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| Our Secret Ambition. —By Gaar Williams | Black Pussy Has a Fright. rise the key to fear doth hold P es"Bute "o et the bold. ~—Unc' Billy Possum. Black Pussy the Cat, who has always lived at Farmer Brown's, dearly loves to prowl around in the big barn. Yes, sir, she dearly loves to prowl around in the big barn. You see, she has caught many & mouse there and if there is anything that Black Pussy loves, it is catching mice. So there is very little that Black Pussy does not know about Farmer Brown's barn. She has ex- it all over. the mice make their little run- ways. She knows just where: the holes are to watch. On this particular morning Black Pussy had decided that she would have & look around in the haymow. It was several days since she had been “f in the haymow. In fact, it was a long time since she had looked in & certain corner. She remembered now that once THE BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. of Farmer Brown's pullets had been laying e%—th! e that Unc’ Billy Possum found and eaten. And now Unc’ Billy was curled ug in that corner. He had eaten 50 much that he just had to take a nap. So he curled up half buried in the hay. Black came ing along as only a cm mnp%n&nwn’m' clrelu;l_{‘ & cat moves when she is hunt- gn 3 ls was what Black Pussy was o eyes corner. At last she was wit Even in the She knows just|ing distanc ce. there she could see that ther that whitish fur of curled up partly buried in The end of Black Pussy's twitching with excitement and eager- ness. She crept one step nearer. That s . But it was too dark for her to make out whose fur it was. Could it be that there was a rat there? She would find out. Black Pussy did find out. And yet she didn't find out. She found out there was some one there, but she didn’t find out who it was, because she was too frightened. She jumped and landed with her claws outstretched on that bunch of fur in the corner of the hnrmuw. And that suddenly came to life. Ye . Black Pussy sud mouthful of mouth was g & snarl that gave Black Pussy & most uncomfortable in that certain corner she had found | barn. & nest of young mice. “Of course,” sald Black Pussy to her- self, “I don't expect to find another nest of young mice there, Of course not. But it will do no harm to have a look. ‘I might have & pleasant sur- m";wel.:. well, welll” aumM Farmer .. “Bome or something I wonder who or-what it can be.” Now, this was the corner where one . An artery. . African antelope. . To work. . Recluse. . Provokes. . Club-footed. . Prefix, half. Father of Gaal. . Beed covering. 3 : cm of meat. . Bpring. 3 H’dl. . Striped equine quadruped. . Wander. . Honored in estimation. . Scoffer, . Scent. . Get up . Glossy fabrics. . Thoroughfares. . Is indebted. . Lamprey fisherman, . Witty saying. . Guided. . Brusque. . Reply (abbr.). . Spirit of evil, Hindu myth. 4. Epochs. . White of eggs. . Compositions of oil and wax. . Nattiest. §4. Our country. Hates. . Estabilshed. 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Fifteen per cent of all the power generated by central stations through- 5 |out the United States is “lost, strayed S, [sus there was available . |in_the United or stolen” somewhere between the powerhouse and the customers’ meters. | According to the Bureau of the Cen- for distribution r 1927 than 104,000,000, more, ,000, hours, yet, according to the figures of the statistical research department of the National Electric Light Association, only a little more than 89,000,000,000 reached the ultimate consumers, R s 1 P ST R VT Youll get seme pluce in life,” ¢ sy, I.(rv will make moment pay.” But [ dont tahe their good pdvice — I think thet sny place is nice. o] EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. | , wrf*‘”g Pop MomanD Sad for Al and Clarice, Too. TM GROGGY SINCE THIS ANSWER ARRWED FROM THE S.S. CHOW MEIN SAYING THERE WAS NOBODY NAMED CHOP MUP ON BORARD ! 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