ed, in three
piles, as they were scooped out of the "fish-car."

"What of that?" replied Dabney. "We follow fisherman's rules down this
way. Share and share alike, you know. All the luck is outside the boat,
they say. Once the fish are landed, your luck's as good as mine."

"Do they always follow that rule?"

"The man that broke it wouldn't find company very easily, hereabouts,
next time he wanted to go a-fishing. No, nor for anything else. Nobody'd
boat with him."

"Well, if it's the regular thing," said Ford, hesitatingly. "But I'll
tell who really caught 'em."

"Oh, some of yours are right good ones. Your string would look big
enough, some days. Don't you imagine you can pull 'em in every time like
we did this morning. Crabs nor fish, either."

"No, I s'pose not. Anyhow, I've learned some things."

"I guess likely. We'll go for some more next week. Now for a tug!"

The boat had already been made fast, and the two boys picked up their
strings of fish, two for each, after Dick Lee had started for home, and
heavy ones they were to carry under that hot sun.

"Come and show the whole lot to my mother," said Ford, "before you take
yours into the house. I want her to see them all."

"All right," replied Dab. But he little dreamed of what was coming, for,
when he and Ford marched proudly into the sitting-room with their finny
prizes, Dabney found himself face to face with, not good, sweet-voiced
Mrs. Foster, but, as he thought, the most beautiful young lady he had
ever seen.

Ford Foster shouted: "Annie! you here? Well, I never!"

But Dab Kinzer wished all those fish safely back again, swimming in the
bay.

(_To be continued_.)

THE STORY OF PERSEUS.

(_Adapted from the German_.)

BY MARY A. ROBINSON.

Many gods and goddesses were worshiped by the ancient Greeks and Romans,
but, besides these, they also believed in _demigods_, so called because,
according to tradition, their parentage was half divine and half human.
These beings were generally distinguished for beauty, strength, valor or
other noble qualities. The stories of their adventures told by ancient
writers are as interesting as fairy-tales, and are so often represented
in painting and sculpture, and mentioned in books, that it is well for
every one to know something about them.

Perseus, one of these demigods, was the son of Jupiter, the highest of
the gods, and of Danae, a mortal woman. It had been prophesied to
Danae's father, Acris