Getting Even

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1164, 3 November 1917, Page 5 (Supplement)

Getting Even

?.\ofl "I'll get even with him. You see if I don't." ils» Uncle John looked up from the article he was jsft~f writing. "Who is it you are going to get even )g*s with?" he inquired, smiling quizzically into Fred's }ggS> frowning face. <m& "It's Frank Lane. He's always playing some •; mO low-down trick on us because we won't let him play ?.| on our cricket ground. We were using my hall 'i!L to-day—it was my best ball, too—and Harry batted 1. it clear over the fence. Frank got it and threw it w, as far as he could out into the lake." Fred's eyes Ip. were flashing. n"> "And you want to get even with such a low- \ U down trick, as you rightly call it?" Uncle John said V.U slowly. ■a| "I will, too. I know what I can do." '/4 l Uncle John's pencil had been moving swiftly JjW over the paper as they talked. Now he motioned Pvl Fred to step nearer. A few lines had marked out V(& a high road and near it a low, marshy ground. "If \& a fellow does a low-down trick he lowers himself. fK\ He must be down here," Uncle John explained, \£j making a mark for a figure down on the marshy jj3p ground. "Now, if you are up here, what will you 157 have to do to get even with him?" -M Fred's face grew thoughtful as he studied the US sketch. "I suppose I'd have to get down as low Vfi as he is,'' he said slowly. \)l "Exactly. Now, wasn't that _ K just what you intended to do—to ujf do something just as mean to

iiiiii as iie nau. uuue 10 you; m oiaer wuras, xo lower 31 ~ yourself to his level?" |\ "Yes, it was," Fred admitted. M Uncle John said no more. He had a-way of *\i leaving a fellow to think things out for himself. 'W Inrvfil fr*!\ 'SI 'SI o _ k&