Show r 1 l I r I r Reparation stubborn toe Into Frederick dug a held his the floor Ills ft limp hand pencil loathlngly Ills brow was bead born not of la pd with perspiration bar but of obstinacy Now Frederick began Miss Burke with conscientious enthusiasm sitting down at the desk across tho aisle lots draw a picture of a beautiful beau-tiful big dog k A few more beads of perspiration appeared upon Fredericks I flushed forehead and the hand that held the pencil became a shade more nerveless It wad at three oclock that Miss Durke had suggested gayly that everybody every-body should drawtho picture of an animal and let everybody else guess what It was It was now a quarter past four Each of tho other children had executed the likeness of some chosen animal and then their short legs had trudged trotted or skipped homo with these treasures of art but Frederick still sat before his small desk mulishness enthroned upon his brow and no slightest hint of the counterfeit coun-terfeit presentment of any beast appearing ap-pearing upon the virgin surface of his paper Miss Burke spoke again persuasively persuasive-ly Im going up to the platform now Frederick to arrange my desk all neatly for tomorrow and when I comeback come-back I Just know I shall find a lovely picture of a dog Now shant 11 Frederick spoke not nor did he move during the ten minutes Miss Burke passed in inventing small duties du-ties In connection with the tidying up of her desk i When she came down from the platform plat-form and stood before Frederick again there was that In her voice which made him take his reluctant gaze from his paper and raise It to her face Frederick Merriam said the hitherto hith-erto persuasive tones Im going to wash my hands and put on my wraps and when I come back I expect to find a picture of a dog on that piece of paper She pointed a firm finger at the sheet before him and then turned away When his teacher returned ten minutes min-utes later Frederick sat with hIs toe dug Into the floor and his pencil limply limp-ly grasped in his hand but on the paper had appeared an outline In which an indulgent critic might have found a faint suggestion of a dog Well try to do better next time Frederick said Miss Burke You may get your hat and go now Miss Burke passing down the hall a few minutes later overtook her small pupils Good night Freddie she said with the magnanimous courtesy of the one who has had the best of it Frederick stared fixedly at the wall until she had passed Then he looked vindictively at her retreating back Ill go and muss up her ol desk he thought Makin me draw a pitcher pitch-er of a ol animal Ho turned back Into the schoolroom and tiptoed up to Miss Burkes desk i Everything was put away Inside tho I drawers except a few pencils and a ruler Fredrick throw tho pencils on tho floor and then taking the ruler between two chubby hands he broke it across his fat knee Then he tiptoed tip-toed to the door and sped down the hallThere There was no rest for Frederick that night His uneasy dreams were haunted by visions of angry Miss Burko threatening him with broken rulers and great paper dogs opening horrible mouths at him Early In the morning he crept from his bed and went to tho drawer where he kept his bank He took the bank to the bed and shook it violently until ho could hear nothing more n + n Inside It Three bright Lincoln pennies rewarded re-warded his efforts Eight oclock found Frederick a hurried hur-ried breakfast lying heavy upon his youthful stomach standing before the showcase of the school store making ma-king a careful survey of its contents After due consideration ho selected ono stick of chewing gum dono up Inn In-n piece of skyblue paper fringed at tho ends one taffyonnbroonutlck and one allday sucker With these deposited In a paper bag striped with purple ho hastened to school Here he tore a sheet from his tablet tab-let and Inscribed theso words upon It Dear Miss Burke Yours truly Frederick Fred-erick Attaching this with a decrepit pin to tho paper bag ho laid It on Miss Burkes desk and returning to his seat burled his noso In his language lan-guage book and awaited developments Well exclaimed Miss Burke Somebody has been giving me a present pres-ent Frederick I reading the name on tho shoot of paper Why how nice of you Frederick Did she as sho took up the bag give a fleeting glance at tho broken pieces of rules lying lu a conspicuous spot on tho desk where tho janitor had placed them Chewing gum I Tear mo what a gay paper Taffyon thcbroomstlck and an nll day sucker too She care lessly and apparently without glancing at them brushed the pieces of the broken ruler Into her waste basket whllo sho arranged the contents of the paper bag In n row on her desk I love all dny suckers Frederick Fredricks I nose became firmly at bushed to n page of his language hook but ho could not conceal tho grin of gratification and relief which promntlv overspread his flushed countenance gee Aint I glad i > got em for or her ho thought |