Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 45

BEDTIME STORIES Departure and Arrival. Whate'er position you may grace. Another waits to take your placi e. Old Mother Nature. It was very early in the morning of | the day after the silly young gander had so nearly been caught by Yowler the Bobeat that Honker the Goose sig- Peter Rabbit was over there at the time.| Indeed, Peter had not been back to his home in the dear old Briar Patch since Honker and his flock had arrived. “Good-by,” called Honker as he took naled his flock to take wing. w plied Peter. Up, up, up, above the treetops and still going up the great birds flew, e % i “GOOD-BY! TAKE CARE OF YOUR- | SELF!” REPLIED PETER. Honker in the lead. Soon they were spread out in the shape of the letter V, | with Honker at the point. He was lead- ing the flock straight north. “Well,” said Peter somewhat mourn- fully, “I guess it's going to be pretty Jonely around here.” “What makes you say that?” asked a wvoice back of him. | Peter whirled in great excitement. ‘There had been a familiar sound in | that voice, 50 he wasn’t much surprised 1o see Mr. and Mrs. Quack the Mallard Ducks swimming in Paddy's pond. | “Where did you come from?” he cried | excitedly. “Now, Peter,” said Mrs. Quack, “where ing. “Good-by, take care of yourself,” re- BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter looked as if he felt a wee bit foolish. “I suppose you came from your Winter home down South,” said he. “That's a very good guess, Peter,” replied Mrs. Quack. | “well, you know what I meant,” said | Peter. “I meant, where did you come | from just now? How was it that I didn’t ‘see you before Honker and his | flock left?"” “Do you really want to know?” asked Mrs. Quack mischievously. “Of course I do,” replied Peter, Mrs. Quack chuckled softly. “You didn’t see us because you saw only what you wanted to see,” replied she. “You Were looking at Honker and his flock | and thinking of Honker and his flock, | 5o you saw no one but Honker and his | flock. We were right here in Paddy’s pond all the time.” “But I didn’t see you in the pond yes- terday,” declared Peter. “We were not here yesterday. That is, we were not here until just about dark. That is when we arrived,” ex- plained Mrs. Quack. “Oh,” said Peter. “I was away from the pond for a little while about that | time. Did you have a pleasant journey up from the Sunny South?” “A lot pleasanter journey than we used to have in the old days,” replied Mrs. Quack. “You have no idea what a relief it is to be able to drop into & pond for a bit of rest, or & bite to eat, without being met with terrible guns. It used to be that we nearly starved to death on our way North because of the hunters with the terrible guns. But now they let us alone in the Spring. They make up for it in the Fall and early part of the Winter and it is pretty terrible. But in the Spring we can fly | without fear of being shot, and that is as it should be. You see, most of my family are mated when they start North. | In the old days many, many, many homes were broken up before ever they were built by the killing of the mated | ducks.” “Are you going to stay with us this year, Mrs. Quack?” Peter inquired. “I think not, Peter,” said she. “I have sort of a longing to get farther North. I wouldn’t be surprised, how- ever, if some of the family were to build here.” “T hope they will,” said Peter. “Are any of your relatives headed this way?” “Yes. Beauty the Wood Duck and Mrs. Beauty are working this way,” re- plied Mrs. Quack. “Of course, I do not know that they will stop.” “I hope they will,” sighed Peter. (Copyright, 1920.) The Conver- sationalist. 11 o Jerf Buo F?;usn Mutt Plays a Deaf Mute in the Talkies. KENKLING Some Detective! ! THE CHEERFUL CHERUB o———————— I love old things from other times That people made with patient Fingers. They ¢ave th handicraft a soul — The thought they had -about it e The THIS 1S CERTAINLY A URPRISE BECAUSE THE DIRECTOR OF THE TALKIES SAID MUTT HAS A SOPRANO VoICE., M- STRANGE! 'Ll 6o IN: :;::al S e ~ ~ WELL WINDY, DID You FIND YOUR BAC OF MONEY THAT WAS STOLEN | the Chapter. 7w "VEAUS' WHY DO A\ You ACT So CooL il —— olP , Tmc L GOOFY SAID SOLNED THE OF THE VAN GHosT! 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