Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 42

BEDTIME STORIES Enough of the Green Forest. Those who've had enough and know it Should never hesitate to show it d Mother Nature. Peter Rabbit s thoroughly miser- able. Indeed he was. It always makes one miserable to suffer fright. Peter had had a terrible fright and was still frightened. Then, too, he was sore. He | was sore all over. You see he had been unced on by one of the children of Vowler the Bobeat and he had been scratched. Those Smar Now he was safe in & bramble-tangle. but still frightened scratches | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | Jumper. “Don't T live in the Green Forest? Everyone in the Green Nrcsll knows it." Peter looked a bit crestfallen. He | dearly loves to tell news and he | thought perhaps he was telling Jumpe! | something the latter didn't ki |didn't know it until tonigh Peter. Suddenly Jumper understood. know it now,” he chuckled. “Don't tell | !me you have been trying to play with those kittens H “Of course not!" replied Peter indig- | ‘One of them jumped on me | 1 didn't suppose | My coat | vl 1l said | You | | nantly. without any warning. and of course most thoroughly UNcom- | nny e had 0 Many CIAWS. fortable. Tt was there that his big | is torn and I'm scratched ali over, It's | | a wonder I am here to tell you about | it | "“Yon haven't told me about it vet," | said Jumper. “What happened?” | Then Peter told as best he could what had happened. He told how he | had watched one of the Yowler's kit- | tens playing in the moonlight and how | without any warning another kitten ad jumped on him It serves you right,” said Jumper s. sir. it serves you right. Any one ho ‘will forget to watch out when he | knows there are Bobcats around de- | serves to get caught.” “But I didn’t know there were any other Cats around,” said Peter. “You should have known," retorted | Jumper. "I you had done any think- |ing at all you would have known that | one little Bobeat kitten wasn't likely to be all alone. It is lucky for you. Peter Rabbit, that it wasn't Mrs, Yowler | or Yowler who jumped on you instead SAID | of the other kitten. It was bad enough When there was only Yowler himself | living over there. But now that Mrs discovered | Yowler and two kittens are in the | Green Forest we all of us have to watch exclaimed Jumper. | out twice as sharply as we ever did what have you | before.” *IT SERVES YOU RIGHT," JUMPER. cousin, Jumper the Hare, him H “For beer Peter!™ sake, doin| your coat? | “They won't get me.” said Peter most ing." replied Peter in a small decidedly. “They won't get me, because 1 didn't do it, somebody else | I'm going straight home to the dear | Old Briar-patch and stay_there. I've ho?” demanded Jumper, Staring | had enough of the Green Forest. Yes, very hard at Peter. | sir, I've had enough of the Green For- Peter hastily looked all about. “Cou- |est. This is no place for me. Oh. sin Jumper,” he whispered, “do you | dear, I wish 1 were in' the dear Old ;m‘“ that Yowler the Bobcat has a | Briar-patch this very minute! I do mily?" { so1™ "0t course I know it” replied ! LITTLE BENNY (Copyrisht. 1928.) Abe Martin Says: | BY LEE PATE. The Country. (Next Part.) All vegetables come from the country on account of that being the only place | ware theres room to plant them. but its much harder to tell wat vegetables they are just by seeing their leaves | growing alongside of each other than wat it Is in the city wen you see them | alongside of each other personly in | baskits. For this reason wen you are in the country you are less libel to make a mistake by saying O look at the | vegetables. than by saying O look at the string beens. | I can never tell beets from asparagrass, If its potatoes or beens I cant say, But wen I see cabbages growing I feel confident rite away. Kids in the country go barefeet and wawk over stones without = thinking | anything of it, but wen a kid from the | city tries it he dont think of anything elts till he gets his shoes on agen. This proves you can get usé to anything, but most peeple can't. iley | There are many insecks in the coun- Art Smiley is zmp}'\Ablolu. He works | try h like to get on you t your &t Bloom Center an’ spends his week |will, A spider in the grass 'u,.,k, very ends at Lake Wawasee. intristing, but wen somebody tells you I used t' think women wuz all alike, |they see one on you some place it bu{ I kin see ther's quite a difference |gives you a intirely different feeling. in 'em now. | Catterpillers are also very unpopuler (Copyright. 1928.) | wen they fall on the back of your neck, jand you quick brush it off with all PRSI S Y ON —————————% | your mite without stopping to think it The Long Memory | |will be a bewtiful butterfly some day e R i TR A e ) I don’t recall the spiteful tricks that if you dont hit too hard. men have pulled on me, the cabbage- The butterfly' leaps from flower to flower heads, dead cats and -bricks, with More graceful than-a frog, which they were too free. I've had |A bewtiful site to see no doubt antagonists and foes at intervals for | But Id rather havea dog. years, and some of them have punched my nose and some have tweaked my (To be continued.) ears. I've never ealled in cop or judge, ;,he‘drayz mdnrmzmm and I have never . eld a grudge against a human skate. i il I'd rather think of pleasant things as Wllhe Wl“ls I rest in my lair; and brooding over sl hurts and stings won't get me any-| where. Sam Buzzard plays an evil BY ROBERT QUILLEN. trick that jars me for a while, but I| forget it just as quick as I can raise | ile. T'd rather think of Jasper Jay, who is a good old seout: he does | my chores three times a day when I'm | Jaid up with gout. It is pure kindness brings him here to milk my muley cow, and herd the hens and groom the steer and feed the Duroc sow. He i=n't feeling well himself, he has in- | creasing ills, he should be lying on a | shelf consuming purple pills. But he | has seen me with my hoof wrapped up | in a valise. and so he comes to patch my roof and feed my drove of geese. Intent on doing helpful chores, he trote around the place, and looking at his curves restores my faith in this, our race. 1 feel that human nature is all that the handbills claim; and to | recall old sores, gee whiz, would surely | be a shame. 1 will recall old Jasper | Jay and all his kindly deeds until| toward the churchyard gray my funeral proceeds. I'd think it sinful | to forget the deeds of kindly wights; | “Papa called me ‘Old Scout, so I| #s sinful as it is to fret o'er grievances guess Mr. Jones didn’t tell him about | and slights WALT MASON. | that window light.” (Copyright. 1928 | «Copyright. 1928.) The Boy Who Made Good. —By WEBSTER. @ T ers, AS | RECALL LY, “ || v #1 o om A DELWERY \WAGONS OF Vel TROUSE RS CATIE T T 40 THE CHEERFUL CHERUB e T I like to hear people all chatter at once In polite lady voices 2t teas, For then I ean seem to see gardens of words That Flutter and sway in a breeze. 11 MY gt BUD F?;ur;n Get Over It at That. KEN KLING Same | FREEMAN Simply Qutrageous. N ALBERTINE RANDALL | ‘ Miss Flappy Spoils the End of a Perfect Day. Al Must Have a Decision. P /BOLDIN' A [ BunK HousE [ FOR THET AIR PG 1 VEST kou@-rr OFFN QA MULEY BATES, e EFF, Us FoR THE ROOM RENT BUT we'RE BROKC. T'VE GOT A SCHEME YOU SING AND THE NEIGHBORS WILL COMPLAIN So vloLENTLY) THAT SHE'LL HAVE T PLUT US ouUTe AND THEN SHE CAN'T KeeP OUR TRUNK. r_,—-J s o AL OH, nEweows CanLron mevsmn SCRAMSBURG | PM WASHINGTON BASE BALL P WASHINGTON, D.C EVERYBODY IN SCRAMSBUREG HAPPY To SEE IT'S NATWE SON IN GREAT C'TY UKE WASHINGTON STOP-- SMITH AND HOOVER WIS THEY WERE IN YOUR SHOES SToP HOPE You HELP TEAM WiN PENNANT STop Wil WATCH PAPERS FOR REPORT OF YoUR ACCOMPUSHMENTS IN TODAYS GAMEe LovE SHEILA WELL I'tL BE AANGED / A-30 NOW CHILDREN . MIND. RANNER%WOQ‘Q%JIS%RL LOP AND DOCTOR WIITEY e ARE COMING ! S s MASOR WARING TON — O YES, HE WENT To THE MUSIC BOX ACOUT FIFTEN NINUTES AGO. DUR LANDLADY'S HOUNDING | GEE WHIZ!! IVE GoT TO SEE HiM ABOUT \MPORTANCE ! HE WENT To THE MUSIC YES - YES, HE'S A [l| Bie PAT GuY - HE A MATTER OF GREAT CAME N JUST A WAL, 1 WOULDNT BUILD IT RIGHT SMACK BANG LP AGEN MY HOUSE IF 1 WAS YUH!{ i TO HAVE A PIG CAUSE 1T AINT HEALTHY MAYBE YOWRE | RIGHT AN’ L AINT HANKERIN' T KILL NO PI6 1 JEST PAID FIVE DOLLARS FER. PEN LP NEAR NOR HOLSE E | 1 SEEN WHERE N VAIL FER THIRTY ! DAYS FER KISSIN' / A GAL. OM ,GEORGE, & Kiss ME LIKE VOU WERE GONMA ¢ GET LIFE FOR THIS S SEEN BETTER|| TCRRIBLE, DAYS- ONCE AV THe DooR T COMPLAIN LREADY. N THOUGHBY [WHo WAS DoING | [riere's YouR THE WAYSIDE MAN, 0FFICERE SHE FELL-L-L SHE MAY YET MEND THAT SINGING? ANSWER MC THAT ! BUCKY PARRYS, OUR MANAGER, 1S LATe! TLL GIVE 1170 You = 1M jo WINDY RILEY kSs. HEY, WHERE'S THE MANAGER % 1 MusT HAVE A COPY OF YER TEAM'S LINE UP BEFORE THE GAME 1 NEVER REARD OF Such A MOMMA GAVE PUDDINHEAD A W AN TOLE M TO GIMME AALF AN HE WONT DO IT! D1928 KV TRIBUNE, (ne I S 7AH! 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