Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 39

BEDTIME STORIES 7. &es" How Spooky Was Fooled. "Even those in wisdom sch { At times will be quite badly fooled. t —Old Mother Nature. Farmer Brown's Boy called Spooky the Screech Owl the “policeman of the barn,” which was a very good name. You see, Spooky was spending the cold weather in Farmer Brown's barn, and he was keeping the rats and mice out of mischief there. Spooky had learned all the places where the rate and the mice were likely to be seen and he kept a sharp watch of all those places. It was seldom that Spooky swooped down in vain. Some of those rats and ing thing. Instead of running, he jumped. Yes, sir, he jumped right of that beam and went sailing out into space across the barn. This was so unexpected that it took Spooky a minute to get straightened around and fly in pursuit. By that time it was too late. His keen ears heard a soft little thud down below on the wall the 1 Mpogg\,:y let them - Up At night / © breathe nd . Gee! JUST BECAUSE IM OUT OF A JOB I DONT SEE WHY THE oL LADY RUDS IT IN S0' SHE MAES ME DO TH' DUSTING, MOP UP TH' FLOOR, AND J(T AROUND AN MIND TH HOUSE ALL DAY!! ITS NO IKE - TN GETTING DARN LONESOME WiTH NOBGDY T Talx To !} mice were very quick, but after all, the best thing to do was to run, and Spooky | °F th¢ bam, and then that dinner he knew just how to catch them. But one evening Spooky was fooled. Yes, sir, Spooky was fooled. He had to admit i to himself. It was this way: He was sitting up on his favorite perch en a rafter up in the roof of the 3 It was a good place from which to watch. He could see all over the barn. He had been watching the grain bin down below, for it was around that grain bin that he nad caught most of the rats and mice on which he had been living. They just .couldn’t keep away from that bin. So when Spooky felt it was time z e;‘t. he would watch sha that gral n. o\;‘plym particular evening Spooky had been growing more and more hun- gry and hadn't seen a single mouse or young rat. S0 he had kept his eyes most of the time on that grain bin, hoping and_hoj that_he would see his dinner down there. But once in a while he would turn his head quickly from side to side for a hurried look in JANUARY. 28T, KID, DonN'T You FeeL A BIT > WoOoZY INTHE (1 ” BEAN FRoMm THE TERRIFIC STRAINZ MEN, UP THERE 'S THE MARVEL OF THE AGe: PILOT JEFF HAS NOw REMAINED ALOFT IN H'S PLANE ALL ALONE FOR, FOUR DAYS AND FoLR. NIGHTS § SCIENTISTS ARe ASTOUANDED AT WIS FEAT AND HAVE REQUESTED Me To SE€EE HOW He'S STANDING THe STRAIN, PHYSICALLY AND MUTT, T NeverR SEE A DAILY PAPER UP HeRe AND = WAS Just WONDERING ABouT SOMETHING? DID HeRBIE RooyGr's INAVGURATION CoMe OFF WITHoUT A HITCH. ON MARCH THe NoOPE, MY HEAD'S As CLEAR AsS A BeLu! FLYING LIKE THIS IS A TONIC TD MY BRAING I FEEL VERY NIETY, MUTT ! LISTEN, WHEN DID It Seemed a | ENDURANCE Long Time THEN SPOOKY DARTED DOWN, > WITH HIS CLAWS REACHING TO FLIGHTZ “.SEIZE HIS VICTIM. Instantly Spooky spread his wings. That {had been so sure of disappeared. small form was too big for a mouse, | Spooky turned in midair and flew back 80 it must be a young rat. e hamn’t got & e, sald Spooky to his perch. He was very much out of to himself. “He's way out on that beam [SOTiS. It would have made him out of and he can’t get back to a hiding place. | sorts to have been simply fooled, but He is as good as mine right this very [to be fooled and to lose a dinner at second.” the same time was, you must admit, You know that Spooky makes mo |enough to put any one eut of sorts. les. His wings, like | He snapped his bill angrily. “Timmy the Flying Squirrel!” he ex- claimed. “What- business has he here in this barn? And I thought it was & young rat! Well, he won't fool me again! One of these days I'll catch him. But that doesn’t help me out any now. was | Ha! There is a sure enough young rat down there!” ASTH PRINCE OF Sk PGS K ' NI OUGHTA SWELL MY (Copyright, LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. pop came home I sed, Hay AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. Sauce for the Gander. an' qulet, an’ I “T lke peace came for you today, its | Heaven is big enotigh so the two sides % our church won't be in flyin’ distance of THAT WAS A DIRTY TRICK 1 PULLED ON THE NEWSPRPER BoYS LAST NISHT BUT 1 DIDN'T FICURE ON SUCH A MOB & ‘I HOPE 1M ON THE TRAIN You CAN'T) / SQUNDS_ LIkE SOMEONE ON THS REAR PLATFORM 1S LEAVING ARRANGED A WITHOUT PRYING FAREWELL DINNER FOR THE SPORT SCRIBES BEFORE DEPARTING ON HiS TOUR AROUND ~ THe CouNTRY BUT AFTER PIPING Tde MOB THAT WARS RTTENDING Tue FEED, WINDY FAILED To Svow UP MeNenght Syndicate, o N, 1. AND WE'RE STuCK FOR THE CHECKS LETS LOOK FOR HIM AT EEEREEE o & to ‘Wich it proberly would be -.nyny,lw' Willie . Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN, FALLING ouT OF. s CLuB ARE:- DRIVING 1T 1N / -si T Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ten monounf«‘l:mfi . Pro- nounce dis-kuv-er-i, four syllab not d.ll&kzlev-fl. e n misspelled: Heyday; ey and ay. Synonyms: Marriage, ynflzflmon; 4 , wedlock, nuj 9 b 'se a word three times = Let us Inu’::ge ou‘x; mastering one word eac} pigeon house, but. Mamm day. Today's word: Cherish; to hold about clothes she needed.” dear. “Shall we not cherish the mem- (Copyright, 1929.) ory of his deeds?” POKER PORTRAITS. ~BY WEBSTER. ‘;R‘:fbsfls Y (T afraid Papa would in an’ read an’ not h.:l‘p’ :;: DON'TCHA 8 KNOW WHAT DAY BEDS ARE FORT OM WHATTA DUMBELL ARE! NIGHT 8208 ARE ‘sur DAY 8eDS... Y00 CERT NLY Has " [ TOVGH LUCK OMIGHTAL, YOU GAVE TH WHOLE = 60 N THE wATER NO DEEPER AN UP .. T0 NOUR WA(ST-— (N -OTHER \WORDS | \WANT 0w ™T0. ANOID DOING AMYTHING To EXCESS — - Now MiupYov —Nou'RE NoT ENTIRELY RECOVERED AND WHEN Nov 60 SouTH Rememeer, TAke INGS EASY ——PLAY ONLY NINE. 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