The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-25

per to the other, who looked at mis-
watch, nodded his head and began to
shut and strap his suit case. They
evidently were going to leave. the
house before the arrival of the New
Year, and the djinn would not arrive
in time to seize them.
Still Harry kept on rubbing the
lamp.
The burglar who had fastened his
suit case stepped to the window and
noiselessly opened it. Then he re-
turned to the closet and stopped to
put a few small pieces of silver into
his pocket His companion meantime
was buttoning his overcoat and when
he had finished doing that he shut his
suit case and locked it and stepped to
the window just as the deep toned bell
of the Episcopal Church filled the mid
night air with melodious reverbera-
tons.
Hurry Messrs. Burglars! .or Harry
will make hurry impossible. He is still
rubbing the lamp and when the last
tone has struck the dim will fill the
next room and then he will fill you
with CONSERVATION.
Even as it was, the burglars would
have escaped if one of them had not
seen a little silver inkstand on a ia
BILE by the bureau. He turned back
to get it while the bell was striking it's
eleventh stroke and then it was too
late to escape, for the rubbing now
brought Sir Djinn, not quite as large
as life, for Harry's bedroom would not
admit it, but every bit as powerful as
usual.
Quick" said Harry. "Pick up the
two men in the next room and-and
tie them to the weather vane of the
Episcopal Church"
Djinns have a way of hurrying that
might well be emulated by children of
all ages. The very next second those
two burglars found themselves paying
an involuntary visit to church and in
another moment to the accompaniment
Of bells and whistles they found them
selves standing on the apex of the
steeple, bound to the weather vane.
Thew were tied so we'll that they could
not fall and yet they were not in what
one might call comfortable position.
Harry had two wishes each month
and instead of reserving his second
wish to getting the burglars down
from their exposed positions and into
some well deserved cell, he again sum-
moned the dim who had vanished
with his usual promptitude.
When the big fellow had returned and
his cloud-like presence filled the room
Harry asked him for a bag of gold
produced a bag of gold from the pock-
ct of his diaphanous cloak and wish
ing Harry happy New Year. he van
ished
"Oh, bother" said Harry. "I wish
he had stayed and talked with me-
Every time he comes 1 want to ask
him some question about Arabia and
China where he lives and he always
gets away before 1 think of doing it,"
Harry's ideas of Asiatic geography
were almost as hazy as those of some
other children in the world. His
teacher thought that arithmetic was
more important than geography and
so although the boy was only IL he
had bounded his last country and was
now leaping through algebra at a be-
wildering pace.
However, that is neither here nor
there. The djinn had gone and Harry.
full of the proceedings of the last few
minutes, jumped out of bed and after
satisfying himself that the silver was
all safe, ran in to awaken his parents
Happy New Yearl Burglars have
been here, but they didn't get any
thing and they're on the top of the
church steeple. ana here's a New
Years present"
Mrs. Mum always walked at once
and she understood what Harry had
said. but her husband was slower to