News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-16

IT hight Cir Lancelot du Lake, the Child,
Gentul-hearted, meek and mild
What though I'm but a littul child
Gentul-hearted, meek and mild,
/ do my share, though, but-though
Penrod paused and gulped. The
voice of Mrs. Lora Rewbush was heard
from the wings, prompting irritably,
and the Child Sir Lancelot repeated:
II do my share, though but-though but
| q tot.
pray you knight Sir Lancelot!"
This also met the royal favor, and
Penrod was hidden to join Sir Gala
had at the throne AS he crossed the
stage Mrs. Schofield whispered to Mar
garet:
THAT boy! He's unpinned his man
tie and fixed it to cover his whole cos
tune. After we worked so hard to
make it becoming!
Never mind. He'll have to take the
cape off in a minute" returned Marga-
ret. She leaned forward suddenly,
narrowing her eyes to see the better.
"What is that thing hanging about his
left ankle?" she whispered uneasily.
"How queer! He must have got tan
gled in something"
"Where?" asked Mrs. Schofield in
alarm.
| His left foot 1t makes him STUN
BILE. Don't you see? 1t loOks-it looks
like an elephants foot!'
The Child Sir Lancelot and the
Child Sir Galahad clasped hands be-
fore their child king. Penrod was con-
scious of great uplift: in a moment
he would have to throw aside his man.
tie, but even so he was protected and
sheltered in the human garment of
man. His stage fright had passed, for
the audience was but an indistinguish-
able blur of darkness beyond the daz-
zling lights. His most repulsive speech
Chat in which he proclaimed himself
"tot'O was over and done with, ant
now at last the small, moist hand Of
the Child Sir Galahad lay within his
own. Craftily his brown fingers stole
from Matrices palm to the wrist. The
two boys acclaimed in concert:
I'VE are two chuldrun of the Tabul Round
Strewins Kindness all around.
With love and good deeds striving ever
for the best,
May our Htttl efforts e'er be blest.
Two littul hearts we offer. See,
United in love, faith, hope and char-Ow"
The conclusion of the duet was mar
red The Child Sir Galahad suddenly
stiffened and, uttering an irrepressible
Shrek of anguish, gave brief exhibit
ton of the contortionist's art. Giles
twistin' my wrist! Dern you, leggo!O
The voice of Mrs. Lora Rewbush was
again heard from the wings. 1t sound
ed bloodthirsty. Penrod released his
victim, and the Child King Arthur,
somewhat disconnected, extended his
scepter and. with the assistance of the
enraged prnmpter, said:
"Sweet child friends of the Tabul Round,
In brotherly love and kindness abound;
Sir Lance(ot, you have spoken well,
Sir Galahad too, as clear as bell.
So now pray doff your nantes gay,
You shall be knighted this very day."
And Penrod dotted his mantle.
simultaneously thick and Vastly
gasp came from the audience, as from
500 bathers in q wholly unexpected
surf. This gasp was punctuated irreg-
ularly over the auditorium by imper-
fectly subdued screams both of dismay
and incredulous joy and by two dismal
shrieks. Altogether it was an eXtraor-
binary sound, q sound never to be for |
gotten by any one who heard it. 1t |
was almost as unfergetable as the |
sight when caused it, the word ''sight" |
being here used in its vernacular sense, |
for Penrod, standing unmantled and |
revealed IN all the medieval and artis- /
tic glory of the janitor's blue overalls,
falls within its meaning.
(1o be Continued)