Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

"The school-beII," was the answer, from a
boy who stood near, adding, with a look OF
pleasure, 1T will stop soon."
Hadn't you better hurry, then?" suggested
Bobby, who had wholesome terror OF arrlv-
ing after the bell had done ringing.
What for? 'Tain't time" was the reply,
quite as ungrammatcal as Bobby himself
could have delivered. it.
Not time when the bell is ringing%
He was more than surprised.
"Of course not; it rings when it isn't time,
and stops when it is"
Well, declared" said Bobby, for the sec
ond time that day.
There. now it has stopped" said another,
and we must run or we shall be late. Would
You like to come with us?" he asked, politely.
Bobby accepted the invitation, and boy
backward, as they ran themselves.
Poor Bobby, unused to this manner of
walking, stumbled and fell upon the ground.
Jumping quickly to his feet, he begged to be
allowed to go his own way. And now it was
their turn to be surprised, for Master Bobby
started to leave the water and walk directly
on to the grass.
Take care!" they shouted, in alarm. "You
will be drowned"
And one seizing him by the arm dragged
him back.
They had not spoken moment too soon,
for his right leg had sunk down over his knee
in the grass, and was unpleasantly wet when
he drew it out.
"Never mind" they cried. "Come along;
there goes the bell again-hurTy up!"
And they all ran toward little red school
house not far from where they were.
Bobby could see, through the half-open door,
several boys inside, studying hard, and not
one looked up from his book as they came in.
who is this?" asked the master, catching
sight of Bobby.
7'He came through the hole in the ground!"
shouted all the boys at once, pushing him
forward.
Such queer-looking person as the school
master was! His clothes all buttoned at his
back, and pair of glasses on the back of his
head!
"Wonderful. wonderful" he said, taking
the glasses off in order to see Bobby better
Then the, doctor: is riight-there are people
living up there, after ALL"
He then proceeded to explain to Bobby why
his arrival among them had created SO much
excitement.
It seems that there lived in this strange
place learned man, who, like many another,
had plenty of ideas and theories about what
the armament from his youth up, and believed
if he could only get above it he would find
many new and wonderful things.
He had at last succeeded, how, cannot be
told, in making great hole over head, and
while he and his followers were vainly racking
fortunately tumbled down to them.
The schoolmaster was, of course, delighted
with this proof of the Doctors theories, and
would like to have taken Bobby at once to
his friend; but when anything unusual took
place, he always treated the boys to two more
hours of school.
Bobby, therefore, was given a seat, and "a
nice new Greek grammar to amuse himself
with, until the master could attend to him.
The school-room was very quiet; not boy
was idle Bobby tried to attract the attention
of one or two; but in vain-they would only
look at their books.
As no one would speak to him, he sat and
tried to make it all out, but he could come to
no very definite conclusion, except that he was
in very queer place, where everything seemed
to be exactly opposite to the way he had been
accustomed to having it.
q suppose that is Why the moon shines dur
square m instead of round; it gets squeezed com a.
ing through"
But he did not have time to decide how it
became round again, for just then it was time
for recess, and a very strange thing happened.