"I had a picnic last Monday," he said; "father let me cut all the blinders off our head-stalls with my penknife.

" We had a delightful luncheon, in spite of my poor old guest's infirmities; he had grown blinder and more tottering since last we met.

Suppose a girl saw a mouse with her eyes half covered, wouldn't she run?" Everybody laughed, and the president asked some one to tell him who invented blinders.

This heat," he added, "sure puts a blinder on a feller's memory.

Antoine took off the protecting wooden blinders and thrust them in his pocket.