"Yes, my friends," continued the genial host, "I have just had a communication from my dear friend Wilson, in which he tells me that he, himself, will never contest the office again.

Then a bulging breakthe roar of machinery, and a monster came grinding forth, forcing its way hungrily onward, toward the next and smaller contest.

"You've entered a kite-flying contest that the Boy Scouts are having!" exclaimed Hinpoha in surprise.

"I saw a Scout nailing a bulletin on a tree in the square down town challenging all the boys in town to a kite-flying contest on Commons Field next Saturday afternoon.

"Since when are you a boy?" "Well," replied Sahwah, "I read the sign and I remembered how I used to love to fly kites with my brother and I thought what fun it would be to go into the contest.

He said of course we couldn't build a decent kite, no girl could, but if we wanted to go into the contest and get beaten the Scouts wouldn't care.

The Winnebagos were enchanted with the result and all enthusiastic about the contest now.

We're going to make her our official mascot and then she'll be sure to win the contest.

"We passed the Boy Scouts' bulletin board on the way over," said Agony, "and we saw that the Winnebagos were entered in the contest.

"We're finished, as far as the contest is concerned," said Agony gloomily.

"I said we were going into that contest, and we are!

"It's twelve o'clock already and the contest starts at two.

"For goodness' sake, you aren't going to enter that thing in the contest?"

I'd rather stay out of the contest than enter such a looking kite.

If we're going into the contest we'll have to get there pretty soon.

" Agony scolded about the crazy-looking kite all the way to Commons Field and Hinpoha resignedly accepted the fact that luck was against them, and they might as well not enter the contest.

Lists of the entries in the contest had been posted on various trees.

GREAT KITE FLYING CONTEST Entries VICTORY BIRD........................

In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest, but it did look so odd for a kite to have a head and arms and legs!

I'll never have faith in good and bad luck signs again!" The Scout who had scoffed at Many Eyes before the contest came around afterward and looked her over thoughtfully, and discussed her construction in a decidedly respectful tone with Sahwah.

At last, the contest grew so warm, that they parted without any ceremony, and Mr. Pope upon this wrote the foregoing verses, which are esteemed too true a picture of Mr. Addison.

The day after the contest, or even that same night at Delmonico's and the clubs, these men would moan for poor Bob; Barry Conant's moan would be the loudest of them all, and, what is more, it would be sincere.

In a profession in which there is an unceasing contest with the wild and fickle winds, and in which human efforts are to be manifested in the control of a delicate and fearful machinery on an inconstant element, this governing principle becomes of the last importance.

The mandate to prepare for battle was received by the feeble crew of the Coquette, as it had often been received before, when her decks were filled with the number necessary to give full efficiency to her armament; though a few of the older and more experienced of the mariners, men in whom confidence had been diminished by time, were seen to shake their heads, as if they doubted the prudence of the intended contest.

No human being was distinctly visible in either fabric, though dark clusters around each mast-head showed that the ready top-men were prepared to discharge their duties, even in the confusion and dangers of the impending contest.