PEPPER A PRISONER At the usual hour the next morning Josiah Crabtree arose and dressed himself.

He was in a far from happy frame of mind, for a tailor's bill he had to pay was higher than he thought it ought to be.
Having donned his garments, and washed himself and combed his hair, he turned to the stand to get his new set of teeth.
He took up the glass and peered into it.
"Hum!" he mused.

"I thought I put them in there--in fact, I was sure of it!" he murmured.
He set the glass down and commenced to look around, on the bureau, on his bookcase, on the shelf, and even on the chairs.

But, of course, nothing in the shape of the set of teeth came to light.
"This is queer, mighty queer," said the teacher to himself.

"Now, let me think what I did with them.