Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1929, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 25 1929. OH! MR, MUSHBY HOW NICE OF . YoU — § DINNER , AND . THE ' THEATRE eH? AND Yeu ARE BENDING YOUR. " CAR FOR US —- Y(ks‘uzlL' s e o s AK! MY LOVE, How I HAE T MISTUDGED Yoo! || MR HUSHDY . exPLaneD * TO MEMALL: ABOUT ‘Your i THere's i Tue TRIP, TOLYOUNS STOWN, R? YeH MUSHBY WANTED To ' I Something Ought to Be Done Aout This l G“P spreads it with The Surprising Babies. Bome can swim and some can fly, And some at best_can merel; try “old Mother Nature. | very anxious, She was both. Dipper and Mrs. Grebe successfully kept their secret. Not even Billy Mink discovered it, which was a very fortunate thing. Billy would have enjoyed a meal of those six eggs. Whenever Mrs, Grebe left the nest to g6 look for food, she carefully covered the eggs just as she had done that time when startled by Peter Rabbit. As for Peter, he had given up' looking for that mest. You see, there were many other things to take his attention and interest him, and for a while he quite forgot the Grebes. In fact, for some time he didn't too. from d’”‘,:,‘.“"’ that nest, 80 I can see them - | they can dive. I should like to see them Y THORNTON W. BURGESS She wasn't on the nest, but she was| close by it. It struck Peter that she looked very proud and at the same time You see, a very important event had taken place that very morning. The last of the six eggs had hatched. In the nest were six tiny birds, covered with down, as a baby chicken is, or a baby duck. Peter couldn’t see the babies, so of course he didn't know what had happened. Mrs. Grebe climbed up on the edge of the nest. Péter moved,’ in order to be able to see better. Accidently he stepped on a very dry stick and it snapped. What he saw then made his eyes fairly pop _out. There was a sharp call, though a low one. from Mrs. Grebe. Then out from that mound into the water scrambled six downy little Grebes. They did not hesitate a second. = You never. would have guessed that it was their first venture into the water, They bégan to swim at once, just as if 'y had al- ways been swimming. In two minutes they had disappeared behind their mother among the rushes. o “Well, I never!” exclaimed Peter Rab- bit to himself. “That was Mrs. Grebe's nest after all. And how such _little bables can swim is more than I can understand. ' Yes, sir, I wouldn't have belleved it if I' hadn't seen it.:'It is hard to believe now that I have seen it. They are such little fellows that it doesn't seem safe for them to be in the water. Perhaps if I am patient they will come back to the nest. I ould like to see them sgain, I cer- tainly should like to see them 3 My, ‘they surely are cute little rascals. I wonder how long it will be before learn to dive. Dipper and Mrs. Grebe are such wonderfyl divers that I sup- pose the children will be good divers. I hope theyll come back and He he | warded. Of of | would see ‘more of that eurious little # Fragrance. 10 Greek letter. 13 Horrify. 14 Proved to be true. 16 Regular solid figure having six faces, 18 Bashful. 19 Before. 20 Anarchists. 21 Exclamation.of surprise. 23 Fleshy tumor. ;: Old-womanish. 30 Shelter, = a3 Violations. 36 Favorable introduction. 37 Note of Guido's scale. 38 Spikes of 39 Drawn tight. 40 A tree. 41 East Indian weight. 42 British seaport on Red Sea. 45 Mimic. 4 it 47 Cry of sheep. 50 Incongruities. 55 Ship of the East India Co. 58 Lowest deck on a ship. 57 Roman name for hades. 58 Dry growth on the skin. 89 Adolescent years. Down, 1 Covers the tcE of. 2 Vari-colored kingfish. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. E] S| |54 Wrath. y Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1929.) Peter settled. himself to walt in pa- tience, but.-his.patience was not re- course, there was no way for him to know that they had left that nest for good, but it is what they had done. So Peter sat and sat. Sometimes he‘ dozed. And'then he al- ways wondered if they had come back while he was napping. They hadn't. And at Jast Peter had to give up. But as he lett he promised If that he - (Copyright, 1920.) 3 Nimble. 4 P agoda. 5 Entirely. 6 Above. 7 Take out. 8 Metalliferous rock. 9 Tear. 10 Mature. {11 Pay attention: 112 Chances. 15 Neve. 17 Meadow. 21 "High voice. | 22 Greek messenger of the gods. 23 Go; pass. { | 24 Property left by decedent. 25 Unit of area. ° 26 Christmas: French. 27 Peruvian chief, | 38 Asseverate, '29'Roman clan, 130 Cut of meat. ¥31 Biblical patriarch. 132 Serf. | 34 Oriental nurse. 35 Roman highway. 0 Against. Dry. |4 {41 { 42 Sour. 43 Ceylonese salling vessel. 44 Extremities. 45. Hebrew month, 46 Liquid measure. 47 'Trunk of a tree. 48 Right away. |49 Deadly serpents. * |51 Uncooked. 52 Old sacramental vessel. 63 Small child. 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