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"PRESSING AFTER BRUCE, THEY CHARGED THE MAN, EACH ONE TEMPORARILY A WILD BEAST"

the nearest tree. The pack milled and howled about the trunk for a time, and then sat down to wait, grimly.

George had galloped up to the support of his hounds and was starting to dismount when a ringing neigh sounded from the woods. Dash answered joyfully and trotted toward the sound as George settled back in the saddle. A few minutes later they returned; George was leading Comet! and after making sure that both horses needed no further attention, he tied them on the opposite side of the clearing.

His next thought was for the fallen dogs. Two were dead, one dying, and five others more or less hurt. Running to the truck, which he had seen in the woods, he got a

thieves," George explained in a matter-offact tone.

"And they got away?"

"No, sir, they are up that tree there." "How long have they been there?"

"A few minutes. I found Comet in the woods, he 's all right, too, but I stopped to fix up the dogs before I did anything more. Can you take four of them back in your car, Mr. Storm? They can't walk."

"Did n't I tell you the lad loved 'em?" Andy whispered.

Storm nodded, walked over to the tree and inspected the prisoners, then back. "Bring up the car, Jim," he said to one of the men; and to George: "Now tell us how in the world you and the dogs followed the truck

up here. We have been puzzling over it all the way, which may account for our getting off the track half a dozen times."

George told his story and Storm nodded from time to time. When the car came up he carefully helped load the wounded hounds; then, pulling an automatic from his pocket, he walked over to the tree. "Now," he said, "you fellows come down, one at a time." "We ain't comin' while them dogs are there," one declared.

"Come away!" Storm commanded the guardians.

The hounds looked at him, but stayed where they were.

"I say, come here! Don't you know how to mind? Come here!"

Andy started to speak, stopped, and smiled as George stepped forward.

"Excuse me, Mr. Storm, but this will do it." He snapped his fingers. "Bruce-pack. Heel!" And every dog moved slowly back and formed a semicircle behind their master. Storm said nothing, only shot a glance at Andy.

When the thieves were safely bound and in their truck under guard, Storm turned to the old man. "You go back with them, Andy," he said smiling. "I will follow with the pack and the new Master of Hounds."

THE THREE
THREE WISE
WISE MONKEYS

By FLORENCE BOYCE DAVIS

IN a temple at Kioto in far-away Japan,

The Little Apes of Nikko are sitting, wondrous wise;
And one they call Mizaru-he 's a funny little man!
Mizaru sees no evil with his eyes.

The next is Kikazaru-quite funny, too, is he;

But ah! the people tell me he is wise beyond his years;
As fine a little gentleman as any ape could be;
Kikazaru hears no evil with his ears.

The third one is Mazaru, and, like the other two,

His way is often quoted by the folk he dwells among;
And that which makes him famous is a simple thing to do-
Mazaru speaks no evil with his tongue.

Now the temple at Kioto few of us may ever see,

Or the Little Apes of Nikko, they 're so very far away,
But if we would do as they do, I think you'll all agree,
We might in time become as wise as they.

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"KIKAZARU HEARS NO EVIL, MAZARU SPEAKS NO EVIL, AND MIZARU SEES NO EVIL"

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THIS group of cetaceans, or little whales, belong to the family Delphinidæ and have the same ability to spout, on a small scale, and cleave the mighty billows with their horizontal tails as has their monstrous

relative, the gigantic sperm-whale.

Known and chronicled by many ancient writers, these jolly denizens of the deep acquired the reputation of being very socially disposed toward humans, very susceptible to the strains of music, and, as soothsayers, giving timely warning of approaching storms. Herman Melville says of his "huzzah" porpoise or dolphin, "I call him this, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which, upon the broad sea, keep tossing themselves like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward. They are the lads that always live before the wind. They are accounted a lucky omen."

They love to gather around the bow of a surging ship and, with its towering bowsprit as a canopy, engage in their elfish pranks. Their dark, winglike fins cleave the passing seas in a multitude of confusing circles, throwing out threadlike streams of glittering foam, when zip! several of these quivering beauties, shimmering lumps of energy, fire themselves like rockets skyward, and, turning

gracefully in a shower of sparkling spray, descend with a resounding splash. Rolling over, you catch a passing glimpse of their grotesque heads, that seem to grin as if saying, "How was

that? Don't you think we did that well?'' And so they keep up these amazing aquatic antics until, as if by some preconcerted signal, they vanish. Perhaps, as we crossed the swirl or wake of a vessel, they hit the trail, seeking a new acquaintance, or the alarm was passed of the approach of a deadly enemy from the depths below.

And thus, since the earliest known era of history, the porpoise have chased herring and its kind, dived for octopus, indulged in side-dishes of crustaceans and mollusks, and romped through the billows, a jolly set of sociable little ramblers.

They occupy a quiet niche in the annals of mythology, and by the Greeks and Assyrians were held as sacred.

Many antique coins are embellished with their forms, and sculptors and artists used them frequently in their portraiture of the deities of the sea as their symbols and attendants.

And so from the mystic and shadowy myths of Neptune's realm, to a brush with the mighty and palatial greyhound of the sea, as it plunges along in a swirl of smoke and steam, they roam the deep.

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"THEY LOVE TO GATHER AROUND THE BOW OF A SURGING SHIP"

By HALLAM HAWKSWORTH

CHAPTER III

THE LONG MEMORIES OF THE LITTLE BRAINS

BESIDES the big brains we have in our heads, we have little brains scattered all through the body. I speak of this, not because it will be any news to you, you 've read about them in your physiology, have n't you?but because while we are on the subject of memory I want to do justice, as far as I can, to the truly remarkable memories of these little brains, and point out how, because they have such good memories, the brains in our heads are left free for bigger business.

These little brains not only recall readily things the big brains have forgotten for months and months, but they remember things our big brains never knew at allthings our ancestors did thousands, yes, millions, of years ago!

I. HOW THE LITTLE BRAINS STARTED IN

BUSINESS

As to the memories of the little brains for comparatively recent things, take skating. Did you ever stop to think why it is you can start right off up the creek on those steel gliders those "winged feet" that Mr. Mercury never heard of-as soon as the ice is safe, when you 've gone all summer without doing a stroke? It's because the little brains in your legs remember how. Bicycle riding will give us a still more striking instance. When automobiles first became so popular, bicycle riding almost ceased. Then, after several years, it came back. But probably you had little trouble in mounting your wheel again and away as if nothing had happened.

Now contrast the memories of the big brains in geography, for example. Although you may have passed with good marks when you entered the eighth grade, I should n't be surprised to hear you admit that you could n't tell, at the beginning of the next term, where Karachi is, or why; or by what body of water Abyssinia is bounded, or whether it is bounded by any water at all, and why.

One reason the little brains retain things so much better than the big brains is that they specialize. They have just one set of things to remember,-how to move the legs,

for example, and they have a great deal of practice in applying their knowledge. "Learning by doing" is one of the great principles of education. The big brains, on the other hand, are required, by the very nature of their business, to be constantly taking up new things, new topics in geography, new forms in drawing, new subjects in composition and debate.

Another reason and a most interesting one is that the little brains have been a long time learning their trade. The great principle of evolution indicates that while man is now the king of the animal creation, as far as the whole of him is concerned, yet considered in his physical make-up, part by part, he is a kind of zoo, a menagerie, a living museum, a biological laboratory, and, most of all, an animal republic. While he is an individual, he is also an assembly of lower forms of life; and these lower life forms, although they are now a part of him, still carry on, as humble citizens of this zoological republic, the same kind of work they began or that their ancestors began-unthinkable ages ago.

One way in which science got hold of this strange fact is that these lower forms of life, that we find duplicated in shape or action or both in higher types, including man, still exist as separate individuals for all the world as if Mother Nature meant us to spell our way up to this great fact of the Brotherhood of Life!

Just how one life form was built into another; how, for example, certain kinds of white corpuscles in our blood that look and act, for all the world, like certain shapeless creatures in our ponds, got into the blood; or how our hearts and lungs learned the rhythmic stroke of the jellyfish that swim in the sea to-day and that swam in the sea before even our continents were born, the "how" of it, nobody knows, though there are interesting theories about it in books dealing with evolution.

Beginning at A, as you may say, in the Alphabet of Life, that is, with creatures that consist of a single cell, you and I and Brother James are made up of millions of cells,-we find that any part of this single cell may serve as a stomach, whatever part happens first to come in contact with the food; any part may

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