Show ell aoah tl M I 1 t 11 ll T rj EA 1 I I 1 1117 colonel mat eat comfortably in his chair and gazed L dreamily through a hazy cloud ot at havana atthe at the christ mas crowd ha hat hal colonel at last ive found you looking badill and a friend who hail come up from behind and slapped him affectionately oli on the shoulder 7 11 X q pulled a big chair alongside and vat cat down irh tho colonel leaned farther back la fd the enveloping leather and a boxy of expanding rings poured from beneath the carefully trimmed white that abal bo be said with a wave of 0 hla his hand band toward the tha throns throngs set mo me to thinking af of how in my iny country school days wa w bag bad be boy Bomell moa locked lacked tho teacher out to make him give us a christmas treat at the precise moment you soaked conked me on tho the shoulder I 1 was wan thin thinking icing of tile the time wo we locked out our teach teacher 0 r wo we noti lied him V 0 week beforehand that wo we expected him to lo give us a nice p sub treat aiau school lot out 1 as an we said ovo eve ho he had boon been a fellow and had bad succeeded in keeping on rood good terms with us in spite of us so eo as we wanted for the reason to let lef him oft off no na easily cisily as aa pos possible gible wo we specified e a only a box bos of oranges and a bo box c of candy ill think about it ho said laughing and we sup supposed Dosed it was us as good as agreed to so when oh tho of christmas as eve day mr air teacher arrived without anything that possibly could contain a treat wo v 0 hurt doubly I 1 hurt to think that a supposed friend would tre treat attis Us so ao wo silently waited till the noon hour and when luncheons bad boon boen hurriedly gulped two of us were dd detailed to get him away from the school house on some pretext or other they succeeded but he stay long as it was a cold day and thore there nya was snow when he found the door locked he rattled tha knob and called open the ibe door it Is 1 I mr G 1 sorry one of the boyo replied through tho keyhole but navo to give gilve us a treat before wo we let you in I 1 f come boys boye come he eam sad stern it ayi fit it Is too cocq colt tor for joking let ma in at oncel were not joking woy we yelled tilled back we wa want a treat go to the store ind and got get abig a bis box of oranges and a ble bir box of candy and hava them hero for fop us this afternoon and well open the door or it if promise on your our word of honor well let you ou in bufor 0 r answer lib he pounded ort on the door and thundered 11 1130 boya I 1 order you to open this tale door wilt will you obey we me k was our ultimatum followed several minutes of st allenc lencel et and sun penso then he called to us well boys I 1 suppose tho the besieger instead of tho the besieged will have bavo to you may open tho door f 1 will treat the door doo was opened slowly cau thusly tor for wo we wore doubt doubtful fuli almost distrustful lut but ho was miling it is all right boys he assured us uj 1 I 1 have promised we might as well rell close now till after the tha now new years yeara allday holiday oll day while I 1 am going for the treat I 1 want you all to get your jour books ready jo go 1 I 1 can lock the school house I 1 hope to be back alth ith your treat within an hour then them ho he started e d in a bri brisk s k toward a 11 14 ii country towi toru about thred ralles miles away it was ft a tow few minutes nu es after two cloak when a boli bobsled sled drawn by a Us big iron gray grat horse gay with sleigh bells bella glided up before vie the schoolhouse school bouse door mr teacher loo looking klugas as pleasant as any of us is jumped jumpe dout out and said I 1 hero here you are I 1 I 1 am going ati I 1 leavit io you to yourselves to enjoy your treat bre be explained as ho he hastily fastened aitho tha window shutters and shut up the clove he the then n lock locked ed the door and put the key in hla his pocket dy that time tim e the boys had unloaded the boxes I 1 and mr G at once resumed hla his seat on tho the sled clod merry christmas to aall ho he shouted the i arroe to YOU youl 1 wo chorused we immediately assailed the boxes the lid came oft off the box marked orans oranoca ts first and one was grabbed and the tissue wrapping te TC moved then there was v a wild yell potatoes a nothing bu but t old potatoes we glutted glanced sheepishly at tho the bar bl girls girla who were holding their breath in a tre of dread wo we took the top off att we ino box boil fibel labeled libeled iid candy utterly shattered the box boi WM was jiuu of nice white tho the ample shoulders and meirth of of the colo nolla friend shook freely um ho bo astad amid ho was some teacher you bet ag agreed r ce d tho colonel if W we e i boys boyo hod had had money enough I 1 think wo we 14 4 bave come pretty near to buying him a god watch T rcy |