Connecticut western news., 1915-07-08

| k-sV pretending that he and Duke
 E were a long procession. and hC
 made enough noise to rendci the auricular part of the illusion pcr feet. His own family was already at the lunch table when he arrived. aud the parade halted only at the door O. the dining room.
 "Oh, something." shouted Alr. Scho. field. clasping his bilious brow with both hands. Stop that noise. Isn't it awful enough for you to sing? Sit down. Not with that thing on. Take 1 that green rope off your shoulder. Now take that thing out of the dining l room and throw 1t in the ashcan. Where did you get it?"
 Where did get what. papa?" asked Penrod meekly, depositing the arror. dion in the hall just outside the din- 1 ing room door.
 That da-that third hand concer- tina
 Its q 'cordion.'' said Penrod taking his place at the table and noticing ! that both Margaret and Robert Will l Hams (who happened to be q gucsn were growing red.
 q don't care what you call it." said ! MT. Schofeld iIritably. "I want to l know where you got it." Penrod's eyes met Margaret's. Hers i had q strained expression. She very slightly shook her head. Penrod sent 1 Mir. Williams a grateful look and | might have been startled if he could 1 have seen himself in Il mirror at that moment, for he regarded Mitchy-Mitch with concealed but vigorous aversion and the resemblance would have horri. 1 fled him.
 "A man gave 1t to me-" he answered gently and was rewarded by the yisi bly, regained ease of his patrons man ner. while Margaret leaned back il her chair and looked at her brothe, with real devotion.
 "I should think he'd have been glad to-" said MT. Schodeld. Who was he?"
 "Sir?" Tn spite of the candy whicL he had consumed in company witt Marjorie and Mitchy-Mitch penrod had begun to eat lobster croquettes ear. nestlv.
 ''W 10 was he?"
 "W'ho do you mean. pnpa?"
 'The man that gave you that ghas' ly thing!"
 'Yes, sir3a man gave it to me"
 "I say, Who was he?" shouted MI Schofield.
 Well, was just walking alone. ant the man came up to me. It was right down in front of Colgates'. where most of the paints rubbed off the fence
 "Penrod!" The father used his most dangerous tone.
 "Sir?"
 "who was the man that gave you the concertina?"
 q don't know. was walking along and"-
 "You never saw him before?"
 ''No. sir. was just walk
 'That will do." said MT. Schoficld, its secret enemies and this was one of ours. I must ask to Ee excused"
 With that he wont out grossly. stop. ping in the h?ll moment before pass. ing beyond hearing. And after lunch PenrDd sought in vain for his accor dion. He even searched the library. where his father sat reading, though upon inquiry. penrod explained that he was locking for q misplaced schoo, book. He thought he ought to study q little every day, he said. even during vacation time. Much pleased. Mir. Schofcld rcse and joined the search finding the missing work on mathe. matics with singular ease-which cost him precisely the price of the book the following September.
 PcnrOd departed to study in the back yard. There. after cautious survey of tho neighborhood, he managed tc dislcdge the iron coCer uf the cistern and dropped the arithmetic within. A fine splash rewarded his listening ear Thus assured that when hp looked for that book again no one would find il for him, he replaced the cover and be. took himself pensively to the highway, ''iscouraeing Duke from following by repeated vOlleys of stones, some i'm. acinarv and others all too real.
 Arrived upon the populous and fes- tive scene of the dog and pony show. he first turned his attention to the brightly decorated booths which sur rounded the tent. The cries of the peanut vendors. of the popcorn men, of the toy balloon sellers, the stirring music of the band. playing before the performance to attract q crowd; the shouting of excited children and the barking of the dogs within the tent, l all sounded eXhllaratingly in penrods ears and set his blood a-tingle. Nev- 1 ertheless he did not squander his l money or fling it to the winds in one ] grand splurge. Instead. he began eau ] tiously with the purchase Of an eX- 1 traordinarily large pickle. which he oh. | tained from an aged negress for his | odd cent, too obvious Il bargain to be | pissed. At an adjacent stand he l bought a glass of raspberry lemonade ! (so alleged and slipped it as he ate the l pickle. He left nothing of either.
 Next he entered q small restaurant | tent and for a modest nickel was sun-