Bosh-Bosh Oil. 13

wire also. Then the boy stepped over it, and it
rattled angrily as he did so. Looking back and
laughing merrily, he found to his amazement that
the wire had disappeared! And not only that,
but his magnet as well, had vanished! Gardner
was, of course, greatly surprised, but he expected
to see strange things, and so, in a moment,
continued his journey.

He had not gone far when he saw before him,
sitting in the middle of the path, a small but very
pretty Italian greyhound, who was looking at him
intently, her little head cocked on one side, and
her two ears, which were enormous, raised in the
greatest astonishment. *

“Where did you come from, boy?” she
asked.

“T came from below,’’ he answered, ‘‘and my
name is not Boy, but ‘Gardner,’ doggie.”’

“And my name is not Doggie, but ‘Little
Pitcher,’’’ was the answer while the large ears
were held proudly upright.

“Well, ‘Little Pitcher,’ you seem to be a nice

*This picture is taken from a living ‘Little Pitcher.”