The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-05-22


Round. ana il WINS, lube performed
in public that Very -:tfternoon at tile
WQmen's. ARTS. au'l l;uil;l: hall for the
benefit of the Cp"red Infants letter
ment society. And. IT. amy flavor Of
sweetness remained in the nature Of
Penrod Schofed after the disma'
trials of the Schoo! week Just past
that problema,ic. lntin'tesin.al rem
nant was made pungent acid by tln
fmminence Of his destiny to form
prominent feature Of the spectace art
to declaim the loathSoMe sentiment
of a character n:t,lied upon the pro
gram the Child Sir ,EanceTot
After each rehearsal he had plotted
escape. and only ten days earlier there
had been glimmer Of light. Mrs
Lora Rewbush caught very bad cold.
and it was hoped it might develop into
pneumonia. but she recovered so quick
" that not even Z rehearsal of the
Childrens Pageant was postponed
Darkness closed in. Penrod had rather
vaguely debated plans for a self mutt
lation such as would make his ap-
pearance as the Child Sir Lancelot in
expedient on public. grounds. 1t was
heroic and attractive thought. but
the results Of some extremely sketchy
! preliminary experiments caused him
! to abandon it,
There was no escape. and at last his
! hour was hard upon him. Therefore
| he brooded on the fence and gazed
with envy, ut his vistful Duke
The dogs name was undescriptivc
! Of his person, vlicl, was obviously
| the result Of !, singular series of mes
| alliances. He wore: a grisZled mus
! tache and indefinite whiskers. He
was small and shabby and looked like
an old postman. Penrod- envied Duke
because he was sure Duke would new
er be compelled to be. Child Sir
I.ancelot, He the,iss$aes a~doG free and
!! unshackled to 80 ofseome as the wind
listeth Penrod forgot the life he led
| Duke.
There was long solioquy upon the
| fence. a plaintive monologue without
| words. The hoy's thoughts were ad-
! jectives. but they were expressed by
running film Of pictures in his minds
! eye, morbldly prophetic Of the hfdeosi-
ties before him. Finally lie spoke
| aloud. with such spleen that Duke rose
| from his launches and lifted one ear
| in keen anxiety.
IT hight Sir Lancelot du Lake. the child
| Gentul hearted. meek and mild.
! What though I'm hut ittul child.
Gentul hearted. meek and Oof!
All Of this except "oof" ~as quo.a.
ton from the Child Sir Lance;ot. as
conceived, by Mrs. Lora Rewbush.
Choking upon it. penrod slid down
from the fence. and with slow and
thoughtful steps entered Il one storicd
wing Of the stable. consisting of a sin
gle apartment, doorcd With cement
and used rs storeroom. for broken
! bric-a.brac. old paint buckets. decayed
! garden hose, Wornout carpets. dead
furniture and other condemned. odds
and ends not yet considered hopeless
| enough to be given away. -.
In one corner stood a large box,
part of the building itself; it was eight
feet high and open at the top, and it
had been constructed as a :sawdust
magazine: from which was drawn ma
terial for the horses bed in a stall on
the other side of the partition. The
big box. so high and towerlike, so CON-
modious, so suggestive. had ceased to
fulfill its Legitimate function, though
proyidentially it had been at. least half
full Of sawdust when the horse died.
Two years had Scnesby since that pass
ing. an interregnum in transportation
during which enrod's father was
thinking The explained sometimes) Of
an automobile: s Men nwhile. the gifted
and generous sawtlEst box had served
brilliantly in war and PEACE: it was
Periods stronghold: .*> j.. ). ST..
There was, 4. PARTIALLY defaccd sigh
upon the front Wall Of the box. the
donjcn deep had known mercantile i'm
pulses, !; EE*sIi 49,.
-: - The o. Es.<Ra Biz co.,
- .PENROt, SeIIofsitI.n AND co.
.: ~ iNQaiRE5lsOl; rI:ic1ss i
r. This was Il venture Of the preceding
vacation. and had melted. at one tim,
ain accrued and owed profit Of $1.ss
Prospects had been brightest on. the
very eve Of catnclysm. Tie ,storcroo,n
was locked, md guarded, but. twenty.
seven rabbits and Belgian hares, old;
and young: had lerished here ON a sin !
gle night-throM;|l 10 human agency
but in Il foray 81 cats. the besiegers;
treacherousIy tunnelling up through
the sawdust from the small aperture
which opened int, tho stall hey ond thu !:
pac..,..s,s, * #4g {s--;;., 49,; "tvls
i, ,Penrodfclim bed upon a barrel, stood.
on tiptoe, grasped the rim Of the: box;
them using az knotaole5 as sstirrup,5
threw one leg over the top drew him
self: y up and dropped within. Standing
upon the packed raw dust, ] ne was lus,ss
tall 8 II II - !, -