The sun., 1903-02-15


h.nneped ia fall on a saturday Harry
Mum took his lamp with him and wei"
10 snend Sunday with his Aunt Sarah ~
SIetuchen Corners.
Hc he'd no clear idea ~ To what favor
he should ask of m, ljiEn when he hi'd
summoned him. Ee was very much OF
boy and generally wished on the spur o'
the moment, else he might have gone
about the thing automatically and wished
for a regular Rockefeller fortune az once
However,. he continued to get more fun OUT
of his wishes than most leople do out OF
fortune
He had 10 GO by train 10 the Corners
and n, one Of the stations he saw Il very
handsome coach and pair, and It suddenly
struck him that he would liz" To be met
by lust such an eq,iipage- only ne couio
eet along without driver. who would sifn-
ply be in the way He prrrcred I" DO hi'
own driving
Now. in order 10 have the horses anc
carriage waiting for him when he arrived
at his destination he must call the dJinn
then and there.
He took his precious brass lamp and
went out on the rear Platform OF the last
car. Then he took out his handkerchief
and rubbed the lamp in the lsla' fashion
and in a moment the train had passenger
who was minus a ticket. for the huge dJiihl
6oated out OF the lamps neck and cur'ed
and waved behind the train at il trying To
rival the smoke from the engine,
@What do YOU want said he Grossly
sHurry UP. for this motion is making me
H."
The djinn was probably five or six
thousand years old and yet he had never
before ridden on train.
Harry had a fellow feeling for him. as he
VAS ant TO be train-sick himself, and so he
wished his wish ~ quickly as possible.
.Iwant a splendid pair of horses and an A
No. ! carriage to meet me at Metucnen
Corners. Oh, and have somebody TO hold
'em, but I want to drive. you know And
want EN- to be faster than any automo-
bile"
Enough. said the djinn, turning dea,hly
pale throughout his whole dusky. sinuous
length. 1T shall be as you desire, but call
me no more on these moving houses. for the
motion is intolerable.
so saying. the djinn vanished and Harry
taking his lamp. went back into the car
The train now seemed to creep, 30
anxious was Harry TO see his new posses
siors. But at last the cars began TO slacken
and there stoood two mettlesome chestnut
horses. champing their bits. tossing their
heads, switching their beautiful long tails
for of course they had not oeen docked, that
beirg a barbarty reserved for civiliza-
tion-and paving the ground in impatience
To he of. An Arab sheik was standing at
their heads, but there was no one in the
carriage.
Harry hurried on the train in great e1-
citement and almost ran into his Cousin
Sam.
Hello. Sam. I've come to spend Sunday.
Did YOU drive down. he said
aNo." said Sam. Father was using
both horses for plougl,ing. came down
In Assph's OK cart. Do you mind riding
back in it'"
.Woildn't mind most any day but this.
hut I know something heap better than
th1t.'
He pointed, al he spoke, to the magnificent
horses. =.
Il hadn't noticed EN- before. Aren't
they beauts? They must belong to Senator
Norton" said Sam.
.Wen, guess they belong to Harry
Num-. Come along. went to race some
automobiles.
or course Sam thought Harry was joking
until n, remembered tho brass lamp and,
then his eyes snapped with joy.
-Jineoes! I'm glad / came down" he
cried.
well, get up and let start" said Harry.
Tne two boys Jumped into the carriage
and Harry took the reins, and as he did 90
the sheik vanished.
seiyes free and also feeling the touch OF a
how on the rcins, pranced forward ioyfully
and thew were soon on tho macadamized
road and going at the rate of ten miles an
Isn't this great? Whoop!" yelled Sam
at the top Of his lungs. as the noole anims II
took the bits in their teeth and plunged
forward as II they were on their native
You bst it's great, but 1t Il be greater
when we can race an automobile.
well, but a horee can't 60 as fast as an
automobile raid Sam, grabbing the dash,
board az they swung around sharp bend
Not OF nary horses. but these the djinn
rets can 40 anything he wants EN- to do
and told him they must 60 faster than
autos.
Of which stood a red motor wagon OF the
French kind. one OF those terrors to horses
and pedex rians. It's owner and his chaui-
feur were just about starting for Philadel'
pnl0, n8NLuB stollVu az tiic iooN i'oSA~ -~'
luncheon.
sRaoe yer,' yelled Harry, drawing rein.
You should have seen the contemptious
smile on the face OF tho automobilist.
He was one Of those fellows who never
turned out for any one. He had never been
beaten in road race and he never expected
10 be and he did not care a rap for any one
except T. Bailey-Chubb. which was his Pc
ctiliar name.
Harry came TO full stop and told MIR
r. Baiiey-C hubb that he would give him
q start as no didn't want to he too hard on
him You know the way a saucy boy can
talk TO a man older than himself.
But T. Baiiey- Chubb would not deign "a
speak 10 the hoy. He did wonder what &C
young fellow was doing with 30 fine a pail
Of horses, but he was not the man to handy
words with an ordinary boy. Why. his
ancestors had been rich for nearly two
generations.
Harry winked at Sam and held his horses
In until T. Bailey-Chubb. working the
machine himself, had gotten about .
quarter OF a mile start. The boy wounc
the reins around his hands and saying q
E~i,i, Just you ~a,cn em AID lioiu last,
ne touched the horses lightly with hi
whip.