washing box that will answer every purpose.

The cost of the articles mentioned in this article are as follows:
Candlestick for lantern, 15 cents; a 4 x 5 developing-tray, 50 cents; a
5 x 8 developing-tray, 72 cents (the price for these trays is for either
rubber or celluloid); amber glass tray for hypo, 35 cents; glass
graduate (4 oz.), 25 cents; fluted glass funnel (4 oz.), 15 cents; zinc
washing-box, $2.25.

OFF WITH THE MERBOY.

BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

CHAPTER VI.

IN THE DRAWER.

[Illustration: Decorative J]

immieboy clambered up the side of the bureau with some difficulty too,
because he was now so small that the bureau was not so easy to climb. In
a few minutes, however, he was comfortably fixed inside the drawer, and
the Wizard, taking the key from the lock, followed him. Once inside he
touched a spring on the side of the drawer, and with a bang it shut
itself.

"There we are," said the Wizard, locking the drawer from the inside.
"How do you like it, Jimmieboy?"

"It's awfully dark," said the little fellow. "I can't see an inch in
front of my face."

"Then take my hand," said the Wizard, "and I'll lead you to where it is
light."

Jimmieboy did as he was told, and the two little creatures groped their
way along in the dark until the Wizard found a small door. Turning the
knob to this he threw it wide open, and Jimmieboy looking through it saw
a beautiful garden in which sweetly perfumed fountains were plashing
merrily, and through which there were scattered beds and beds of the
loveliest and withal the most singular-looking flowers he had ever seen.

"My!" he cried in an ecstasy of delight. "Isn't this magnificent!"

"Oh, yes--pretty good," said Thumbhi. "I suppose when one sees it for
the first time it must look like the most beautiful place in the world,
but to one whose prison it has been it isn't quite so beautiful. You
never heard my song,

"'I would rather be free in a dungeon cell
Than a captive at large in a flowered dell.'

"Did you?"

"No," said Jimmieboy, "I never did. How does it go?"

"This way," replied the Wizard, and then he repeated these lines:

"'I would rather be free in a dungeon cell
Than a captive at large in a flowered dell;
I would rather be free 'neath a load of chains
Than a prisoner roaming the country lanes.
I would rather be free in an ice-bound cave
Than to sit on a throne as another's slave;
For all the great blessings with wh