le time away;
Won't you tell us the reason why all this should be?'
But the fiddler still fiddled, he fiddled, did he.

"But finally, while fiddling, he said, 'Sir,' said he,
'You will greatly oblige me by letting me be;
All your fussing and fretting and fuming,' said he,
'Is nothing at all--it's fiddledidee!'
So he kept on a fiddling, this fellow McPhee,
And he fiddled, and fiddled, and fiddled, did he.

"And I was one of the neighbors," added the ex-Pirate.

"And did not Mr. McPhee stop?" asked Tommy.

"No. We all had to move. He had a ninety-nine years' lease."

"I don't blame you," said the Gopher.

[Illustration: "LET'S ORGANIZE!... WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT ORGANIZATION?"]

The ex-Pirate was about to propose reciting four more verses when there
occurred another commotion, and the Hippopotamus stood up on his awkward
hind legs and shouted:

"Let's organize! We ought to organize! What is life without
organization? I move we elect a president--"

But before he could express his views any further the Lion walked up to
him and buffeted him with his paw, and growled:

"Sit down! If there is any organizing to be done, _I_ will do it. I want
you to understand that I am the King of Beasts, and we won't have any
presidents this trip."

Whereupon the poor old Hippopotamus rubbed his sore jowls, and waddled
slowly off to another part of the room. Then the Lion got up on a big
chair, with the Lioness at his side, and made a speech. Tommy and the
ex-Pirate could not hear what he said, because they were so far away;
but the animals all seemed very attentive and much pleased, for they
continually nodded their heads, and at the close of the oration the
Gopher, who in some manner had managed to catch every word, waved his
sun-bonnet in the air and cried:

"Hooray! We're going to eat!"

"I told you so," whispered the ex-Pirate; and then he suggested to Tommy
that they go down to the floor and mingle with the animals, and try to
find the Sheep, so as to have a chance at the meal, if that were
possible.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]

The lawn-tennis tournament for the Interscholastic championship of the
United States was finished at Newport last week, first honors being
carried off by Leonard E. Ware, of the Roxbury Latin School, Boston,
Mass. Ware is, beyond doubt, the best man of the four players who came
to represent the schools, and he proved, both by his play i