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NATURE STUDENTS.

AN EFFECT OF THE RAILWAY STRIKE.

Mr. F. W. Thomas writes to the Daily News A "conker." still in its prickly, green sheath, missed

"Oh she's there all right." said Prunes. "She'd get there somehow, if she had to wade through seas of cure like old Thing-me-jig in What's-his-name, If only the gur'nor had half ber plack. our home life would be more happy."

But he went up like a herd Fon Saturday," said Prisms. my ear by inches and rolled in Let 'em all strike: He'd show the grass at my feet. Nothing Fem! when he came home--well. remarkable in that at this time the mater had to send me out of of the year: but I was sitting the room because this language was so well, it was worse than the coal man's when he shot half a ton down the wrong hold."

under a sycamore tree.

Now, to the best of my belief, horse-chestnuts do not grow on --but here an acorn smote me in the neck. and I got up to see about it. Lond laughter from behind the rhodendrone.

"So sorry!" a voice gurgied. and I saw two large straw hats babbing up and down with badly suppressed mirth.

Dear old pater!" said Prunes. "He fought for two hours like Horatius on the bridge, and then had to climb over the back of a lorry. Mos: undignified.

He had a simply gorgeous sit in his most vital garment, and his braces burst Prunes!" Lexclaimed. "and it ten thousand pieces, and he Prisms? Why are you not at collected dollops and dollops of school?".

thick nourishing oil. to "We

are 1** said Prunes, nothing of two headaches, one say "We're studying nature. That lumbago, a bit of grit in his eye. was a hit of it that biffed you be and a lump as big as an egg on hind the ear. Wonderful thing his shin." nature! I've found 17 beautiful "So he's at home to-day "| ☀ shiny conkers, and just now said Prisms, taking walking we very nearly saw a bunny exercise round and rabbit."

round the garder. And his business is "The conker." said Prisms." is going to pieces, and the country the fruit of a large tree with is going to the dogs, and the rail- digare leaves. It is much prized way men can go to you know by borses, who eat it to improve where and ruin stares us in the their chestnut hair. Hence its face. Likewise starvation. name. We got that out of a book, death from frostbite." and mother will be awfully bucked up when we tell her."

But why ?" I asked. "Has whooping cough broken out in school? or measles? Whence this holiday?"

And

"He's locked the coal cellar dour." said Prunes, and turned off the gas at the meter, so poor mother eats tinned salmon with her furs on. Thus you will under- stand that be it ever so humble, Whooping cough!" saeered home is no place for us just now." Prunes. We're much too old! "He's seeing his solicitor-to- for whooping cough.. And night. said Prisms. "to find out measles only lasts about six if he can sue the strikers for what weeks. This is heaps better." he's losing" on his first-class sea- The dear old Robinson Crusoe son.. So altogether, as Shake- hasn't heard." said Prisms speare so dinkily puts it. Ours is "Don't you know there a strike a happy little home, and I wish I was a kipper on the foam. He And we can't get to school" was ringing up the War Office said Prunes. Consequently we'e this morning trying to buy a simply dying of vexation. Tons second hand machine-gun." of most expensive fees all going And we two forlorn little

on '

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to waste, and me losing pounds of creatures." said Prunes, "are wan.

flesh daily, pining for algebra and dering about like the Babes in quadratic equations."

the Wood, bereft of all our plea.

"Meanwhile,"

said

So as we looked so pale and sures in life. No geom, no algy, wan." said Prismas, the dear no Latir, no Euclid, and beloved mater told us to go out and swot Giglamps. Hence these tears up on nature study."

and these conkers." And the two In which endeavour" said of them danced a measure more Prunes, ке have collected notable for its reckless abandon seventeen conkers. some acoms, than its grace. and a three-cornered slit in my "But aren't you just a little bit skirt, besides lots and lots of sorry to be cut off from school ?"; mud."

I asked. "Do you not love your Prisms, books and your teachers?" "those lucky children who live "Oh, now and again!" said near enough are struggling with Prunes. "But not the government of the dative and matter." the wives of Henry VIII. "If you want to see a really Whereas we are unfortunately bad case," said Prismos. free from the genus tutelary-and old Tin-ribs, deep in

there's that reminds me D'you think thought under yonder spreading it'll be over by next week, because jub-jub tree. That fat girl with the guv'nor's taking us to the the stack of books. She's been "Goodoliers, and I'm simply weeping, over her Gallic Wars.

bursting to see it."

until it's all pulpy, Doesn't look Bursting," said Prunes, "is a bit like a troutlet in a pool, does not an elegant word. Giglamps she?" days so."

enough to

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"Poor kid!" said Prunes. Dear Giglampa!" sighed Her people ought to be told. Prisms. Our beloved form She must be sickening for some-

mistress. How we miss her!" Ithing"

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"The nephew tells me that be remembered his uncle as a boy, and kept up a rather infrequent correspondence with him when he was in India. After he had settled down in Miltown Malbay." says Mr. Quinn. I visited him there. He died there, and left. after providing for his wife, all he possessed-not by any means a big fortune to his brother, Michael, who was never found.

***He never mentioned any- thing about land in India, con-j tinued the nephew.

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