The Nevada County picayune., 1912-04-12

left to write. horizontally; they mourn in white t;a as4sa3 of, sjisek,c ai46 they are awfully honest and pay their debts.
 But there Is one other point of diff ference still queerer: they wear pa- jamas all day, while We wear them only at night"
 Here l yawned Always hate that heavy, historical, instructive stuff, you you headache, unless you can slip of to sleep first.
 So 1 reached the letter up to Jen- kins.
 Just run over the rest of 1t your self, and see If he says anything about his present" I said. settling comfort ably Clever idea of mine, don't you think?
 And I was just dropping my head to have a snug little nap-just little forty, you know-when, dash me, 1T l didn't have another idea! Awfully annoying, time like that.
 Mind is so devilish alert, dash 1t! Always doing things like that; cant seem to get over 1t, you know. And this ripping idea that bobbed up now and got me all reused up was nothing more or less than to unite the string myself and see what the thing was. See?
 'I believe, sir" said Jenkins, look ing up the gentleman has sent you hm-has sent you"
 By love, a suit of pajamas!" l ex- claimed, holding them up.
 It was neck and neck, but beat Jenkins to 1t, after all
 Gentleman says, sir continued Jenkins, studying the letter, that his present of pair of pajamas may seem surprising, but you won't know how surprising until you have worn them"
 Jolly likely" I admitted, feeling the silk. By love, 1t was the finest, yet thinnest stuff l ever saw. soft as rose leaves and as tilmy light as spiders web. Not bad, that, for a comparison, eh? Caught the idea from a vase of full-blown roses that were beginning to shed their petals there on the table. And on one Of the blossoms was little brown spider. Catch the idea? Suggested spiders web, you know.
 They're rather red, sir Jenkins commented dubiously.
 Red?- Well, I should say! My! How jolly red they were! We spread them under the light, and the red seemed to flow all over the table and fall from the edge. Why, they were as red as
 I tried to think of something they were as red as. but somehow couldn't fetch the idea. l thought of red ink and blood and fireworks, but they didn't seem to be up to them at all And big. velvety petal that dropped from one of the crimson roses just seemed brown beside them.
 I was wondering whether the little spider was curious about the jolly red color there below him. And just then Jenkins hand went out and swept at the little thread. The spider dropped and shot into a fold of the pajamas.
 T say, Look out" I exclaimed as Jenkins made another clutch. Don't mash the beast on the silk; you'll ruin 1.-the silk. I mean!"
 There 1t goes, sir." said Jenkins eagerly. "Over by your hand"
 No; by love; he's gone into leg of the pajamas! Here, shake him out-gently now!"
 Jenkins lifted the garment gingerly and lightly shook it. But nothing came forth.
 Why don't you look in the leg" said, and see if you can see it?"
 Jenkins peered down one of the silken tubes and forthwith dropped It with a yell. He jumped back.
 Look out, sir" he cried excitedly: don't touch 'em! There's tarantula in there big as sand crab, and It's alive"
 backed nervously from the crum- pied crimson pile on the floor.
 Crimson?
 
 1t must be the shadow of the table there that made the things so dark | black, In fact. But my mind was on the tarantula and l was thinking that 1t must have been wrapped with the pajamas. Yet I could not understand how this could be, considering how tightly the things had been rolled
 Anyhow, 1t was there; and Jenkins pointed eXcitedly. Look, sir! You can see 1t moving under the silk" By love. so you could! And the thing seemed nearly as big as raj. It was making for the end of the leg l climbed upon chair.
 Get a club" I exclaimed, and smash the thing as it comes out
 Jenkins rushed out and returned with brassie.
 Careful now." I warned from the
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