Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 36

36 ¥ WHEN HES ON HI% PICYCLE - ARE Y0U LISTENNG TO S0ME- TRICK RIDERS? '|™HE CHEERFUL CrERUB The little sparrows in the street Are such 2 drab and rowdy band, | en we come outin || By new spring clothes || Pop MomanD I wonder if GUY T SAW ON THE GROUNDS YESTERDAY JuuE! HE GAVE ONE LOOK AT ME AND DISAPPEARED THROUGH THE BRUSH LIKE A SHOOTING STAR) WA3I FLESH aND BLOGD = HE WAY NO GHOST! HE WAS AFRAID OF Me! ID LkE TO KNOW HOW HE GOT OMER. THAT SIXTEEN FOOT WALL, AROUND THIS PLAce ? TRIED N VAN TO FATHOM THe MysTeRy! SAY-KIbDO-WHICH Do You LIKE BEST-A LITTLE WHITE HOUSE WITH GREEN SHUTTERS ORA SWELL APARTMEAT WITH BUILT IA CONVENIENCES f ( aud PRIVATE (] X T Roor GARDEA - \ BALUSTRADE -Aup MARBLE FOUNTAIN WITH PEACOCKS - , THIS 13 A STRANGE HOUSE'™! ITS GETTING ON MY NERVES — RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT THERES PROBAGLY SORE = Bopy N THIS NERY ROOM WATGHNG S — 1 FEEENE AM RIGHT! WHY-REALLY M Ao IF THE Boss Sow LEFT “THIS BUSIAESS - HE SEEMS So INTERESTED (1N ARCHITECTURE , Havware The Age of BY THORNTON Innocence. W. BURGESS BEDTIME STORIE Chickens Stop Disappearing. ven when you really try "Tis hard to make suspicion die. —Farmer Brown's Boy. Parmer Brown's Boy finally made up his mind that he would have to trap Jimmy Skunk in a box-trap and take him away. So that afternoon he took the trap out and set it at the hole under the henhouse. He had no doubt that he would catch Jimmy. He knew that Jimmy was too independent to be sus- picious and was one of the easiest of all animals to trap. “I don’t like to do it,” sighed Farmer Brown’s Boy. “I don't like to do it, be- MUST BE THAT JIMMY IS G,” SAID FARMER BROWN'S AS HE RETURNED TO THE cause I like to have Jimmy around. But I cannot afford to lose any more chick- ens. Jimmy has never bothered my chickens before and I don’t see why he couldn’t have left them alone this time. }.“zg:;l T'll have him in the morning all The first thing the next morning Farmer Brown's Boy went to look at the trap. Jimmy Skunk wasn't in it. No one was in it. It hadn't been sprung. “Huh!” said Farmer Brown's Boy. “1 sy} Jimmy ate so many chickens that he didn't feel like comin, Then Farmer Brown's out.” y went around into the henyard and counted his chickens. He counted exactly the same number as he had had the day tefore. He stracthed his head. “I couldn’t have counted right,” said he. “For a week now I've lost two or three chickens every night. It can't be that I didn't lose any last night. Il count them again.” So Farmer Brown's Boy counted the chickens again with the same result. Then he counted them a third time, You see, under the circumstances, it was very hard to believe that all of them could be there. Finally he had to admit to himself that all were there. Jimmy hadn't taken a chicken the night before, “Probably Jimmy w hi sald Farmer Brown’s Bo; come out today and get caught in that trap he'll surely catch a chicken or two tonight.” Jimmy didn't come out, so of course he didn’t get caught. Farmer Brown's Boy visited the trap the last thing be- fore he went to bed. Then the next morning he was up bright and early and out at that trap. There was the trap just as he had left it. There was no Jimmy Skunk in it and no one else, for | that_natter. Then Farmer Brown's Boy hur-®ed into the chicken yard once more | to €ount his chickens. He took the! greatest care to make sure that he| didn't count a chicken twice. When | he had finished counting them, there | was a queer look on his face. “Now what do you know about that?” said he. “I didn't lose a chicken last night. I don't understand this at all. I'm sure I didn't make a mistake in my count, but to make doubly sure I'll count them again.” So he counted them again and a third time, Each time he got the same re- sult. It would seem that his chickens had stopped disappearing. He didn't know what to make of this at all. “It must be that Jimmy is fasting,” said Farmer Brown's Boy, as he re-| turned to the house. “I haven't been able to find any way for him to come out from under that henhouse, so he| must still be there, But, if he is there, | why hasn't he taken some chickens?” | For the next two or three days the | results were the same. Farmer Brown's | Boy didn't catch Jimmy Skunk, nor did he lose any chickens. Beyond all doubt they had stopped disappearing. It was very mysterious. (Copyright, 1920.) SIR SIDNGY, YOoU SHOULD Fe€L HONORED THAT THE LioN TAMERS® HAVE TAKEN YOU INTO | THEIR SECRET ORDER. ONLY MEN WHO SHOWED RARE COURAGE FIGHTING IN NO-MAN'S LAND' 1y THE LATE WAR ARE ELIGIBLG OLD DEAR, How DID You HAPPEN TO CALL THLS EXCLUSIVE CLUB THe LioN Thing or Two to Sir Sidney in the Lion § 327 ~r B T THNK THIS TRIP SOUTH WitL| DO YoU R LoT OF GooD — TVE ARRANGED T HAVE YoU Box IN BIRMINGHAM AND MEMPHIS WELL, JEEE AND T FOUNDED (T AFTER 'OUR HUNTING TRIP IN AFRICA« WHILE THGRE, WE E€ACH CAPTURED A LION BAREHANDED, AND T2 COMMEMORATE THE FEAT WE LAUNCHED Dk THIS CLUB. A LION TAMER IS [ENOWN AS A MAN WHO FeARS NOTHING THAT WALKS = HENCE, We NAMED OUR CLUB *THE LioN TAMERS' FURTHERMORE = WE'RE SURE PASSIN' SWELL SCENERY ON THIS . TRIP — LoOK AT ALL THOSE SHEEP, WINDY = 1 WONDER HOw MANY OF THEM THERE ARE ! A N S 0 "E [ e osu_‘i“u;vflp% f : You GeT AT TOTAL) |7, 17 so QuickeY ? /) LOVE, DON'T CREATE A SCenG: T'LL GO PEACEFLLLY. A LEMON SODA. & FECL QuITE DEVILISH! 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