Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 43

N\ING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIPAY, SHEPTEMBIR. 28, TBEDTIME STORIES Jerry Muskrat Gets to Work. ‘Though there ts much of jor in play, A greater loy in work doth lay. . —Jerry Muskrat. Jerry Muskrat had spent rather a Jazy Summer. He had had a good time around the Smiling Pool. There had been no need to work. Now Jerry, you know, is not naturally lazy. deed, he is not naturally lazy. there is work to be done Jerry ca as well as any one I know of. But Summertime is more or less playtime with Jerry. ‘Now this bright morning he sat on one of the little rafts he had made for himself to sit on. He had JERRY SAT. A’ FEW ' MINU' LONGER, TURNING THINGS OVER IN HIS MIND. just had three clams, as the fresh- water mussels are called. He had opened them and eaten them and he ‘was trying to make up his mind whether to go home and take a nap or | gl; down the Laughing Brook to the Big | ver. He happened to be looking over to- ward the Green Forest. He saw OI' Mistah Buzzard come sailing out of the Green Forest. Jerry watched him sail round and round and up and up until he was hardly more than a speck in the sky. Jerry had watched him many, many times, though he didn’t. think much about it until he happened to notice that OI' Mistah Buzzard ‘was growing smaller and smaller and -| ing things over in his mind. Then he TES | times and I think I'd like a new house. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | smaller in the south. Jerry watched him until he disappeared. Then he ‘scralch{‘d the tip of his nose. “Ol' Mistah Buzzard doesn’t fly that | way usually,” he said to himself. “When he goes up in the sky he’s usually | around in sight. | appeared. I do believe he has startec for his home in the Sunny South. Yes. sir, T believe he has started for thc | Sunny South and we won't see him again until Spring. That means that | it is time to get ready for Winter. I've | et it in my bones for some time that T ought to be getting ready for Winter. but somehow I haven't felt like it. But |if oI Mistah Buzzard has left for the Sunny South it is high time for me to be getting busy. I ought to ‘l"llvcl started ‘my house long before this.” Jerry sat a few minutes longer, turn- slipped off into the river, dived and when he came up he was on the other side of the Smiling Pool. He came out on the bank and for the next half hour Jerry was a very busy small person. Sometimes he was on the bank and | sometimes he swam about among the | bulrushes that grew in the water by | the side of the Smiling Pool. He was | looking the ground over, so to speak. | It looked as if he were looking the | water over, but really he was looking the ground over. Finally he swam out to the Big Rock, climbed out on it and sat there, looking the Smiling Pool all over. “I suppose,” said he to himself, “that I could fix up my old house and make it do. But I've done that two or three That's a first-class place over there in the bulrushes for a house. There isn't any current over there. The water is deep enough for a good passage out there beyond the danger of ice. It isn't very far to the Laughing Brook. Yes, sir, that looks to me like a good place for a house and the sooner I get to work the better.” Jerry slipped into the water, swam over to the place he had selected and presently the water became very muddy at that point. Jerry Muskrat had started work. He had started work for the foundations of his new house. Now and then he poked his head out for fresh air and to rest a bit. Then he went back to work. Jerry's vacation days were over until Winter should | arrive. (Copyright, 1928.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. - R L No Favors Wanted | e < My resolution never wavers; I go my way and ask no favors of any living skate; if I need help to grease my motor, I go and hire some worthy voter, and then I pay the freight. I don’t allow a neighbor "to come and do a lot of labor just for sweet friend- ship’s sake; for if I showed such nerve unshrinking, I know it soon would set ‘him thinking that friendship is a fake. I have good friends, but I would lose them if I were always prompt to use them, to pull their divers limbs; of friendship now their greeting savors, but if I asked a hundred favors they'd not be Sunny Jims. They all ‘would struggle to forget me, they all would shudder. when they met me, and wish I were in jail; they meet me now with smiles and joshes, but if I borrowed their goloshes, grim silence would pre- vaill. And so my feelings are resplen- dent; I am so beastly independent the world’s respect I own; men realize when I am coming that they will not behold me thumbing their lapels for a loan. Friends often ask me to abandon the independent plank I stand on and run for county clerk; they say that I deserve the honor—but then my plank ‘would be a goner, which scheme would never work. I couldn’t go around be- seeching my valued friends to break their breeching, that I might winner be; how could I ask-the grocer, Perkins, to quit dispensing prunes and gherkins that he might work for me? How could I ask the busy voters to round up all the bums and floaters and rush them to the polls? If I did that my ch:rished record, which never has been stained or checkered, would soon be full of holes. WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1928.) IT'HE' RIMA DONNAS. —I WEBSTERI 50 YOU HELD THIRTEER ARUMPS, €N 7 WeLL WeLL! QUITE AMUSING. | 5 PO SE You GET RATHER EXCITED Every TimE YOU HOLD THIRTEEN TRUMES DON'T SOU ? NICE DAY ISMTIT? LOOKS AS THOUGH WE MIGHT GET RAIN BEFORE FIGHT e « TIE MANM WHO MAOE A HOLE N ONE MEETS THE MAN VWHO HELO THIRTEEN TRUMPS — R b;aék of my back and some amung my ribs. | _ Well my lands no living bur:p could LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Ma was sewing on. her sewing ma- chine and I std, Hay, ma, have you got -anything to'rub on? ‘To rub on wat? ma sed. Spots, I sed, and ma sed, Wat, stains? Do you mean to say youve bin spilling something elts? No mam, not stain spots, ma, sore spots, I sed, and she sed, My goodness wat have you bin doing, falling? No mam, just bumping, I sed, and ma sed, Well I wish you'd'lern to look ware your going, youll be breaking something some of these days and then wishing you hadent. Ware is this so called" sore spot? she sed. Ive got severel, I sed. Ive got one on the back of my hed and one on the do all that unless you bumped into a regiment of soldiers, wats a matter ;m\ you, do you need glasses? ma d. No ma, G wizz, ma, the way I was wawking the ony kind of glasses would of did any good would of bin perry- scopes, I sed. Well -for -land sakes my graycious how. were' you wawking? ma sed, and 1 sed, Backwerds. ‘Wat, how? ma sed, and I sed, Back-~ werds, and G wizz, ma come to think of .t even perryscopes wouldnt of did me any good because I had my eyes shut too. I tried it about 6 times be- fore I found out you cant really wawk strate that way, I sed. Well you crazy sentsless thing I could of told you that without even trying it once, ma sed. You really dont deserve to have anything rubbed on you and I have a good mind to leave you suffer for the good of the ixperience, she sed. . Ony she rubbed something on any- ‘ways, herting she was doing it but feeling exter good wen she stopped. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “The reason we're gettin’ a new gar- age is because me an’ Pug was prac- ticin’ to be firemen an’ some gypsies grmv'e by an’ we forgot about our bon- e’ (Copyright, 1928.) /MADE A HOLE irs ONE 10 Y87 H! ' VE MET gurrg A NUMBER OF MEr WHO HAVE DONE THAT. SEVERAL OF THEM SEEMEDTD FEEL RATHER ST U ABOUT 1T 1 5POSE VT DOES SEEnw S0RT OF \MPORTANT 0 S0ME FLOPLE: WHAT Do Yo THINIKC ABOUT “Tie ELECTION Y of Fate Im the master. R (o BS sty? EdwiNa Awful Poor Prospects! A Woman Is Only a Woman, But aGoodCigar Is a Smoke. Sounded Like an Order! FREEMAN Simply a Non-Giver. His Nom de Plume. ’ GUP Wieu GooFy THREW UP HIS Jo WiTH DoCTOR KILO WATTS HE DID NOT INTEND THAT JULE SHoud KNOW OF IT UNTIL HIS FIRST CoMepy FOR THE FLIP FLOP FiLrt CO. WAS ReLEASED ! BuT oW DArE FATE HAS A HABIT OF BUTTING IN ™ OUR AFFAIRS — AND SO - | By PoP MOMAND 3 Julie " Makes a Discovery. 1 DON'T WANT TO HEAR |[EV'RYBODY'S GOYTA ANOTHER WORD ABOUT [[WATCH BUT ME— Wil YOU HAD A : e WAT(H ONCE, AND ALL YOU DID WAS TAKE T APART 1! UELL“,GEEW\*{)H‘I, oV R [TTHINK OF IT! PA'S ENTIRE BUSINESS HAS FAILED - THE PAPER TAYS (TS ONE OF TH' WORST FAILURES IN YEARS! 1TS TERRIBLE!: TLL GO RIGHT OER TO DR. KILO WATTS AND TELL GOOFY THE SAD NEWS; THEN WELL BOTH GO AND SEE PA INMEDIATELY ! HWOW KIN } G\T TO SCHOOL ON. TIME (\F, I AIN'T GOTTA WATCH! FY LANDY ARE | You STILL TALKIN' o ‘BOUT THAT WATCH, | AW, “TAINT NO RUCKUS _JEST A GATHERIN' AROUNID) SUM CARLUTHERS CAUSE HIS WIFE LEFT HIM CRIPES, THET'S TOO BAD ‘BOUT_SUM'S WIFE WALKIN' QUT ON HIM LIKE THET_ILL HAFTA EDGE IN AN OFFER MY SYMPATHIES TOO [ - LENA, IM GNING A DINNER PARTY To THE PHILADELPHIA TEAM ToNIGHT SO SET THE TABLE FoR 15 — L DN'T WANT You To MAKE ANY OF YOUR STUPID CRACKS WHILE. YoU ARE SERVING = JusT REMAIN I H The éfiCHEN UNTIL YOU HEAR ME ORDER Fooo ! DONALD, IF You'LL GIVE ME TWO STROKES 1'LL PLAY You FOR 50¢ A WHAT ARE YOou ALIL BOY OR ALLGOIL? ~--- AND WHETHER WE WIN THE PENNANT OR NOT, T WANT TO STATE THAT THIS TeAM 5 THE ¢AMEST 1 ° To MANAGE DYRING MY ENTIRE BASEBALL ff I'LL GIVE You NO STROKES 1 ARE A DREAT BI& 27 NY.TRIBUNE, ING. N R, ALBERTINE RANDALI Of Two Evils— Choose the SAY,DICK . CAN'T puMMy YoU KE| 7 QUIET ";'P [THAT cHILD’S cRYIN’ WILL DRIVE ME. CRCKO WHY YOUR HUSBAND DOESNT WORK FOR ME ANY LONGER MRS. BOWERS ! DIONT HE TELL You HE QUIT Two 'DAYS AGo ? 1 OFFERED TO GIWE HIM MORE MONEY — BUT HE REFUSED T STAY! \ NEVER KNEW NOBODY WOT C(OULD WEEP ON A SUBYECT L\KE YOU WIN ‘T\LL EV'RYBODY 15 JEST READY TO SCREAM 'V— : TO HEAR BOUT 1T= VESSIR , PLUMB WELL THEM, GIVE ME Two STROKES AND T'LL PLAY You FOR NOTHING WHATCHA (CYZ- i ( Y[ TS 15 A FiNE KeTTE o ClAMS — PA'S BUTIMESS HBS FaILED, OND GOOPY THROWS A / Goop),) JoB LUP, EVEN . TrouaH DR. KILO WATTS WAS WILLING TO RAISE HIS sALARy ! T THINK HES A NoT ! CANT | ONDERSTAND IT DOCTOR KILO \WATTS! —— ALL RIGHT _ VEST FER THET YOH DONT &IT NO SEE-GARS. 4 Yesc::-- GEESIS! HOW MANY, | I'LL PLAY You For NOTHING BUT T WONT GWE yYou ANy STROkES ) HiS NAME. IS BUT WE CALL 1M “WILLIE OFF i 1111 Z