[From "The Little God and Dicky.">[
[We have debated long and earnestly which of the seven stories in "The Madness of Phillip and Other Tales of Childhood" is the best public reading. As yet we have no decision; certainly six of them are among the choicest readings of child-life which may be found in American literature, where we have the real child in books. With the permission of the author and the publishers, McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, we reprint cuttings from two of these stories.]
here are you going?" said somebody, as he slunk out toward the hat-rack.
"Oh, out."
"Well, see that you don't stay long. Remember what it is this afternoon."
He turned like a stag at bay.
"What is it this afternoon?" he demanded viciously.
"You know very well."
"What?"