Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1929, Page 25

! HOW TO KEEP FROM GROWING OLD | it R s i i TAAT SETTLES IT| THERE WERE 27500 AUTOMOSILE. FATALITIES LAST YEAR AN 15,950 QF £M weme, TEDESTRIANG | The Mysterious Circle. Amone the virtues. great and small, Obedience doth lead them all Mrs. Bob White, Mrs. Bob W had played a smart | trick on Redtail the Hawk. She had done ex: what Peter Rabbit thought she had done. You know, Peter had | watched her from a distance. She had 1~ft her 16 bhies squatting flat in the £rass and had flown over to Farmer Trown's cornfield. Redtail the Hawk | had swooped at her and had failed Then for a while he had flown in eir- cles around Farmer Brown's cornfield. | waiching for little Mrs. Bob, But she | 72 LCarer, W, RN Klasy ¥ “THAT IS A MYSTERY CIRCLE,” SAID 1ITTLE MRS. BOB. < squattinz now and she didn't = lone Az she didn't move she h | tle Mre. Bob. T don't understand.” said Peter. TLittis Mrs. Bob chuckled. “It wouldn't | ure that Redtail | rs. Bob started back for her babies. She didn't She ran part of the way s. By and by she took to little wings of hers. She ¢ over those squatting little alighted some distance be- | Then she turned and ran back BEDTIME STORIES | true,” sald he. | dren.” | father | BY THORNTON . BURGESS through the grass. She had done this | because she was fearful that watchful/ eyes might see her flying and might go 10 look where she alighted. Back where she had left her babies she gave a sharp cluck. Instantly 16 little brown darl- ings were crowding around her. They hadn't moved so much as a feather since she had given them the warning to squat and keep still. It was the next day that Peter Rab- bit. happened to meet the Bob White family. _Bob White himself was with them. Peter hastened to tell Mrs. Bob that he had seen her smart trick in fooling Redtail the Hawk. | “That_was nothing.” said little Mre. | Bob. “That trick wouldn't have been | any good if the children had failed to | do their part. If one of them had | moved, my trick wouldn't have worked. | | S0 the credit was due to the children | | quite as much as it was me.” | Peter nodded in agreement. “That's | “I don't know when | T've seen such well brought up chil- He turned to look at them. At first he didn't see them. Then he dis- covered them. They were with their and they all were sitting crouched down in a circle, tail to tail. That is, the 17 tails all met in a com- mon center. Bob White and the 16 little Bab Whites were all facing out. That is, each one was facing a different direction. There they sat and actually seemed to be dozing. Peter looked at Mrs. Bob in an in- | quiring way. She saw the puzzled look | on his face. “They're taking a nap,” | sald_she. “So I see,” replied Peter dryly. “But what I don't see is why they are all in a circle that way." “That is & mystery circle,” sald little Mrs. Rob, “Tt's a wha!?" inquired Petfer. “Tt. & & mustery eirele,” repeated 1it- he a mystery if vou did. would it2" sl inquired. “‘Perhaps zome day vou'll learn what it means.” she added. “"Those children are learning a lesson as wail as getting & nap.” | “What lesson?" asked Peter bluntly. | Again little Mrs. Bob chuckied, ";{‘ha(‘: a part of the mystery,” said she. (Copyrisht, 1929.) 4. Rougher, 1. Knock . An insect. 5 Intimidate. . First woman, 7. Combats. . Not one, nor the other, . Proclaimer. 3. Drying kiln. . Land measure, 7. Cravat. . Cudgel. . Unfastened. . 32 Libertine . Personz neeupving offices of dignity and experience, . Negative Large cask. R in the Man's 5. Small plece. . Bind with lace. . Arranged in the form of rosettes. . Surfeited. 52. Cozy home. . 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