The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks

the last Saturday in beloved October should be; and not too cold to sit still and witness an out-of-doors performance. Tickets had sold with such grat

the best we could and half of them will still have to

collecting, sank wearily down at a table in the "Neapolitan" soda dispensary and ordered their fa

mised Nyoda I'd see about. Won't you please get them, Hinpoha, while I run up to Nelson's? There's a dear. Get them at Raymond's-theirs are the freshest; and then you had better go right on home without waiting for me. It will take me a little longer, but I'll hurry as fast as I can. And please tell Nyoda that I didn't forget the marshmallows this time; I just turned the responsibility over to you." And Sahwah gathered up her bundles and retraced her steps toward the big up-town store, while Hinpoha took her way to Raymond's. Five pounds of marshmallows mak

ale, near-sighted eyes peering through glasses. She wore a long drab-colored coat, cut as severely plain as a man's, and a narrow-brimmed felt sailor hat. She wore no gloves and her hands were large and bony. Her shoes-Hinpoha looked twice in her astonishment to make sure-yes, there w

she said coolly. "Now, I've forgotten which pair I intended to wear."

school as she could out there and had now come east to stay with her cousin and take the last year in high school. Hinpoha promised to introduce her around to the gir

ps" in her handbag. "Here's a ticket. It's going to be in the big field at the corner of May a

each the corner the car had started. Hinpoha stamped her foot with vexation, mostly directed toward Miss Parker and her freak cousin for taking her attention away from her belongings. Then she considered. The car the woman had boarded must make a loop and come out a block below and it would be possible to catch it there. Hinpoha puffed along the sidewalk at a great rate, worming her way through the Saturday noon crowds and colliding with people right and left. She reached the corner just as the car did and made a mad dash over the pavement, dodging in among wagons and automobiles at dire peril of life and limb. She scrambled aboard and landed sprawling on the back platform, while her bundles scattered over the floor in every dire

on her head. "I couldn't see where I was going. Why, Captain

ou?" said the Captain, stooping to

said Hinpoha hast

ted the Captain in a

ated with waving arms that he was to pursue the lady in question and regain the club's property. The Captain started off obediently, though her explanation was not yet clear in his mind, but the truth flashed over him when he presently overtook a lady that

she surrendered her bundles to him gratefully, saying with a breathl

a while?" aske

n a while, then," sa

er street clothes and into her orchestra costume. The audience was arriving in crowds and the Sandwiches, who were detailed as ticket t

d the band and made a stunning drum major in a fur hat a foot high, made out of a muff. The members of the band were dressed as Spanish troubadours in costumes of blinding scarlet, with their instruments hung around their neck by ribbons. They marched around the ring at a lively pace, playing the music of a popular football song, which made the audience cheer wildly, for it was largely composed of stude

rehearsed that the crowd, who were being amused by the antics of the clown, had not time to grow impatient before they were ready. Shrieks of delight went up at the appearance of the five ferocious animals from Nowhere-The Camelk, The Crabbit, The Alligatortoise, The Kangaroos

e magician suddenly spring into the air, uttering a wild yell and, thrusting his hand into his hip pocket, throw the cause of the disturbance half-way across the ring. The Fattest Man on Earth, who was Slim, with the addition of several pillows fore

on a tight green basque, which flared out below the waist in a ripple and a very full red skirt, held out in a ridiculous curve by that atrocity of bygone days known as a "bustle." She was climbing stiffly up and down among the spectators trying to sell papers which she was crying in a shrill voice. As she went up and down among the benches she held up her skirt in her hand, disclosing purple stockings and enormous flapping slippers. Where

hind legs until the audience thought she must slide off, she set him to leaping obstacles, keeping her seat all the while with amazing ease. There was a touch of realism in her act, too, which made the audience tingle for a while. In their eagerness to see the horse and the daring rider the children down in the front row had pressed forward until they were fairly under the ropes. Without warning a little girl lost her balance and fell out into the ring, rolling right into the path of the galloping horse. An exclamation of horr

show and could hardly wait for that time to come. His appearance in the ring was hailed with tumultuous applause. Led by the clown, who played the mouth organ constantly to assure his continuous locomotion, he did his tricks over and over again, l

along knew that Sandhelo would only go to music, they anticipated no little fun from this business. Sandhelo was perfectly safe to ride-he was as gentle as a kitten-but his refusal to stir when commanded made him appear a v

Sandhelo, around the ring and win the handsome prize of twenty-five cents, a whole quarter of a dollar?" Still n

little old woman who had gone around selling papers. "I'll ride him for twenty-five cents," she cackled in her high shrill voice. And she hobbled

e'll get hurt?" whisp

a. "Sandhelo won't go a st

stonishment went around the circle. She was taller than the tallest of them. Without assistance from anyone she climbed on Sandhelo's back and sat with her face toward his tail. The audie

dap!" Sandhelo, mortified to death at the undignified position of his rider, had but one idea in his mind-to escape from the gibing crowd and hide his head in his stable. Around the ring he flew as fast as his tiny legs would carry him, the old woman sticking to hi

npoha's mind. In a twinkling she was carried back to the incident at Raymond's that noon when Miss Parker stopped to present her cousin from the west. Surely there never were two such voices! At the same time Hinpoha noticed that the old woman's gray hair was sliding back on her head, and a long wisp of yellowish hair was hanging out underneath. She stared at the curious figure in growing won

fascinated while Katherine explained how she had come "by special invitation" to the circus and had decided that people who had "pep" enough to get up a circus were

t clown for the remainder

the spread upstairs aft

tart. The new comedian proved such a diversion and put the regular clown up to so many tricks that he would never have t

ggested Gladys; "they'll buy from

mule, and, tearing himself away from the fascinating orator, he betook himself to the barn, followed by the whole string of would-be riders. But when he arrived there the stall was empty and Sandhelo was nowhere to be found. Loud chorus of disappointment from the small boys. The Captain turned their interest in Sandhelo to account by enlisting them in the search for him, but it was vain. Nowhere could they find a trace of him. His shame at the indignity heaped upon him that afternoon had been too great. Finding

he big flapping slippers and had much ado to keep them on when she climbed on the table with the mincing air of a young miss making an elocution lesson. She planted her feet carefully, heels together and toes apart, taking several minutes in the operation, and then surveyed them with a silly smirk of satisfaction that was convulsing. When her discourse became a little heated the feet suddenly flew around and toed in until both heels and toes were in a straight line.

l she declared she had no voice left to whisper. "You know I have to be very careful of my voice," sh

d the invitation with another convulsing speech. It seemed incredible to the girls that they had met her just that afternoon. It seemed as if they had known her always. She fitted into their group like a thumb on a hand. She was plied with slumgullion and every other delicacy, and her health was drunk i

ked Veronica, whose ideas of the America

And then," she continued, as she saw Veronica's eyes becoming saucerlike, "there are all kind of wild animals out there, too. We can't keep milk standing around in the pantry because

d up with merriment at her awful "yarns,

down on the bearskin bed beside her. "Goodness, Veronica, don't look so excited. All the Indians there are i

el, which hardly anyone could dance for laughing at Kathe

lothes on. "We've made enough money to equip the Sandwiches' gym be-yoo-tifully; we've made Veronica famous as a horsewoman; we've los