Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 31

BEDTIME STORIES i The Beechnut Harvest. harvest always should that sometimes it is Happy J Beechnuts were ripe. That is, such as they were, they were ripe. But the harvest was a slim one. Every one was there for their share, Great big Buster Bear was on hand, Lightfoot the Deer was also there. Striped Chipmunk, Happy Jack Squirrel, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Rusty the Fox Squirrel, Sam- my Jay, Mr. and Mrs. Grouse, not to mention Whitefoot and Wood Mouse and a few others, were all looking for their share. ally beechnut harvest time is a happy time. This year it was &n anxious time. “My goodness, I never knew- beech- nuts to be scarce,” grumbled Buste: V% The [ Al “MY GOODNESS! NE! NEW BEECHNUTS TO BE SO SCARCE,” GRUMBLED BUSTER BEAR. Bear. “I depend on these nuts to get fat for Winter, but unless I can find some beechnut trees somewhere else with more nuts on them than these have got, I guess I shall go into the Winter with very little fat.” It made Buster short tempered. He growled at everybody who came any- Where near him. There were so few of those little three-cornered nuts that Buster wanted all of them himself. Lightfoot the Deer didn't care so much. There was other food for Light- foot. He really wasn't dependent on beechnuts. The same thing was true of Mr. and Mrs. Grouse. But they were disappointed. They are very fond of Abe Martin Says: “Don’t it look funny t’ see him really ‘workin’?" said Tell Binkley t'day, when Joe Kite went along carryin’ a political banner. A tube.town is one where th’ consta- ble kin gake both ends meet on $40 & month. (Copyright, 1928.) This is a form of knowledge test. Certain questions are asked. They involve three names each. To answer them simply cross out the two which you think are wrong. Example—Which is sweetest: ‘(1) Balt, (2) Sugar), (3) Bread. Cross out salt and bread, (1) and (3). Allow yourself three minutes for those that follow: A. Which is tallest: (1) Woolworth Building, (2) Eiffel Tower, (3) Wash- ington Monument. B. Which is heaviest: (1) Gold, (2) Silver, (3) Lead. ‘ C. Which is largest: (1) Sahara Desert, (2) Australia, (3) United States of America. D. Which river is longest: (1) Nile, (2) Ganges, (3) Colorado. E. Which planet comes nearest to the earth: (1) Mercury, (2) Venus, (3) Mars. Which is lightest: (1) Tin, (2) F. Zinc, (3) Aluminum. G. Which is most valuable: (1) Engish pound, (2) American dollar, (8) Prench fanc. . H. Which is greatest in population: (1) Philadelphia, (2) Buenos Aires, (3) Rome. ‘The answers given below tell the let- ters and numbers, giving the correct number in each instance. Answers—A, 2; B,1;C, 3, D, 1; E. 2; F3G1HI1 BY THORNTON W. BURGESS beechnuts, and they had looked for- ward to a feast when these little nuts should be ripe. “I feel as if I had been cheated,” said Mrs. Grouse. “There is hardly more than a taste, and there are all those greedy squirrels acting as if they thought they owned these beech trees. Bomebodry is going to go hungry this ‘Winter if they are depending on beech- nuts. Just see how out-of-sorts Buster Bear is! Usually he is good natured when he is getting uts.” Mr. Grouse chuckled. “He isn't get- ting them; that's the trouble,” said he. “Hello, here comes Mrs, Bear! She | means to have her share. And there is Cubby Bear, too!” Sure enough, Mrs. Bear came shuf- fling up, but Cubby Bear kept his dis- tance. It was quite evident that Cubby didn’t dare come very near either Bus- ter Bear or Mrs. Bear. Buster Bear didn't seem at all glad to see Mrs. Bear. On her part, she didn't seem at all glad to see Buster Bear. For that matter, they pretended not to see each other at all. However, if Mrs. Bear happened to come his way, Buster always found something to do some- where else. Of course, with the whole Bear family prowling around searching for those little three-cornered nuts, the smaller folk had rather a hard time. You should have heard Chatterer the Red Squirrel scold. To hear him you would have thought that he was the only one who had any rights-there. Once Mrs. Bear almost caught him. For a while after that his tongue was still. It was the worst fright he had had for some time. There were very few nuts escaped the bright eyes looking for them. It didn't take long to complete the harvest. The leaves were raked over and raked over and raked over, and when it was quite evident that all the nuts had been gathered no one was satisfied. Cubby Bear and Buster Bear and Mrs, Bear left in different directions, all grum- bling and still hungry. The storehouses of the Squirrels and of Whitefoot the Wood Mouse would have to be filled with other food this year. It really wss_nl.‘ very sterl(ml“ matter. ““The worst of it is,” said Haj Jack Squirrel, “the acorn crop mn?gymuch better. I don't know how we're going to live this coming Winter. It is all right now, but when the ground is cov- ered with snow and ice and our store- houses are empty, I don't know what we'll do.” (Copyright, 1928.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Mr. Parkins was in the frunt room waiting for my sister Gladdis to come down and I was sitting there with him partly out of politeness and partly on account of not having anything elts to do, and Mr. Parkins sed, Well Benny, it wont be long now before the most marvelous gerl in the werld changes her name in my favor. Do you mean Gladdis? I sed. “'n:.n the very party I had in mind, gesser your a good gesser, Mr. Parkins sed. But seriously speeking, I consider you an unusually lucky boy to gave ;uch & wonderful gerl as a sister, e sed. Gladdis? I sed, and he sed, Your s on the rite track. . o Wats so wonderful about her? I sed. My dear child Id need all the diction- nerries in the werld and the pen of a mitey poet to anser that question as it should be ansered. Did you ever at- t;:::tdm discribe the sun in all its glory? No, I dud x ‘Then dont ask me to attempt to dis- scribe an angel, he sed. g Who, Gladdis? I sed. Its really uncanny how you seem able to read a persons mind, Mr. Park- ins sed. Do you mean to say that after living for years under the same roof as that glorious creature you can sit there with a vacant ixpression be- tokening an empy mind and say you dont know she's an angel? he sed. Sounding something like insuits, and I sed, Well, G wizz, holey smokes, gosh. logizing? Wich just then Gladdis came down and I went out thinking, Aw heck, leave him find out for himself. ‘Wich he proberly will. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I had three fights comin’ home from school, but it wasn't my fault. Teacher made me set with a girl today.” (Copyright, 1928.) 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