The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

aPT7 HIS is a Kandahoo story, because ts 1t is about the Kandahoo chil. aN1 story, too; and the school is Miss Teachem's, which Princess Mary, Princess Ruth and Prince George attend. the 4th of October came, unfortunateiys after the opening of the term; put the Kandahoo children were very lucky pe- to say that if she would allow them to spend the day at the palace his motor. car would fetch them at 10 o'clock ana bring them back at bedtime.
 The first Saturday afternoon or the September term they asked Miss Ieacn- em if they might go into the town Io buy their presents red top hotgbt nng bep a giass paperweight with her own .photograptnl aptl showing through it; and Princess huth a silk Handkerchief with E. IT r,lss'sOa one Sos Iler.g because her name was tlorences and Princess Mary got beautiful little 2 s.Mother said in her last letter that she'd lost hers. she saia' ,,,iti'a,it d1@ T, one' doesn't it, Miss Scribble?' (MisS scsipS5 cS SIe was one of the teachers who ne1 n., taken them into town.l I'm sure sne II NSg s.I 'caI cant imagine any one sewing IT they didn't just have to-" put m Fr'"- cess s.ob H%oV' oY dear" said Miss scribble in ,sboclted tones, I'm quite sure ner Wsfesty is a most beautiful neeoi.e- u1oman! What would she say lh S sLiS had heard you? Now lIs rHn aToas, ToacSem, m"
 Miss Teachem really could pc tTay .ys nieA but the children were all q an2, alttS bi afraid of her, and theyo as N9es sooa nay nave an a appIe-pie be ', as they did once for Miss Scribble, CT chalking mars iaI,i1 an her back. as they But 1t isn't fair n for me to tell tales if the draw" ing teaenert iaeie tSa 1 only person who didn't ,sreS in inc least what she said or did was Pickle. magpie. who lived Tn the .svSaH sGnoG1 n,ee erGdd indeed, my dears." she said when she saw the children's pres. enta ''(Take your hands ouL or your pockets. George, and stand like a gen. tIemanN If your behavior Is all that eoHId wish in the meantime, you shah certainly spend your dear inoth- er's birthday with her.
 MARY's TROUBLE
 .It is always behavior, behaviour said Prince George when they got out Eide the door again. I'm jolly glad I'm going to a proper boys school next term. Wish there wasn't whole week and two days to wait before mothers birthdayP
 One morning the children had hn- ished writing "Be good and you will be happy" six times, and were shut ting up their copy books, when sud denly there was a little sob from Princess Mary's corner of the room.
 said Miss Teachem.
 aN-nothing," said Princess Mary.
 ''Nonsense!' said Miss Teachem. Lit tie girls don't cry for nothing Tell me
 its my th-thimble for mother" sobbed Princess Mary.
 A~You haven't been so careless as to lose it, hope?' said Miss Teachem se- s!No.yesP' faltered Princess Mary. "Its-it's gOnel l thought had it quite safe, but-but-
 Miss Teachem stood up there and then at her desk, and began serious little Ialk about carelessness, and what dreadful trouble it might lead to if children didn't get out of 1t before they thia was really important loss, they d better all set to work and hunt through the house and garden for the thimble, Because the presents were going by that Tight's post, as there wasn't parcels delivery in Kandahoo on Sunday.
 Bless me, how the children huntedl In the schoolroom, and in the dormitories, and along the passages, because Prin- cess Mary had carried the thimble about with her ever since shed bought iti And at last they all went into the garden, and began looking in the rock eries and fower-beds, and under the bushes-that is, all of them except Prin- cess Mary, who just went and sat in the summer house at one end oR the garden by herself. and screwed her two fists into her eyes, and cried harder at, "'oh' Mary, 1t is silly of you to go on like that" said Princess Ruth, looking in at the door. Come and help to hunt. It'n do much more good than
 |it isn't any use! It's no good any of you looking anywherer' said Princess Mary with a fresh burst of crying. T