Ascension Island, the mighty midget.

But Clement, undaunted, began: "One day, while I was living at Skansen, just outside of Stockholm, and longing for home" Then he told about the tiny midget he had ransomed so that he would not have to be confined in a cage, to be stared at by all the people.

The little midget took him up to them, and told him their names, and what they said.

IN A STORM Dwarfed to the merest midgets, the figures about the Prescott house waved enthusiastically, as the golden-winged monoplane made a graceful swoop high above the elms and maples surrounding it.

No superannuated mastiff or bulldog grown old in office surpassed this fluffy midget in stoic dignity.

He looked at the nearest midgets resentfully, suspecting them of eavesdropping.

But he, unhappy midget, did not know that he looked charming; he did not know that his guilty consciousness only made him the more interesting; he did not know that he seemed an epitome of humanity, a Liliputian miniature of the great world; and his large, blue, solemn eyes were filled with remorse.