Sling :=sijot mmt 77 



He missed words in the spelling class that 

 he knew quite well, so that altogether he 

 had a very sorry day of it. 



He could hardly wait for the school to 

 close at night, that he might go back to 

 the scene of his crime and see if he could 

 find the wounded or dead bunting. 



Stealthily he approached the spot and 

 peeped through the fence, but the accus- 

 ing feet were no longer thrust up through 

 the grass at him, and he does not know to 

 this day whether the bunting finally re- 

 covered and flew away, or whether some 

 small animal found the dead bird and ate 

 it. But in either case the act was thought- 

 less and wicked. 



Tommy Andrews thought he was the 

 happiest boy in the whole world that 

 May morning, when his father put a new 

 sling-shot in his hand, and told him to 

 go out and amuse himself with it, but 



