The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12

Then the boy moved along the wall and she lost
sight of him. She soon grew tired of waiting for
him TO return and taking her doh she sat down
under tulip tree and there Hi saw her, for he had
been peeping through his own aperture for some
time hoping to see the marvellous girl
He studied her carefully, and it suddenly flashed
upon him that she resembled Alfalfa Shote.
This shock, but he soon concluded that
something had happened TO her; some dread disease
that had altered her appearance and his heart ached
TO climb over and comfort his former playmate.
he mcanny bird had been running along the
wall, eagerly watching the two children and delight
odiy studying their faces to what effect his trick
he'd upon their feelings, and when he saw that Hi
was sorry he gutfawed with glee and kicked out so
vigorously that he dislodged loose brick from the
tap q the wall
Hi seized the brick and hurled it at the bird, but
he dodsed IT and 1t vanished over the wall only to
come flying back a mCment later Alfalfa had tossed
= over, and then ran TO sec what happened, while
the Jaclass flew into tne open window. Hi picked up
the brick and then looked at the wall
An idea had occurred to him Why not make the
opening larger and thus be able to talk Alfalfa
Just like Pyramus and Ihisbe used to do In ancient
Grecian days He Immediately set TO work and in
a few minutes had loosened brick and then an
other so that within quarter of an hour he would
have had an opening two or three bricks in width
had he not been INTERRUPTED by the luncheon bell.
After the meal he fastened 10 the garGen. but
where his loose bricks had lain against the wall was
a green door Just as high as his head! Strange to
say 4ltata saw the door from her side of the wall
at the very instant and hurried to it, eagerly
touching a tiny door-knob at the same time. Hi
opened it from his side. yet it wasn't the same door
No; each saw dark passage, very narrow, stretch
ing away into perfect blaekness
Iii at once plunged into the passage, sure that his
eyes deceived him, for how could it really be there
Alfalfa hesitated a moment but then stepped in,
for she was anxious to speak to the queer boy that
looked like Iii.
Each walked along for many yards, il seemed,
and both began to be rather uneasy for the passage
very dark; but suddenly Alfalfa saw Hi
cropping along toward her and she cried out:
ooh, Hi! Is it you. Dear me- am glad!
getting scared"
As soon as he had taken her hand her fear left
her, but Hi said
This is mighty funny! How did this tunnel get
here in this wall! I can't understand IT,"
just then the mockiRg laugh of the jaczass rang
through the passage and both turned to look for
him, only to find nat they were no longer in a tu--
mel, but in circular roomi The walls closed in
around them imprisonIng them IN a brick vault to
which there was no opening
let a faint light came from cracks in the roof
above them, and they the jackass walking about
on the floor nervously looking upward and seeming
~ much alarmed at being IN such a place.
This is what both Of the children thought for
they were also much frightened at finding them
selves III this predicament
"IIa. ha! We arc trapped" cried the birG
"Why. he can talk y exclaimed III. forgetting the
peril OF their sposition IN his surprise. II never
heard him speak before !"