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Show George Teaches, Carl Just 'What a Real Vacation Is GEORGE, come out and play ball," called Carl. "I have some work to do," said George, "and I can't play this afternoon. aft-ernoon. "O, pshaw, this Is vacation time. What's tho use of work?" But Goorgo Insisted that he had work to dp, for he w'as not the sort of boy who will lot hlm-aelf hlm-aelf be persuaded to do something that his better bet-ter Judgment tolls hlni it Is not right to do. So George went Into the garden and spaded ) the flower beds and pulled weeds w h 1 1 Carl went over to the ball grounds and found tho morning very long. Finally Carl drifted back to George's house and watched his friend in the garden doing all sorts of jobs. "Come In, Carl," said George, seeing him out-side out-side the fence and Carl vry willingly ent Into In-to the yard. George bad a big basket and into It ho was putting the weeds which ho Pulled up. while his pother with garden Bovos on was snipping at the. rose bushes with a big pair of shears Carl went over to tho rose bushes and lifted his hat while Mrs Baker held out her gloved hand with -laughing remark abou it that made Carl fee' at home right awav. He gathered Up the cast off rose branches and Placed them in the big basket and then car-'J car-'J it to the grass dump at the end of the yard, from which place it as to bo carted away. They all three work- y '''ulki fa Posed hy toTjvftrrTi.tERs ' " " George threw the ball from the outfield. eX edlrwI,nn; GCOre had eV"y nnd his mother wiu 7h " h lr l he,P Carl looked Bpick and i h bushes' Evoiy thing but good and t.r T" nd ey were all warm, to luncheon Sh J"han the ma,d cal,ed lhfam Jiffy had tm.owlb0yS ran up Btalr and ln a Jnd Mm nS thlves and came down to blue llwn read to SCrvo them " Pretty UMe and Tv.3' T,th n f hcr roB the safad wd 3 ,H?r ,n th 'ront 1,or drca. Tho M. ami I :,,,H0U,fnd thCr WCro n,ce tlo Sod3 anlhemehVa-fe an? of lthUeht 0t h UnUdy tab, at h,s dered if h quaelsome children, but he wondered won-dered If ho could not help to make It better, ion llaleZ that h had nover d0no 'or his homo what George waa constantly doing for ; lnn ovry pRArt ot whlcn he took aa much pride as his mother. After luncheon they rested in the hammocks on the shady side of the porch and then started for the baseball ground. Many of the boys had been there practicing all mbrning and were listless and tlrdd out, but Carl and Goorgo came with their musoles all keyed tip from the garden work, ready to warm up with the balL While they were passing the ball ono of the boys, a veritable bully, stepped up to Carl and rtade some rudo romark. Quick as a flash George's arm flow out and struck the bully right square In the jaw. Ho was furious and flew at George, but Carl intercepted tho blow this tlmo and knocked the bully down. Then the captain came along and ordered the bully off the field, and he went, murmuring vongeanco against Carl nnd Ccoige. Carl was glad to bo associated with George In his antagonism to tho bully, and George was simply contemptuous not being In tho least afraid of tho boy. "Tell ou what," said George, "thcro Is nothing noth-ing to keep jou on condition like work in the garden," and Carl wondeied If this vacation tlmo ho might not mako something in his own back jard, so neglected and overgrown. Finally tho game was on, only a practice game, but tho bos played it earnestly and when George throw tho ball from tho outfield to first base, which enabled the first baseman to put out tho best man of the bully's particular par-ticular friends, nnd so give the game to his own side, thoy were all glad. "I toll you what this Is going to bo a flno vacation," said George, "and wo have got to hold our own and mako that bunch look small, but we must keep ourselves in condition If we would do it, and I for ono don't Intend to lie down on tho Job." |
