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

I made Reginald want to see what he
had, so he turned the candy out just
anyhow, and sure enough, there was a
! i've dollar gold piece in his stocking
too, regular twin brother to Gladyss
Then he began to eat the candy again
and by the time nurse came in on her
tip toes to see If the children were
awake he had finished all of it, and
was looking at his gum and he said
he'd rather have had real one. He
didn't want any breakfast, and no won
der, when he had eaten a
A WHOLE sTOCKINGFUL OF
CANDY.
He wouldn't go down stairs with the
nurse, because he wanted to find out
about the horse and wagon.
| Well, when he had got it all apart
and the spring had hit him, Gladys
! came back to tell him to come down
stairs, but he wouldn't, and he asked
her for part of her candy. and as she
was good girl, she gave him more
than half of it, and he ate that TOO.
Then, as he didn't have anything else
to do, he thought he'd look at his pic
| ture book. 1t had a red and green COW
er and it said For bad boy on it,
| but as Reginald couldn't read, he did
MT know. He sat down and began to
open the book and right here his trou-
BILE began. AS he started to turn the
cover he heard somebody say close to
him:
Have you been a good boy?"
NO" said Reginald, I'm bad all the
time"
That's right" said the somebody 81
like bad Boys
And then he opened the book and
what do you think?
Right. on the first page was the pic
ture of a funny little man with big
eyes and the most horrible smile you
can imagine. 1t frightened Reginald
at first and he tried to shut the book,
| but he couldn't because the little man
began to grow fat, and in less than two
winks he had stepped right off the page
! and left the place blank where he had
! been.
Don't be afraid" he said. I'm
only the Bogie man. They shut me up
here a long time ago and told me /
couldn't get out till the worst boy in
town opened the book, and now you've
done it."
But I didn't mean to-" said Regi-
maid, thinking about crying, but rather
afraid to do so in front of the stranger,
and such a strange stranger at that
+ of course you didn't" said the Bo-
gle man. That's the funny part OF
| it. If you had you wouldn't have done
| it. Now I'm going to scare YOU and
he opened his eyes ever so much wider
and stuck out his tongue, and Reginald
became so frightened that he screamed
| His father and mother and Uncle Dick
and Gladys and nurse all came running
in to see what was the matter, and the
Bogie man hid behind the bed. Wher
| Reginald had told them, his father and
| mother and Gladys and nurse looked
worried but Uncle Dick, who was g
doctor and ever so smart, said:
Il know what it is. 1t will do him
| good" And he tweaked Reginald's
ears and told him he'd better be polite
to the Boyle man or he'd get carried
off. And then everybody went dowr
stairs again, except Reginald and the
Boyle man, who had come out from be.
hind the bed when the grown folks
went
Now you see,'' he said, you'd better
do what say or I'll carry you off, sure
And the first thing l want you to do is
give me that five dollar gold piece you
found in your stocking"
81 won't" said Reginald. 81 AIM
afraid"
"All right" said the Bogie man. TN
going to sleep. Good night
He curled himself up into ball sc
tight that he vanished entirely but
Reginald knew he was there, because
he could hear him snore. Reginald
picked up the picture book-the cover
had gone shut by itself-and
put it as far under the bed
as he could reach. He didn't
know what might be on the next leaf.
Then he went downstairs and behaved
just the worst he knew how until bed
time.
He had been asleep for an hour or so,
when he felt somebody pulling his hair,
and he woke up to find the Bogie man
standing by him.
Now don't you say a word" said the
Bogie man. you're going with me-"
'"But 1 don't want to go with YOU"
said Reginald.
"Of course you don't. That's the rea-
son you're going. You won't give me the
| five dollar gold piece, so I'm going to
take you riding. You'll be back for
breakfast"
And without saying anything more.
he picked Reginald up and carried him
out of the window. There, fastened to
the fire escape, was the queerest look
ing horse you ever saw, or didn't see. He
had wings and was painted white and