“Yesterday came a bookcase, also C. O. D., at eighteen dollars, and then he got three fountain pens by mail, with a bill for twelve dollars.”
“Has he any idea who ordered the things?” asked Andy.
“Not the slightest idea in the world.”
“He must be mad.”
“He said he was very much annoyed and could not imagine who would be mean enough to play such tricks on him.”
“If they signed his name to the orders that would be forgery,” was Dale’s comment.
“So it would.”
“Why doesn’t he send for the orders?”
“He is going to do it.”
The second assistant teacher was indeed in trouble. On the day following the above conversation a parrot arrived in a cage for him, followed by a canary bird. Then came a canoe and a rifle, both, sent “on approval.” The next day he got a letter from a city firm, asking how he wished them to send the automobile that he desired.