The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-30

yellow hair and green eyes was sit
ting ON bench just overhead. He
wore sky blue clothes and bright or
ange shoes, and he was picking apples
as fast as lightning. But just as soon
as he picked an apple he would lose
II while 1t was on the way TO his
mouth and the green-eyed boy would
pick another Immediately with a be-
wildered and saturnine expression OF
countenance.
In the meantime the remarka BILE
old gentleman was picking up his -four
and eggs and losing them again with
incredible swiftness and delight. Most
of the eggs fell on the head of a ten
der and amusing child dressed in a
pink silk wrapper and white stockings
with Prussian blue dots. The pleas
ant creature caught most of the eggs
as they fell, but this was not really
useful for it would lose them as fast
as it caught them.
Fido soon found Lose-a-Land becom-
Ing very monotonous and irritating.
He began to notice that he was losing
all his memory and he feared that he
would before long lose his license and
his hair So he decided TO leave Lose
a-Land Immediately
Therefore he inquired when the next
train would go.
Lose-a-Land began to laugh and laugh
and laugh. You have lost the next
train"' they shouted all together.
Well, then when does the one after
that go?" asked Fido full Of politeness
and superciliousness.
"Ha, ha! ha!" shouted the remark
able old gentleman and the green-eyed
boy and the pink-froced child. "Ha!
ha! ha! You have lost that one, too.
ha frof In, I 7
so as to be lost"
Then the laughter ceased almost at
once and Fido discovered that the in
habitants of Lose-a-Land had lost all
idea rs to what the joke had been.
Deeply entertained ahd disgusted
Fido started to walk out of the inter-
esting but tiresome country. On the
way he saw great piles of leaves, so
high that they seemed to touch the
sky. There were so many of these piles
that they made mountain ranges as big
as the Himalayas or the Rocky Noun
tains, at least that is the way it would
have struck Fido if he had ever seen
the Himalayas or the Rockies.
He learned that these We're the leaves
that were lost by the trees on earth ev-
cry autumn. Farther on he came to
immense shining hills. all bristling
with points and he discovered that
THESE were all the lost pins on earth.
He met the buttons that little boys
lose and the slate pencils that little
girls lose on earth. They were all neat
ly stacked up in piles much larger
than the largest houses. There were
watches and pocket knives and spoons
The very biggest pile of all was the pile
of the lost pennies.
All at once 'Fido stopped in fright
he heard the most terrible barking and
growing and swapping of teeth and
rafting of chains. Finally he plucked
up courage enough to advance and he
saw more than million dogs of all
kinds from the most insignificant pup
by to the greatest and most mighty
st. Bernards. These were all the lost
dogs.
When they saw him they seemed
strangely and ferociously delighted
But at this moment Fido, who had
been losing things all the time, got
queer lost feeling all over; and of
course as soon as that happened, he
lost Lose-a-Land. Naturally the min
ute he lost Lose-a-Land he found him
self again. And his bark came back.
And his appetite came back And his
spirits came back, all chasing after
him Joyously from Lose-a-Land.
"B-r-r-r"' said Fido, shaking him
self. And as he said "B-r-r-r!" he
landed-where do you suppose?
Right in Next Sunday