Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 37

BEDTIME STORIES Chatterer Hides. Be auick of Pray npeer give Chatterer the Red Squirrel was hav- Ing a bad time. Back and forth, from wide to of Paddy 1 e Beaver he dodged. Red- tail the wk, quick of wing. quick was doing his best Chatterer was get- ery minute he He was be- DODGED ARC RSIDE OF THE ROO¥ LITTLE BENNY | | - to Puds Simkins to- 5. 1 wonder hope you never get we cach promised to lefter at. th we gt dut’ o the country this place is called Merfy on account of the man and y that owns it having of Mr.‘and Mrs. ) live there like y digging can questions gs. and all he s as steddy as a city r idees 10 father and “mother realize he country the ferst thing up. 301 carried in & . and spred them all je they was still asleep. faces. and I snuck out of ¢ soon they started as anyihing and here ves but poison ivory and all a2 ways under the and they mede me pick the 1l off agen on account of me uched them ohce anvways so s going to’get it ‘1 probably had Ireddy. only nothing hasent hap- ned vet and I ant hoping for the best | it would probably be a kind of 1o be reminded all the time n the country. have wrote to me | | indeed a bitter task, and side of the roof of the house | | doomed {above a steaming tub to get | and rent {and goes without a BY THORN w. BURG | Chatterer dodged around fo the other !side of the roof. Redtail was right after him. This time when Chaiterer dodged around he went faster than he had gone at any other time. Yes, sir he did so. He went around that roof like & little red streak. Straight down to that big projecting stick he ran and darted under it. There he flattened himself against the under side. Hardly had he had time to catch his breath when Redtail the Hawk came round on that side. He was all set swoop down and _pick Chatterer ht off that roof. Yes, sir, he was et for that. But he didn’t swoop down and r THE EVENING STAR, THE CHEERFUL CHERUB A AT N AR Trovble is & coward., Tt g.\rmof. stand w ht , S0 1 ~uld ly | It _soon” will take to couldn't see a effect of a sudden Chatterer y somewhere t a sudden scream terer move. It didn't n that there was any of. Then Redtail ng with disappbintment \\n\ and that way, hop- that water N he hoped t \\4\ 1ld make Ct that point f Chatterer. { Chatterer moved, even eves would ha of mained clingt t to of that stick just above the v gave Chatterer the cold shiv how easily Billy Mink m! d him and grab By S.LHUNTLEY the under side | Buo anan | Art Plum, after foin’ thro' college. an’ then marryin’ a rich’ young girl, i | back home, an’ finally learnin’ & trade at th' age o' 39 (Copyrisht Waabday. <o In bygone times the village wives put gall and wormwood in their livas by | Wading deep in Mondey suds. and | washing all the household duds. At | daybreak when the Monday came, they | started up their weary game, and| wiung and washed, and washed and wrung, untl their nerves were all un-| strung’ they plied strong soap in heavy cakes until their bones were full of | aches, inhaling steam and tainted air. but toiling on in sick despair till all| | | —ol the clothesiines in the town with gar- ments white were loaded down. It was t4s not strange | they would ask why wives were w0 such a chore, while men Joafed round the corner store. There heard that washing to get results es would ruin that m your aunt done by ha bag: a weary woman hi from out her husband’s t. If it were to the laun- ‘twould be returned all ripped the buttons cracked, the cuffs | , and father then would be| 1 It took the wives a long, long time 10 learn that washday is a crime d that s machin | ted green s lives an i1l that | sent a few o the laund v ir, and bring them back | so clean and white that seeing them is | a delight. 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