The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-31

| black in spots like a hobby horse, anC
! he had an old whisk- broom for tail.
| The Boyle man helped Reginald on the
! horses back and away they flew ovel
| the houses and church steeples and ou
across the snow covered country Reg
inald wasn't dressed for travelling, Sc
/ he began to get cold, and said so, an6
; then the Boyle man lit an old stove
| that
WAS FASTENED TO THE HORSE
and after that they weren't cold any
more. Reginald was beginning to think
| he would have a nice time, but pretty
soon they reached high mountain
with cliffs standing out miles and miles
deep. The horse stopped and the Bogie
man lifted Reginald down and said;
''Will you give me your five-dollaf
gold piece now?'
mo, won't" said Reginald.
Then the Bogie man lifted him up
by his hands and feet, and held him
out over the high cliff, just as Reginald
had often held the cat over the balus-
ters to see it squirm.
IF you don't, I'll let you drop" said
| the Boyle man.
Reginald tried to scream, but he
couldn't, and the Bogie man asked him
again for five dollars.
IF [ give it to you, will you pull
me back?" asked Reginald.
Yes" said the Bogie man, IF you
give it to me because you like me-"
IAN right" said the boy, and as soon
as he had said it, he was back in his
bed, and he screamed just as loud as
he could, and woke up everybody in
the house.
His father and mother and Uncle
Dick and nurse came running in, and
Gladys raised uD in bed, and when he
had told them about it, Uncle Dick
gave him some medicine, and said it
was the nightmare caused by the candy
he had eaten. But it wasn't the night
mare. 1t was the Bogie mans horse.
The next day Reginald had forgot
| ten almost all about his ride, and was
as bad as ever but he didn't hold the
| cat over the balusters any more. When
night came and he had gone to sleep,
he felt somebody pulling his hair again.
OF course, it was the Bogie man. This
| time he wanted the sled, and he
FLOATED REGINALD ON THE
WATER
in the lake until he gave up, and then
| he found himself at home again But
! he didn't scream this time, because
| the medicine Uncle Dick had given him
was so nasty that he was afraid to
make any fuss.
| Well, every night for a week the Bo-
! gle man came and made Reginald give
up something, until the last day of
| the old year. The Boyle man came
early that night and asked Reginald
for his new sailor suit that had pants
/ the first pants Reginald had ever worn
and he was very proud of them.
IT want your new pants" said the
Bogie man.
a Il
You may have them"
The Bogie man jumped three feet
into the air and laughed all over.
"I don't want EN-" he said. "Gooc
night" And he went to sleep right
there on the floor and Reginald wasn'1
disturbed again.
The next morning was New Years
| day, and Uncle Dick came in to see
Reginald
Good morning" said Uncle Dick.
Good morning, Uncle Dick, sale
Reginald
How was the Bogie man last night 2
! asked Uncle Dick.
why, he wanted my new pants,
said Reginald, land l said he coult
have them, but he wouldn't TAXI
them"
Then Uncle Dick laughed just al
| hard as he could.
/ Il Jnlnk you better TURN over d new
! leaf" he said.
\ Reginald asked him how to do it, and
Uncle Dick said to get the picture
| book. Reginald crept under the bee
and brought it out, and on the page
where the Bogie man had been was
| printed, 1.-THE next is the new leaf"
Turn it over" said Uncle Dick
Reginald was afraid at first, but pref
! ty soon he turned it over, and what do
you think? There was the five dollar
gold piece and the sled and everything
the Bogie man had made him give up,
and at the bottom it said, For a good
boy"
docs that mean me? asked Regi-
maid.
IT guess it does" said Uncle Dick.
*because you've turned over new
leaf, and We'll stick 1t there with some
mucilage."
And ever after that Reginald was a
good boy until he grew up and went to
congress.
And the Boyle man? Oh he crawled
back into the picture book and went to
sleep, and as far as I know he's there
yet.