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grandmother getting the rags together,
for she wanted to buy a new tin tea
pot, and ehe had a large, bag of rags
ready, with Ebenezer's old trousers
cut up In small pieces and lying on
the top.
Ebenezer went up the front stairs.
He took off his new trousers and put
on his blue jeans. Then he went down
the back stairs to the kitchen and he
put his new trousers In the. bottom of
the rag bag.
Pretty soon the tin peddler came
along, and he gave Ebenezer's grand
mother a new tin teapot and a tin pie
plate, too, because she had such a fine
large bag of raga And when his
grandmother asked Ebenezer what ho
had done with his nice new trousers
he said he had lost them. Then his
grandmother said he was a bad boy
and he couldn't go to his Uncle Jona
than's for a visit.
And the trousers
Journey.
The tin peddler drove Jlfigllng along
the country road, as tin peddlers do
toward night, looking over his rags.
Suddenly he came upon Ebenezer’s
trousers. He smoothed them out and
folded them, and hung them over the
back of the cart, for he thought he
could sell them, but Just as he reached
the next town they fell out of the cart
and they lay In the'road all night
In the morning a cow was walking
down the road, and she shied at the
trousers, hut after she has nosed them
and found that they would not hurt
her, she tried to eat them, and then
she dropped them over a stone wall
In an orchard. 1
It was a breezy day, and the wind
took the trousers hop-skipping along,
as If they had real legs Inside of them.
Then the wind tossed them Into a
poultry yard.
There was a fierce old turkey gobbler
In the poultry yard, and he turned blue
In the face when he saw the red-and-
green cheeks, but he Anally picked up
the trousers and carried them In his
bill over to the barn. The farmer was
sitting In the bam doorway shelling
com.
and she went on ahead to tell the
other children.
When Ebenezer reached the school-
yard the children were waiting for
him. and all the little boys crowded
around and sang:
“Ebenezer Dean,
brought tho largest of the red-and-
green checks where they showed the
most. .
She sewed very fast, even after the
candles were lighted, but Ebenezer eat
on the settle by the fireplace all the
EBENEZER’S
TROUSERS
By CAROLYN SHERWIN
Illustrated by J. R. Shaver.
O NCE upon a time there was a
little boy named Ebenezer
Dean, and he lived 'way. 'way
off In the country on a farm.
He lived with his grandmother, and
he did chores nearly all the time when
he wasn't doing the alphabet and pot
hooks in school.
One fall Ebenezer's trousers wore
out They had holes In the knees and
‘•Hlghty-tlghtyl’’ he said •Jrhen he
saw the trousers. “The very thing to
keep the boys out of my pumpkin
patch!”
So he put Ebenezer’s trousers on his
scarecrow.
Well, after
They had holes In the knees and
holes In the seat, and the patches were
wore through. Ebenezer had to climb
rail fences and apple trees, which Is
very bad for trousers, but his grand
mother didn't seem to understand that
a boy has to do these things.
"You’re a careless child, Ebenezer,"
she said. "Now I've got to make you
some now trousers.”
“I saw a whole lot of nloe store pants
hanging In Ur. Jones's window when
I took In the butter yesterday,” Ebea-
sser said.
But his grandmother looked at him
over her spectacles.
"Do you suppose I can afford to buy
you storo pants with the Interest on
the mortgage oomlng due In a month?
You go up to the attic and bring down
zny old plaid shawl from tho cedar
chest and fetch my shears and thy
workbasket from the spare room. That
shawl Is whole In spots, and It's warm,
and It's plenty good enough for trous
ers."
So Ebenezer brought down the shawl
from the cedar cheat
Now, the qjd plaid shawl had been
very useful once, but It was red and
green In checks, and some of the
checks were larger than others. Eben
ezer's grandmother picked out the
woollest parts of the shawl to mako
the legs of the trousers, and that
started on a
Ebenezer's
grandmother decided that he might go
to his Uncle Jonathan's after all, so
she put on her bombazine dress and
Ebenezer put on his clean Jeans, and
early one morning they took the stage.
Toward night they camo to Uncle Jon
athan’s, and Ebenezer went right up
to bed because ho was tired.
Before he snuffed hts candle, though,
he looked out of the window to see If
his Uncle Jonathan had a pumpkin
large enough for a Jack-o'-lantern. It
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ALL THE LITTLE B0Y8 CROWDED AROUND HIM AND 8ANG.
THERE 8T00D EBENEZER’8 RED AND GREEN TROUSERS.
'Shamed to be seen.
Had on trousers all red and green P
And they kept it up until the bell
rang.
Ebenezer's bench was way up In the
front of the schoolroom, and he knew
Just how his trousers looked in the
back when he walked along the aisle.
When the teacher called on him to
stand and say his ^ums, all the chil
dren behind him tittered. Ebenezer's
tears dropped on his slate until they
washed off the sums, and the teacher
let him go home early because ha said
he had toothaohe.
As soon as Ebenezer got home he
blade up his mind what he would do.
The tin peddler would be along late In
the afternoon. Ebenezer had seen his
evening and cried because he didn't
want to wear the new trousers to
school.
In the morning, as soon as he got
up, he looked around for his old trous
ers, but his grandmother was wash
ing them down In the kitchen before
she put them In the rags. The new
red-and-green trousers were hanging
over a chair, so Ebenezer put them on.
They were too large, and there was
a string In the top to tie around Eben
ezer's waist, and they bagged at the
knees. Ebenezer walked slowly down
the road to school, and he Just hoped
that he wouldn't meet anybody he
knew. But at the forks he met Caro
line Perkins In a new, flowered chai
ns. and she laughed at his trousers.
Ebenezer's grandmother took oft hir
spectacles, so she might aee better,
and Ebenezer's Uncle Jonathan toll
how the turkey gobbler had brought
the trousers to the barn. And Ebea-
ezer told how he had put the trousers
In the rag bag and how he was sorry
and never would again.
His Uncle Jonathan laughed and
laughed, and finally he put his hand
In hls pooket and pulled out fifty cenla
You see. he knew how a hoy feels.
“Don’t cry, Eble," he said. "WeH
buy you some pants at the store."
80 on the way home Ebenezer’s
grandmother stopped at Mr. Jones’s
store, and bought Ebenezer a pair of
nice, black, store trousers^ and Ebea-
ezer was very careful about cBmbtag
rail fences and apple trees when be
had them on, and they wore for a
long, long time.
was a bright moonlight night, and
there In the middle of the pumpkin
patch stood Ebenezer's red-and-green
trousers! < /
Oh,. but Ebenezer was scared!
He put hls fingers In hls ears and
he ran down to the kitchen, where hls
grandmother was talking over the
mortgage with hls Unale Jonathan,
and he positively screamed:
"My new trousers came ahead of me
—they did! They're out In the pump
kin patohl"
“The child’s got a fever," said hls
grandmother, but they all went to the
back door, and, sure enough, there
were Ebenezer's red-and-green trousers
In the pumpkin patch.
"’V" ~ v -‘ r.VtHavrR,
THERE WAS A FIERCE OLD TURKEY GOBBLER.
the boy pulled out hls arrow and went
home without speaking to anyone.
But the thankful people followed him
to the poor little lodge, and when they
had found him, they brought the
chiefs daughter to be hls wife; and
she was the girl who had come to
borrow hls grandmother’s mortarl
Then he went back to the hollow tree
where hls clothes were hidden, and
came back a handsome young man,
doorway. She drew her robe modestly
before her face as she said In a low
voice: “I come to borrow the mortar
of your grandmother!"
The boy gave her the mortar, and
also a piece of the tongue which be bad
cooked, and she went away.
Boon after, he heard that the people
of the large village were In trouble.
A great red eagle. It was said, flew
over the village every day at dawn,
and the people believed that It was a
bird of evil, for they no longer had
any success In hunting. None of their
braves had been able to shoot the
eagle, and the chief had offered hls only
daughter In marriage., to the man who
should kill It.
When the boy heard this, he went out
early the next morning and lay In wait
for the red eagle. At the touch of hls
magic arrow. It fell at hls feet, and
share. I’d rather have It bow than at
dinner."
So she eat down and ate an the
lemon sherbet off the top. Then she
took Just ono taste of the strawbeiry
Ico cream, and that was so very, vety
good that In three minutes she hid
eaten that all up, too. Of course, that
left the pall only half full, and tbs
Little Princess walked on rapidly for
some time, but the sun was hot tod
the way was long, so pretty soon tie
felt tired and thirsty. At last the
could resist no longer; she sat down la
the shade of a big tree and ate np all
the chocolate Ice cream and after that
all the vanilla. When she reaOhed the
gate of the palace she looked Into her
pall and there was nothing there hot
a little stickiness In the very bottom.
"Never mind," said the Little
Princess; “the King, my father. Is not
of vanlla Ice cream, a brown one all
of chocolate, and a beautiful pink one
In front of
the morning he shot a magic arrow,
and at nightfall beside hls campfire he
found an elk lying with tho arrow In
bis heart. Once more be ate the tongue
THE VAIN MOOLIE
By SERENA
of strawberry Ico cream,
them lay a lake full of delicious lemon
sherbet
“I think,” said the Little Princess,
'Til go over there this morning and
got some Ice cream. The King, my
father, might like It tor hls dinner.”
Bo she took a silver pall In one hand
and a big golden spoon In the other
and started off. When she reached
the mountains she took two spoonfuls
from the vanilla mountain and put It
In her pnIL Then two from the choco
late mountain and three from the
strawberry one.
push little baby cattle
O NCE Upon a time there was a!
very pretty red Moolle Cow,
and the wonderful thing about
her was that she had a perfectly
white tall. Bo everybody that came by
the pasture used to stop and exclaim:
"Just look! Red all over, and a white
tall!" At last Mrs. Moolle Cow got very
vain of her beautiful white tall that
everybody admired so much. And the
next thing you knew ehe began to feel
very bad because her little baby cattle
was red all over like herself, and had
a red tall, too. She wanted her baby
to have a white tall because she had.
So she "considered” and “consid
ered” for a long time (tor she had
heard the mllkboy say, "Consider, cow,
consider"), and at last sha considered
out a beautiful plan. That night, when
the boy was passing with the milk.
she would
against the full pall and perhaps her
red tall would get white!
By and by the mllkboy came whis
tling by with a pall brimful of new milk,
and then Mrs. Moolle Cow gavo little
cattle a gentle push and pushed hls
little red tall right Into the milk, and It
came out white all overl This made
Mrs. Moolle Cow very happy and she
and her baby went to bed, and ehe
slept till morning. But oh, dear met
what do you think? In the morning,
Mrs. Moolle Cow found that her baby
cattle had licked off all the milk and
that her tall was red again, Just as It
was before! Then
richly dressed for hls wedding.
Ice Cream Mountains
By Emily Williams.
TThB Little Princess stood by the
I dining room window and looked
* out due east by northeast toward
the Ice Cream Mountains. There
were three of them: a white one made
This left room for
only one spoonful of the lemon sherbet
on the very top.
By the time the Little Princess wag
half way home again she was Quite
tired and the pall felt very heavy. "I
think," she said, “I’d better eat my
Moolle
emu: uoo, rauu, raw, u served me
Just right for not letting things alone
when they were good enough. And
said to her old man: “Old man, let
us keep this little boy for our own? He
seems to be a fine, bright-eyed little
fellow, and we are all alone.”
“What are you thinking of, old
woman?" grumbled the old man. “Wo
can hardly keep ourselves, and yet you
talk of taking In a ragged little scamp
from nobody knows where!"
In the meantime the boy had come
quite near, and the old wife beckoned
to him to enter the lodge.
"Sid down, my grandson, sit down!”
she said, kindly; and. In spite of the
old man's black looks, she handed him
a small dish of parched corn, which
was all the food they had.
The boy ate and stayed on. By and
by he said to the old woman: “Grand
mother, I should like to have grand
father make me some arrowsl”
"You hear, my old man?" said she.
"It will be very well for you to make
some little arraws for the boy."
"And why should I make arrows for
a strange little ragged boy?" grumbled
the old man.
However, he made two or three, and
the boy went hunting. In a short time
he returned with several small birds.
The old woman took them and pulled
off the feathers, thanking him and
praising him all the time. She quickly
made the little birds Into soup, of
which the old roan ate gladly.
"You have done well, my grandson!"
he said; for they were really very poor,
Not long after, the boy said to hls
adopted grandmother: "Grandmother,
when you see me at the edge of the
wood yonder, you must call out: ‘A
bear, there goes a bear!' “
This she did, and the boy again sent
forth one of the magto arrows, which
he had taken from the body of hls
game and kept by him. No sooner had
he shot, than he saw the same bear
lying before him with the arrow In hls
sldal
Now there was great rejoicing In the
lodge of the poor old couple. While they
were out skinning the bear and cutting
the meat In thin strips to dry, the boy
sat alone In the lodge, in the pot on the
Are was the bear's tongue, which he
wanted to eat.
Alt at once a vouns arfrl stood In the
DISOBEDIENT EMILY
By LADY HELEN CARNEGIE and MRS. ARTHUR JACOB
IEFUL CAT WILL HELP HER
MOTHER,
ITH LITTLE SISTER AND
WITH BROTHER p
BY TRYING IN A
jgftL GENTLE WAY,
JR^vTo-keep them quiet
WHEN THEY PLAY
The selfish CAT IS OISRESPECTFUL,
Another duties,quite
NEGtECTFUL
Sometimes, so loudly*does she bawl
Her mother gets no rest at all
W HEN Emily her Task had done
It was her Nurse's Rule
To stern forbid her charge to
' run
Near Miller Jones'! Pool.
But Emily did not Incline
Kind Nurtey to obey.
She saw the Water Lilies shine
That on the Water lay.
"La!” she exclaimed. "What Nurse
desired
She Idly spoke In Haste;
Those Plants would fitly be admired
If on the Table placed.”
And so, with bold, presumptuous Mien
And disobedient Pride,
Ehe hies her to the Meadows green
Wherein the Waters glide.
To reach the Flowers she pll* 3
Art,
And, In the very Deed,
A Victim to her willful Heart.
Bbe sinks beneath the Weed.
Nurse Sukey, from her Window
The dire Misfortune views;
Her deafnlng Scream and frenzied
Proclaim the fatal News.
Dragged by the Miller and hls 1
Who haste their Aid to lend.
Young Emily, restored to Llf*«
Makes Promise to amend.
“Ah me!” she cries, “the/ crowned
Slime
And choked with Mud and US’
My Heart may profit. In Its “
By what my Fault receive!."
8HE PUSHED HI8 LITTLE RED TAIL RIGHT INTO THE MILK.
THE riAGIC ARROWS
By ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN
T HERE was once a young man who
wanted to go on a Journey. Hit
mother provided him with sacks
of dried meat and pairs of mocca
sins, but bis father said to him:
“Here, my son. are four magic ar
rows. When you are In need, shoot one
of them!”
The young man went forth alone, and
bunted in the forest for many days.
Usually he was successful, but a day
came when he wae hungry and could
not find meat Then he sent forth one
cf the magic arrows, and at the end of
the day there lay a fat bear with the
arrow In hls side. The -hunter cut out
the tongue for hls meal, and of the
body of the bear he. made a thank-of
fering to the "Orest Mystery."
Again he waa In need, and srsln In