232 THE CHERRY-STONES.

seven cherry-stones. I was a good deal
puzzled; but, at last, it occurred to me
that Harry had done all this in order to
play some trick upon us at the break-
ing-up; and that it would be good fun
to turn the joke against himself; and,
with that intention, I placed a cherry-
stone on the buttress, and when Harry
was asleep put the alley into his jacket
pocket, and one of the stones into his
shoe.”

“Go on, Seymour,” said Dr. Young, as
the boy paused in his narrative; ‘‘there
is yet much to be explained. Did you
put the other cherry-stones into his way
also ?”

“Some of them, Sir, I did. I had no
intention of doing so at first; but Har-
ry’s perplexity, when he found the one
on the wall and the other in his shoe,