The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03

/ to put it on and then Wen have green
room like mammals blue room.
Only different, said Pygmaiion, who
/ was not color blind.
Mrs. Darby was d CHEEKY old soul who
! never nterfered with the boys as long as
the1 didn't interfere with her and when
/ they told her they were going to do some
/ FASTING she made TO objection.
The paste was soon made and the boys
I set TO work to decorate their room. Vir-
gil was very neat Of hand and he did the
{ setting in place Of each twenty-Gollar
picture, while Pygmalion did the past
ing.
II was a tedious Job and long before
E they We're through with II the hovs were
sorry they had undertaken it. but Virgil
: never gave up any project and as Pyg-
mallon had the easiest part to do he
diant feel that he could complain.
Al last, after several hours hard work
the room was done and there were nine
pictures left over
There" said Virgil standing off and
contemplating his work. What do you
think of that?
Pygmalion looked at il critically for a
rev moments and then said: 4 dom
like il. II makes the room too dark and
there too much of a muchness to it. If
theE were different cOlOrs or different
They'd be different finished Virgil
Well j m not stuck on il myself. Say
We scraDe IL OF. ] always did like to
With?"
w Hat the matter Win a nOoI
PygmallOn went out to the barn and got
Two hoes and the boys set TO work to
serape off the wall paper which had cost
them so much trouble to put en- and
which would cost their biissfully ignor-
ant father Just $50
IT'S regular pie to scrape it off, = said
f Pygmailon, who was the first TO get TO
work
And Virgil found it was pie also. The
damp bills stuck some so the hoes tore.
them considerably and then they curied
up on the floor. some of them backed by
scraps and the former wall paper but
1t was easy work unpaperingY the room
and when the boys had finished they took
up the scraps and filed three meal bags
with them.
when they're dry we'll burn them
said Virgil
Mr. and Mrs. Enright came home in
day or two and both together and
with many many interruptions the boys told
| them that they had papered their room
with some pictures that had come to
the house but not liking the looks of
It they had taken them off.
"Oh, let's have a bonfire now of the
scraps. said Pygmalion. 1t was at
twilight.
May. we, mammal" said Virgil.
Yes, dear, said Mrs. Enright. DO it
IN the path out in front of the house
so that you won't kin the young grass.
1 like bOnfires myself"
While the flames were eating up the
scraps OF $40 Mr.. Enrisht came out
Caroline, said he. what do you
suppose has happened?"
Il m sure i can't guess except that its
face"
Uncle Thaddeus left me $4,000 and
It's TO be seat to me-fancy-in $50 bills.
We mustn't let the children see them"
lie held the lawyers letter in his
hand as he spoke.
Why it has been sent he went on
ms ms IS dated a week ago. Funny that
MIS-. Darby didn't say anything about
Mrs Darby. who was in the nexr
room knew nothing about It so Mr. En-
right went TO the window and called
out
Boys, did box come to me from my
lawyer while 1 was gomez"
Yes said Virgil, leaving the fire
WRfch had spent its fury and was now
merely glowing in lot of curled and
writing ashes
1T was a box fun of pictures. money.
/ think, and we papered the room with
them You didn't want them Gid you?
There IS whole lot left, nine j think
we've been burning what we took down
from the wall. Did you want them
Mr.. Enright controlled himself with a
great effort. He liked what money
would buy as well as any one and THO
thought that his boys had just had a
$f9,OJ0 bonfire was not an inspiriting
one. Still he saw il was his own fault
tom drawer, papa" said Pygmalion
leaving the dulling ashes, but they're
all alike and they didn look a bit pretty
on our walls. Too green.
Yes, said Mr.. Enright too Jolly
green. And it's all my fault