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Show fmitmiiimimimmimimiimimiiimiE THE KING OF !i BOWILLE 1 j WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE of Boyvlllle, and he had a right to a dark day. When a new boy, who look straight ahead of him, as if he didnt belong to the school, came up did not hear the question, and say; at recess to play. Piggy shuffled over Lookie here, Mealy, I wish you to him and asked gruffly: would go and tell Abe I want him to Whats your name? Puddin n tame, ast me agin an' hurry up, for I want to see him." was Piggy's nearest friend. I'll tell you the same," said the new Abe His other name was Carpenter. Biggy hoy, and then tiiere was a fight. It only wished to be rid of the- freckle-face- d didn't soothe Piggy's feelings one bit boy. But the freckle-faceboy that he whipped the new boy, for was not used to royalty and its ways, the new hoy was smaller titan Piggy-Anso lie pushed his inquiry. he dared not turn his flushed face his Heart's Desire. It was Say, Piggy, have you got your red toward s In that bundle? almost four oclock when Piggy PenThere was no reply. They had gone nington walked to the masters desk a block when the freckle-faceboy to get him to work out a problem, and as lie passed the desk of Hearts could stand it no longer and said: lie dropped a note in lier lap. Say, Piggy, you neednt be so smart Desire read: It old about your bundle; now honest, Are you mad?" Piggy, what have you got in thut bunBut he dared not look for the andle? .Aw soft soap, take a bite good swer, as they marched out thut night, fer yer appetite, said the king, as he so he contented himself with puneljf faced about and drew up his left cheek ing the boy ahead of him with a pin, and lower eye-lipugnaciously. The and stepping on his heels, when they freekle-faeeboy saw lie would have were In the back part of the room, to fight If be stayed, so lie turned to where the teacher would not see him. go, and said, as though nothing had The King of Boyville walked lionte happened, Where do you suppose old that evening. The courtiers saw plainAbe Is, anyhow?" ly that his majesty was troubled. After this feat the king was quiet. school was before called Jrst Piggy At dusk, when the evening chores Pennington was playing scrub" with all his might, and a little girl his were done, Piggy Pennington walked Heart's Desire was taking out' of her past the home of liis Hearts Desire desk a wreath of roses, tied to a shaky and howled out a doleful ballad which wire frame. There was a cryjd of began : You ask what makes this darkey girls around her admiring it, and specwee-p- i tiie of about p, author possible ulating the gift ; but to these she did not show Why he like others am not gay. the patent medicine card, on which But a man on the sidewalk passing, was scrawled, ocr Hie druggist's ad- said: Weil, son, that's pretty good, vertisement : but wouldn't you just as lief sing as Yours truly, W. IT. F." So the king to make that noise? When the last bell rang, Piggy Ben- went to bed with a heavy heart. last boy in, and lie He took that heart to school with nington was-thdid not look tow ard the desk where he him the next morning, and dragged It had put' the flowers, until after the over the school ground', playing crack But when the whip and "stink-base.- " singing. Tnen lie stole a sidewise glance that lie saw Heart's Desire wearing in her way, and ins Hearts Desire was deep hair one of the white roses from his in her geography. It was an age be- mother's garden the Penningtons fore she filed past him with the B hud the only white roses in the little class in geography, and took a seat town lie knew it was from the wreatli directly in front of 1dm, where he which lie lmd given her, and so light could look at her all the time, unob- wnb his boyish heart that it was with served by her. Once she squirmed in an effort that he kept it out of his her place and looked toward him, hut throat. There were smiles and smiles During tile singing they Piggy Bennington was head over heels that day. When began, and every time she came past in the Iser rolling rapidly. their eyes did at last meet, just as him from a class, and eery time lie Piggy, leading the marching around could pry his eyes behind her geog- d d nuiiiiiiiiiiiiiii::iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuf Copyright, 1922, by the Macmillan Co. who are born in a small are born free and equal. the big city It may be different; there are doubtless good little boys who disdain bad little boys, and poor little boys who are never to be noticed under any circumstances. But in a sinull town, every boy, good or bad, rich or poor, stands among hoys on his own merits. The son of the banker who owns a turning-polin the hack yard, does homage to the bakers boy who can sit on the bar and and catch by his legs; while the good little boy who is kept in wide collars and cuffs by a mistaken mother, gazes through the white paling of his fathers fence at the troupe headed for the swimming hole, and puvs all the reverence which his dwarfed nature can muster to the sign of the two tinkers. In the social order of boys who live in country towns, a boy is measured by what he can do, and not by what Ids father is. And so, Win-f- a Id Hancock Bennington, whose hoy name was Biggy Bennington, was the Kirg of Boyville. For Biggy could walk on his hands, curling one foot gracefudy over his back, and pointing the oile r straight in the air; he could bam: by Ids heels on a flying trapeze; he could chin a pole so many times that no one could count the number; he r.udd turn a somersault in Ihe air Iron ii.e level ground, both backwards and forwards, he could tread water and 'li.'. his hair; lie could hit any marble in any ring from taws and knurl. s down, and better than all, he could cut his Initials in the ice on ska ics. and whirl around and around so many times that he looked like an animated shadow, when lie would dart away up the stream, liis red comfort" (lapping behind bint like a laugh of defiance. In the story books such a hoy would he the son of a widowed mother, and turn out very good or very bad, but Piggy was not a story book boy, and his father kept a grocery store, from which Biggy used to steal so many dates that the hoys said Ids father must have cut up the almanac to supply him. As he never gave t he goodies to the other hoys, but kept them for his own use, bis name of Piggy was bis by all the rights of Boyville. There was one thing Biggy Bennington could not do, and it was the one of all things which he most wished he could do; lie could not under any circumstances say three consecutive and coherent words to any girl under fifteen and over nine. Even after school Piggy could not join the select coterie of boys who followed the girls down through town to the poslofiiee. lie could not tease the girls about absent boys at such times and make up BOYS rhyniPS d d two-stor- d turning-pole- . But Iiggy Pennington was the King To Have a Clear Sweet Skin Touch pimples, redness, roughness or Itching, if any, with Cuticura Ointment, then bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. 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THEY REGULATE THE BOWELS and Si PREVENT CONSTIPATION LrOSZiaiKJ Small Pill; Small Doae; Small Pries a gardener. Insures Fresh Cliarm to Old Shawls IP dyes or tints as you wish WHERE formality is waived PUTNAM FADELESS DYES AMD THEY GET AWAY WITH IT Bill Wot dyer think about this ere Bert, an liis Frenchman, Is of the Female the Truly, Species Introductions Not Absolutely Demand cure? ed When Gentlemen Engage in More Fortunate Than the Bert Dyer mean that bloke wot Game of Craps. Inferior Male. says youve only got to keep on reI get better and Abe Jackson, colored, was indicted Two cases in Judge Cliescbrns court. peating, Every day do get better if yere for an you better, stealing money from the station First, the graceless male arrested agent of a railroad. As the railroads for speeding after having imbibed two poorly? Bill Yes, thats the ldoke, Bert. were then under tiie control of the glasses of claret, S250 or ISO days in Bert I believes in ini, Bill. Why', government, tiie trial was in a United jail. for the last three months States court. Second, tiie graceful maiden who every day to myself, Some day bin Ive sayin The station agent, who was white, drove her Cadillac into a man, failed not paying my testified that he did not know Jackson to stop and render assistance, bumped Ill get a summons for me pink, yesterday it and had never seen him before the day into a yellow car and hit a Ford. And rates, an strike Pearsons Weekly. v of the theft. all without a drip rf claret. Ten days landed. Jacksons defense was ingenious. Tie in jail suspended. American Manners Different. did not deny that lie got the money Tiie graceless male might have done The Englishman, the Frenchman and from the ugent, but claimed that he a lot of damage, of course, but actualAiaerh an all think each other ex- won it. the was to Ills confined reckless guilt ly 'Hie presiding Judge seemed astoundtremely laid mannered. The Frenchdriving." The graceful female did do a lot of man resents the manners of the Eng- ed :,t the defense, and asked ; Do yon tolerates tiie crudities of mean to tell me that you won this But, of course, she never lishman and damage. The Englishman lias a money from tiie agent shooting American. the meant to and site couldnt help it and craps? Yes, sub. she was nervous and there were tears contempt for the manners of both the of the Crowd for Nearly Halt a Block." in her eyes Instead of claret on her French mid the American, and tiie Why, tiie agent doesnt know you American comes to Europe humbly never saw you before that so tiiere you are! breath, tlay I rgpii.v, or her grammar, a flood of gladI eed, jedge, you dont have to Votes for women. The ladies, bless thinking that bis manners are probabness swept over his soul. That night ly Hie worst and willing to learn, only know folks tuli shoot craps wif em! em! Los Angeles Times. Piggy Pennington followed the girls to find that they are as good ns the J udge. from tiie sclioolliouse to the post office, French or English manners, but very A We Landowner. ary and in a hurst of enthusiasm he Journal. The Little. Dipper. Some day your boy Js,i will own walked on bis bands in front of the Tom What (at old bathing beach) place. crowd, for nearly a block. When his the Women have no lmsine-- s in poliJoe Oh, a Yes, replied Farmer Corntossel ; tics until they are aide to throw mud caused that splash? Hearts Desire said: mere slip of a girl." $ but I dunno whether Itll make him strrV'M. Ah, aint you afraid you'll hurt .MV. J no seems lo have hed more it dob g thut? Piggy pretended happy, yourself, When coffee is good. It isnt goodl An in.signiiii am. little pin In a womnot to hoar her, and said to the hoys: time for rest an comfort if lie could a as an belt often disturbs n mail's non- for you; when its bad, It does no draw an's farmhand, Aw. that aint nothin; come down jes qualify P'l pisc. harm. to my burn, an' Ill do somepin thatll regular wages without no argument. n like: "First the eat and then her tail ; Jimmy Sears am Maggie llale, and then shout them out for the crowd to hear. Instead of joining this courtly troupe Biggy Bennington went off with the hoys who really didnt care for such things, and fought, or played tracks up, or wrestled his way leisurely home in time to get in his night wood. But his heart was not in these pastimes; it was with a red shawl of n peculiar shade, that was wending its way to the post office and back to a home in one of the few houses in the little town. Time and again lmd Biggy tried to make some sign to let his feelings be known, but every time be had failed. Lying in wait for her at corners, and suddenly breaking upon her with a glory of backward and forward somersaults did not convey the state of his heart. So only one heart beat with but one single thought, and the oth er took motto candy and valentines and red apples and picture cards and other tokens of esteem from other boys, and heat on with any number of thoughts, entirely immaterial to the uses of this narrative. But Piggy Bennington did not take to the enchantment of coni silk cigarettes and rattan and grapevine egars; he tried to sing, and wailed dismal ballads about the Gypsy's Warning, and The Child in the Crave With Its Mother, and Shes a Daisy, Shes a Darling, Shes a Dumpling, She's a whenever he was in hearing Lamli, distaface of his hearts desire, In the some hint hope ef conveying to her of the state of bis affections; but it was useless. Even when lie tried to whistle plaintively as be passed her house in the gloaming, his notes echo. brought forth no responsive One morning in the late spring, he spent half on hour before breakfast among Ids mother's roses, which were taken out just In first bloom, lie had there all the wire from an old broom, and all his kite string. His mother had to call three times before he would leave his work. The youngster was the first to leave the table, and by eight o'clock he was at his task again. Before the first school boil had rung, Biggy Bennington was bound for the school house with a strange looking parcel under his arm. He tried to put Ms coat over it, but it stuck out and was t the newspaper that so wrapped into many coraround it, bulged home-tieners, that it looked like a bundle of laundry. What you got? asked the freckle-face- d boy, who was learning at Piggys feet how to do the muscle grind on the ball-pant- Has Never Felt He Walked on His Hands in Front room, was at tiie door to go out for recess, the thrill amounted to a shock that sent Mm whirling in a pin wheel of handsprings toward the ball scrub first bat, ground, shouting first bat, first but, from sheer, bubbling joy. Piggy made four tallies thut recess, and the other boys couldn't have put him out, if they hud used a hand grenade or a lire extinguisher. He received four distinct shots that day from tiie eves of liis Heart's Desire, and the last one sent ldin home on the run. tripping up every primary urchin, whom lie found tagging along by tiie way, and whooping at the top of ids the voice. Tiie next morning. Piggy Pennington astonished his fri'-ndby bringing a big armful of red and yellow and pink a i d white roses to school. He had n. er done this before, and wh.-he i.aj run ti.e gauntlet of tiie big boys, who were not afraid to steal them from him, lie made straight for his scIkh iromii, ard si nod holding them in his hands while the girls gathered about him teasing for the beauties. It was nearly time for tiie last bell to ring, and Piggy Knew that Ids Hearts Desire would lie in the r iom by tiie time he got there. He was not mistaken. But lh art's Desire did not clamor with the other girls for one of the roses. Piggy stood off their pleadings as long as he could with Now, Nitvv, Why naw, of course I won't, what I want to give you one for, and Go away from here I tell you, and still Hearts Desire did not ask for There were hut a few her flowers. moments left before school would be culled to order, and in desperation Piggy gave one rose away. It was not a very pretty rose, hut lie Imped she would see that tiie others were to be given away, and ask for one. But slip his Heart's Desire stood near a window, talking to tiie freekle-faeeboy. Then Piggy gave away one rose after another. As the last hell began to ring it gave them to the boys, ns the girls were all supplied. And still she came not. 'I here was one rose left, tiie most beautiful of all. She went to her desk, and as tiie teacher came in, bell in hand. Piggy surprised himself, the teacher and tiie school by laying tiie beautiful flower, without a word on the teachers desk. That day was d different.--Milwauk- ee - ) make yer head swim. lie was too exuberant to contain hiii.s.f. uni when lie left tiie girls h? st: ried to run after a stray chicken, that a; 'hiied along, and ran till lie was out of breath. He did not mean to run m the direction liis Heart's Desire !.::! taken, but lie turned a corner. ami e.ime up with her suddenly. beamed upon liini. and lie Jiir could not run away, as lie wished. room for him on tiie sideBlie inn walk. .oid lie euuld do nothing but her. 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