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Honeyford went down to the Customs Office and told the officers what his son had heard. The Customs men thought it over for awhile, too, before acting. Finally they decided to send a squad of men to Eagle's Cove that night to lie in concealment and keep tab on events.
The next morning Mr. Honeyford came down stairs and picked up the daily paper off the doorstep. He half-expected to see headlines about the "Sensational Capture of Smugglers," but none stared him in the face. Indeed on looking through the paper he saw nothing about smugglers. While he was reading the paper at breakfast, however, a short paragraph came to his notice, the substance of which was that "late last night and early this morning a government experimental station intended
testing different wave-lengths by sending out messages in the form of verse.
Mr. Honeyford went down to the Customs Office that morn- ing and apologized profusely to the official to whom he had dis- gorged the plot. The said official just laughed and said:
"It was good exercise and practice for the men, anyhow."
Mr. Honeyford never told Gerry that he had told the Cus- toms, as he did not crave the idea of looking foolish in his son's eyes.
Gerry thinks to this day that if the Customs Official had been told of that rhyme, smugglers would have been caught in the act of transferring silks to Canada and rum to U. S. A.
NOEL ARTHUR.
Fourth Form's Toboggan Party
Maeaulay's History of England occupied four volumes. Even so, if all the glories of Fourth Form were to be recorded they would occupy an equal space. But as the Year Book is only one volume and we are privileged to occupy a small space, only a few things can be told. Being considerate, we would not want to take more than our small corner.
On that memorable night when fourth form went on a to- boggan party, a pleasant time was had by all. We doggedly hold to this statement in spite of all the arguments of others, who were not there. The toboggan party was started on December the twenty-ninth and ended early on the thirtieth.
The party was a real event, as it included not only tobog- ganing but sleighing as well. David Baker's parents had invited fourth form to a toboggan party on the mountain. They respond- ed almost to a man. This is all the more remarkable as the mer- cury was hovering around the zero point.
The means of conveyance was a large sleigh drawn by two Page Thirty