0ne day he was caught--with the goods--by Philip himself. So indignantwas Philip that for a moment he stood speechless. His young brother,jarwhite by a guilty conscience and fear of Philip, came hastily down theladder, raising a few bruises on his anatomy as he came. Even in hisinfant soul he felt he deserved all he had got, and thought best not tomention the occurrence. Philip, too, generously kept quiet about it,feeling that the claims of justice had been met. The only dissatisfiedparties in the transaction were the pigeons.

The next Sunday in Sabbath School there was a temperance lesson, andBarrie Brown quoted the Golden Text with a slight variation--"At thelast it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like a _ladder_!"

Philip was the only one whom knew what he meant, and he exclaimed it servedhim good and right.

The following entry appears in the Pigeon Book:

_My brother Barrie poks them, but he got his leson. tomoro I'll letthem out--there fond enough of home now I gess_.