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Show if IN AN AUTOMOBILE. VYIien Lynn's mother saw him come racing down 'i ' s'reei. and fling himself through the gate and v. th.. front steps, she knew that something had I iJT.ned. 1 "Mo: her! Mother!' he shouted. ''I am going to I 1 :'vr ;i ri'l( in it this afternoon." Sh- did not need to be told what "it'' was. There y , niy (,m, automobile in the whole, town, and ! L. dearest wish for two months had been to -"'r. ;. . y it felt to be in it.' -v I am going to know. Mr. Duncan has in-l in-l in.-.-' "'Vl.v did he invite you?"' asked his mother. j "n. ju-t because he did. Maybe he knew how I'd like to go and he remembered when ho I v.;.v ;i !,,y and wished something very hard." 1; he know where you live?" j V.-. Jb- ;ided mc. lie is coming for me at t ''K, Won't it be tine for the automobile to I, :. ndi!.g right outside our gate C - v--!i alter dinner Lynn was impaticiit to get. ' . I :1, . ready. By 2 o'clock he had his f :' e;.,t,es ,,n. and then, you see, he had to be :vful not m "get mussed and be unready" S., he sat down on his handkerchief on the ' : ' ' i e i Wait. By and by Harry Deems came '.: talked to him. ' ' re are you going?" asked 1 Tarry. "' m going with Mr. Duncan in his aulomo-' aulomo-' " -ld Lyjin, trying 'to speak as. if he did it "'!!!'" cried llarrv. "Aren't you glad?" Lynn .; -!:. ".' v-..i;dcr," Harry went on, "if Mr. Duncan's '' '! right. J found him way off by the pond ;'" "' ' -r inght all wet and cold, and his foot was ;:; I put him under my coat to try to keep him v' but he. shivered the whole way home." ;i still talked, but Lynn did not hear a ""' -i 'iiM he said. He understood now why Mr. ' "' had invited him. he did invite me. didn't try to get him !" just did. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't lie. said something about his dog. But I r;,,!l' i understand, it." tidied that Harry would go away. Ho fcnKMM he sitting there when Mr. Duncan came. Suddenly a voice spoke out plainly from some-Tll, some-Tll, re d.-ej. ,lown under Lynn's Sunday jacket. It a very scornful voice, i ; -oure you couldn't help it when you didn't t)1"i -I'stand, but now you do, and you can just as , VfH as n,,t. If you pretend to be another boy from y v .v;.nrf.!f, that is cheating. If you take Harry's I,!r' instead of him, that is stealing. And tomor-r'A' tomor-r'A' you'll go to your missionary society .and foci sorry for the heathen. You'd better feel sorry first for yourself, toda and keep from being one yourself.". your-self.". Lynn jumped up from the curbstone and took Harry by the arm. "Co right home," he shouted to him, "and get dressed! Hurry! There'll be plenty of time if you hurry. t was you that Mr. Duncan wanted to take in his automobile. He made a mistake between us. That's all. When I grow up I am going to have sense enough to tell boys apart." When Harry got the idea h held back a little. But L yun was determined. "It's yours. It was meant for you. I am not going to take it from you. You wouldn't. Would you i" This was why, when the big cream-colored automobile auto-mobile stopped at Lynn's gate. Mr. Duncan found two boys standing on the curb. Lynn explained. "1 mixed you up, did I i" said Mr. Duncan, screwing screw-ing his eyes into twinkling slits as he looked from one boy to the other. "You arc not just alik after all. I suppose your mothers can tell you easily. Well, get in. The machine is big enough for vou both." ' "So T didn't lose a thing by it," Lynn told his mother afterward. "But you gained something," she said. "Yes," agreed Lynn. Sally Campbell in S. S. Times. . |
