I expect he knows too much for that!" A cry of pain was heard from the dressing-room at this juncture, and, glancing through the doorway, Maurice and Penrod beheld Sam Williams in the act of sucking his right thumb with vehemence, the while his brow was contorted and his eyes watered.

He came into the bathroom and held his thumb under a faucet.
"That darn little Carlie Chitten!" he complained.

"He ast me to hold a little tin box he showed me.

He told me to hold it between my thumb and fingers and he'd show me sumpthing.

Then he pushed the lid, and a big needle came out of a hole and stuck me half through my thumb.