AGE FOB GREENS,

THAT THE CAT HAS MADE

A NEST IN OVER SUNDAY.

CHAPTER XIV.

ENTERTAINING Y. M. C. A. DELEGATES--THE BAD BOY MINISTERS AT
THE Y. M. C. A. WATER FOUNTAIN--THE DELEGATES FLOOD
THEMSELVES WITH SODA--TWO DELEGATES DEALT TO HIS MA--THE
NIGHT KEY--THE PALL OF THE FLOWER-STAND--DELEGATES IN THE
CELLAR ALL NIGHT--THE BAD BOY'S GIRL IS WORKING HIS
REFORMATION.

"Well, how's your eye?" said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he blew
in with the wind on the day of the cyclone, and left the door open.
"Say, shut that door. You want to blow everything out of the store? Had
any more fights, protecting girls from dudes?"

"No, everything is quiet so far. I guess since I have got a record as a
fighter, the boys will be careful who they insult when I am around. But
I have had the hardest week I ever experienced, jerking soda for the
Young Men's Christian Association," said the boy, as he peeled a banana.

"What you mean, boy? Don't cast any reflections on such a noble
Association. They don't drink, do they?''

"Drink! O, no! They don't drink anything intoxicating, but when it
comes to soda they flood themselves. You know there has been a National
Convention of delegates from all the Young Men's Christian Associations
of the whole country, about three hundred, here, and our store is right
on the street where they passed four times a day, and I never saw such
appetites for soda. There has been, one continual fizz in our store
since Wednesday. The boss wanted me to play it on some of them by
putting some brandy in with the perfumery a few times, but I wouldn't
do it. I guess a few weeks ago, before I had led a different life, I
wouldn't had to be asked twice to play the game on anybody. But a man
can buy soda of me and be perfectly safe. Of course, if a man winks,
when I ask him what flavor he wants, and says 'never mind,' I know
enough to put in brandy. That is different. But I wouldn't smuggle it
into a man for nothing. This Christian Association Convention has caused
a coldness between Pa and Ma though.

"How's that? Your Pa isn't jealous, is he?" and the grocery man came
around from behind the counter to get the latest gossip to retail to the
hired girls who traded with him.

"Jealous nothin'," said the boy> as he took a few raisins out of a box.
"You see, the delegates were shuffled out to all the church members to