The evening world., 1915-01-06

In cooking and fuel gathering. Miss
Leslie was learning by painful expert
once the rudiments Of dressmalEing BY
shaping . leopard skin into . skirt
and waist.
Winthrope had been gaxetted a.
hunter in ordinary. His task was to
keep Miss Leslie supplied with fresh
eggs and each day to kill as many Of
the boobies and cormorants ~ he
could skin and split for drying. Blake
had changed his mind about taking
him when he went for cocoanuts. In.
stead. he had gone alone on several
trips. bringing three or four loads Of
nuts. then a little salt from the sea-
shore. dirty but very welcome. and
last Of all a great lump Of clay.
wrapped In palm fronds.
With this clay he at once began
experiments In tho art Of pottery.
Having mixed and beaten q ANAL
Quantity, he moulded It into little
cups and bowls. and tried burning
them over night In the watch fire. A
few came out without crack or naw.
Pass over those keys OF yours.
Win" he said once a. he returned TO
camp with an armful OF creeping
vines. Good! Now untangle those
creepers. Tonight we'll take turns
knotting them up into some sort OF
rope ladder. I'm getting mighty
weary Of hoofing It all around the
point every time l trot to the river.
After this I'll go down the ciin at
sh.s <,~A - Hha u,,llu" 4"
When at sunset Miss Leslie with
drew into the baobab. Winthrope
somewhat officiously insisted upon
helping her set UP her screen in the
entrance. A he did so. no took tho
opportunity TO hand her bamboo
knife, and to draw her attention to
several double pointed bamboo stakes
which he had hidden under the litter.
what is t1" she asked. troubled
by his furtive glance back at Blake.
Merely precaution. you know. ne
whispered. THE ground In there IN
quite soft. 1t will be no trouble. l
fancy. to put up tho stakes, with their
points inclined toward the entrance"
But Why .
mot 30 loud. Miss Genevieve! II
struck me that II any one should SOCK
TO enter In the night, he would ma
these stakes deucedly unpleasant BE
careful how you handle them. An you
see, the sharper points. which arc 10
be set uppermost, run on into a razor
edge. Put them up now. before IL
grows too dark. You know how nine.
pins are set-that sha pc. Good night!
You see. with these TO guard the en-
trance, you need not be afraid to 20
to sleep at once"
Thank YOU" she whispered. and
began TO thrust the stakes into the
ground as he had nirectsd.
Immediately after breakfast nekt
day. Blake-who had spent his watch
IN grinding the edges from a stone
and experimenting with split and
bent twigs-put Winthrope's keys In
tho fire, and began an attempt TO
shape them into n knife blade. To
heat tho steel 10 the required temper
ature, he used n bamboo blOwpips.
with his lungs for bellows.
One after another, the keys wers
welded together. end 10 end. In mar
row ribbon Of steel. The thinnest one,
however. was not fastened 20 tho tip
until N had been used 10 burn .
groove In the edge of q rib. selected
from among the bones which Miss
leslie had thrown out - the boabab.
The last key was then fastened 20 tho
others: tho blad. ground sharp. tenn
pered, ana inserted In the groove.
Finally. pieces Of tho key ring were
nttsd IN bands around tho hons.
through notchss cut In the ends of
tho steel blade The result was n
bone handled, bone backed knife.
with narrow cutting sdga of m.
steeI
"If I could get some snak. poison
now" ho said TO Miss Leslie, II could
poison our arrow tips That would