Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1929, Page 15

-» (o, - BEDTIME STORIES *; 750 Spooky’s Sleep Is Disturbed. Ill:’l akes l‘r! lmaflde ('A‘I'ih'o“‘n:"“lm‘ o0d Instead of ant. A B0 e ‘the: Woodpecker. Rat-a-tat-tat-tat! Spooky the Screech Owl sleepily blinked his eyes, shook his | .. feathers out and was off in dreamland again. Rat-a-tat-tat-tat! Spooky mumbled and he grumbled, but he didn’t know what he was mumbling and grumbling about; he was too sleepy. Rat-a-tat-tat-tat! This time 4t seemed as if it were right on Spooky’s ear. He opened his eyes and snapped his bill angrily and hissed. All was still. Spooky sat there and winked and blinked and blinked and winked and ‘heard no more. Finally he settled him- self and went to sleep again. 9. . 15. Value highly. 16. The eastern coasts of the Mediter- ranean. %z A pile of hay. 29! ity in New York State. 20. Pirst name of a novelist. . Mother of Peer Gynt. . Danish territorial . Habitual drunkard., . Make obelsance. . Card game. . Bar. . Extinct bird of New Zealand. . Place again. . Pith of plants. . l(enuuy‘mund. 40. recluse. . City in Germany. . Violent alcoholic frenzy; coll. Malay canoe. Teach. . Dynamo . Bternwar . Pairies. . Pronoun. . Medicinal leaves. . Apply. . Mountain gap. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. PlalLlal Eiloey » 7S X I WL @R DN g back and forth, and that sharp bill of his made little chips of rotted wood fly this way and that way, that same sharp bill_went right through into nothing. Drummer knew what that meant. h!” said Drummer to himself. ve cut right through that wall. I've gone right through into that hollow. Well, I ought to find Wpme grubs in here somewhere. I'll just cut a little bigger opening here and see what there is to be found.” Perhaps you know something of how Drummer felt. Perhaps you have some time dug a hole into a little cave and felt excited when you broke through into the cave. That is the way it was with Drummer. He kept ing away and pecking away and making the hole larger and larger, Presently, as he souinted in at the hole he was making, he thought he saw & grub. An he saw something that looked grub. Drummer has learned by experi- ence that the only way to make sure of a grub is to grab it the instant he . So he now. Yes, sir, Right away things began to . It was one of swogy'l claws, o?‘w?ml he could see only a little, that had fooled Drummer. Now Spooky told him in no uncertain terms what kind of & mistake he had made. Spooky was up in his doorway, glaring out and hissing and snapping his bill, and also_blink- ing, for sun was shining. The in- stant Drummq the side of that tree and hi on. He wouldn’t move until he was forced to. He would wait right there until Spooky mon,t fiknt. mspooty dl:z'mn first. l:: didn’ e the sunlight, so finally flew back and disa sighed, - “I'll look around to- night. T surely will,” said he, 8ot to get a new home and get it very 3838833228 PONINGH 0 0 3 ~ : Extract from & publined work. . [ 3 led .glrtlec‘n'npeflml .wk . . One of a wild people of In . French plural article. - . Pertaining to the world. . Mournful. . Payable. . Wine vessel, . Pruits, . Treaty draft. . Child. . A horse, . Hawalian auks, ; Febrew delvies . Hebrew del : Spiral seroll, . Sp! . Rubber. . Urgency. 3 um% » s . The earliest Teutonic alphabet, . River in Siberia, _Farrserz of Czechoclovakia gisting on government aid. ¥ THE EVENING 1 I'll get one Christma gif't That [ hnow PI1 like — you see It o present that I bovght For my dog to Qive to me. AND CHARITY TOWARDS ALLS WE SHOULD GIVE FReELY, sy BUO Fisuse A Samta @ Crowns Jeff || et With Twelve- i(w & Mittens. 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