72 THE YOUNG 
pass the spot, out burst the moon, flood- 
ing the pond and shore with light. In a 
moment he was busy examining my 
clothes by the light of the moon, evidently 
much puzzled. Fearing that his next 
move would be to secure the " warp line " 
of my seine, I began pulling hard and 
steady on my end, hoping that the line 
would slip off the stone easily and without 
noise, but alas ! as I pulled I could see the 
stone sliding slowly and noiselessly toward 
the water, in its course upsetting one of 
the pails, and carrying the other with it. 
In moving the pails he must have placed 
them directly on the line. When " Tight 
Lips " saw this, he started for the top of 
the bank, frightened. Fortunately the 
cork line " was well under water, as the 
seine hung in the very deepest part of the 
pond. Now, taking a rest, I determined to 
retain my present position till he walked 
away, but he wouldn't walk ; he deliber- 
ately sat down on one of my pails to wait 
for further developments. In this posi- 
tion we remained for half an hour, he 
watching the pond and I watching him. 
It was evident he had not discovered my 
hiding place nor the Heine. Soon he got 
up, and examining my clothes again, went 
through all the pockets, even closely 
scrutinizing my handkerchief in search of 
a name. The moon passing out of sight 
again, I pulled in the seine vigorously till 
it was all in by the post. By this time, 
feeling chilly and cramped from being in 
the water so long a time, and in one posi- 
tion, not to mention the stings of boat 
flies, and ravenous nippings of horse 
leeches that swarmed about me, I de- 
termined to sink the seine with stones, 
of which there were plenty, around 
the post under the water. So treading the 
net down to the bottom of the pond, I 
silently sank myself under the water to 
where the stones lay, placing them securely 
all over the net to keep it down. Making 
a calculation as to the value of my things 
on shore, I concluded to sacrifice them 
rather than be taken to the station house 
undressed, or to my father's, at that hour 
of the night, to be laughed at by my 
brothers the next day. 
Some forty feet from where I stood pro- 
jected forth a long dark shadow cast by a 
SCIENTIST. 
tall factory situated on the opposite shore 
of the pond to where policeman sat. If I 
could reach that shadow unobserved, I 
would be all safe. So inflating my lungs 
to their fullest capacity, I settled down to 
the bottom of the pond, and struck out 
vigorously under water in the direction of 
the friendly shadow. Knowing by the 
change of light that I had entered it, I 
rose to the surface, taking great care to 
keep my face turned away from where the 
policeman sat, and not to puff too loud in 
allowing the escape of exhausted air from 
my lungs. Now remaining perfectly mo- 
tionless for a few minutes, and working 
the corner of one eye round, I obtained a 
peep at the reclining policeman. He still 
remained just as I had left him before I 
went under. I now ventured to move 
ahead, going very slowly. I was doing 
nicely, when whop ! came a big stone right 
near my head. It was evident he had dis- 
covered me ; my only chance was to gain 
the shore as quickly as possible. As the 
pond occupied an entire block, he would 
have to run around it before he could 
reach me. The stones fell thicker and 
faster. He called to me " To come out or he 
would take me in. " I answered back that 
I could 'nt get out any faster. In a minute 
more I had reached the shore and was 
dashing up Lorimer street at full speed 
for home, then down Remsen street, he 
following close behind. Reaching the 
corn lot," over the high fence I vaulted, 
then through the tall corn, across the 
garden, over the kitchen roof by the lad- 
der (which I drew up after me) and inta 
bed, feeling that I had had all I desired 
of *' fish hunting " for one night. 
To be continued. 
Lessons in Magic— VII. 
The Flying Watch. 
^ ^ T^ILL some lady be kind enough to 
lend me a white kid glove?" the 
performer asks. "Ah, here is one ; thank 
you, madam. You are not a confederate 
of mine, are you?" 
"No." 
" Then I wish you to see me tear this 
glove to pieces, else the audience will say 
afterwards, either that I changed it, or 
that you were my assistant." 
