mind |
|refused to understand just what the fire |
|was like. |
| |
| Consequently nothing remained for |
|Johnnie to do but build a fire of his own. |
|He piled all of the newspapers and |
|playthings that could be found in the |
|middle of the room and then applied a |
|match. |
| |
| When the flames leaped to the ceiling, |
|however, and a cloud of smoke filled the |
|room, Johnnie began to doubt the wisdom of |
|the move. While Charlotte ran to tell a |
|maid he retreated to that haven of |
|youthful fugitives--the space beneath a |
|couch. |
| |
| The frightened maid summoned the fire |
|engines and the fire was soon |
|extinguished. But Mrs. Wilt discovered |
|that Johnnie had disappeared. She |
|telephoned to Charles T. Wilt, president |
|of the trunk company that bears his name, |
|and half hysterically told of the fire and |
|the disappearance of Johnnie. |
| |
| Just then there was a scrambling sound |
|from beneath the couch. Johnnie, looking |
|as serious as a 4-year-old face can look, |
|walked out. |
| |
| Mrs. Wilt seized him and, to an |
|accompaniment of "I-won't-do-it-agains," |
|crushed him to her bosom. Last reports |
|from the Wilt home were that Johnnie had |
|not yet been punished for his |
|deed.--_Chicago Record-Herald._ |

The student will notice how all the facts of the story and the answers
to the reader's questions are worked in here and there, how the content
of a news story lead is scattered throughout the entire acco