Mr.Ford at once recognized it as the work of that youthful but eminent caricaturist, Johnny Filgee.

Broad in treatment, comprehensive in subject, liberal in detail and slate-pencil--it represented Uncle Ben lying on the floor with a book in his hand, tyrannized over by Rupert Filgee and regarded in a striking profile of two features by Cressy McKinstry.

The daring realism of introducing the names of each character on their legs--perhaps ideally enlarged for that purpose--left no doubt of their identity.

Equally daring but no less effective was the rendering of a limited but dramatic conversation between the parties by the aid of emotional balloons attached to their mouths like a visible gulp bearing the respective legends: "I luv you," "O my," and "You git!" The master was for a moment startled at this unlooked-for but graphic testimony to the fact that Uncle Ben's visits to the school were not only known but commented upon.

The small eyes of those youthful observers had been keener than his own.