Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 23

; ; ; THE TVENING STAR. WXSHINGTON, D. O, WONDAY, DEOENEER BY, 1o .. || HerRES TO You oL 5€ W SAY LISTEN, IVE TAKEN A LIKING TO YOU | | BY THORNTON (;UP Tris New YEARS [|15es Wappy 1929 R 0 W A rr v, € L . g BEDTH“E STORIES W. BURGESS ‘esvewm (:uc_r:eesmh g:h :fi\l/-o: ré" suee |0 fifg&cfifigfifi:&fin{zfi THAT SocKED , TWENTY ; PATRONS ARE DANCING -NIGHT — dooryard. I do hope Mrs. Brown threw AND WAITERS RUSH phERrde e ALL YOUR EATS — THE oL LADYS A SuELL " coor Too! HOW ABOUT T - (7' [ ] , TR ¥ o Sead out some more cabbage leaves. If Peter FGEE Dot h ¥ o once finds some cabbage leaves he'll be- | | 5 . | BACK AND FORTH. { “ieaay rox. | come o busy flling that big stomach of Y > INVITED ON A LARGE : oy b4 e is that he will forget everything else. 9 . T/ < K Reddy ought to know. He has seen | Tt will be no trouble at all to steal up PARTY/ CLARICE, D A\ his plans brig naught but failure time | and catch him. Even if there are no - ALOYSIUS ARE HAVING v 3 cabbage leaves, it ought to be an easy A GREAT TIME. . d he is right | matter to catch him. He'll poke around things in this | the barn and he's almost sure to come ALL EVENING AL HAY over here by the henhouse” BEEN PARTICULARLY Meanwhile Peter was bobbing along ASocial | CHurtty WITH A Gextat he snow-covered Green Meadows ocial Y CHAP SITTING NEAR ‘ Error! {3 erty-lipperty-lip. He was in a hurry to get up to Farmer Brown’s dooryard. HIM. EVERY THING WAS" Yes, sir, he was in a very great hurry. - He knew that once he got up there he HOTSY _TOTSY UNTIL: could find places at least to hide be- hind if there should be any danger. s Reddy Fox watched him. He saw him start = the ‘;aox;s M'}‘ffi-n T)é? Rfosdg m‘l‘;i\-‘fl. YOU TOLD ME THERE 0. % ANOTHER THING, Do You REALIZE le he couldn't see 3 5 MOOSE UR ‘Re LOST? AND You Tou % watched the upper end of the Long NORTHERN. WOODS & WENE e O 7. || DN'T even wnow | Le where it entered Farmer Brown's B . BOONE! FIRE YOUR GUN — HOW T SHOST A 6UN. d. EEN TRAMPING ALL DAY AND 5 You COULDN'T HIT A Presently Peter appeared. The mouth WE AIN'T SEEN EVEN A : \:A(Ppeg MAY u,c:\& T %. || zePPeLin - LeT of Reddy Fox began to water. He was TSPARROW, - 0 o N OME T® OV c ’ ted—sorely tempted—to Tush out —SPARROW: You FAT-HeAD! Rescue! ., [(ALONG A MooSE; ight then. He was sure that he could p atch Peter before Peter could find a place of safety. But to make doubly sure he waited. Peter came into Farmer Brown's dooryard and hopped over to- ward the house. He was looking this and looking that way—not for dan- but for cabbage leaves. There were e out. 34 ¢ Fox began to steal around the | BUD FISHER e, keeping very close to it in ck Shadows. His tongue was S!” SAID HE TO hanging out of his mouth with F. ss. “Peter Rabbit is as good as | caught,” muttered he to himselt. “This | The Boys anywhere | time there will be no escape for Peter. [ He has laughed at me for the last| Are After him’of good | time.” in Fammer | Jus ai that very instant Peter sud- Moose in the denly bounded sidewise and as quickly [ bounded in another direction. Reddy Northern % g0 up | stopped short. There was what looked | Woods This | a Black Shadow following every e that Peter made. Peter dodged Week. A ‘Then, running as only Peter can Z % [ L o when Re is badly frightened, he - c > i 357 e straight for Farmer Brown's barn. Z 3 . N Ny t shadow was right at_his heels, : ; Z PRI s it was in e air. Reddy Fox . AR Z ) und his teeth with rage. He knew PuT O YEP s v that Black Shadow could be none other WITTILE FELLER.Y po% 2::‘?0”;& AHY AN sHE'S A BYJINKS, THIS 15 ONE than Hooty the Owl. Then he grinned 4 b / DIDIA SLIP MA 2 VELLY’ Vi, GOOD "ML MORNIN, NEW YEAR'S EVE THEY sgain. He remembered that Farmer v /|| e SrrEaN “Léf\f?fiav 7 4 WON'T" DRAG ME ARCLIND, rown’s barn was closed. eter kep! 7 - 3 = ,|on he would come straight to where || VER COFFEE.LIE g f MAKIN WHOOPEE L. y | Reddy was crouching. The barn shut | L, ITOLDIA? ¢ ALl HOURS IN 1’ | Reddy’s view off, but he was untroubled. . MORNIN'Y | He expected Peter to bob into sight . e gny minute andhwhen hte dld‘gxe wofuld e e neal cal ew 1t scemed to bob up and down. | meRAr fegh Sl iR chuckled, But Peter didn’t appear. thing N iete ha comes!* sl e to BIMmIL. [ 100 o S oce oM 15 e bk d WELLINGTO! ®That is Peter Rabbit or I'm no FoxX. | had caught him? He's coming up to Farmer Brown's (Copsright, 1028 But There LITTLE BENNY ||| Franz Schubert May Be oA hundred years he dled; his !: Headaches in unt yet ago he H e - BY LEE PAPE. was brief and full of gloom, and now the Morning. - the world is taking pride in laying Pop was smoking with his feet up wre;ms‘;xpon his }o;nlm J‘m sol&gs navlel i) v made all men rejoice, e nations al jand ma sed, Willyum do you remember | p,ye Joveq his lays, and there is no dis- e telling you that I was afrald I had | cordant voice in all the jubilee of praise. left the price tag on that bonbon dish | How often do we celebrate the worth of n t 0 i 2 |some one dead and gone who was in life = peatt Bty dai s S0 Cr‘ssm“_i'l pursued by fate, who had but crusts to . 7 = I do indeed, }zo:. \\nrncddunc : ole feed upon. 1t ‘hapless Schubert could S 1 Tws 1s MY FIRSTVISIT | / FIND HOW *! | [/ WHILE T'M PHONING MY 7 ) THEY AIN'T 6ONNA i that, pop sed, and ma | return from out the shadows over there, =S\ « DO 7 4 ; ohy houldent 12" Think of | how we would maee the bonfires burn % %‘&" Y"R;s XHKE WERE HAVING 3"0"“?,\%5%‘;% &7 | HAND ME ANY Jeating a doller 19 cents price tag on a |and ring the joybells everywhere! If he Foul A BiE PARTY /|| BYY Sol ¢ p PHONIES — t to one of your closest frends, iz- | could come to scenes like these, he Wy WHOOPEE HERE MAKERS — WE'LL z T TRY EACH gent that enuff to tern your hair all the | would be honored by the press, we'd [ ON NEW YEARS TONIGHT NEED EM To colors of the rainbow? Of corse I|hand to him the city's keys, the mayor - I WELCOME 1N THE wasent sure, but that was just it, the | would make a long address; musicians i - suspents was almost the werst part of | 2t his feet would fall and treasure /4. Of corse the bonbon dish was reely | glances from his eyes, and in our noble B bewtiful thing and if it had cost 5|banguet hall we'd fill him with the i It L N {dollers it wouldent of seemed contrary | choicest pies. When once the people S i ) TURBIN' to nature, but then my goodness on the | are assured that any one is truly great, fl | = B v ’ IS| 2 \ i ‘ [\ Tre PEACE ¢ lother hand a doller 19 cents on a price | their admiration can’t be ‘cured—they tag is something that just cant be ex- must enthrone that man in state. But e i .. plained away under any circumstances, | sometimes they don’t realize, so busy 8 il : Well anyway, I happened to meet Kit- |are thay with their chores, that some ty Summers downtown today, ma sed.|Mild chap is great and wise, until he's Pace th face, T ehall never forzet that | cntered Aldenn’s doors. Poor Schubert's Jmoment of suspents till my dying day, clothes were old and torn, he seldom ‘ghe sed. had enough to eat, a genius born to sigh Wat happened, did you or dident and mourn, to find life sour, that should you? pop sed. Meening about the price | be sweet. For 20 cents he sold & song jag, and ma sed, Well, I couldent tell | that has endured a hundred years, that ‘anything from her face, and she kissed | Will be warbled by the throng until ime wen she saw me, but I couldent tell | the blow-up of the spheres. Worn out ‘anything from that either, the way by poverty and grief, in death he did wimmen sre, so I finely had to bring | $0me comfort find, and doubtless the subjeck up myself, and I sed, Kitty, | | ought 115 a relief to leave this thank- X sed, I bleeve I sent you the wrong |55 WOr behind. Once safely dead, {Crissmas present by misiake, I sent you | the tribes of men discovered that he | ——oaees— ; & bonbon dish, dident I? and Kitty sed, *’:‘;‘ A t;‘;ww‘of pmilsiin again, Wes you did and it was lovely, too, so | 38310, We make rtvevAanTW! ring. < — - dont you try to get it away from me, MASON. - A HELLO,DOG, HOW and I sed, But I axually bleeve I left (Copyright, 1928.) i i DO YoU LIKE THE. | e price {ag on it, and she sed, No you N\ , . ! SEA S e HAVE IT /A A ent, I never saw it, and I sed, Wel 1 | % ¢ A AND of corse it wasent a cheep present by AUNT HET % / &5 My SPINACR/ any means and if your sattisfied so am “TRA K @ So we went in and had ice cream TR £0das and 1t sll passed off. bewtifully, BY ROBERT QUILLEN. ma sed. Yee gods your a genius, Napoleon himself would never of thawt of that, Jpop sed, and ma sed, O well, ideers just seem to come to you wen you need hem, it seems to me. And she started to darn holes out of fifockings with a sattisfied ixpression. st Arctic Circle Bred Birds. om the Kansas City Star. The birds that live on insects in the East go to Cuba and the West Indies or to Central and South America in next Winter an_ fields. f pnd ; fAmerica for the Winter. ‘che sparrows, {Fobins and bluebirds and many of the rry eaters spend the Winter from the | «7 blame Jim's wife more than T do ::‘(“,,“"‘3,‘;‘ -,S‘f(asfihmr:‘,’f Gl 1;;{ d::“}‘“‘“‘- him. She ought to of had more sense RA N TO-NIGHT R 7 AN’ DONTCHA e o migralory birds g0 10| thaa to take in a female boarder.” ~TOMORROW AN SR ==>7 SHOWERS i ;1 ( suepose ;igé; . (Copyright, 1928.) \ ) | WV / K our FOOTBALL . N TO-MORROW & REAT g LS’ AS GOOD AS ’[}k A h SH? THE TIMID SOUL. By WEBSTER. | RO gs o 3 v AW e Youz g8 WEATHER - T fil’l‘ / | MAN KNOWS WE'RE HAVINY I = 1 SHOWERS TO-MORROW %, e o wooeeon Ay GENE BYRNES \ v | HALHAL A A Wise Guy. - STUFFY, = SURE— | SEEM D\Ee ReEALLY A MoTH Come ouT THINKTRAT'S A COF (T S GENUWINE FUR 2 car 2 HEYT OSWAl C.A.NoieHT You Can’t Fool a Moth.