The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-12-26

from q dead elephant, anu
the trail Of a tiger.
The cate was IN excellent place tor
a tiger. Around It was planted an az
most impenctrable screen o. ever
greens, 80 thick that the ground De
meath was quite bare Of grass. mere
the two hunters crawled on stomacbs
that began to feel a trlfe empty ana
here they happened on the trail.
Tucker found It first. His stumpy
tail grew rigid. Nose to the grounu'
he crawled and w~riggled through 'he
underground. Bobby at his heels. And
now Bobby saw the trail. footprints
IL IL true that they resembled those
OF heavy boots with nails. But on the
other hand, no one could say surely
that the nail marks were not those OF
claws.
Tucker circled about. The trail
grew more exciting. Bobby had TO
crawl on hands and feet under and
through thickets. Branches had been
broken as by the passage OF some large
body. The sportsman clutched his
weapon and went on.
An hour later the two hunters re-
turned for breakfast. Washing did
something to restore the leader to a
normal appearance, but a wondering
family discovered him covered with
wounds and strangely silent
"Why, Bob, where have you beenT'
/ III. ..zsbn. l.axnnlal stNEhv nayQF
saw 20 mnny ~scratches!"
i've been hunting" he replied
briefly. "They don't hurt, anyhow"
Then he relapsed into absorbed sill
ence. His mother, putting cream on
his cereal. placed an experienced hand
on his forehead. Are you sure you
feel well, deari" she asked. Il think
your head is a little not"
I'm all right, mother"
She was wisely silent. but she ran
over In her mind the spring treatment
for children at home. The blood, she
felt, should be thinned after a winter
of sausages and rich ocoa She men,
tally searched her medicine case.
A strange thing happened that day.
A broken plate disappeared from the
upper shelf Of a closet, where Pepy
had hidden It; also q cup with q nick
In II, similarly concealed also the heel
Of a loaf of bread. Nor was that the
end. For three days a sort of magic
reigncd In Pepy's kitchen. Ten pota.
toes, laid out to peel, became eight.
Matches and two ends Of candle
walked out, as II were, on their own
feet. A tin pan with a hole In II left
the kitchen table and was discovered
hiding In Bobby's bureau, when the
Fraulein put away the washing.
The governess protested that he
heard nothing she told him, and was
absent-minded at his lessons. But as
she was always protesting about some.
thing, no n paid any attention.
Bobby drew ahead on his pocket allow.
ance without question, and as his
birthday was not far of. asked for
the dollar to grow on" In advance.
He always received a dollar for each
year, which went into the bank, and a
dollar to grow on, which was his
10 spend.
With the dollar he made a number
OF purchases--candles and candlestIck.
a toy pistol and caps, one OF the masks
for the carnival. now displayed In all
the windows, a kitchen knife, OGDEN
plates, and a piece Of bacon.
Now and then he appeared Mt the
scenic railway, distracted and viewing
with a calculating eye the furnishings
OF h engine room and workshop
From there disappeared a broken
chair. a piece OF old carpet, Discarded
from a car, and n large paddock, but
the latter he asked for and obtained
His occasional visits 10 the roiIyyov
however. found him In old Adolbert's
shack. He filled his pockets with cbor.
coal from the pail beside the stove
n made cautious inquiries as 70
methods OF cooking potatoes. But the
pail Of old Adelbert's gloom pene,r,,os
at last even through the boys abstrac.
ton.
Il hope your daughter is not worse ~
he said politely, during one Of his
visits to the ticket booth.
"she is well. She RECEIVERS STRENGTH
rapidly"
"And the new uniform-does 4, q,
your ~
Il DO not know" said old Adelb.r,
grimiy. u have not seer Il recently -
"on the day Of the procession we srs
all going to watch for you. I'll tell Won
where we will be, so you can look ,or
| u.s." 'ooA tor
There win be no Procession"
Ihen to the boy old Adelbert no,ro.
out the bitterness of his SOM ua
showed where he had torn down ,hs
king's picture, and replaced II with ons
OF a dying stag. He reviewed h,s don.
IN the hospital. and the bardsh,ys
through which he had passed, IN coms
20 TINS. The king had forgotten hi.
During the rest Of the s., pu,-
considered. No less a matter ,h.n tSy
snarlng OF a certain secret
MS mind. Now, half the p%lessnrp .,
n III