ough down came the door. Jimmieboy opened it and walked in, and there
was the Merboy only he had become a goldfish in the aquarium in the
nursery again, and was swimming around as unconcernedly as if nothing
had ever happened.

"Wasn't it queer?" said Jimmieboy, as he told the story to his father.

"Very," said his father, "but queer things often happen to boys who eat
as much fruit cake as you do."

Which was the only explanation of his strange adventure that Jimmieboy
ever got.

THE END.

[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]

Although the inter-city games at the Berkeley Oval, a week ago Saturday,
were at no time exciting, because of the marked difference in strength
of the contesting teams, yet in many instances the contests were
exceedingly interesting, and, take it all in all, the occasion was
worthy of a greater display of public interest than it received. I was
surprised at the small size of the audience present. I had expected to
see twice as many spectators as there were at the Oval on the previous
Saturday, and no doubt there would have been if the games had been
properly advertised. As far as I know not a daily newspaper of this city
announced, on that morning, that there would be interscholastic games at
the Oval that afternoon. This is not the fault of the newspapers; it is
the fault of the managers of the Inter-City games, who should have made
it their duty to see that the occasion was duly advertised and heralded.
These same managers were so anxious to fill their coffers as to make all
contestants pay an entrance-fee into the grounds, like ordinary
spectators. If they had spent a few dollars in reading notices in the
daily papers, and a few cents in postage on polite notes to the various
City Editors, they would have doubled the number of spectators present,
and the contestants could have been admitted free--as they should have
been in any case. I hope my words on this subject will not be taken as a
complaint or as fault-finding, for they are not so intended. Contestants
in track games, as in other sports, can do better if encouraged by a
crowd, and so I think, in justice to them, no reasonable efforts should
be spared to attract a large audience.

Otherwise the games were pretty well managed. The events might have been
run off a little faster, but as it was they did not drag, and by five
o'clock the programme was at an end. The advantage of having few entries
was clearly demonstrated, an