News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-05-10

and as they met he said:
Nov | must settle Maple l won't
have fellows sneaking about me. Be
sides, it's spelling my ventriloquism
If l try it on again, every one will
know who does it,"
1.-THE little beast! I'd wig himv' ex.
claimed Harvey.
Il say" said Jack. you know the
chiefs aquarium? Wouldn't it be a
lark to take it out of the drawing room
and empty it into Naples bedT"
"Fish and ALI"
Eyes We can carry it together"
Fright you are" replied Harvey.
I'm on"
AS Maple slept in the same dormitory
as Jack and Harvey it was easy
enough to play him the trick they had
agreed upon. When the house was
still, Jack went downstairs and took
the aquarium from the drawing room.
Harvey pulled down the clothes of Ma
pies bed and Jack emptied the water,
fish, sand and shells into it, while
Harvey covered the sleeper up again.
Both boys then got into bed, Jack
having put the empty aquarium into a
corner.
Maple woke up with a groan.
whats the matter?" asked Jack.
"How you do snore tonight. You won't
let a fellow sleep"
I've had a bad dream" answered
Maple. II thought 1 was ON board a
ell, nd rr,a pt xx-roD1-oH foI1 int
the sea and began to sink until l
reached the bottom and lay among the
shells and sand, with all sorts of beast
ly, big, sharklike fish swimming round
me. / feel quite wet and slippery. /
never had such a peculiar dream be-
fore, and l can't bring myself to be-
lieve it isn't real"
go to sleep, and don't bother me
with your sharks" said Jack.
Suddenly Maple exclaimed: give
caught a fish! And here's another,
and the beds wet through and through.
Am l at sea, or where am 1? Can I
have been drownedY
tits my opinion you're going off
your nut" answered Jack.
Maple sprang out of bed and pulled
up the blind, which let in the moon
light and enabled him to see that his
bed was soaked through. Fish of all
sorts were moving about and pretty
mess there was in the sheets what with
sand and shells and the rest of it.
"What a shame!" exclaimed Maple
"I'll tell Mr.. Crawcour of this. Here's
a trout and a goldfish and a horrid red
looking thing. You'll get it for this"
"Why, you little disguster," said Jack,
"do you mean to say 1 did it? I'll skin
you if you tell stories about me!'
Somewhat alarmed, Maple answered:I
II did not mean to say it was you, but
somebody must have put all these
things in my bed. They could not have
come there of their own accord. Will
you let me sleep in your bed tonight,
Jack?"
mo; III see you hanged first, and
then won'tv'
"Why not?'
Because I hate sneaks."
Maple turned to Harvey, but he was
SAudAAy OOuuL dlS, anu at last ne IOllGu
himself up in the Counterpart and slept
on the floor, vowing that he'd let Mr..
CraWcour know all about it in the morn
ing.
Jack employed himself, with Har-
vey's help in picking up the fish and
shells as well as he could and putting
them back in the glass bowl, which he
filled with water from the jug. Only
one carp was dead, and that he threw
up the chimney. Then he carried the
downstairs and put it back
in its usual place.
Maple watched Jack at work and |
could not help saying, 81 know it was
you, Harkaway, and I'll tell of you as
sure as fate"
"Will you? Then you shall have |
to tell about. Harvey, old |
man, get the poker and rake that fish !
down 1 SHE'D up the chimney"
Harvey did so and held it out in his
hand, nicely covered with SCOT.
"You like fish, and you shall eat it,
exclaimed Jack, Selling Maple by the
neck-"soot and ALP
at isn't cooked"
"All the better. Shove it down his
throat, Harvey, if he won't chew it,
while 1 hold him tightr'
A little pressure under the ears
Maple to open his mouth. The
fish was put in, and to avoid being |
choked he was obliged to eat it.
Jack laughed and said, THAT will |
teach you to sneak about me, and if |
you get me into row for this I'll |
have it out Of you somehow"
"I'll never sneak again-never, new
err" muttered Maple.
Maple groaned, and Jack and Har-
vey went to bed again, leaving the
victim of their cure for |
sneaking to digest his supper.
CHAPTER XIII.
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