Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 19

-1 would never borrow agen, and after Timmy Has Fun. In manners one is seldom pleasing T/ho always takes delight in teasing. —Old Mother Nature. Timmy the Flying Squirrel had also moved into Farmer Brown's barn through the bad weather. That barn was a wonderful place for a Flying Squirrel. He could always find pienty to eat there. It might blow and snow and snow and blow outside, but inside it would always be comfortable. Timmy had moved into the barn before Spooky g b i, YOU KNOW HOW TIMMY SAILS. the Owl did. He had known when Spooky moved in, and for some time he . had managed to keep out of sight. ‘There were so many rats and mice in the big barn that Spooky was occupied with catching them most of the time. So it was that he hadn't seen Timmy the Flying Squirrel until quite by acci- dent he discovered him one evening. ;{il had tried to catch him and had ailed. That had given Timmy a lot of con- | fidence. The result was that after that he didn't_try to keep out of sight of Spooky. In fact, he began to get a lot of fun out of teasing Spooky. He would run out on some big beam, or on a rafter, in the roof and then wait until Spooky would try to catch him. ! Then, just at the right instant, he would make cne of those wonderful flying leaps of his and sail clear across the barn. Usually Spooky would fly after him, but BEDTIME STORIES THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D. €., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 BY THORNTON W. BURGESS he never could get his claws on Timmy. It got so after a while that Spooky stopped trying to catch Timmy. He re- fused to pay any attention to him, Then Timmy began to grow bolder. If he could have known what was going on in Spooky's mind all the time perhaps He wouldn't have been quite so bold. “Timmy is going to get careless one of these days,” Spooky would say to himself. “He is going to get very bold, and when he gets very bold he will become careless. I can afford to wait. 1 wl{l just pay no attention to him at all.” there was no fun for Timmy. Timmy grew bolder and bolder. He would jump from a rafter high up in the barn and sail down right under where Spooky was perched. Sometimes he would jump from behind Spooky and sail right past him. It was done in the most provoking way. You know how Timmy sails. He jumps from some high place, stretches his four legs out until he is almost flat. Between each foreleg and hindleg is a strip of thin skin covered with fur on the outer side. When he stretches his arms and ‘legs out, of course, he stretches that skin out, and that helps to hold him up in the air as he goes sailing at a long slant. So he can jump very long distances, gliding or coasting on the air. Always, however, he is going down, and when he alights he is far below the place he starts from. As I have said, Timmy grew bolder and bolder. There was no fun in teas- ing Spooky if Spooky refused to be teased. At last he grew so bold that he ran out on the very rafter on which Spooky was perched. Spooky looked as if he were asleep. But Spooky didn’t open his eyes, 5o Timmy ventured a little nearer this time., This was ex- citing and so it was fun’ Exciting things usually are fun. He felt very brave and very bold. At last he was almost to Spooky and still Spooky didn’t move. ‘Then, looking down, Timmy spied a mouse on’ the grain bin. He forgot Spooky and leaned over to look at that mouse. It was a bad time to be for- getful. Yes, sir, it was a bad time to be_forgetful. Now, all this time Spooky the Screech Owl had not been asleep at all. He had merely pretended. He was doing what is called “watchful waiting” He had not missed a movement of Timmy. “I belleve my chance has come,” he mut- tered under his breath. “Anyway, Il glve that Squirrel a fright he won't get over in a hurry.” (Copyright, 1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Abe Martin Says: Pop was starting to get behind the sporting page and ma sed, My good- ness Willyum, Mr. and Mrs. Hews are coming over tonite for a game of ;:riéige and ;x have a terrible hedake, ont see how Im ever to through with it. e 5t Well, I hope you dont, pop sed. I have no hedake, but I always get one w;n I play bridge with the Hewses, he sed. But wat am I going to do? ma sed, and pa sed, Call them up and tell them something unforseen has happened. But wat. thats it, wat? ma sed, and pop sed, Tell them Ive broken a leg, Such an ideer, they'd be over here ths ferst thing to see how you were, ma sed. Thats true, and then they'd see how I am, pop sed. Well, then tell them Benny has broken a leg, that wouldent sound so serious, because wats a broken leg at his age, another one would grow out agen in no time if I remember my fizzeology correctly, he sed. No broken legs, thank you, ma sed. ©Of corse I mite tell them we both have a slite touch of the floo and are cawfing very contagiously, but Im superstitious about things like that and I know as sure as I sed so we'd both have the grip tomorrow, just as sure as you lic about a thing its sure to happen like clockwork, she sed. . Theres some truth in that too, (mp sed. I remember saying one time that that it seemed nobody would lend me a cent for munths, he sed. Wich just then the telefone ramg and ma answered it, saying, O, Mrs. Hews, O, I was just thinking about you, O cant you, thats too bad. Im so sorry, well take good care of yourself, good by. And she hung up the reseever saying, theyre not coming, she says she has a cold but I dont bleeve a werd of if, I bleeve she's just trying to get out of coming, I always thawt she was a double face thing. Yee gods, thats too much for me, but to the pure all things are mysterious, pop sed. And he got in back of the sport- ing page and stayed there. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused—Do not say, “You are pretty fortunate to receive the money.” Say “very” or ‘“rather fortunate.” Often mispronounced — Rapacious. Pronounce ra-pa-shus, first a as in “ask,” second a as in “pay,” accent second syllable. Often misspelled—Yacht. Synonyms—Butchery, slaughter, mas- eacre, carnage, havoc. ‘Word study—"Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word—evolution; the act of ‘evolving; development or growt!s. “The evolutlon of events has brought this condition.” Another fine thing about the break- fast nook is that nothin’ kin drop on your vest, The late Mr. Duke, tobacco king, worth millions, used to plow. If ther's anything in a fellre, bein’ raised on a farm'll bring it out. (Copyright, 1929 T' The True Prophet -3 ‘The groundhog, coming from his hole This is just what Spooky did. Then | within some lonely woodland knoll, sur- veys the landscape wide; and if the sunshine gilds the land, he says, “More T Winter is at hand, and for six weeks T'll hide.” But if the sky is dark with clouds, if wintry gloom the world en- shrouds, he says, “The Winter's done; the omens are quite plain to me and I shall sport upon the lea, and have all kinds of fun.” The groundhog doubtless couldn't tell just why he prophesies so well, and beats the human seer; he baf- fles all prophetic skates, because, it seems, he concentrates on just one day a year. He keeps that fateful day in view, and then, on February 2, outside his hole he lands; his energies are un- impaired, and when for half an hour he’s stared, he knows just where he| HOWARD stands. And when he's pulled his bag of tricks 'twill be a year before he’ll mix in cheap forecasting games; - the prophet’s mantle he abjures when he looks o’er the snowy moors and his de- cree declaims. The groundhog doesn't |~ hang around the courthouse or the vil- lage pound, in Summer, Spring and Fall, imparting to his friends a pain, pre- dicting drouth or hail or rain, a cyclone or a squall. If an election is in view the groundhog doesn’t tell us who will win and who will lose; he’s not predict- ing every day, he doesn't fool his strength away, his gift he won’t abuse, So_when he rises from his lair, and looks around and scents the air, and says, “The Winter's done,” we pawn our Winter overcoats for necessary dimes and groits and other forms of mon. WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) ] The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime. I A DI5H OF EATING PELES AND THE ;.\«1 W€ SET OF THEHENTY | €= BoOOK o { Allowances. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB ‘neverget to ‘take a'rest . Of 2ll the worlds it warmsjand lights’ I wonder - which e e S A TP 1 T 0 H~/H~/ JUST ~9°’\‘ AT ALL THESE BILLS! 1TSS A GooD THING MR MUSHBY, OUR MR.MORTIMER |l pavinG GUEST PAYS For. His weeac To-Day! (OH'! 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