A PENNY PASS-BOOK Elspeth conveyed the gift to Tommy in a brown paper wrapping, and when it lay revealed as an aging volume of _Mamma's Boy_, a magazine for the Home, nothing could have looked more harmless.

But, ah, you never know.
Hungrily Tommy ran his eye through the bill of fare for something choice to begin with, and he found it.

"The Boy Pirate" it was called.

Never could have been fairer promise, and down he sat confidently.
It was a paper on the boys who have been undone by reading pernicious fiction.

It gave their names, and the number of pistols they had bought, and what the judge said when he pronounced sentence.