The sun., 1900-12-09
the CHINESE WIZARD.
Curious Effect Of Horace Leonard's
Command on q Little Pig
tailed Image.
copy,.n.t. 1900. nv cna,,,, nau.I loomm

teal people. who would have said he was
dreaming
Horace wa. never very wide awake when
the ChIneman cane to life. because II always
happened nj ~ when the boy was sleeping
heavily. but hr always reused enough when
he heard the pnttcr Of the little shoes on the
mantcl TO call ont: Hello, John" And II
,quraky little voice would reply: Hello.
Iiolace You vclly well?" And then Horace
would answer. Yes. Be careful no, To upset
that vase" and then, being sleepy hc would
generally go to sleep again.
But hot long after the troubles with the
Boxers in China and the peril of the legations
at Pekn (which. dare say. your teacher has
told yuu something about. Horace was awak-
encd one moonlit night bv loud yell. and
there stood the little Chinaman at his pillow.
shouting in his ear
What's the inattcr,' sad Horace. sleepily.
You no iel.ce lp?"
NO" said Horace. i don't tell lies
you alice light. You the Light one 20
makec me alice ~amee big likee youself
WHY am AL right" asked Horace wide
awake now and sitting up in bed.
You iluth teller. You no tellee lie Put
hands on my shoulder and t~llee me glow big
like you.
Horace was not a headlcng boy and lie
feet, II he saw no reason why he should not
make the Chinamau big II the man wanted 10
become 50: he could easily make him small
again II he wished to. But il Horace had
only known that the Chinese image that for two
years ever since Capt. Sayter had brought
him from Hong Kong. had stood on the man
tepiecc wns wizard and n wicked one ~
that lie would never have laid hands on him.
But Horace was ignorant Of this. and being
a healthy boy with plenty Of curiosity he laid
his hand on the little man. He had seen but
one Chinamau, Il laundryman at Meriden. so
he said Grow big like All Lee and me.
Slowly, slowly. that is 10 say about a
hundred times as fast as the fastest climbing
vine grows. tho little Chinaman increased in
stature until he was four feet six. or just the
height Of Horace
Horace had thought he would do some
thing sing a song or do some tricks, but he
merely curled himself up on the rag carpet
and went to sleep and Horace followed Ids
example and slept until daybreak.
When the boy awoke IL was daylight and
the Chnnman was gone. Horace glanced at
the mantel. half expecting TO see the familiar
figure there. but its place looked lonely the
image was gone.
Uorace's father and mother were visiting
fTipn1s IN BOSTON anu MS sI~lfI hlNlN was
keepiru house aided by Horacc's big brother
Sam He could hear Kitty stirring in the
kitchen and sam was evidently out milking
for he could hear the cows lowing in the barn
as they always did when Sam MIXED because
he took no long TO do It that they got tired
of waiting But what n strange noise Kitty
was making She was singing In a queer
high pitched up-and -downy voice that was
anything but downr
Ching a ling ling une whs, Kitty mnxes
ChlEg ching ching. bnckwhsa' eakee.
Kitty had always been a great hand for
singing at her work. but her voice was sweet
and tho tunes she sang were pretty ones.
This smg somehow reminded Horace OF the
Chinaman although the latter had never
sung
Me catee ginger. fre cisckers, mice.
Mes by NOUS. hole ca,ehee l,ius mice
liOlace Ike EN- tender, papa lik- EN- TAT
Ne like 'em any way alice samee cat
Horace hurriedly dressed and ran down.
stairs into tho kitchen and there stood his
sister, dressed in Chinese earb from head
to tiny foot and her pretty blue eyes were
santwise in her head.
She cluttered across the floor much as
your baby sister did when she was learn
ing to walk and said in a strange. hiRh-pitched
voice:
Hello Ho,ace You slcepee alice llsh,es'
ching a ling ling ting what Kitty make.f
Ching ching ching ling. buckwneat cakee
As she spoke she poured the batter on TO
the griddle.
Horace was not pleased. Ills sister was
a pretty. slender girl whom he loved dearly
and he did not like 70 find that she had been
turned into mincing Chinese maiden or
course he knew at once that it was the wiz |
ard's doing. And he was afraid that the !
wizard would change every one in Perry !
vile and perhaps in the United States and |
then what would become Of the country?
Just then the door opened and Sam came |
in. He had long pgtail down his back |
and wore the costume OF a Chinese farmer |
which was an Insult the wizard had put upon |
him for he was n free and independent Amer
lean who expected 10 cast lis first vote that
day. AZ soon as he saw Horace he said in
sngsong voice
why Won not blessed allie samec llkee me?-
"Oh. don't. sam Please be an American
I didn't know that horrid wizard would do
ANYTHING 80 mean or | wouldn't have mads
him bis
nice pagoda. said Kitty looking out Of
the window in tho direction of the Congrega-
tional church whose pretty colonial spire
had pointed the way to heaven those hum
dred wears To IIoraccs horror there stood
n Chinese temple with little tinlling bells
strung along the edges of it's many roofs
It was TUESDAY and The hoy heard the sound
Of "A horses hoofs on the bridge that lay
south of the house He ran from the kitchen
10 SEQ il il was a neichbor who could help him
restore his brother and sister 10 their Amcri-
canhood II w1S a n ighhor. NeiGhbor Jack
wood. ho could tell II bv tho horse. but alas,
Neichbor lakewood himself was Il Chinese
"Oh. Mr. lakewood. como In and help mo
I don't want Chinese relatives
II was election day and Mr. lakewood
shook lis head from side to side about twenty
times and snd'
"You tellce sam he come votee Alice
samee maliee Mack Kin Loo Empelor
With u sobbing cry Horace left Tho newly
made Chinnmnr Ia go on and help make
Mckinley Emperor aud ran up the road to
the hois,. of the minister. kindly man whom
an the children liked
lie knock ad at IN" door. \O one answcred
il rhen he remembered that Nr. Nutlciyh |
Tho minister. had gone 10 New ilaNeI the day
hofnre 80 attend n CpnvrntICn, and unless
4 Le dreadful wizard lad gone beyond Perry !
Vile he would be home in few minutes,
an American.
ja left the house and walked down the
hack road Wherever hr could Sea pc,-l. |
in the fields or on tn" ad, they were in Ili- !
nesr clothes. with long pictdils down their I
hacks and most ~ them singing outlaudsh
s,n,s Farmer Brown, who had n staa,u