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Noble dashed into the orchard, and at once fell prostrate upon what seee and solidly packed ice-crea on its side

Dark forot to his feet he was joined by a diht would have disclosed a pink sash girdling itswith furious agitations

"Vile thieves!" she panted

"Who?" Noble asked, brushing at his knees, while Florence made some really necessary adjustments of her own attire "Who were they?"

"It was my own cousin, Herbert, and that nasty little Henry Rooter and their gang Herbert thinks he hass to act perfectly horrable all the ti!" said Florence, her emotion not abated "Tried to steal this whole ice-cream freezer off the back porch and sneak it over the fence and eat it! I stuck a pretty long pin in Herbert and two o" And in the extrenation, she added: "The dirty robbers!"

"Did they hurt you?"

"You bet your life they didn't!" the child responded "Tried to drag h o' that!"

Then, tugging the prostrate freezer into an upright position, she exclaiave ole Mister Herbert and some of the others of 'eet!" And in spite of his own gloo over matters, to spare some commiseration for Herbert and his friend, that nasty little Henry Rooter and their gang They seee

"I suppose I'd better carry the freezer back to the kitchen porch," he said "Somebody may want it"

"'Somebody'!" Florence exclai freezers, and if I hadn't happened to suspeck somep'n and be layin' for those vile thieves, half the party wouldn't get any!" And as an afterthought, when Noble had pantingly restored the heavy freezer to its place by the kitchen door, she said: "Or else they'd had to have such little saucers of it nobody would of been any way like satisfied, and prob'ly all the fao without any at all That'd 'a' been the worst of it!"