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"You get out!" Mr Atwater shouted, "D'ye hear me, you poodle?"

He found the missile, a stone of fair diameter He hurled it violently

"There, darn you!"

The stone et over that fence!" Mr Atwater cried "You wait till I find another rock and I'll----"

He began to search for another stone, but, before he could find one, Garound at Mr Atwater's feet

"There's your rock," he said

Mr Atwater looked down at hiarnet sparks glinted waggishly

"Didn't you hear et out o' here, you darn poodle?"

Gaether over his nose and prayed "There's your rock," he said And he added, as clearly as if he used a spoken language, "Let's get on with the game!"

Mr Atwater turned to Kitty Silver "Does he--does he kno to speak, or shake hands, or anything like that?" he asked

The next , as the peculiar old man sat at breakfast, he said to the lady across the table: "Look here Who did give Gamin to us?"

Julia bit her lip; she even cast down her eyes

"Well, as it?"

Her demureness still increased "It was--Noble Dill"

Mr Atwater was silent; he looked down and caught a clownish garnet glea his knee "Well, see here," he said "Why can't you--why can't you----"

"Why can't I what?"

"Why can't you sit out in the yard the next time he calls here, instead of on the porch where it blows all through the house? It's just as pleasant to sit under the trees, isn't it?"

"Pleasanter," said Julia