lawyer explained. It was Miss Barstow's wish, he added, that Danny
should have a proper legal guardian, and he would look into the matter,
and do all that was necessary to protect Danny's rights.

So it came about, after Danny had signed a lot of legal papers, and
there had been a lot of petitions and motions, that one day Danny was
told that the law had taken notice of such an unimportant little chap as
he was, and Miss Barstow's agent had become his guardian, and Uncle
Cahill had no claim on Danny's liberty or his modest little account in
the Bowery Savings-bank. Danny's comment was:

"I never taut I'd get to be such a swell mug as to have a guardeen all
by me lonely. De first ting you know I'll be runnin' for President."

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The previous articles in this series, published in HARPER'S
YOUNG PEOPLE, are "A Street-Waif's Luck," No. 792, "Danny Cahill,
Newsboy," No. 803.

[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]

The action of the Interscholastic Athletic Association in passing the
law prohibiting bicycle-races at all future in-door meetings held under
the rules of the I. S. A. A. cannot be too highly commended. It was, of
course, the logical outcome of the occurrences of the past four months,
but nevertheless the promptness with which the evil was abolished is
praiseworthy. Bicycle-races as an in-door sport should be universally
done away with. What games in the past season have not been marred by
accidents and collisions in that event? The culmination was the carrying
away of W. G. Dann in an ambulance after he had broken his collar-bone
at the Brooklyn Poly. Prep. games last March. It is to be hoped, now
that the good work has been begun, that in the near future some of the
other peculiar features of in-door meetings will receive proper
attention at the hands of the legislators. I do not believe that
Olympian Zeus--or whatever enlightened heathen god it was who invented
and fostered track athletics--ever intended that sprints and
shot-putting should be held under a roof. He surely would have drawn the
line at bicycles, had he known anything about them. He wisely preferred
the less-murderous four-horse chariot. But, to my mind, track athletics
were never intended as an in-door sport. The gymnasium is not a
hippodrome. But more of that later. Let us be thankful for one thing at
a time.

I am not opposed to what some timid people call "rough and dangerous"
sport. Football should be encouraged,