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guess he must have the stomach ache.
He ate an awful pile Of hay"
Here Edgar was heard laughing and
chuckling in his room. So Harry felt
like making for him.
Exactly at o'clock the following
morning Donk took to braying again.
1t was ''uch-aw. uch-aw, uch-aw, un-
til he seemed to choke. Every one but
Harry hoped he was dead. But he was
not.
After school that day Harry went to
play with Fred Barton, who lived at
the corner. But very soon they got on
the fence to watch the tennis players
In the. court that spread from Fred s
yard to the next street
why, there goes Donk!" all at once
cried Harry. HE has broken awayl"
And Donk It was, hurrying along,
When he came to the corner he turned
and then slowed down, with his eyes
fixed on a horse and cart tied to tree
on the grassy space to the right of the
court A little child named Alfred sat
In the cart watching the game. The
horse was old and sleepy-looking.
AS Harry tells it, Donk stopped to
think a moment and then crept on tip
toe through the gate and up to the
horse. Mrs. Barton says 1t IS true, as
she saw 1t from her window. She also
the horses ear before he struck off in
the worst bray of all. Then, as the
poor horse turned to dash away, Donk
flung himself proudly toward the gate.
The tennis players caught the horse
Just after little Alfred had fallen across
the axle. He was picked out, badly
scared, and afterward told his mother
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g little buggy appeared. It was dec
GRATED with lovely flowers. laces, rib
bons, etc, and was drawn by six black
beetles.
They both got in the buggy and
Claribei was surprised to see that she
was as small as the little man and as
light as thistIe-dOwn.
The buggy skinned over the fields
and. soon stopped at a solitary oak tree
Then Claribel and the little man
jumped out and he produced a small
key from his pocket and applied it to
what looked like a tiny knot hole in
the tree. What was Claribels surprise
when she found this TO be the lock of
a tiny door.
They passed into a long narrow path
that was softly lighted by beautiful
lamps.
After a short walk, without meeting
any one, they turned a corner and
what,a picture met their sight.
Before them stood a grand fairy pal
ace of what seemed TO be gold anu
precious stones, but as they drew near
er Claribel thought it looked like beau
tiful paper.
In front of the palace. instead of a
real garden, viOlets, fOrget-me-nots,
roses, pansies and all sorts Of flowers
were painted on paper, and the grass on
green paper. Everything looked as
natural as life, but even the trees were
paper.
Inside they heard the sound Of music
and laughter, and Claribel and the man
went into the wide hall.
Then they climbed a lovely winding
staircase, and We're Immediately shown
into a room where the company had
Assem- bled.
On a platform at one end of the
room sat the King and Queen of Pic
tureland. They sat in beautiful paper
chairs and had paper crowns on their
heads. but the paper looked like gold.
All of the people were elegantly
dressed in lace paper, beautiful flowers
scattered on this, and verses and
hearts at which tiny Cupids aimed their
arrows The Kings and the Queen S
costumes were the incest Of all.
Claribel was cordially welcomed by
the King and Queen, who Invited her
to sit down near them Soon bell
rang and the company went in cou-
pies to the dining-room, where line
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out through the garden and to the
door in the tree. Before they went out
the little man told Claribel that people
often found them in the fields, cut off
their heads, arms and feet and sold
them for birthday cards. Then Clari-
bel was very sorry.
They then went out of the tree into
the cool air. The beetle team-was wait
ing and they got in at once. In few
minutes they were back on the knoll
where Claribel had been.
The little man said, Now l must go,
Claribel. but if I am alive will come
again next year, so you can be here
then"
"AIl right" she answered. Good
Good by" and he jumped into the
buggy and was whisked out of sight.
Claribel half thought she would fol-
low him, but just then her mother
called "Claribel, where are your
Here, mamma" she answered,
springing up and rubbing her eyes. The
sun was just setting and she hurried
TO the house
Claribel told her mother all about her
strange visit, but her mother only
laughed and said, You must have had
a good sleep"
That evening when her father came
home he called Claribel and said, Look
what 1 got at the postoffice for you,
dear.
1t was a birthday card. AS Claribel
drew 1t out of the envelope she almost
screamed, for there was her little man,
without head hands or feet. She re-
membered the verse and the flowers
(forget- me-nots) and the colors-p1nk
and blue.
Some one must have caught the little
man when he was going home.
ClaribeI felt very sad about It, and
that night she told the birthday card
she would take good care of him al
ways; so she kept him in pretty glass
case on her bureau, and often she would
go and talk to him.
Her mother laughed and said she was
silly to mind about a dream, but Clari-
bel believed for a long time that it was
not a dream. She knows now that 1t
was all dream, but she still has her
birthday card.
CLARA BANFILL,
Brentwood Cal.
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TACK and his uncle were fishing in
boat near Nantucket without
pole, but with long; strong line
ri baited at the end. The uncle sat
~ on one side of the boat, with hls
hack 10 Jack. pulling in the line. and
Jack sat on the other side letting !srT the
line down into the water again. How
long this line is. Jack" said his uncle
without looking around
%ack had played joke on his Uncle
Better. He had taken the hooks off ana
Hed the two ends Of the line together,
and it kept going round and round, into
the water on one side and out of 1t on
"Why, l never saw such long line
said his uncle again, as he kept on
pulling it in. g. o,,o-
his side as fast as he could.
II can't imagine where the hooks
ore =" exclaimed his uncle, locking down
into the water. ,,,,-o
Then Jack picked up a small square
- - =
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THE DONKEY
THAT BRA YED
euAoAuNc i~oNo@u@U~x

T AIRY had been at school about
q week when Sam Slickens, who
sat next him, offered TO sell him
his donkey for only dollar:
- = Harry thought this was too good
a chance to be missed, so said he Would
buy 1t with the money he was saving
for Christmas and then surprise the
family.
On Saturday Sam brought the don
key and tied him to tree in the STAPLE
yard. AS he was going of with ms
dollar Harry asked him the donkey s
name.
1--WE call him Donk for short, an
swered Sam.
IT think I'll call him Prince when
know him better" said Harry.
Perhaps you'll call him Bray when
you know him better" With this Sam
darted off whistling for Joy.
Wondering over this, Harry ran to
call out the family. They came, and
were more than surprised. His father
took one good look. shook his head
gravely, and with never word went
back to the house. His mother feared
the creature was too frisky. His elder
brother, Edgar, wanted to know how
much he had been paid to take him.
But Harry kept cheerful, for he was
sure they would find out this was q
pretty good donkey in spite of his name.
At o'clock the next morning the
donkey burst into a bray that aroused
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TWILL never forget" said Uncle
Ben, zone funny half hour when I
was school boy. The principal was
u fond of music and fond Of showing
off his pupils. At the end Of the
term he'd have all the children gather
in one big room and sing and speak
pieces, and then he would give out
prizes. All the people in the district
came. My sister Rose was fine organ
player She was there this day and she
had fine organ piece to play and sing
1t was Behold the Flower
Before school opened Ned Cart
wright and I were at work in the exhi-
bition room lacking up wreaths and
streamers of red, white and blue L
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.yAcK,s APRIL FOOL DAY FISHING.

of board and wrote on 1t with chalk.
He tied it to the line and let 1t drop
into the water. By and by 1T came up
with the line on the other side.
'cHullo! What's this?' cried Uncle
Peter.
"a piece of board, turn it over" said
Jack.
His uncle turned 1t over and saw
April fool" written on the other side
in chalk. Then he looked around and
saw what Jack had been doing with
the line and he began laughing, and
Jack laughed, too.
$50 this is the way you have fooled
your uncle?' he said.
1t was the LIST Of April and Jacks
uncle had promised him half a dollar
that morning if he could April fool him.
Then they united the line and put on
the hooks again and caughta good mess
of fish, although Uncle Peter said he
wondered the fish had not been all tired
out waiting for the bait on that line.
ROSEMARY SHIELDS.
:4-e94 o tt3c4ct o o9osU9o9 o9oGoG q
money so that mamma can have a new
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and one tree. Not to be baked by diff
f1culties she found that the links of
sausages ground hog) represented a
lynx. The grizzly old man grizzly
she met bravely and decided that he
represented a hare! A natural guess in
each case. Both guesses were clever.
The answers to the San Francisco
street puzzles of last week are as fol-
lows: % jackson, (2) Taylor, go
Pierce, a. Steuart 90 Post, (6) Chest
nut, % Geary. To-day the puzzle
pictures represent birds common to all
the Pacific Coast States and Territories.
Here are some Of the young guessers
who answered all the street puzzles
without q mistake: Gertrude Donohue,
TAB Green street; Alice Donnelly, II
Perry street; Milton S. Silverstone, 112
Lyon street; Ernest Ryder, 1927 Hayes
street; Floyd Walker, 1851 Hayes
street James S. Greer, APO Twenty
fourth street, ingeniously figured out
Spear street for Pierce. The truth Is
that one answer would fit as we'll as the
other, and James will make Bronstrup
think hard-that his puzzles may be
solved only in one way. Edna Ralph
of Alvarado must be counted among
those who guessed right.
Claude Lombard of 1923 Second ave-
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noticed that Ned chuckled several times
while we were at work, but did not
think much about 1t. I was only
anxious for the exercises to begin, for
I was proud of sister Roses music.
Every one was there when school
took in The principal, proud as
peacock, had on his best clothes and
his exhibition day smile and manners
and his shoes were as shiny as looking
glasses Every one coughed and said
'hem,' and the principal rang bell and
we all came marching in, two by two,
to take our places. I had place near
the organ. In fact, I had to pump the
bellows to keep the pipes full of wind.
I'VE will begin the exercises, said
the principal gaily, with the song Be
hold the Flower" by Miss Rose, who
will accompany the song with music on
the pipe organ
There was some applause as Rose
took her seat. I slid around back Of the
organ and gently pumped the organ
bellows full. Rose played few chords
and then began to sing Behold the
Flower.
Suddenly I heard some one smoker.
Then there was a litter, and another
and another, and then some one
laughed Directly all the visitors were
laughing the hardest possible. I dropped
the organ bellows handle, for Rose had
stopped playing and singing and was
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UNCLE BEN'S STORY
OF FUN IN SCHOOL

sobbing on the organ seat.
mo marvel. Her new blue silk dress
was covered with some white substance
and her face was plastered with white.
What did 1t all mean? 1 ran to. Rose
and asked her If she was hurt The
people were still laughing and the prin-
cipal was raging like a lion.
Who put the flour In the organ? he
shouted. Ben, you were here before
school-did you do it?'
" No, sir
WHO was here with your
81 now knew what Ned Cartwright
had been chuckling about. Behold the
Flower!'-so read the programme. Be
hold! Flour had been put in the organ
tubes by Ned, and when pumped the
wind into the organ the flour all blew
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The man was so pleased at Dora's
little speech that he said, Yes.
All the people came to buy from Dora.
BY the time the fair was over she had
81 55. When she reached home her
mamma was much pleased, and gave
her enough to buy her doll. Dora was
pleased, and thought her mamma very
kind So the little girl got the doll and
her mamma got new dress.
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ASoAoas4Ao& uAoHoAo@oA onoaoAo.
T ALL happened on her birthday.

n ASO4 Scl vi q BIcGu,
knoll. She wasn't doing anything
IN particular, just enjoying the
sunshine. After a while Claribel
grew drowsy. and was just thinking
about taking a nap. when some one
spoke her name close to her.
Claribel was wide awake In an in
slant. Right beside her stood a little
birthday card. He had a head. feet
and hands, to be sure. but otherwise
you would have surely thought he was
one Of the pretty cards you buy for
your best chums.
The man was about eight inches tall
and he had merry, happy look in his
face, as though he expected to have a
good time.
"Claribel," he said again. Yes. sir"
she answered at last.
Would you like to go home with
ne?" he asked
oh, my" she exclaimed. 'T would
like 1t so much
We'll, come, then; we will start. as It
Is getting late"
The little man clapped his hands and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-26

In these energetic go-ahead days we
are continually hearing of some new and
curious way of making money, but the
as any previously devised: A little boy
entered a surgery the other day when
the village doctor was in attendance, and,
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the whole neighborhood, and went on
as If he did not know how, to stop. But
at last he did.
Harry, what kind Of beast is that
you have brought in the family?" called
his father from the next room.
81 don't know" mourned Harry. L
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forty pages. Ihls IS 70 eXPItss tIIdlIhs
for the interest shown by you all. Irwin
Bare had bad luck when his puzzle was
ublished-because of a misprint. Jon
appeared as Jou, and that took the
name of Jones from the list of twenty.
Did that discourage Cecil Heans Of
Berkeley? Not at all! She made the
twelfth name Allen" and so counted
out twenty. With the name Of Jones
added she had twenty-one names. and
so is the champion up to date.
E. Gladys Coffin wrote from Dutch
Flat in reference to the four animals
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PUZZLE CUESSERS.

WORD with our young CORE
spondents. So many letters con-
tanning answers to puzzles have
been received that there would
not be room for them all in
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out. The school district committee who
sat in the front row were all white.
looked at them and then joined every
one there, excepting sister Rose and the
district committee-they all looked
solemn enough-in a good laugh, so L
could not answer the principal.
Ned was not such bad boy-only
full of mischief. He and sister Rose
had joked each other. and he had fig
joke to flour the organ.
az did it, teacher he now said,
standing up in his place. Ben was.
here but he did not know anything
about it. 1 did it for a joke and did not
know that the joke would turn out so
badly
. Very we'll said the principal, while
a look Of anger darkened his smile, we
will further test your ability to enjoy a
practical joke after the exhibition.
Take your seat, Edward.
Sister Rose was coaxed to finish the
song. which she did after had pumped
all the -four from the organ. But how
she blushed when the boys sang the
next selection, as they stood in front
of her and looked at her mischievously.
No wonder, for they sang My Pretty
White Rose My, but didn't Ned get
a thrashing when school was out! That
was April first. Ned was the worst
fooled of any one.
4au~o o u3o@u Q o@o@u&o&o@n9o@o
marching up to him, whispered, eau
tiously:
how Lizzies got scarlatina awful bad:
and please, mother wants to know how
much you'll give her to spread 1t all over
the village ?'-Tit-Bits. g.
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he was dragged two miles before the
horse was stopped.
That night Harry's father gave the
donkey to some gardeners who lived
away off near the marsh, and who said
they did not mind brays.
ELSA HUGO,
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Mabel Nutting of this city, Ray
Koopman of Vallejo and Ruth Heans
of Berkeley sent in correct answers just
In time to have them acknowledged.
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VIII the authoress of "Foxey's. Story
kindly send her address? The story will
be published, but cannot be credited with
ont the nostoff1ce address.
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money so that mamma can have new
dress ?'
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Dear Editor: am little girl IL years
and go to school and am in the fifth
grade. Mr.. c.. Runkle is our teacher
There is no school this week on account
of measles. My papa takes The Call and
/ like the Boys and Girls page and 1 like
to study the puzzles. hope you will
print this my first letter to The Call Let
me know If got the right answer, and If
so I will write again. Yours truly,
e. GLADYS COFFIN.
Dutch Flat, Cal.
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Dear Editor: This is my first letter and
ing to write to you last week, but 1 for
a;tf it. I am years old and I am in the
fhird grade. My teachers, name is Mrs.
Charlotte is Is years old. She is in the
seventh grade My brother Herbert is 9
years old. My father. is taking The Call
and I save the Boys and Girls page. I
have saved it from the first of this year.
I have a little dog named Dewey. Your
friend EDNA IL. hAUtFUNG.
C1ouerdale Gal
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nue. East Oakland, made out No. 8 OF
the streets to be Spear instead of
Pierce. which is another pointer. Spear
must count as correct. and so Claude
has really made no mistake, for his
other answers are all right. Claude is
one of the youngest puzzlers, aged only
10. A Darlington, 1721 Eddy street,
found that No was either Spear or
Pierce; Philip Zipp Of Grass Valley
and William Walker of GAL Campbell
street, Oakland, were sure that No.
was Pierce There were many other
successful guessers, but their answers
came late. Early answers are best.
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19
BOTH HELD
Would be Murderer
and Horse Thief
ARE TAKEN TO JAIL.
Webster Court Was Crowded
With Townspeople.

Webster. Feb. 1S-The sitting of the
district court, with Judge Andrew j.
Bartholomew on the bench, was by far
the most important in months. Never
was there such a crowd of spectators
in the room before, and corridors and
stairs leading to the room were dense
ly packed. The session was a lengthy
one
The principal case on the docket was
that of Thursday nights tragedy Mrs.
Haymann, the victim, appeared in
court with her wounded arm wrapped
in blood-stained bandages, carefully
hidden from inquisitive eyes by her
cloak. The other witnesses of the
affair were also there.
William Haymann, or "Bill,' as he
assault with intent to kill He plead
ed not guilty, and was not represented
by counsel During the preliminary
hearing, the judge asked the prisoner
several times if he had anything to
say, or wished to ask any questions,
but he replied with simple NO" nor
could he be induced to say anything,
either to affirm or deny his guilt, with
the exception Of his formal plea of mot
guilty"
Edward Wagner, brother-in-law of
the defendant testified to the shooting
of Mrs. Haymann, the ensuing fierce
struggle, and the prisoners subsequent
arrest by Officer Elias B. Wakefield,
and in detail related the circumstances
of the sad affair He said that he had
known the prisoner the past quarter of
a century, and Mrs. Haymann some 20
years.
Amer Martin of Hill street, who as
sisted Wagner in taking the loaded re-
volver from Haymann, and in turning
him over to Officer Wakefield, told the
Judge his story. His testimony corrob-
GRATED that of Wagner's.
Miss Augusta Wagner, a niece of the
victim, told what she saw of the af-
fair. She said when she heard the shot
she came running back and saw her
father and Haymann in deadly com
bat. Haymann was then lying OF
the sidewalk.
officer Wakefield related his connec-
lions with the case. He produced the
pistol a fine shooter of 80 calibre, fol
the judge to examine. One chamber
had been emptied.
Haymann was then asked by the
judge if he had anything to say, but
he refused to answer.
Mrs. Haymann was then placed or
the witness stand She said very lit.
tie. She is, however, ready to appear
against her husband.
The leaden pill is still deeply i'm
bedded in her arm in the muscles be.
tween the bones, and she will carry il
to the grave unless serious complica,
tons set in, when a knife operation
will have to be performed. At the
first symptoms of blood poisoning The
arm will be cut open and the bullet
extracted
With one more query-if the prisoner
wished to say anything in his behalf
the judge placed him under $4,000 bonds
for his appearance before the higl
court, in Worcester, the second Monday
in May
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19
FOUND DEAD.
Recent Blizzard Too Much
for an Old Man.

Webster Feb 1S.-Residents of
Thompson, Conn, yesterday were thun-
derstruck, when word was passed along
the miles Of highway that one of their
most respected citizens, George Cum
mings, was found dead in his horne.
The Spy man on his way to the home
of the dead man met one Mr.. Bixby,
who had known the dead man 65 years,
who told this story
Mr.. Cummings left his farm Saturday
for Grosvenordale, Conn, to sell pro-
duce. He came home late at night.
Monday he braved the storm, coming
to Webster and after hours of hard
ships, arrived home late Monday night.
That was the last seen of him alive by
the neighbors. After two days wait
ing, the next-door neighbor, noticing
that no smoke issued from his house
chimney went over to the Cummings
house to find out the reason.
After repeated knocks at the door
and no response, the neighbor broke
in the outside door and found the old
man cold in death on the parlor floor.
Heart disease and four days of hard
work in the late storm caused his
death. Deceased has resided in
Thompson since d lad. .TIe was twice
married and for several years has been
a widower
He leaves no children. His farm is
estimated worth $4,000.