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Show standing in tlie ran of civilization, had jtind himsetr conrronted by two splendidly which would have been terribly patheti appealed to Man and Heaven to strike the dressed gentlemen in fur coats, who if they hadn't always laughed at tin looked so important and commanding and wrong places, and the Major told one shackles from the slave. Its musty, files were full of a passionate de- stern that his little heart quailed within about a Lady who found herself at night stark alone in a railway compartment with nunciation. Trotter himself went out at him. a Sleeping Gentleman in a Corner, and from of arms. His letters the "Is the editor in?" one them the first call to i. front (all appearing in the General) were in a grand, overwhelming way. inquired how he wasn't a Sleeping Gentleman at t couched in the strain of a lofty and fervid "I .will take in your name, sir, and see," all, but, mein Gott! a Dead Gentlemaa to Ear. 4 patriotism not unworthy of an ancient answered Boy Bright, with the customary with his throat Cut from Ear Roman. He died of his wounds at the formula. "Please be seated and I will And then, when they were all done, what if Boy Bright didn't pipe up and say: battle of the Tennessee, and the. General find out." had to go on without him, which it did, But the two grand, overwhelming "Please, mayn't I tell a story, Too?" Now, none of them dreamed that Boy gentlemen, instead of sitting down propOwpanJ. icbaum pipe Major Ton Buelk, Boy tion with which the Ideal is so richly en- side up as right side, and were 'named dismally enough, in a black border. tCcpyrlcht hy f.ie Nw the had to this it Ail rlzbt rfxrr'J.i From from that their intrusion amount the the of steadily erly, boldly pushed Whistlers, perhaps way through dowed. He must regard day Bright wanted to tell a story, and they Bright, Boy Bright, Major ron Buelk behind f appar-owere all astonished, though, of course, fence in tidy, beatdwindled. went into the composition Its only subscribers, WANTKr-BO- Y, right goat BRIGHT, willing, gate and trod whistling that (two good fellows ought to know each of thee poor wretches as a Surf o 12 Apply in an weekly. had who taken its were it J them oh, how he loved Joey, and howjently, those him. punctual; polite anything might be expected from such an well, the Major, little though he ing against a Rock, and you, Boy Bright, General Intelligencer, No. &3 Kast Olh other) affecor "I hcz Tour nardon." said the first Old Fashioned child, and after he had been looks it, ia a Failure, too. He was too are the Hock. You will ask, then, who it many miles he walked with him carrying prime, and who, from sentiment kt., New York city. degrand, overwhelming gentleman, indicat encouraged and told "yes, they'd just love brave, too honorable, too straightforward is that supplies the material for the a Whistler, too, under his little arm, to tion, continued to do so long after its bestand-offispeople cadence. It had been, bought, rebought ing the second grand, overwhelming to hear it, he took a deep breath and Lit-tOW, whether it was the insuf- for any other fate. He may be a little Monthly General Intelligencer? Echo an- very much offended, lj a was : in shops, who, as Joey said, couldn't see a and bought again, but no editor had been gentleman; "this is Mr. Victor Tither gan 'Once upon a time there ficiency of the 5- - weekly, or the. stout for a hero, and much too shy of hair, swers faintly, but distinctly, Miss James Boy who lived in a great, big, splendid absence of Brightness Willing-ntfca- but he sacrificed a career, and a fortune and Major von Buelk, eked out by the' Joke! For nobody ever bought Whistlers, able to increase the number of that faith- adge, who, by the recent decision of the has their who in and he hadn't any father or mother, after of United ful handful the his Court of identifiand year paid whoso heart States, hearts castle, of year Supreme Seven Paupers, Boy Bright at him efforts Tidiness Politeness and to save the family honor. ' thought it was rather a Tiring tribute to Trotter's memory. All sorts of established his ownership of the vast that little boy hadn't but belonged to an Punctuality in ti e rising genera- respectfully, Boy Bright, not because he's cations and passwords will be subsequent- sometimes Little Logs and wondered why people put money into rt, and hope, and Titheradge estate, and incidentally of Estate, just as the General did, though he but because he's a ly supplied to you. There, Boy Bright, is Joke for tion, or the altogether dingy, dis- - otir business manager, ' Mick altogether to painting ideas and all lost them. The General, this ei ludicrous and deplorable maga- was called Little Crossus because he wa your day, and may you be a little hustler Joey didn't trial appearance of No. T3 East Ninth; Man." in a pretended motor car, whether as an exponent of fiction, of zine enterprise. I am Mr. Peabody, his so rich, or rather was going to be when he Miss James street, intensified as it waa by the shab-- j IJoy Bright shyly gazed at the Major, in the vineyard!" Miss James had been listening to all which, when he condescended to do it, philanthropy, mission furniture or civic legal adviser. Which of you, may I ask, grew up. And though he had ponies and l.Io-j- t Ton ever saw out in; whoso htishr chrw ami Ticavv. rrizzled stuff, rt !lt"1 whrn Mr- Whatling stopped she could always be sold for twenty dollars reform, slowly ate up everybody connected is Miss James, the editor of the er automobiles, and stacks and stacks of fr.mt, and a peculiarly will, furry, pene- - mustache gave him formidable appear-!,h- i a but v Brisht over to her and asked each quite small ones and accumulate with it. It never was hearty eater, Monthly General toys, and two little boys who were hired Irating odor, that seemed to attend the arire. Hc was a very stout gentleman, and canod lu that vo nrrr,.MnH !iu her low, sweet voice if he thought he enough to buy a new suit of clothes and a merely chewed up three or four hundred "I am," said Milly, flushing such a love to come and play with him do you know,. No; ha haircut. He used to speak to Joey seri- dollars a month, more than its income. It ly pink that Mr. Peabody's somewhat Little Crossus wasn't happy. Into mink, beaver and astrakhan Hike a rhinoceros, especially at the collar, would like to stay. jut-doff had tone earth the wish he it would and modulated do could look have to strident used of winder but about the out anyperished perceptibly. assented Boy Bright, ously it, nobody Very much, fas practised mysteriously by dark, pale '.rh. you doin fool," lie observed, in n am er Miss I some ah in even Miss Miss of not me. a James had with long forgotten i mother instead II sorry not, Marchmont, James, mysterious, excuse "Well, Joey i think I thing aliens w ith Lot.Lerl noses' in the basement booming voir, "the child is a goot child though if you the to say for your sake, I mean, but not for who was hired just like the boys, and a with him to as love he had entangled and manner, fS:ally to find got a run and out wafi, you better just place bleep." toi was and him lot dom due whether it and first floor) silly picture paint your eslate. Mr. Titheradge's, whose interests in this father instead of Mr. Pendergast, the lawthU or merely to shortage of Boy in the in his duties instructed be." No one! IIis politeness was astonishing, as were which, iu Boy Bright's case, was an Awful Titheradge Why the Titheradge estate was willing to matter have been scandalously abused yer; and, oh, he'd get so Blue oh, awfully Ihist marts of trade, the fact remain that1 seconding his nrotest. he bent over his h5s lately, old fashioned manners and the Lot. say, yes that your services and those blue, Joey so I guess he'd have traded it ai not until late Wednesday that there ledger attain and blew out clouds of smoke sort of sure way he had, not exactly pre It took longer to get acquainted with lose three or four hundred dollars a month to of the others of your staff will be dis any time with some of the fellers skating .as a sdn.Ie application for the vacancy, 'as though to hide his bald head. pensed with on January 1. In a day or down the avenue, even the commonest and Ho was a frank, smiling, attractive boy.j "That little lady yonder," continued two oh, ah, er after Christmas, I had poorest of them. And Miss Marchrnont wifh cindering fair hair and strange.! Whatling, unabashed and indicating a better say I will send a reliable person was good to Little Crossus, and so was earnest eyes, and as he stood there in hi-- slender, dark girl sitting before a type-ragto take charge of everything here and pay Mr. Pendergast, too, but still You cL.thes, tv.i jdling his little cap,' writer, "is Miss Effie Jupe. and that work Crosto seemed like Little see, if anybody you. everybody smiled, for h was a contagious s10 js consulting so anxiously is not the who Mr. said him sus and first it sent "Yes, Titheradge, off, yes," they right o: kino J.oy, an'i Hie more you oked at, Bible her mother cave her when she left and to for and was then it turned been the stable confirmation, had Jimmy, boy, liim the tetter yOU like! him, aud Mr. m, r1,? firm fon ll,r (Amntntmnx t tin "The of Tiew a to then second steal and was the who was footman, Robert, trying Yh.tIitl'. who was painting at an easel. city, but a mauual explaining the difof of one was housemaids. the under Sea." the it "Yes, from yes, Katy, Message nid jovially, "Helio!" at which evcry-tx-d- ference betweea princiPAI and , Wind it And when Katy war; sent away it just it Wind up! course, Peabody. th the j laughed, including joke loy. and such pitfalls for number one broke Little Crossus all up, and he said to ' in the r ay 1" said it, which was big up!" shoes and as ting vegKtable. girl dilapidated over the look himself: 'I am going to run away, like "I think we ought to and j dly like himself. If she is the only one of us who isn't an in Mr. the book.' ' Tommy, Eighth avenue block next," said "Have y i con.r? in answer to the out and out failure it must be said in her asked Miss James. Peabody, quite unconcerned at having Boy Bright stopped for a moment, with? favor that she has the failure instinct and look in his eyes that he. killed the General for eTer and ever such a Vcs, iiiiss." he answered, with a duck chose us rather than the Grabham Gas effect his story was havthe notice didn't the and our "It's on f his head and becoming suddenly way, you know, Company, which was competing with us were others all holding their The to offer their ing. Fister Brothers have raised as they all stared at hi:u. a m i ;for her services. No, like you. Boy Bright,! I of people motionlessness the brea with n, three hundred and seventy thousand for "What's your nam?' she searched night and day for a Sinking shivwhile with dumb struck C? r r vcr ' I . n re? nr amazement, it. Expert advice is all right, but why and stepped aboard with the same Ship ers of the excitement danced Navajo along not see the thing for ourselves?" What did you do before you alacrity." of electricity. blanket shocks like rau,ej Mr. Tith on asserted our it's "If way," tore?" "But, please, sir, what am I to do?" "( Id eradge, as though it would have taken a "Well, one night Little Crossus crept papers, miss. Papa and mamma asked came as the Boy Bright, inventory out, as dirty and ragged as he could make million to make him go out of it. dead." . mato an end lack of human for further and tried to be as much like Toma himself, Mr. xvnnt tn rnmo I'O Pea "W!i:it mr.K " "Then good afternoon," said . ... , terial and the Nocturne engrossed . in the Book as he could, though the body to the still speechless Miss James my sdence and that book longer. was grew all longer wrong about its being hard. "The person that I will send you will find .? "Jhe ... streets are getting awful cold, and "Oh. do.' cried Mr. Y hatling, quite most courteous and kind, I am sure, and I Why, everybody was good to Little Crossus sudden with and vigor, painting good and a puffickly, wonderfully He stopped pitifully and looked up at prised know you will afford him every assistance WP a11 Jo-- do noth.ng-w- iih wliat in took him Swedish for lady nothing, and two so small the and and Then in ier. scared, grand, shrinking your power.'.' sand-dre- am of the Lnattain- ill him him at all, or beat treated nobody a a telltale quiver of the ehcruhir Plough the grand, overwhelming gentlemen, with Phan-iil-cl- I able-dr- aw on of Bank eherks the a was the bother and Salvationist only inoclli and such a droop of the childish, overwhelming urbanity as icy as the blast consecrate an,i IIol Ioferred-a- nd shoulders that further personal in- outside, passed out in single file, like a who tried to catch him for a home. And 111 ot rvfTT fioar Art job as office boy with the KP'nS formation seemed likely to be all wet and "eulty of Indians who had massacred a then he got pair to isn't it?" That's enough begin with, eoaky. of settlers and were departing with dearest, kindest, bestest people in the family world no.no, Joey, the story ain't finished t this Miss James looked up from I suppose it was very wrong for an their scalps. The .stricken household gathered about yes, he loved every one of them, Little editor to put her arms about an office or "iing. ana ner snuie was hkc the stove, mourning for the General, Crossus did, and finally, when the General and kisa him. but that was just jfnine as rfie told Uoy Bright not to mind all had to look for jobs, busted and what Miss James did, being all woman 'Joey which seemed to be Mr. Whatling, mourning for the happy, cosey, care free and weren't they 1 it specially good at finding them, tell you everywhen contracted. Hess her with the tenderest, most days now over, mourning for themselves, Little Crossus of like Indians. in a Passed out file, she in a single pair minute," thought and thought and thus grimly cast back into the Sea of heart in the world, anil she didn't thing about everything how to don't and help, and then he said to Life mourning and laughing, and crying thought ask for references or inquire about his added, "and if you work hard, it is more can I shouldn't so cocious than and the too for but was who was fat explain. Perhaps they get the (it gruff boyish Major, that), and smiling, and all telling Boy Bright himself, 'Why Punctuality or Willingness or Anything, chew gum or make spitballs, and don't esrich divide a was and And an was it? I'll just make because it and grown-uexcessively and. spoke, in such once that he wasn't to be scared, for at and when sue let him go. all tumbled talk back when I'm envs, I'll see that extraordinarily winning and of a He went, off as coolly as though he were spitty, hissy, foreign kind of way that tate, dragging with it such myriad present of myself, even and bewildered and ashamed, yet glad, you become President, after all." whatever happened there was always to them a Christmas bite General's to the if back' and oh, Joey, it's at I have were that and when to first were monthly alarmed the go Waldorf; expenses you you grown going up quite Ge room for "him, too; and Miss James too. he found himself Encaged. Not to Boy Bright, much mystified and yet ; unnoticed him !" having like THOUSAND TEN DOLLARS followed The or, had attention. Mr. who his perhaps, attracted passed Major, Whatling, yet Miss James, of course I don't mean that strangely happy, sat on his box and hugged him, and Effie hugged him, and had a it for half been He had in didn't a further than he century, a Fierce said was to the get too, litigation that, for any though Joey, landing, joker, the Major said he couldn't "lofe" him at all, he being ten at most and :she ail thought it was a very funny place and surreptitiously and bewildered old and so him decrepit was Effie and run at lime had an took and like it slid banisters that down grown the Everyday Explosive joker shaking f twenty-eigh- t but Kngased to a Job. the people Tery funny people, and wonany better if he were a "Cherman" child courage to get used to. Once he made that it didn't see well and thought the and all his own, and Joey said he was a him and kissing him and slapping him all nd officially then and there appointed dered why they were all Failures when Boy. "What a darling!" cried Miss James. Boy Bright cry, he was so roaring aud deficit wasn't a deficit at all but a profit. brick and that they'd all chip in by and at once, and screaming: "You're Philip ffi'-boy to the "Monthly General In- - they were so nice, and wondered, too, Van You're Philip Van Nuys! is the dearest, handsomest, manliest terrible, aud then it was their friendship Anyway, the General belonged to the by and send him to school so he shouldn't You're Nuys! telligeneer," w ith all the rights, privileges, what Mr. Whatling had meant by a Sink-d:- i "He whose attorneys, him estate, up Titheradge Philip Van Nuys ! You're Philip ' ;.iis and increments that were at-- j ing Ship. a failure,' but be just such anIt was just his joky way of little chap I ever saw, and I'm just crazy really began, for the Major caught up grow to to it write & used Messrs. Van Klaw, on his knee and called himself a silly old Lyon Nuys !" And the others all cried out Silk Hat Gazabus as laehed so the position. Mis James' blue talking, of course, but it had a splendid about him." the other splendid, enclos"Poor little mite!" said Joey. "What a "Cherman fool," and petted him, and very snappishly every quarter day, "Philip Van Nuys!" too, as though it were eyes were too moist and there was some- sound, though Mr. Whatling was dressed cursed the who had fired them. it that a check a and and announcing was aw where waifs such world ing and said it it the miracle, for the papers had been full of is, only tears, ay wiped thing too choky in her throat fur her to more in accordance with the sister thought Then what do you think? As Boy nothing else for weeks, to be wound was General up. in child! and and there were to themselves shortly shift for in in "vun" have "Mein Gott, so Tim, strays teach Georgie's duties to him at that of a desert island, his clothes were was vehemently protesting he artices broadcast about the Black Ham Bright Viart hcon w5nrtin tbo a GpnPlal him knife lin bold to'vun!" he is on out as as there And rriir insisted giving brass, going moment? but Mr. Whatling. who wasold anil shiny and his cuffs so frayed and and the horrible increase of crime, for the more cour- with three bla''- - and took him out after- in this snappish way eve? since the Major! didn't want to grow up a Silk Hat ten times look a for with bed, even wild when so to his and hair castaway. talk, painting "bus-w- hy, always ready out came that somehow it heovercoat him universal idea was that Philip Van Nuys sixteen a more little the and times I come ward aud into office, years bought have, age than forty Nocturne?, set him up on a soap box andj "Please, sir, what am I to do?" and to Millie whs James, Joey engaged .a had marked been kidnappped and was taping held ever and collar three velvet happened fore, and so far nothing had By George! it's enough to with in th whimsical Whatling Boy Brisrht, in a lull of Nocturne. initiative! Debeen and had Effie the that Major no ransom was for and down shirts. After that there by Fiends in Human T?hape. except to make every one feel insecure T;er, to explain the universe, and more as Mr. Whatling rolled and lighted a make one feel ashamed." two and that Attached for years, votedly who It was surprising the uncomfortable. Joey didn't want to go to the "I'm surprised that anything could make .action about loving the Major, too, particn! ir!y that part of it on Fast Ninth cigarette. loved everybody, so to speak, at all, and at first didn't want telephone everybody with ob-- ; altered so much from First Appearances come at to claim dared out to General all, feel needed Mr. felt he that way, street that Whatling," specially "The duties of an office boy," returned you and was going to get married. Joey said the reward either, and Boy Bright had to he Jc Klaw so we are that as his . to told) en-deceitful, poor chop ready (always Lyon Geor-ie- 's was Miss rerved who attention. always Jupe, Mr. Whatling oracularly, "are a good deal it was not only the wisest thing they "Not that I like that name," he said. Ihat the office boy condescends to maJct; gaged in sham battles with the painter, could often be induced to play Bear and old head off, but he was a wartime Gen- could do, but was an economy that was talk and talk and talk and order and order floor on all fours, and eral, very conscious that he had three they were all so backward and undesketch for you the Ideal, whom secretly she admired almost as! rampage about athe running his hand reflectively through LiVt;1Pm forced upon them, since, they j positively his for ibe not with shot and kept hugging him instead of loved friends toy thousand him, guttural pistol cided, that artist hair, which was excessively long which, like everything ideal, is also the much as the stout Major. in half live for all could nothing together of and being accent he way talking had for but what spitty been, what he was, anything. But finally Joey was and unkempt. "Georgie Thompson is no Unattainable, and will leave you to sup"If you were born again," snapped could doing and a Boy Bright flat, squeegee Bears. for effective to made be wasn't must he no. wonderfully What confessed, was, it ring up the Van Nuys mansion iu name at all it has r.o appeal, no color-- ply the personal for yourself." Joey, "you'd be a nasty little seal on what on Sofa. Convertible a sleep was who avenue Fifth Miss short Some and say he had found Philip was And there Jupe, trashy I think we'll call you anything much. ho stlOCK. Mr. Whatling stared at hi:n with such! you would probably call a niceberg, and so and and of would they kindly come and fetch the literary quiet stories, a serial from oue thing lVy Bright after the advertisement, you humorous expectancy that Boy Bright you'd keep barking and annoying all the such a subdued littlewas The next few days were spent not in him? And come before five or and fetch him they did, you it demure four that and ages high suits Brisht. unemployed, It know Wanted. Boy you. felt he had to answer something. So he other seals till somebody in rubber boots married, which was easy and could in two automobiles crammed with policegetting Awful an was she Tease; of realized on though dreadful the L."i.s Decency be Will decay Boy answered. "Thank you." you shot and skinned you, and a rich lady It piquancy. to get jobs, which was men, who burst into the office and Honor in our midst, and a statistical wait, but in trying with requality, that of an Insati-'l- e Bright?" 'The idil," continued Mr. Whatling, would wear you to a party, and everybody her other couldn't. The Major and hard, Not terribly discovered. sooner was much Our of while Kisser, and headed was situation shotted the volvers, page, "Progress being "If tlie l.t Jy doesn't mind, sir." "arrive here at dawn, and cleans and would be glad." kissed anybody but Boy Pright,jc0ioret Brother," and there you had the landed one on Ellis Island at $75 a month, explained to Miss Marchrnont and the ofshe that ' rewhole like to to she the "I understood Miss James was always say parties," goiDg to interpret for the Hungarian imm- ficers my stars! if more reserves didn't sweeps and dusts and tidies up perhaps her parents in Jersey City, General, in his old whity-gree- n regimendidn't mini, and as the by caught the place. He empties the stove, shines it up turned Mis3 Jupe, "though, goodness except ' t rhe used to eat Boy Bright up, tals, appealing more to your charity than igrants; Joey went off to make sure there come pounding up, and more after that, "glance ;she gave him he thought she had and m ak.es a fire. He puts Miss James" gracious, Joey, I hope nobody would rec- and had just such a pouncing way f doing it to any idea you might have of really get- was no slackening in the demand for girls till East Ninth street was all jammed the prettiest, nicest, sweetest face he had desk in order; he carts away the Major's ognize my ski" in motors, and grew so discouraged that with a crowd that that sh.. reminded him of am embarrassing ting twenty-fivcents' worth for your he sprang up from nohe sets out Miss Jupe's "Effie! Effie!" interrupted Miss James, little ever seen, though he was not old. enough tobacco fell a victim to a decorator, who hired where and so quick and sudden. was she tiger, the entrance of about surged to interpret the faint lines that 4 old of pencils and notebooks; he comes and looks with severity, "there are gentlemen pres- And she could make up the most out- money. him to fresco angels on ceilings for $2 a No. 53, and yelling gesticulating as though ims aoout tne uenerai is nrnwi jday. poor pretty Miss James just couldn't bygone sorrows bravely borne, nor t ap- at my thinss, and listen. Boy Bright-- he ent." tell and fibs about Boy Bright rageous were a there riot. leaves them alone, after murmuring a "I can't get him out of my head," said them with such a serious face that it was io explain tne tragedy ot uecemoer v, f. d anvthing except insuits from Horrid preciate the effects of poverty nid disThen, as they said ho must go now, Boy a on like breath few words of art'istic Delight and Appre- Joey, beginning to paint with renewed a which, couragement, swal- 1907. It was an ideal day for tragedy Men, and Effie got the promise of an en and didn't floor the wonder open wild and driving with snow and gagement with a statistical bureau, and Bright turned to Joey, who was crying jrlns. had dimmed a beauty once as fresh ciation. Toward nine the Office Force ardor. "Poor little devil! He ought to low her up not to speak of her giving gloomy, : .1 l ' i as bad as h was, and kissed him, i os a rose. egins to arrive, and he must greet them be in the park with a nurse, skating head him bits of board made up to look like iu irosxea winaos, misiy anaj ui.yp.UB the darkest , dismalest hole to work in that just kissed Miss James, who was crying, and ' bread baskets and chocolate and "Now, rioy Bright," sad Mr. What-- j with appropriate ceremony, nicely gradu-p- foremost into grown-uhim with typewriter irom me neat witnin, aistoriea tne imag- Man in his Might ever offered to Girlhood too, and kissed the Major, who was lassoing were in her just vou haven't come here with a ted from the Crawling Obsequiousness making the ear piercing noises of happy Lribbon and linr. "I fasteners down ing figures in the street till they Extremity. paper kissed and dropping even who at dripping;' Effie, is that infancy. It's all darned wrong, and I'm the back of his neck. Yes, an Awful mere blobs against the all prevailing But the General's family did not falter that any anticipation of becoming President of due an editor to the 'Hello, Joey,' still moment was a sueh little watery the United States. While it is admittedly quite good enough for me. Then he brings going to become an anarchist a red, hairy, Tease, in spite of her innocent, wide open white. no, indeed not. Lovable, irrepressible tease that she bit his ear till it hurt, was true tha,t most of cur great men have! in the mail and sorts it over, removing reviling, maniacal, bomb throwing, on the Boy floor, Bright whittling eat brown the and innocent, pussy eyes Joey saw to that, and it was his idea, that and said it was a love bite, so she'd - of - escaping in a thirteen inch for battle they had invariably jen his own responsibility fifteen bushels begun as office guns ship Miss she'd "With of giving a goodly Christmas party in the know him again if they ever met, and say, pleasure, way attache themsives to something Going of advertising rubbish before laying the anarchist!" of construction; Joey, temporarily rooms, with a tree and a supper, process run two off "Shall I and all Boy Bright said she was too stupid for or, copies, James," and Growing. You, my dear little mid-- : rest on the desks of the Major and Miss to try something that the stopping whistling sliced with and pine- anything, because they were going to meet Major?" lit, punch lights for would sell, was painting Effie Jupe, who, shipman, are standing (or rather sitting) James. Thj time has now arrived care and soon homo in as much folwas at had lost who a it, been he little apple floating Boy Bright Had day, and he was going to dog ion tlie deck of a Sinking Ship. Yes, Boy 'him to carry, with the caution and her with her and shirt off hair waist a a of and and his cars for them Miss all train known he ask had Marchrnont to let him come to life, Boy Bright, lowed one of them home Boy Bright could as if on bare down and her clustered Bright, Failure, with outstretched arms.jof on Armed Bank Messenger, certain girlish ! wind-uhe" and one it of loved every Oh, the squeegee flat and torpedo boat, nights on the priceless manuscripts and proofsheets to not have snuggled more contentedly into and, oh, dear! how welcomes you to otir midst." was standing very close to the was a wonderful party, and so gay and convertible sofa. Andsleep shoulders, loved how and how Miss and him, these of His four lives the does they He in -' them, Marchrnont, Franklin reboyish, people. the printer's square. Whatling dabbed on more sky, stove' and listening to the paper bag she sad and tearful and jolly that probably in who was dreadfully agitated and old was the and in he rooms, it affection had ; craved dingy heart of on his dictates two at the jolly this trembly, legs, hungry crested several Daces to watch the effect. with '"lighter and held to her ear. It was supposed to be a the whole of New York there wasn't one said he could do anything ia the world often how so in the rang out they and been at and remains go health cold, long long economy, some large mixed and cheerfully into tliem like a streak of sea shell and the picture was to be called like it that night. It was only Boy Bright if he'd promise never to run away again his palette. Boy Bright, somewhat! for a period that is proportionate to the t ly's little boy, that he fairly welled over fun! He came witfe his adorable face and "A Message from the Sea." Joey had who seemed unable to join in properly, and drive them distracted; and then all confused by the publicity of his -position,! toughness ofMiis conscience. He returns! with love, like a miniature gusher of the sunshine, Miss Millie pretty, winning ways, and his gay, bub- painted a lot of such messages and they and his wistful, woebegone little face wore the officers opened a kind of lane for Boy watched and waited in silence. He did, to Lick Stamps and perform other neces-- j Standard Oil Company. functions of an allied nature until a; James was his first favorite, of course bling laugh and if he wasn't utterly wercj as he expressed it. "sure pop." a strange expression, more as though he Br'ght and Miss Marchrnont to pass xot have to wait long, for Mr. Whatling, need of "sure were grown up and the others were the through, but at the door Boy Bright to'queenly, long limbed, velvety voiced Miss spoiled I suppose it was because he was He was certainly in awful advancing again, resumed his harrangue. (noticeable restlessness and a tendency reduced to two dollars and children ,and he kept looking at them as stopped and insisted on looking back, tuga pop," with I: orce Fashioned being Old an Child, Drum reminds the singular and Office no-Pester smile tender the with whimsical, James, "I, for instance, paint pictures that j and his room rent over- though his heart were full of other and ging at Miss Marchmont's hand until she him eighty-fiv- e bodv buv?. and if I live at all it is through that he must be Lunelle-- ' - This rite, to!and the lovelv blue eves that were so melt- - earnestness and perception that kept to due. Miss cents, was writing at her deeper things than trains or torpedo had to, and if ever he appeared a cherub James ,..ut imiium-i-- ingly soft though keen, too, about such nice under extraordinary provocation the charity of 31is3 .lames, wno, appreciat- - ,v: was desknnd the from heaven it was then, lus eye.s were snorting through boats, and was almost Bursting. Major uiuuuu iuc u tun iui it u matters as little bovs' ears and necks denegerate into Brat. ing the difficulty of making a studio out of is aiUMiiuiuniru he was which some exercises so shining and his face so strangely noble calisthenic on sat After a visible are old for effects as as well and its supper they In cents, was Navajo time, being inquiring sticky, cherub mouths. There a hall bedroom, allows me the run of this afterward until water and .soap arehoutsjand intervals at im-in accustomed to , its childish beauty, and ul he said was the before blanket perform to know stove, learned squeezy very j why Joey nothing Boy Bright wouldn't have done fashioned, he editorial establishment. Passing lightly makwas he the Indeed, Christmas!" just like that to tissue with and on day. Monththroughout to the close, "Merry silly paper caps jfor Miss James, even to drowning in soap had referred so despondently from myself, let me turn your youthful at: periously suggested. nohimself that such a of four the Ls told and Stories. their ing told Grampus people he loved better than anya per 'and water, which, if she had stipulated ly General Intelligencer (usually called heads, Joey tent ion to Miss James, w ho during the long "During the afternoon there on a knock the heard but on a earth. "Merry Christmas!" and one body about Starving Painter in Paris, thing intervals of professional relaxation writes sistcnt trickle of Literary Undesirables, for a knighthood test, would of a certainty the "General," as if it were a Grant outer door.Boy Bright he a told and Milly or a Sherman) as a Sinking Ship. Origiturned, like the great little gentleperfect Curdler about a then Uries for the magazines that return with who must be prevented at any cost from have been her choice. He ran out, thinking naturally that it Spectre who was the means of discover- man he was, to allow Miss Marchrnont to 1S."S by Erasmus Trotter, the faithfulness of homing pigeons to yon - leaping the goat fence in the outer office; And Joey? The jolly, irrepressible, nally founded in one of the Seven Paupers" with a ing a cancelled mortgage, and Effie told precede him to his great, splendid, lonely a was real been once had of it those im come and here into play qualities jlight hearted. always laughing Joey, the abolitionist, Aar tittnm left side drawer. That ' a real ceer- Firmness, Conciliatoriness and Imagina j whose ricturcs looked just as well wrong monthly, with circulation, and, manuscript, but what was his surprise to a story about a blind man's Faithful Dog house in Fifth avenue. ccaiui Teutonic individual with the ni a BE i i 4 1XJ3T ed vp t By Lloyd Osboiuiree, T-r- k -- H-ra- j of-fic- h Tx-a- r - What-do-you-call-'em- ?" g j ! : ej 1 y priJci-IT'LL- - j far-awa- em-t'urrass- ed vx v urn nm o WKmm mm I 3S ; Wii. y s JfeeMBiTl ?.jmi mi h-r- - s - , j Bun-l.o- y inr-pulsiv- e re-wra- rd self-relian- t. p e i j j Ga-ha- d ; re-Ixga- n. mau-fpeate- d , j j . co-effici- j brow-article- s e fls-h-; 4 i. 1 e ri-A.- -t p - j be, pully-cracker- p i Ir. star-materi- al no-c- i ! ! m s, ever-ever-eve- ry |