Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-12-06

lett 10 write, horizontally; they mourn
In white instead of black. and 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
know. If you have to hear It, gives
you headache, unless you can slip on
to sleep first.
SO 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." said, settling comfort
ably. Clever idea of mine, don't you
think?
And l was just dropping my head
| to have a snug little nap-just little
forty, you know-when, dash me, IT
1 didn't have another idea! Awfully
annoying. time like that.
Mind Is so devilish alert, dash IT.!
Always doing things like that; cant
seem to get over it, 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?
II believe, SIR" said jenkins, look
ing up, "the gentleman has sent you
h'm-has sent you"
"By Jove, suit of pajamas!" I ex-
claimed, holding them up.
1t was neck and neck. but l beat
jenkins to it, after all!
Gentleman says, Sir" continued
jenkins, studying the letter, that his
present of pair of pajamas may
seem surprising. but you wont know
how surprising until you have worn
| them"
Jolly likely" l admitted. feeling
| the silk. By Jove, it was the finest,
yet thinnest stuff l ever saw, soft as
rose leaves and as filmy light as a
spiders web. Not bad, that, for a
comparison, Ell? 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 a little brown
spider Catch the idea? Suggested
spiders web. you know.
They're rather red, sir" jenkins
commented obviously.
Red? Well, l 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
/ 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 a big, velvety petal that
dropped from one of the crimson
roses just seemed brown beside
| them.
l 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 fold of the pajamns.
II say! Look OUT" l exclaimed as
Jenkins made another clutch. Don't
mash the beast on the silk; you'll ruin
1.-THE silk, l meant"
There 1t goes, sir!" said Jenki IS
eagerly. lover by your hand"
mo; by Jove; he's gone into leg
of the pajamas! Here. shake him
out-gen.ly now!"
Jenkins lifted the garment gingerlv
and lightly shook It, But nothing
came forth.
why don't you look in the leg"
said, land 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 EN-! There's tarantula
in there big as a sand crab, and it's
alive"
backed nervously from the crum-
pied crimson pile on the floor.
Crimson?
OF course, / knew it was crimson;
it 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 l could not understand
how this could be. considering how
tightly the things had been rolled.
Anyhow, it was there; and jenkins
pointed excitedly.
Look, sir! You can see 1t moving
under the silk"
! BY Jove. so you could! And the
thing seemed nearly as big as a rat.
1t was making for the end OF the leg.
| climbed upon chair.
Get a club" j exclaimed, land
smash the thing as 1t comes out!"
Jenkins rushed out and returned
with a brassie.
Careful now" I warned from the
chair. Don't 80 ana hit the dashed
thing before 1t gets out. and make a
devil Of a mess on the silk! There 1t
is-it's out! No, no-not yet! Wait.
until 1t gets its whole body out! There
now: he's drawing out his last beast
| " leg. Now-now let drip>'-