[CHAPTER X.]
THE SPECIAL REPORTER OF THE “EVENING MOON” MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF A LITTLE MATCH GIRL.
Pull the blue bell, and knock five times!
The request was not to be denied. That the small party who made it could not “reach” was self-evident, for she was scarcely three feet and a half in height. But to say, “pull the blue bell” was one thing, and to pull the blue bell was another. Our Reporter had pulled every bell on the door, as he believed, and he looked in vain for a blue one.
“I don’t see the blue bell, little girl,” he said.
“Yes, yer do,” replied the little girl, with audacious effrontery. “Not where yer looking! It’s all by itself on the other side.”
Our Reporter found the bell, “all by itself,” on the left hand side of the door, where bells usually are not, and he pulled it, and knocked five times slowly.