THE PICNIC Seth was true to his promise concerning Job.

The next afternoon that remarkable canine was decoyed, by the usual bone, into the box in which he had arrived.

Being in, the cover was securely renailed above him.
Brown and the light-keeper lifted the box into the back part of the "open wagon," and Atkins drove triumphantly away, the pup's agonized protests against the journey serving as spurs to urge Joshua faster along the road to the village.

When, about six o'clock, Seth reentered the yard, he was grinning broadly.
"Well," inquired Brown, "did he take him back willingly ?" "Who?
Henry G.?
I don't know about the willin' part, but he'll take him back.

I attended to that." "What did he say?
Did he think you ungrateful for refusing to accept his present ?" Atkins laughed aloud.