Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1910, Page 22

HE BUBY BEES must not be impatient if their stories are not printed as soon as they are sent in, for some weeks we recelve many more stories than there 18 space on the Children’'s page, and these stories are saved for another week when fewer stories are sent in by the children. Some of the little writers have written that they are going away on their vacations, efther to eastern or western cities send storfes for the Children's page from these far-away places. Certainly the children may write from any state or country they may visit. A few months ago two little Busy Bees went to Europe for a year and during that time they wrote many Interesting stories for the Children’s page, and all of these were printed. Prizes were awarded this week to Helen Douglas, on the Blue side, and to Ruth Guyer, also on the Blue side. Honorable mention given Ronald Wyckolf, formerly king of the Red side was to Any of the Busy Bees may send cards to anyone whose name 18 on the Postcard Exchange, which now includes: Jean De Long, Alnsworth, Neb, Ada Morris, Irene MeC: 4 Franklin street, Omaha, Barnston, Neb. Myrtle Jensen, 209 lzard street, Umana Lilllan Mervin, Beaver City, Neb Ofrin Fisher, i21v 8. Bleventh St., Omaha Mabel Witt, Bennington, Neb Miidred Erickson, 209 Howard St., Omaha Anna Gottsch, Bennington, Neb Uscar Erickson, 210y Howard St., Omanha Minnie Gottsch, Bennington, Neb. Gall Howard, 42 Capitol avenue, Omaha Agnes Dampke, Benson, Neb. Helen Houck, 1625 Lothrop street, Omaha. Marle Gallagher, Benkelman, Neb. (Box 12). Emerson Goodrich, 910 Nicholas, Omaha. Ida May, Central City, Neb. Maurice Johnson, 1027 Locust &, Omaha Vera Cheney, Crelghton, Iveb. Leon Carson, 1124 North Fortiédi, Omaha. Louls Habn, 'David City, Neb. Wilma Howard, 4722 Cipitol avenue, Omaha, Rhea Freldell, Dorchester, Neb. Hilah Fisher, 1210 South Eleventh, Omaha. Aleda Bennett, Elgin, Neb. Miidred Jensen, 2107 Leavenworth, Omaha. Eunice Bode, Falls City, Neb. iodna Heden, 48y Chicago street. Omaha Ethel Reed, Fremont, Neb. Hulda Tihdnirg, Frément: Neb Mabel Sheife, @4 North Twenty-fifia arfon Capps, Gibson, Neb. ol N P Marguerite Bartholomaw, Gothenburg, Neb. “ente, gobnison, 2405 North Twentleti Anna VoM i7" Weat Charles street, Grand gmma Carruthers, 3211 North Twenty-fitth $ot} ” ¢ street, Omaha. Lydia ROl 0% Weat Koenig street, Grand ; oonora Denison, The Alblon, Tenth and s Vo 1 wen cumres mron rana (BRSO ) sland, Neb. , O'Nelll, Neb. rand Jsland, Neb. , Orleans, § y Jesslo dC;uul(:id, 9% West Charles stroet, f8NSs Hichmond Orieans, Neb. rand Island, Neb. 1 _Usceula, Neb. Pauline Schulfe, 412 West Fourth street, Lotta Woods, Pawnee City, Neb. Graud Island, Neb. Earl Perkins, Reddington, Neb. Martha Murphy, 98 East Ninth street, Jidna Enis, Stanton, Neb. Grand Island, Neb. Hugh Rutt, Leshara, Nel Hester B. Rutt, Lesliara, Neb. Alice Temple, Lexington, Neb. Ruth Temple, Lexingion, Neb. Anna Neilson, Lexington, Neb. Lena Peterson, 2211 Locust St, E. Omaha, Ina Carney, Sutton, Clay county, Nebraska. Clara Milier, Utica, Neb, Mildred F. Jones, North Loup, Neb Alta Wilken, Waco, Neb. Leo Beckord, Waro, Neb. Edythe Kreitz, Lexiugton, Neb. Mae Grunke, West Point, Neb, Marjorie Temple, Lexington, Neb. islsie Stasny, Wilber, Nek. Alice Grassmeyer, 1545 C St Lincoln, Neb. Frederick Ware, Winside Neb. Marian Hamiiton, 2029 L St Lincoin, Neb. Pauline Parks, York, Neb Eisie Hamllton, 2029 L St Lincoln, Neb. isdna Hehling, York, Neb. Irene Disher, 3080 L atreet, Lincoln, Neb. Mary Frederick, York, Neb, Hughle Disher, 208 1. street. Lincoln, Neb. Currie B. Bartlen, Fontanelle, Ia. Charlotte Boggs, 231 Svuth Fifteenth street, Irene Reynolds, L'ttle Sioux, Ia. Lincoln, Ne Ethel Mulholland, Box 71, Malvern, Ia Mildred Jensen, 708 East Second street. kleanor Mellor, Malvern. In. Fremont, Neb. Katherine Mellor, Malvern, Ia. Helen Johnson, 834 South Beventeenth Ruth Robertson, Manilla, o street, Lincoln Neb. s North Sixteenth street, Mildred Hobertson, Manilla. Ia. Margaret B. Witherow, Thurman, Ia. Bertha McEvoy, R. F. D. 3, Box %, Mis- souri Valley, Ia. Henry L. Workinger, care Sterling Remedy Lincoln, N Loulse Stiles, Lyons, Neb. Estelle McDonald, Lyons, Neb. Miiton Seizer, Nebraska City, Neb, Har 3 compatiy, Attica, Ind. H.,S’.ycc'::,f?m Niieare ‘i'.\yy pacd Adlena Sorry, Monarch, Wyo. Box 8 Lucile Hazen, Norfolk, Neb. ¢ ¥red Sorry, Monarch. Wye. elen Reynolds, Norfolk, Neb. Pearl Barron, Monarch, Wyo. tha Larkin, So. Sixth Bt., Norfolk, Neb, John Barron, Monarch,” Wyo. Edith Amend, Sheridan, Wyo. Pauline Squire, Grand, Ok, Fred shelley, X0 Troup City, Mo. Mary Mcintosh, Sidney, Neb. Emma Marquardt, Fifth street and Madi: son avenue, Norfolk, Neb. Genevieve M. Jones, North Loup, Neb. William ' Davia, 321 ~West Third street, orth Platte, Neb. N/ Louise Raabe, 200 North Nineteenth ave- Nellle Diedrick, Sidney, Neb. nue, Omaha. - Eunice Wright, 62 North Frances Johnson, 938 North Twenty-fitth _Fremont, Neb. . avenue, Omaha. Carol Simpson, Wilber, Neb. Marguerite Johnson, 988 North Twenty- Phyllls Haag, 632 West Seventeenth street, fifth avenue, Omaha. York, Neb. ¢ Emile Brown, 222 Boulevard, Omaha. Macile Moore, Silver City, Ia. Helen Goodrich. 10 Nicholas' St, Omaha. Mabel Houston, 3018 Sherman Mary Brown, 2323 Boulevard, Omaha Omaha. Eva Hendee, #02 Dodge street, Omaha. Dorothy Telleson, 4346 North Thirty-eighth street, Kansas Logan street, avenue, LAllian_Wirt, 4168 Cass street, Omaha. street, Omaha. Lewis Poff, 8116 Franklin street, Omaha. Mabel Baker, Lander, Wyo, Juanita Innes, 2769 Fort street, Omaha. Corinne Allison Robertson, Wilber, Neb, Bassett Ruf, 1814 Binney street, Omaha. Meyer Cohn, 846 Georgla avenue, Omaha. Elizabeth avenue, Wright, Omahe. 1322 South Thirty-fitth They wish to kuow if they may’ RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS 1, Write plainly on one side of the paper only and mumbor the pages. 8. Use pen and ink, not pencil Tt and pointed articles will e given preferemce. Do mot use over 850 words. 4. Original stories or letters onmly will be used. 5. Write your nam and ad- dress at the top of the fixst page. First and socond prizes of books will be given for the hest two con- tributions to this ench week. Address all communications to CEILDOEN'S DEPARTMENT, Omana Bee. (First Prize.) A Kind Deed Helen F. Douglass, Aged 11 Years, 1931 G Street, Lincoln, Neb, Blue Side. One day the road to the little red school “Oh, the last bell is ringing, we hurry or we wlll be late," sald Harlan, 0 they began to run. By house, tree, they heard a bird chirping and they looked to see where it was found it and Fred said: its nest.” ‘Oh, we will be late if we do; we can't stop,” said Harlan. “Well, you can go on if you like am going to put that bird in Its sald Fred loudly. Harlan went on and got to school just in time, but he did not say anything to the teacher about Fred In the meantime Fred picked up the bird and put it fn his pocket and then went up the tree. It was quite a way, but he got it up and in its nest safely. He came down and ran to echool, saying to himself, “I feel much happier since I put that bird in its nest,” loudly They but T nest,” on two boys were walking along o0 better “Let's put it in He got to school, but was a half hour late. The teacher asked him the reason and he told her the story. She said to Kim, “I will not count you late because you stopped to do a kind deed.” Fred was very happy, but Harlan felt veéry much ashamed (Second Prize.) was black (to speak mildly), his stockings were torn and his once white suit was al- most beyond recognition Well, what chu-going he asked unconcernedly to do with me? Put you to bed without anything to eat,” sald Johnny's mother severely Oh, that's Lothing." answered coldly. “The man that found something to eat and I'm tired Kkind of good Nevertheless Johnny gave me bed sounds Jchnny went crusading no mere, (Honorable Mention.) Herbert’'s Apple Trees Roland 0. Wyckoff, Aged 11 Wilbur, Neb. Red Bide, Herbert was a boy of 8 ye fond of trees. He lived with near town. One night as he was coming home from school he saw an old man setting out some apple -trees. Herbert stopped and looked at him a while and nt on home thinking that he would plant some trees, too. So when Herbert got home he asked his mamma if he could By Years, s and was his parents and got some trees, too, and plent them “Yes,” she said, “you may go and get As they were running past a large 0ak your trees, but hurry back, because supper will soon be ready.” “All right, mamma,’ he #ald, and went on up town for the trees, On Herber's way home from town he passed the old man’s house again. Herbert noticed how nice he had his trees set So Herbert thought he would set his trees out the same and see what his luck would be On Herbert's way home he thought to himself. “In a few years I will have some apple trees and will have some fruit on them and will sell them and get some money for them.” So when Herbert got home he went to the shed and got the spade and the garden sprinkler to water the trees with, and then he dug a hole and set the trees out. When he was through he looked at them and went on in the house to his upper. He told his mamma and papa all about his trees. After that Herbert had trees of his own, Violet Hunting Florence Whitaker, Aged Omaha, Neb, Blue Harold, Madline, Charley, went violet hunting. Harold brother's bicycle, and was always off of it. By 13 Years, Side. Myrtle and T had his talling When Johnny Came Marching = We went up to Rome Miler's pretty home Home By Ruth Guyer, Aged 12 Years, Fort Crook, Neb. Blue Side, Johnny was usualiy seen playing al- most where you could touch him one mo- ment, then if you just locked away, the . next moment Johnny was nowhere (o be seen. So it was this day, only mother's back The Children and the Knight By William Wallace, Jr. HE children had gone to England 8entleman, now In his ninetieth year, had R0 DAy & VIt 10 thelr at- been for a drive about the park and the grandfather, And it was their children’s mother had accompanied him. first time to leave their new “Ah, still studying the portraits of your world home. Their father had forefathers, my children,” ra'd the dea: o'd left his native land—England— Man as he observed the attentive faces of mere boy, to seek his fortunes m hI8 Great-grandchildren in the hall. “But on the great United States of North America. ™Ch & A&y you would betts: be rompirg 11 And now that he was & well-to-do mer. the Park, rowing on the river or out in the chant, residing in & western city, he haq €8den helping the gardener. It's gloomy decided that his two sons and one daughter !N this old, dark hall for calldren par- when should visit the old home. And thither blCUlarly American children. They have o they had gonme, accompanied by thelr ™MUCh sunilght and fresh winds over in the Ameriéan mother, a sweet, lovable Iagy, "eW World, and never Lave old paces— The father, being so occupled with his busi- MUSty from geperations of us:—like this ness, could not o with his wife and chil- Manor dfen, but promised to “run over” for them ' OM Erandfather, we love this hall.” before the summer was spent and to bear Cr'ed Percy. “Parker has been telling us them company homeward across the At- the history of this armor.” And Per:y oo designated the suit of armor whici had interested them £o much. But I must tell you the names of the The aged grandfather shook h's head chlldren. There were Percy and Lewis, knowingly. “Yes, yes, Parker, ke his «1d named for their grandfather and great- master, lives too much ia the yast. Rut grandfather; and Julla, named for her the voung blood will rouse us to th j resent grandmother. Percy was the eldest of the day. It is good to have ch'ldren a‘ot, I three, belng 12 yepra old. Lewls was two can tell you” And the old gentleman years his junior. Julla was 7. And they chuckled in a merry way. Then resuming, were the best of playfellows, Julia enter- ing into all the sports of her brothers. After arriving at the old manor house of their ancestors, “And did Parker tell you about the sto y of that particular suit of armor—the story as It has been handed down from one gen- the children were con- eration to another In the servants' hall?" stantly busy asking questions about the "Oh, no, sir," sald Lewls and Percy in many interesting things they saw there. & Lreath. “May we have the story from There were the long, dark halls, full of him, sir?” portraits and armor. The first were of Tut, tut, you'd better be in the garden, thé ancestors and the last had been worn having old Hoe-and-Spades (the name by -them when In battle. The children Erandfather applied to his aged gardener) never tired of looking at these relics of telling you about cabbages and cucumbers, the past generations of their blood, and ™Y children Musty armor—hundreds of the old footman—Parker, aged would Years old—can hold no interest for boys not only answer all their questions, but 8nd girls of the twentieth century." would vouchsate much information to them But the boys and the girls of the twen- besides. One day, while examining an en- tire set of splendld armor (of tremendous welght), Percy asked of old Parker: “Which of our ancestors wore this, Parker? He must have been a very big, strong man to have carried all this on hls body while fighting." “Ah, that was worn by—by—why, that was worn by Sir Percy, the first of the ame and the builder of this hall," replied Parker, atching his head to assist in calling up his fading memory. “Yes, Sir Lewls Rerey wore that armor. And he wore it 1o & good cause. He fought for his king, lads. “Were you here then?" asked Julia inno- cently. Both the boys laughed, but old Parker shook his head sadly: “No, Miss Julia, I was not. But I wish I might have been, for those were wondrous times when Bir Lewls Percy lived here. He had this hall built—one wing at a time. Half of it was completed during his lifetime, which covered seventy-five years His son, John Percy, was what we call a spendthrift, and ran the place greatly in debt. He almost ruined it, Miss Julia. But his son walked In & different path, and again the old hall ond the broad aeres bloomed with thrift. He was—let me see—he was Adam Lewis Percy, your grandfather, many, many Umes removed. Ah, he w & great man, 00, but not so great as his grandfather,' Just then Parker saw his master arriv- mg by the big gate in front of the house \nd hastendd away to serve him. The old i A KNIGHT WALKED was turned for Johnny was more playing in tha the a moment sand; his cherub-looking face was clean, so were his white shoes and stockings and his white sult, when suddenly mamma spied one of her friends and hailed her to come up, and soon they were lost in talk, concerning the latest styles and so forth, “Now," in a hundred, the corner, safe from any possible danger thought Johnny, “this is a chance and he went flylng around of his mother seeing him until he could decide what to do nexi. Looking breath- lessly up and down the street, he spied not very far away one of his little friends and his donkey and cart. It did not take his fat little legs long to catch up with them and climb in the cart and then the demkey went on azain by little face had disappeared altogether. The his friend Josging slowly w, the house was aroused, for cherublc former was nothing unusual, but the lat- ter, “altogether” was what caused the ex- cltement. He was there just a faw minutes ago,” exclaimed his mother, “and I can't imag- ine where he could go to In such a short time." After hours of tiresome waiting they were located about three miles out in the coun- try and then sbout an hour later, “Johnny and the man chased We went farther on and Harold fell off of the wheel and hurt his head, and had to lie down on the grass. We told Charley to stay with him while we went over in the little ravine to pick violets, We were pick- ing violets when Charley down the hill to tell that Harold had gene home At the foot of the hill was a little creelk which Charlev aid not see, until ho was in mud up to his knees. Floundering around trylng to get out he fell on his face. When we did succeed In getting him out he was a sight to behold, and us girls lajd on the grass and laughed at him Myrtle took her apron off and wrapped his muddy shoes in it. Myrtle went hill to pick some move down thought was g creek was white The rolled in after it wnen began But us off of the grass up on the fell the She g in as a sheet and Madline we started thought mishay violets and basket And ain good time, even with all our as went home it we had a to we A Happy Day Margaret Holland, Aged 9 Years, City, Neb. Red Side. Once upon a time there lived a little girl She was very rich, but had neo brothers, so she was often lonesome. She had an uncle who had an automobile. One day he came and took her. She lived in the country so she had to ride to town. She soon got there and got on the train First she went to Los Angeles and then to Long Beach. She took off her shoes and stockings and waded in the ocean 8heé went to the Old Seldiers’ home visited the home of Frances Hodgson FEu nett and then went home. Don't you think David sisters or She came marching home.” His cherublo face she had a happy day? tieth century thought differently of ths seated about him, paying the closest at- subject, and after their mother and their tention. great-grandfather had gone to the library, “Well, this is the story, which I gt where two callers awalted them, Peroy from my mother, the housekeeper hers suggested that they go to the outer hall, during her lifetime. And she got it from where they could see old Parker dozing on her father, the gardener here at the hall a a comfortable bench, and k him to re- late the story of the armor of Sir Lewis Perey. The old man was as " g I/ &Y ecager to te'l the story as the children were to listen to it, another. and soon the three little Americans wers at the ghildren. generation before. And he had the story from the old butler, who lived here at the time my grandfather was a lad. And so the story came, from one generation to And,” the old man looked keenly “I don’t doubt & werd of e Bird Life and Bird Enemies By John Davey, Kent, O. NEST8 OF THE F4 o liings have been a greate surprise to me than, in my trips south, to find that in Ken- ticky the common crow s pro- tected by law. The law mak- ers of that state must have been most woefully lacking in the knowl edge of the real facts concerning the habits of this carniverous cry ure to pass law for its protection. If the English #parrows are “the rats of the air,” those black devils are the escaped denizens of the inferno. Each crow requires about & pound of meat daily, and to obtain this In the nesting season, he spends about six JOHN DAVEY. Friend of Trees and Birds weeks in hunting the contents of other birds nests. He takes both cggs and young birds. A friend of mine was an enthusiast with birds, He knew of nineteen birds’ nests in an orchard. In three days all t 588 and young birds were ried [ palr of crows. They devour anythi om the egg of a song sparrow to that of a com- n hen, and will follow the turkey to the woods, wait till she has lald and, as soon as she has gone, carry off her egg They will light down in the midst of flock of chickens, play a “confidence game by strutting around it they wer of the company, then pick up a chick and tly offi with st Mr. Hawks, superintendent of Mr. Will tam Rockefeller, Rockwell Hall, tells me that on that estate there are hundreds of crows, and that they do nothing else In th nesting season but hunt the woods and shrubbery for the contents of other birds' nests. The consequence |8 in that charm Ing spot where the woods should resound with song, scarcely the note of a native bird is heard except an occasional robin, but the constant “yark, yark, vark.’ and the rhcket of “chirp, chirp, chirp,” from tha throats of thousands of English rows Crows colonize In winter. I saw about 5,000 one evening in a sheltered piece recently of woods near Akron, 0., and I see them in similar tlocks in my travels all over the country, The Audubonists claim that there are at least 60,000,000 cats In this country, and nine-tenths of them are utterly useiess as ratters” or “mousers.’ Mr. Randoiph ALL WEB WORM “We have a pet cat and think a great deal of her, but our people watched her and she brought fifty-two young birds into the house in one season. Add to this the fact that snakes climb the trees and bushes and devour both eggs and young birds; then think of the hawk, the weasel, the red squirrel and other natural enemies of the native birds, and the wonder ig that a song bird is still alive, It we put the English sparrows at 6,000, 000,000 at the present time, you can safely multiply by five annuaily, and the crow by two annually, and at this rate in ten years ft is certain that many of our most valu able speciet of birds will be extinct, never be seen. more to Indeed, it 1« a grave question it nearly all the native birds will not be gone in that time, There's always war among the Fnglish (sparrows.) They fight among themselves until they find an American small bird, then they unite to clean out everything of Yankee origin. A few months ago I was looking out the window and saw a little woodpecker come and light on the trunk of a tree, hunting for its breakfast. In- ptantly three English sparrows came and drove it away. The little American came back again; five Englishmen then put it to flight. Thus, With sparrows on the one hand and shot guns on the other, the wood- peckers are becoming extinct, and our re- maining timber trees are being destroyed by the larvae of various insects Prof. Beal found in large woodpecker 5,000 ants shoots of the stomach of one Just one meal tender leaves the tops of young | the latter part of May or the beginning ot June will bs found to roll up and perish. Examination will reveal a fllthy mass of green, gray or black aphis, ese suck the julces from the leaves and kill them. The make the building material the Destruction of the for tree. leaves, by any agen means the death of the tree. The scientist t s that t aphidae—a pair of them—are capable of becoming the pr one season. The called hence “ants * The ants aro f by Ba ture, they take care of their ca them into thelr burrou aphis exudes a swee “honey dew.” On this the aphides are comn « cows. bring them back in the spring » the from twig to twig, and fron Hence, the destruction of the « birds, means an finercase of a t extent that no mind man caleulate, and consequent increase of the aphides v destroy all vegetation In an accompanying phot . the “fall web-worm.” N Am song birds feed ravenousl 1 i the destruction of birds | \ thelr multiplication to sucl larn extent that, if not checked, this pest al will destroy every decidious trea In nort ern Ohlo, the upper part of Pennsylvania New York and easterly, and also v ¥ to Wisconsin, Inside of fifteen ve They have swept down the Atlantic const as far as Florida, and are ¢ i the center of the wholo country Mr. Willlam Dutcher, p National Audubon soclety, said to “People have supposed th this soclety because I am considered nn ‘aesthetic,’ but the real facts are I audubonist from an economic I bolong to am an standp for 1 mee that if our birds are not preserved all vegetation wlill be destroyed by I sects The one great destrover of our native birds is the English sparrow. He break their eggs and kills their young. T hers with present also a photograph of a few of these vagabonds, as I caught them a: dusk, at Fountaln square, Cincinnati,’ O., on December 23. What you see is only A few; there were fully 100,000 of them within a few squares. They buffet and drive away the martins and barn swallows birds worth their weight in gold—as dc stroyers of mosquitoes and flles, gathering nearly all thelr food “on the wing.' each bird consuming not less than 3,000 flies cally Of all the evils that have happened America, none is greater than that of the introduction of the English sparrow. De stroy him or he will be the cause of tho destruction of America How can this be donc? Miss Mary Mar- shall Butler, that typical American lady, patriot, philonthropist and parliamentarian of Yonkers, N. Y., has given me the answer in one word—"Organize.” to By a general concerted movement the English eparrows can be so reduced fn numbers that they will do but little harm This can be done o by organization Therefore, every man, woman, boy and girl who will join In the work of the destruc- tion of America's greatest foe, tho Eng lish sparrow, and will help to restore the native birds, without whose aid all our trees will be destroyed, pleasa sign the fo lowing blank and send it to John Davey, Box 30, Kent, O, and he will tell you how to proceed. Write your full address plain Name . Streat (if any) . Town G Eichemyer of Yonkers, N. Y. declared, ENGLISH SPARROWS IN TREES AT CINCINNATI ft. It 1s sald that on certa'n nights— the story-telling, and as the children ran And then Lewls heard the sc usually during War times—the spirlt of Sir toward the great dining room Lewls said horse's hoofs galloping n the broad Yewls Percy returns to this hall and to Percy: “I would have sworn that the graveled drive. His heart was beating enters his old suit of armor And the armour moved a while ago." high. He now had proof that he had scen story goes that he takes sword in baid That night, after the house was quiet, his ancester enter and don the armor, and goes out at the postern gate, ridiig Lewis crept to the broad, shadowy stairs and for further proof the place where th away on his milk-whita steed, and that he in the second floor hall and peered below. armor had been was vacant. “I'll rur reeks out the English army and takes com mand for & night—Iif there be a night con- flict, but If not, he gives advice to the offi- And ere the dawn he has returiel to the hall, leaving the suit of armor in its old place, there aga'nst the onken wall and no one ever sees him depart or return As the old man paused to give strength to cers h's narrative, Lewis, whose eyes were on the suit of Sir Perey's armor, excla’'mel “Upon my word, 1 saw that armor move just now! Do you suppose his spirit is in e All eyes were turned upon the armor but none could see the least movement it, and a hearty laugh was indulged in & Lewls' expense. “You have a vivid imag ination, Brother,” declared Percy “Oh, It he were really wanting to wear the armor, he'd never come to d it during the daytime. He onily appears at night,” explained Parker. “You'll never sea the old knight in his armor, I can warrant you." The luncheon bell rang snd broke up He was {n hopes of seeing the armor move, walking toward the outside door But he walted In vain. Growing sleeply sitting huddled in the shadow of the heavy bannister, and fearing thatshe might not keep awake till Sir Percy arrived—for he had great hopes that he would see him he went several steps nearer the lower hall. Then he seated himself to wait patiently After a few minutes with qulet reign ing throughout the great hall, Lewls heard the heavy door turn slowly on its hinges. Then to his wonder, a knight of the middle ages walked slowly Into the hiall and fitted upon himself the suit of Sir Percy’s armor., Ah, at last he had come! And he—lLlawis' very ancient ances- tor, 80 many, many generations removed was now quite close to him! Lewis held his breath for fear of being heard and bent his starting eyes on the figure in the hall As soon as the armor had been carefully adjusted the knight strode toward the hall door and pretty scon had passed outside, and call Percy and show hin 1 Lewi Then, rising, he stumble A fell! And lo! he opened his eyes to find he had bec aslecp and dreaming. He was on the to) step of the stairs, and could see from there the suit of Sir Lewls Percy's armor stiij in its place in the hall below! His Ais pointment was great, and with & sen tion of some wrong having been done him, he crept off to bed. And on the next me ing he refused to talk about the suit of & Percy's armor, and told that he did bellev Parker's story about it mind was & bit off,” he declared. “I 1 could belleve In ghost stories, anyw And then, finding the gardener and (he garden more interesting than the footmar and the great hall, Lewls sought out former and learned about his little sis not a word of old “The old fello the lettuce and beets rather than about knlghtd and armor hundreds of years r' He had watched for Sir Percy and the % ar v had disppointed him, and & dicam bad Gome 0 confu and embarrass Lim, —~