Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 39

I Wotta Life! Wotta Life!—By Gaar Williams | | BPECY o LOVE. NATURE. YOU MUST AREMEMBER WE BEDTIME STORIE Peter Sees Great Diving. The world admires things done well; 1In work or play, therefore, exael —Dipper the Grebe. Peter sat on the bank of the Smiling Pool, staring with the most perplexed look on his face. A moment before Dipper the Grebe had been sitting right under Peunh Nov:_’ ‘he cuuldmnoé !fie Dipper anywhere. course, the Smil- ing Pool lyl'nol. very big. Peter could E very inch of it. Anyway, he thought he could. But, though he Jooked and looked and looked, he saw “ARE YOU STANDNG ON BOTTOM?" HE DEMANDED. 0o trace, not even a festher, of Dipper the Grebe. Grandfather Frog had told him that Dipper had gone down. “What did you mean, Grandfather Frog, when you said that Dipper had gone down?" Peter. “Just that,” replied Grandfather Frog. “He has done what I do when I am frightened.” “Oh!” exclaimed Peter. ‘“You mean :fi m‘m‘;.u Has h:h gone down into mus way you do?” “No, I haven't gone down into the BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter looked them over very carefully. Presently he discovered just a head. “I see you!” he cried. At this the head began to move along between the lilypads and presently it appeared out in open water, right in front of Peter. Peter's eyes falrly stuck out. Yes, sir, they fairly stuck right out of his head. “Are you standing on bottom?” he demanded. “Certainly not!” replied Dipper. “The water is deep here. Not even Longlegs the Heron could stand on bottom here.” “Then how do you manage to keep all but your head and neck under water?” demanded Peter. “Why don't you float on the surface like a Duck?"” “I can if 1 want, to,” replied Dipper the Grebe. No sooner were the words out of his mouth than he was floating on the sur- face of the water. “Can you sink down and stop your- self where you want to?” asked Peter. Dipper made no reply. Instead he began to sink until just half his body was under water, Then he remained that way. “Can you go down and leave only your head out of water?” inquired Peter. Dipper began to sink. Soon the water was over his back. Then it was half way up his neck. Then it was up until only his eyes, bill and top of his head '.'h"e out of water. He stopped sinking en. “That's wonderful!” cried Peter. “I didn’t suppose any one could do any- thing like that . Would you be willing to dive for me, Mr. Grebe?" Dipper suddenly popped up to the surface. Then, so quickly that Peter hardly saw how he did it, Dipper dived. Peter waited and waited, but Dipper did not come up again. At last Peter be- gan to be worried. Then he remem- bered what had happened the first time he saw Dipper dive. He very carefully looked over the lilypads. He couldn’t see Dipper's head among them any- where. He looked and looked. By and by he noticed what he thought was the tip of a little stick projecting above the surface of the water. He gave it no thought until suddenly Dipper popped up right where that stick had been. It wasn't a stick, but Dipper’s bill, that he mud,” sald another voice. It seemed to come from among ypads behind Grandfather Frog. had seen. (Copyright, 1929.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1920.) 23. Wire measure, . Bweetsop: Philippine Islands. . Prima donnas. . Rodents. . Tellurfum; chem. symb. Flat fishes. . One who is past recovery; slang. . Lace used for trimming. . Cheats. . The ram. . Holy man. . Backslides. . Interpolate. . Exult. 44. Visits. . Interjection of hesitation. . Attendant. . Veins of metal. . Helpless. . River, tn Spanish, . County and city in Michigan. . Vats used for storing. . Boy's nickname. . Scarlet. . Old Roman weight. . Liberates. . Elliptical forms. . Paper money. . High in the scale. . Tiny. . Venetian rulers. . Laments. . Game bird. . Smiles broadly. . African lemur. . Irascible, . Declines. . Encouraged. . Curb. . Glyceryl elaidate. . Girl's name. . Compunction, . Curls. . Grassy tract. . Department and river in France. . Cloth made of flax. . Lengthwise. . Tributary of the Elbe, . Upholstered seat. . High card. . Pronoun. 58. Old negative. . Music note. Afraid of Census. Maricaibo is one of the largest cities in Venezuela, but the population is only estimated and is not accurately known by any means. It is difficult to say how large the city is because the natives are afraid of being conscripted into the army, and when a government agent starts recording the names of the in- habitants the timorous depart in large numbers. They hide until the scare blows over. Any official statement of the population is thus liely to be an underestimate. One steamship line carried more than 200,000 people across the Atlantic last year. s THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, ¥AY 17, 1929. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB wind 13 3o jolly and st It sllwt::\grmd the d might and day ~— B‘?{ I tkfi-\k that it’s oing_too Far BY Hav\warD Well! Look at“Venus”! MUTT INVITED Me TO B& HIS GUEST AT THG LION GOLF CLUB TopAY FOR THE FIRST TIME ! T WONDER WHY? TAMERS® By BUD FISHER Jeff’s Slumming No Use TRYING To WALK TO |F WE COULD ONLY DIE UP RAILROAD FARE o R KENKLING DD You EVER GET SUCH FILTHY STICKY A Born Detective. By S.LHUNTLEY Our Friday Special. SCRAMSBURGE == \T's 40 MILES! DAWGONE THAT LITTLE GOLD Digéer KATHRINE KOOKY !! SHE SAID SHED MEET ME HERE AT ONE PM FOR Lumcx AND SHES NOwW THIRTY MINUTES JATE ! 1 CANT STICK ARCUND YOUNGSTOWN FoReve IVE GOT A HOME AN’ A wIFE TO LOOK auUT for. IM SORRY I BvER TACKLED THIS 38 FOR MUSHBY — WELL, i wAT Five MINUTES MORE — TVE GOT To AND QUT WHETHER SHES REALLY IN LOVE WTH By Pop MOMAND HiM OR nOT 2 Al Learns the Truth. [ Boss | DID You ITS ONE OF AATURE'S WONDERS ! See “Veaus' !! MY LUNCH WILL SET HIM BACK A Buclc AT LEAST: T cAN'T FIGURE ouUT HIS GENEROSITY! AND T'Mm LISTEN — 1 KNOW R SAXOPHONE PLAYER OUT OF WORIK ! 1'LL BORROW HIS INSTRUMENT AND YoU CAN | PLAY (T IN THE BACK YARDS!| MAYBE THEY'LL THROW ENOUGH PENNIES To PAY OUR FARE ) Home ! ol WANTS TO MARRY ME' HE's MAKE A TOUCH BECAUSE IM TERRIBLY LATE MR MGINIS, BUT 1 COULDNT HEP 1T! 1 HAD T SEND A WIRE ™ AN OLD GOAT By TH NANE OF MUSHBY WHO AN AWFUL PeEST ! BRINGING ONE WOt WE Femp (| IS 60ING To| COMPLICATE MATTERS. NO MADAME MR. M GINIS IS i NOT IN HiS Room! 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