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A TEASING FELLOW.

THE DEMON OF THE NIGHT.

[BY KATHLEEN O'BRIEN.]

Of all the demons told off to worry and barasa that bothered creature, Man-the"put-it-off-till- to-morrow' demon, the "what's the good of anything?" demon, the slicing-and-pulling demon, and the rest-there is one who, though not actually dangerous or wicked, is a particularly teasing fellow. It is the demon of the night.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24,

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Seadless apples will be in Covent Garden when the next autumn crops flourish In September. The slogan will be that you can eat all the apple, however, much your taste may have been exalted by dinners at the Savoy and the Ritz.. There may be a faded resemblance to a core left, but, according to the promises, it will be the kind of. core which makes you want more of It

I think he is a little, young, mis- chievous demon, not an old, cynical one; for demons, one must suppose, Why not? Seedless oranges, vary in age and looks and disposi-seedless lemons, and seedless tion like everybody else. I think grape-fruit have been familiar to ho is rather like Puck, with long us for years. They have a rich pointed cars and bright, triangular flavour, and you can ent every eyes, pushed up at the corners. bit of them, barring the skin. The Flower Making He loves to play his nocturnal seedless apple was first grown by shadow-tricks on us, and delights Mr. Buzzel, of Abbotsford, in the la our discomfiture. It is probably Province of Quebec, who exhibited because he has been badly brought it at a show at Boston last year. up, with no nice home influence to soften the edges of his character,

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A seedless fruit is rather like. no kind demon-mother to show him a milch cow. It improves on the how cruel it is to make people suf-methods of nature by devoting It fer unneccssarily. He wants self to the sustenance and enjoy- spanking, that is all; and I aup-ment of the human being. The pose all the other demons are 80seedless fruit does not bother busy conscientiously attending to about the propagation of its own their malignant tasks that they species. It grafts itself on bran- haven't time to do it.

ches grown from fruit with seeds. The seedy mother provides thu fecundity: the seedless fruit gives the pulp and the flavour.

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This is how he goes to work. You have been in a divided mind about that little bit of capital you have invested in Government stock, and that is bringing you in a dull, steady five per cent. A Stock E- change friend has given you a tip about tin. Knows a company with shares at thirty-two bound to be up at fifty before the end of the year. Advises you to sell out and buy the tin. You have been think in it over all day. It's not a great deal of money-three hundred, to be exact at least, it wouldn't be a great deal of money to a finan- cial magnate or a leading lady but it's nearly the little all you have saved. If you could manage to increase it, the wife could have a fur coat out of the profit-wants it, too; no mere luxury; colds and coughs all the winter, poor old girl --and Peggy could have the super bicycle she has been hankering after. Doesn't get too many ple... sures; jolly, plucky little kid. If

The seedless apple takes its idea from the Baedless orange," of California, which was a freak of nature discovered" over. a hundred years ago. About 1820 0 missionary in Bahia, Brazil, discovered a new kind of orange growing wild which con- tained seeds of propagation not in its own body, but in a little self- contained sac at the top. He sent twelve of the trees of the United States. They did not live long, but others wore budded from them, and they are building in plenteous ness still.

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The Spanish padres fathered them. Mrs. Eliza Tibbetts carried on the good work and mothered them, and one of the orange trees which she planted in 1873 is still. alive, and producing good fruit. "Washington Navels" they are: called, and "Washington Navels" are a pride of dessert tables of you lose it... but you won't. You distinction to this day. They hav can't. "You decide to take the risk. You go to bed at last, toss about for an hour or so, and fall- into an unsettled sleep.

no seeds at all.

Valencias come next, with about

a seed apiece. It is perhaps as well.

Enters the demon of the night, that they retain it, for California looking for a job..........`.

"Hullo!" he "cries. this? The very thing. A man with something on his mind." He squats himself beside you. "I say, old man," whispers the demon; what's this about selling out your bit of capital? Do you think you ought to take the risk? Suppose the show smashed, and you lost the whole lot? Suppose that Stock Exchange fellow Was talking through his hat? Suppose....

You are half-awake now, which is what the demon wants.

grows most of the best oranges of "What the world, and if there are no be no seeds there will soon oranges, which would be bad for the 11,000 master-growers who now market their fruit, from the State, under that famous organis»-. tion they devised, known as Cali- fornian Fruit Growers' Exchange.

Suppose you lost the lot? It's all you've got if you should want to lay hands, on a bit of rendy money. The wife's not very strong; the English winter was never any good to her. She might

. she might ...

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Here the demon pauses to think

Seedless oranges do not grow wild, and they are not plucked from the tree as Adam and Eve plucked them. Selected seeds are sown in frames; not till the seed- Ings are two years old are they "budded" with the kind of seedless orange desired; and it is six years before a crop of marketable or nges comes, after a lot of fumigat- ing in the dark and keeping warm by stoves in the frost.

Californian growers of seedless oranges are both interested and hopeful about the Quebec experi-

of something to bother you veryment in seedless apples. They wo

particularly.

no season why it should not suc-

"She might why, she might get pleurisy-you know, her sister ceed. They think it would be good for our health. They have nearly died of it. Pleurisy's an computed that the annual con- Fexpensive bustress, especially with complications, like her sister had. sumption in the United Kingdom than 100 apples, 70. You have to have two nurses, and no more

oranges, and 38 bananas per extra help to wait on the two

month per annum. nurses"... and you wouldn't have the money to pay for it!"

You start up here, miserably awake, your head hot and a, de- exaggeration is the demon's parti, pressing weight dragging at your cular forte. He makes your tiniest diaphragm. The demon scampers apprehensions and doubts appear away, rather frightened. He isn't monstrous, like shadows thrown on so happy when you're quite awake. a screen. Now he has got to work You're more able to cope with him, bimself up again, and is rather and he doesn't like being coped cross with you for giving him the with. He likes to have it all his trouble..

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"And then," he continues, tak Presently you turn over and falling up a new line, "the house will into au uneasy half sleep. The probably want doing, all of a sud- very thing. Just that fine bound-den. Just like you, to take it on ary the demon loves, where the à repairing lease. "You won't have mind hovers between conscious- the money to do it it will all be ness and oblivion. He'squats him lost in that mad tin-venture--and self besides you again.

the owner will drive you out, and Wouldn't have the money you'll have nowhere to go. The to pay for it, repeats the demon, wife and Peggy will be wandoring just as though he had never been about-in-the wind and rain. And Interrupted, and the wife might just because- die. Just for want of proper at tention. That bit of money would

A ray of light comes stealing have pulled her through. And her through the window; the first her death would be at your door." ald of My lord, the Sun. The de

You fling out an arm, nearly hit mon starts up pettishly. Ho can- ting the demon on the nose. It not bear the light "Just as I wae puts him out, rather. Ho had beginning to enjoy myself!" he worked himself up to a really grumbles, as he spreads his Cat pretty pitch of oxaggeration; for like wings and files away..

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