Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1930, Page 28

JANUARY 7, 1930. SEE \F THE STUFE 1S ALL THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, THE CHEERFUL CHERUB TH AN HONEST Gy I WA} TAAN' THAT STUFF To THE « com——————— ife is all arcund me,|! POLICE. NOW THAT You've GOT '€ BACK LET ME Full of happy ances, Friends and Joys 'jvlt waiting or me to mahe B—12 ! 1P THATS TRUE | A Strain on the Family Tie.—By Gaar Williams || GETTING WUUAM T PAY ATTENTION T HIS Music BDERAA RUN AWAY SOMEDAY AN @ THE BAGS FuLL OF PoTATOES, L WAS MORE THAN SURPRISED MHEN THE DOOR OF THE TAXI OFENED AND HE RECOGNIZED THE OLD GENTLEMAN WHO HAD LEFT BEDTIME STORIE Trap Is Sprung. Be sure vou never laugh too coon, Or shortly you may change your tune. “Farmer Brown's Boy. Now that Farmer Brown's Boy knew that Chatterer th> Red Squirrel was visiting the corncrib, he felt sure that he would be able to catch him. So he had set a box trap baited with nuts. “I don't want to hurt the little ras- cal,” said Farmer Brown's Boy. “I cer- tainly wouldn't kill him for a great deal. That's why I am setting a box trap. It will hold him a prisoner and not hurt him at all. I still don't see how the rascal gets in there. Catching him wen't explain that.” It was late in the afternoon that Farmer Brown's Boy set the trap. Of course, he didn’t expect to find it o= = HE CHUCKLED WHEN HE SAW IT. sprung before morning. He felt quite sure; however, that Chaiterer wouldn't be able to resist those nuts. As he closed the corncrib and went back to the house for supper, he was surs that in the morning when he opened that cornerib he would find that box trap sprung and Chatterer in it. Now, Chatterer the Red Squirre) is one of the smart:st of all the little people in the Green Forest. Yes, sir, he is so. That small head of his is full of the sharpest wits. He knew that if Farmer Brown's Boy had s:en him there in the comncrib, Farmer Brown's Boy would certainly try to do some- thing about it. “He'll probably set a trap for me.” thought Chatterer. “I saw those traps he set for mice and kept out of those. He'll probably set a different kind of BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | trap for me. I shall have to watch out for_anything strange here.” So it was that Chatterer the next morning discovered almost at once the | box trap that Farmer Brown’s Boy had | set for him. He chuckled when he saw it. He had seen traps like that before. He knew all about traps of that kind. He peeped in at the open door to see what might be inside. “Nuts!” exclaimed Chatterer. “My, how good they smell! Farmer Brown's Boy has even opened some of them for me. I certainly do like nuts. But he can’t tempt me with nuts. I've got several storehouses full of them. When I want nuts I can get them. I came over here after corn. When I want corn I don't want nuts. I wonder what that thing is sticking out from back of, this trap. It can’t do any harm touch it. Nothing can happen so long as I am outside the trap.” So Chatterer reached out and touched the little stick, and when he did that the door of the trap dropped with a thump. It startled Chatterer so that he ran. He ran and disappeared in the great pile of corn. But a moment later he was peeping out again. There stood the trap with the door closed. He knew then that he had closed that trap by touching that little stick at the back. Chatterer chuckled. “Now I know what to do with that kind of a trap,” thought he. “I wonder what Farmer Brown's Boy will say when he finds that door closed and nothing inside.” Chatterer was hidden where he knew he couldn’t be seen, but where he could watch Farmer Brown's Boy when he came in the corncrib. He saw the good- natured grin that spread over the freckled face of Farmer Brown's Boy as the latter saw that the trap was sprung. He chuckled down inside, did Chatterer. “Well,” said Farmer Brown's Boy, talking to the Squirrel he supposed was | inside the trap, “it didn’t take long to get you, did it? I didn’t think it would. T'll go get a cage now and we'll have a look at you.” So Farmer Brown's Boy brought in a cage and then very carefully opened the trap at the door of the cage, so that whoever was in the trap would run into the cage. No one ran in. You siould have seen the funny look on the face of Farmer Brown's Boy when he dis- covered that that trap had no one in it. Chatterer saw that look and then chuckled. But it was a silent chuckle. advances. RAeCAnn Attractive Display. ) - LERRIN' LZhRoS! WWL\E ARE You PRoFESSoR = MUTT, THE BEAVTY 17 |s MY g2 Back to the Soil. KENKLING How About the Museum sPeclAusT? THATLL BE LOVELY MR- RULEY — THeN TWAT's A DATE! w e THE BAG WITH Hin! 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