REV KNIFES THE DOG

ONE day Revvie and I were walking to a neighbor house. This neighbor had a dog that barked savagely, and we were very much afraid of him. Revvie had a new knife. He gave me a pro pat and said, you l)e afraid, Need. If that dog comes out, I knife him. Step by step, we neared the house. The dog bounded out, sprang toward us and growled furiously. 1 was paralyzed with fear. But where was my protector? Where, indeed? He had nimbly scuttered to the top most rail of the corral fence, and left his little sister to fare for herself.

We never let Revvie forget the incident. If he made some big boast, as boys, both big and little, do, some one was sure to say, don you knife him? That would settle the bragging.