wanted. Ulie had not been attending Sabbath School in vain. The
lesson of the week concerned David and Goliath.

Prom such dreams as these Ulie woke the next morning to be told that
he need not leave his bed. He had scarlet fever and must keep close
under his cover.

"Scarlet nothin'!" was Ulie's reply. "I gotter go to a meetin' of
the Youth's Helpin' Hand Socirety this afternoon and I'll be darned
if I stay in any dog-on bed."

Mr. Budlong finally persuaded him--Ulie wasn't dressed yet and it
hurts worse on the bare hide. Then Mr. Budlong hurried down town to
bribe a doctor and borrow a red placard of the board of health. He
was just rounding the corner on the way home when he caught sight of
Ulie descending from the window by means of a knotted sheet. Ulie
had only a nightgown on, and owing to the heavy wind it wasn't much
on.

He dropped to the ground before Mr. Budlong could reach him, then
darted away across lots barefooted through the snow towards the
Detwillers'. Mr. Budlong treed him just before he reached the
neighbors. But the boy would not come down till his father promised
immunity both from punishment and from scarlet fever.

The Detwillers were arriving on the run, so the father promised, hid
the scarlet fever propaganda in his inside pocket, wrapped Ulie in
his own overcoat and carried him home. There was so much dread of
pneumonia that the guilty parents could not include Ulie in any more
schemes. And they could think of no schemes. The day before the Day