Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 51

i Spaoky’s Fate. Worry is a foolish lhln‘; H It doth but added trouble bring. —S8pooky sbe Screech Owl. Spooky the Screech Owl had been found in the grain bin of the barn by |" Parmer Brown's Boy and now he was & prisoner in the arms of Farmer Brown's Boy. He was frightened. He ‘wasn't as badly frightened as he would have been had it been some one else for, like all the other little people of the Great Forest and the Green Mead- ows, he knew that Farmer Brown's Boy ‘was a friend. “I wonder what hell do with me FARMER BROWN'S BOY TOSSED HIM RIGHT STRAIGHT UP IN ‘THE AIR. now?” thought Spooky. “I wonder if he’ll keep me a prisoner? Hello, is he c':l;tg to take me outdoors and let me Farmer Brown's Boy had opened the barndoor and stepped out, still holding ky. But he didn't let Spooky go. 0, sir; he didn't let Spooky go. He went straight over to the house and into it. “See what I found in the grain bin, Mother,” said he. Mother Brown turned to look. “For goodness sake!” she exclaimed. “What ‘Wwas he doing in the grain bin?” Farmer Brown's Boy pointed to the fall of & young rat, which still hung from a corner of Spooky’s mouth. *He was playing mousetrap,” said he. “I Jeft the grain bin open and Spooky must have seen the young rat in there. The lid must have fallen and made him a prisoner. Anyway, here he is.” e BEDTIME STORIE BY THORNTON W. BURGESS m are going to take him out and let 80" said Mother Brown. Farmer Brown's eyes twinkled, “I am going to let go, all right,” | said he, “but I am not going to take | him out 39 let him go. You see, we looking puzzled. “For a mousetrap in the barn,” re- plied Farmer Brown’s Boy. “He is worth | a dozen cats. He has been living in | the barn for some little time—ever since the big storm. So that is where I am | going to set him free.” Farmer Brown's Boy took Spooky | back to the barn. Spooky wondered ! and wondered what it was all about. “I hope,” thought Spooky, “he isn't going to put me back in that grain bin. I don't want to be a prisoner, but I suppose I'll have to be.” He had hardly thought this when the most amazing thing happened. Farmer Brown's Boy tossed him right straight up in the air. It was so un- expected that for a second or . two Spooky found it difficult to use his wings. He flapped frantically. Then he got his balance and realized that he veally was free. Up he went to his favorite rafter in the roof of the barn. There he alighted and then leaned over and looked down. Farmer Brown's Boy was looking up at him and smiling. Spooky sat there and blinked and blinked. He was trying to understand all that had happened and why. What did Farmer Brown's Boy mean by turn- ing him free that way? It was too much for Spooky. “I give up,” said he to himself. “I certainly do give it up. I'm not going to worry about it. Here I am free, so why worry! The only question now is, shall I continue to stay in here, or shall I go back to my home in the Old Orchard!” Spooky sat and pondered and pon- dered on this for so long that in the middle of his pondering he went to sleep. He didn’t awaken until evening. Just as his eyves flew open, he heard a faint squeak. It was the squeak of a mouse. After that, Spocky did no more pondering. That squeak settled the question for him. As long as he could wake up and hear a mouse squeak, he would stay right there. So it was that Spooky continued to live in Farmer Brown's barn, and farmer Brown's Boy continued to look up every time he en- tered the barn and chuckle as he saw a little brown bunch of feathers high up on one of the rafters. “If every one knew the value of Owls, | there would be no more shooting of | them,” thought Farmer Brown's Boy, and wished, with all his might, that' every one had this knowledge. | i I According to Hoyle | - s It seems surprising and absurd—his mame has been a household word for quite two hundred years; we hear the stately name of Hoyle whenever, at the close of toll, the hour for whist appears. ‘He was, according to reports, a lawyer in the English courts, of literary bent; when not communing with the bards he studied all the games of cards that en could invent. used ook, and every sporty swain. And now we find that itless . name, once linked with but a trifling game, applied to everything; it means abiding by the Tules in driving cars or skinning mules, (Copyright. 1929.) ‘ Abe Martin Savs: or shooting birds awing. It means fair play in all our deals, in selling bonds or dishing meals, in selling gas and oil; our fair renown will have a spot if it t to fall; great scientists have passed away and been forgotten in a day, their triumphs quickly stale. Aspiring poets have grown old to find their reputations cold, their little glories e; great gen- erals have lived to find the world for- getful and unkind—but Hoyle lives on and on. ‘WALT MASON., {Copyright, 1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. was g ving spelling in skool and werd climax, Miss Kitty nows the meening of that ay? m’g their hand, and Miss Tmporiant thing abouy’a Werd 15 i A Wer meening, now surely somebody in the knows the meening of climax, now Wich we did, and after a wile Leroy Shooster raised his hand, saying, Climax meens the way the temperture is in diffrent countries. ‘ Wat, O you meen climate, thats an- other thing intirely, Miss Kitty sed. ‘Wab dg you think climax meens, she sed. Meening Puds Simkins, and Puds got up kaying, Climax is a kind of a flower. ‘Then it must of change a grate deel, Miss Kitty sald. O I know wat your thinking of, climatis, thats a flower, you were thinking of climatis, she sed. Yés mam, Puds sed. Meening he was sattisfied, and Miss Kitty sed, But we cant'spend the intire day over the werd climax, Il call on just one more boy, il call on Raymin Leevy. 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In the large cities there are many organizations which do a window-cl business exclusively. An official of one of these companies has estimated that more than $1,000,000 is spent each month on cleaning the windows of office buildings and apart- ment houses in New York City. The estimate is based on the labor supplied by the large contracting companies and does not include private pay to)porters working for individual owners and em- ployers. The minimum salary for this type of work is $45 for a 44-hour week. Standard insurance policies are not issued as a rule to window cleaners. In the case of at least one large com- pany a special palicy with extra pre- miums is issued. and peeple use to help them clime uj walls and places. i It may sound that way but its not, Miss Kitty said. A climax is the last of & chain of circumstances that brings them to a hed, so to speek. Now I wunt Benny Potts to rise and give me a sen- tence using the werd climax, she sed. 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