, good!" exclaimed Kitty. "I'm so glad we can go." 4. When Is a horse not a horse? 5. Rearrange these lotto erly and get the name of a popular boy movie actor: O I CAN GO CAKE J. 6. What is the longest wnnl in the dictionary? 7. What citv of h TTnttiwi States Is made by the words "time" and "labor" T Answers to these in another part of thin uook'u Junior. tWANT ADS , GIRL'S mCTCLE For sale: will sell cheap. Phone 3238. TRAIN, cars and trark; boys' tova. gram rs and books, for salt-. Call 199 North West Seventh street.

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