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SAVING A TAIL.

Nancy had been little bit worried
over Sir Benjamin Bacons right eye.
which had looked at her in such
funny way the day before.
"Pm sure that pig thought | was
up to something" she said to herself.
And that evening she spoke to her
aunt, the mother of Jack and Marian.
II don't believe that pig thought we
wanted to give him a party at all.
though the other pigs may have
thought SO. But he acted as though
we We're just doing it to appear fine
and as though he didn't think we were
at ALL"
oh" laughed Marian's mother. and
Jacks mother, too. for that matter, Il
imagine the pigs were glad to have
party and didn't stop to think why you
gave it to them!"
Now, Nick was in Jacks class in
school during the few days of the chill
dren's visit, and Nancy was in Mar
ian's.
1t was after school the following day
that Marian said she had something
quite special to do at home. and she
wished Nancy wouldn't bother TO hurry
back but would stay and play with
the other girls.
She behaved so queerly about il that
Nancy couldn't imagine what was the
trouble. Cant l come along, too?"
she asked, but Marian said:
I'D feel much better if you played
with the Others"
Nancy rushed up to Nick as soon as
| he came out of school,
ooh, Nick" she said, something is
| the matter with Marian She be-
| HAYES so Queerly. She said she want
ed to have me play with the other
girls. for she had something special
| to do at home. She really wouldn't
| let me go home with her. would
have been mad only she was just too
queer for anything. I don't under
stand"
Jack was the same way, Nancy;
let's go back, anyway and see what
is up"
They hurried down street, running
most Of the way and then turned down
another and ran almost all of five more
| blocks to reach their cousins home.
Nick went halfway down the hall
| when he bumped straight into Jack
| coming up from the cellar stairs. He
was holding in his arms the little fox
terrier Marian had just bought week
before with her birthday money. The
dog was only tiny puppy still, love
ly little soft white puppy with one
nd 0ro nd fygn
black spots on his soft white back.
r. sOh,, did Buster get hurt?" Nick
shouted. Buster, of course, was the
small, gay, naughty, happy puppy.
mo, he didn't" said Jack. "And
It's none of your business, anyway.
You're visitors even If you are our
cousins. And we'd planned about this
long before you came"
/. That's So" said Marian. who came
: up behind Jack, "if we want to have
Busters tail cut, It's no ones busi-
ness but our own. 1t was just like
you two to find out somehow"
L "Going to have his tail cut?" gasped
I Nancy, and burst into tears.
Eyes, fox terriers look absurd with
long tails" said Jack; everyone says
So And, besides, he'll be all well in
: week, quite WELL"
s "And for the sake of a little STYLE"
i said Nick. his teeth clenched tightly
e together, you'd let that dog suffer for
whole week. just wish / could cut
off part of your arm. that's what I
! do"
1.-THE bones are soft" murmured
J. Marian. He'd look foolish with tail.
SO everyone says"
what do you care what everyone
says?" screamed Nick; you are two
horrid, cruel children, and If you don't
let that poor puppy, who has never
n dole you any harm, apd who is at your
4 mercy, alone. We'll never he your Wis
itors any more, and you'll never be
n friends of ours. We mean it. too"
II And they did mean it. for they
J, didn't care what anyone thought of
u them as long as they saved the puppy
from being hurt.
But after Nick and Nancy had told
t Jack and Marian of the suffering II
would mean for Buster. of course they
: didn't do such cruel thing. They
weren't really cruel. emily they didn',
know that such thing hurt dread
fully. They had never been told the
real truth, and they were glad they
had heard 1t in time