Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1928, Page 22

k Chatterer Is Sent Flying. £¢ How often confidence 1= shocked And self-complacency is mocked Old Mother Nature Chatterer the Red Squirrel was in the top of a small. slender birch tree near the edge of the pond of Paddy the Beaver, deep in the Green Forest Standing upright below and glaring up et him was Cubby Bear. Cubby couldn't possibly climb out on those slender branches where Chatterer was, and for the moment Chatterer felt quite safe. He mede a face at Cubby. VYes. sir, he mede = face at Cubby' He just couldn’t resist the temptation Cubby was hopping mad. as the sav- Ing is. He was fairly dancing up and YOU'RE SMART. SPUTTERED CUB- *YOU THINK DON'T YOU? BY BEAR there where don't vou?® But you're not w, but it is also tr you c get away from There isn't another tree that jump to. 1f vou jump down to the ground I will bs waiting for vou right where vou land. There is nothing for you to eat up this tree. 1 am going io keep you up there. I'm going to stay right here until rou come down or jump down n't know what to sav e said nothing. He made ® disagreeable face. at You know, Chatterer ic very Abe Martin Sax s 3 Bees are not as b @re, They jest cant buzz any slower. P A QI Afl’ald Of Banks. -—— s There 1= & host of harmless cranks | for the tree, and finely pop had to cut | who say they have no use for banks. They have sad stories, learned by heart. of divers banks that fell apart, whose cashiers gathered up the dough and fled away to Mexico, or Canada, or some far clime where many crooks put in their time. You can't convince the narmiess cranks that there are safe and solvent banks, that cashiers, taken as # class, are nonest men who cut much grass, that clerks and tellers have been known to take no money not their own You do not get a word of thanks for talking to the harmless cranks: they hide their money 'neath the stair. or in the cushion of a chair, behind a brick heneath the floor. or just above the kitchen door. They are ton wise to trust their scads to any of these bank- ing lads, who only wzit a chance to blow to Canada or Mexico. The story travels up the road, from thic abode 10 that abode. “Old Jagsmith hides hix hard-earned dust. afraid the banks wili eil go bust; he must have quite a Jot et that, he must be quite 2 plutocrat.” The grocer tells the auctioneer, who tells his neighbors, there and here, and they repeat the pleasant tale of Jag- &mith and his buried kale. And so the story goes in time to men who make & trade of crime. And then some night woor Jagsmith wakes from pleasant Cream: of pea-green snakes. (0. greet some strangers, wearing masks. who are engeged mn grisly tasks. They chow 2 chunk of red-hot steel that they wili place 2gainst hic heel unless he tells them. in 2 flazh, jus' where he's hidden his cash, It i= a story that's been =t invented gold harmies: the banks WALT MASON The Thrill That Comes Once In ninstess mindred ind twenty sight. aenn Lol - rome groet gond THE BY THORNTON W. BURGESS S ysaucy. He is one of the sauciest and most impudent of all the little people in the Green Forest or on the Green Meadows. Of course. that didn't im-| prove Cubby's femper any. He even | started to climb the tree, but thought better of it and backed down. Then ! he sat down to keep watch of Chat- terer Chatterer was worried. He was more worried than he would admit even io himself. He was a prisoner up in that tree. Sooner or later he would have to come down, If Cubby should be patient enough he would be in trouble But perhaps Cubby wouldn't be pa- tient ~ Chatterer knew a little bit about Bears. He knew that Bears were not like members of the Cat family in the matter of paticnce. He knew that they seldom stuck to any one thing very long. So he had hope—-a great deal of hopr—that Cubby would grow tired and leave. He wasn't really as much wor- about Cubby as he was about being discovered by Redtail the Hawk or some other member of the Hawk fam- dly. So he made himself comfortable in the top of the tree and amused him- <elf by making faces at Cubby. which was not at all a niee thing of course it began to look as if matters were going to turn out just as Chat- terer hoped they would. Cubby became uneasy. He began walking about. He walked round and round that little | tree. Occasionally he would sit down, hut would be only for a few mo- ments. Chatterer chuckled to himself. Yes he did so 1 right in_the midst of one of thoss chuckles that something hap- nened. Tt happened &0 unexpectedly that quite took Chatterer's breath away. Cubby suddenly stopped walking around that tree. He stood up on his hind feet and took hold of that little tree with his forefeet and began shak- ing it. The very first shake almost sent Cha‘terer fiving. but he managed (o hold on. Back and forth. back and forth. harder and harder. the top of the tree swaved. You know it was a very young tree and a very limbor, tree, Cubby saw right away that Chat- terer was in difficuity. Chatterer was in difficulty. He was having all he could do to hold on Every instant he expectad to be sent | fiving through the air. He was fright- ened now. My gzoodness. how fright- ened he was! But Cubby was having a good time. This was fun. He almost forgot that he was frving to catch Chatterer Harder and harder he | shook that tree. And then suddenly Chatterer went sailing through the air He had lost his grip (Coperight S.LHUNTLEY Otherwise Sally's Right. i o> e e IUDIFISHED LITTLE BENNY || | 1t Looked ; Likea | Flirtation to Hortense. | RY LEE PAPE. Pop went ing this merning, me zoing with him to watch him. pop sav- Now remember, vour not a fisher- man. your ony an apprentice. its your iob to look and lern and mentally digest the perls of wisdom that fall from the lips of an old ixperienced fisherman Meening himself. and wen we got ta | the crick pop started to put a werm on | a hook, saying, This is a test of skill| and a very delicate operation. the fish- | erman must time his sents of touch to| the fishes sents of taist, as it were. In other werds, fishing is a science requir- ing the closest study. and after the 3rd ! or 4th Jesson perhaps you may be redd | to try it yourself, he sed | And We swang the pole around his' hed to throw the hook in the water. ony | it cawt in a tree insted. me saving. G. pop, vou dident think about that tree.| did you? | Im thinking about it now. confound | it. and if it knows wat Im thinking it will be so imbarrassed it wont live another season, pop sed. Blast it all | that was a perfect cast. he sed. Meen- | ing it would of bin if it hadent of bin | inz. KENKLING the line and he tied another hook on it and fixed a diffrent werm and threw it in the water perfeck. ony nuthing hap- ! pened for pritty neer a hour so pon| pulled the line out agen to see if the| werm was still on the hook and it} wasent. pop saying. Wat a mizzerabie | snake of a werm. H And he put another one on. saying. | The: fish must think Im made of | werms, owtch. And he started to suck | his finger., me saying. Did vou stick vourself. pop? and pop sed. No. a dis- ! tinguished looking stranger with spats and a high hat came up and stuck me. | hold this rod a minnit before I bleed ' to deth And he handed me the pole and T had a ideer and I threw the hook in the water and 1 felt something pull on it and 1 quick pulled it out agen and wat was on it but a fish. and jt flew rite in pops face as if it thawt it was a fving fish. pop saving. Yer gods who ordered that? Being the ony cavt Over the Fence. fish either one of ux Lessons in English He'll Lose Stroke, Dis- tance and Pants. BY W. L. 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