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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930. Y Our Secret' Ambition. | | THE CHEERFUL CHERUB YES, THAT SKOT TORE GUP Have Ay A FOOD CHUNK OF , The worlds full of Kiifm AL R FLORIDA - B‘(“)‘?’—%‘:é'; Cow v 23,_5’ wonders, \“fl‘ —By Gaar Williams g il BE NO STOPS WHERE, YOU Neture’s strange E T [fiw WISE To STOP — we'LL SooM GOTTA DRESS (P, —NONE OF | THIS RUSHIN' FROM TH' BEACH i :ltltl . : aus T TH <Aamzz:ow»msn Life's Grse e STOP AT TH' POLO GROUND: N BETWEEN !! Now MND 44 | Pop MOMAND wou AT s1UFF3 ouT L) ! T 2 sts. : ‘ !‘G'C“". Al Follows Jewels Overboard. /85T UM CANT TELL ON HER - \T'S LIKE THROwWW' MUD ON SOMEBODN o TRTTLE ON ‘EM = Muw T THEM AL, RGWT. BUT Muw GET JuST ABOUT AS DIRTH AERSELF Dovw - Coeies E\lm;fi\-\ma Libeuiaetlido FOR WHISPERING = TET oM J [T e AND KEPT AFTER. [ 2UTS GUM ON SCHooL- | SenTs oR RUK-\ S'PoSE GUSSIE NEVER | M™ET DOG-GONED GUSS\E SNIPP- CHERT- E| CHERT- CHERAT -, BUT SHE NEVER IF Y00 WANT TO DO ANY DKTATNG GETS CAVGWT - IN ANY GOVERNMENT YOU GOTTA A BE TH' ORQANIZED MWORITY 5 . BEDTIME STORIE BY THORNTON W. BURGESS News Is Spread. Black the Crow was dead. Every- * body said so. He had been caught and eaten by Hooty the Owl. Everybody said so. But if you had asked any one « of the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows—that is, any one but Chatterer the Red Squirrel— you would have been told simply that . everybody said Blacky was dead. so it eggs from the nests of birds not wise enough to build in holes in trees or in bird houses,” said Yank-Yank the Nut- hatch. “I know that Welcome Robin never had any use for him. I've even heard that Blacky was known to take baby birds.” “Well,” replied Tommy Tit, “it isn’t wise to believe everything you hear. Sometimes I wonder if Blacky wasn't blamed for many things he didn't do. | Mud-Slinger. IMAGINE ME, AUGUSTUS MUTT, WORKING AUGUSTUS MUTT IS THe GRAMN® Reg. U. 5. Pat.Ofly Copyright, 193, by The Chicago Tribene. must be so. That is the way that Who saw Blacky killed, anyway?” ‘ rumor becomes accepted as fact. “I understand it was my cousin, 1t is astonishing how fast such news | Chatterer the Red Squirrel,” said Happy - travels. In no time at all it had spread | Jack the Gray Squirrel. { all through the Green Forest, all | myself from Sammy Ja; through the Old Orchard and all over | Sammy is Blacky's couss . the Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit heard . 1t over in the dear old Briarpatch. THE RoPES LIKE THE WEEK'S WASH, AS SCoTT's SPARRING PARTNGR!! I'LL FLATTEN THAT BIG PeAce AMBASSADOR AND THEA CHALLENGE SHARKEY MYSELF! UNCROWNED kinG OF THE HEAVYWEIGHTS: n. Just then Sammy Jay arrived. “Is it true?” cried Tommy Tit and a“ Peter shook his head sorrowfully.|Yank-Yank and Happy Jack together. “We shall miss Blacky,” said he. “Is it true that your cousin, Blacky the fF * _“Huh!” exclaimed little Mrs. Peter. | Crow, has been killed and eaten by . “It will be a good miss. I never did | Hooty the Owl?” like that fellow. His eyes were too | Sammy Jay looked as solemn as it sharp. He knew too much. He was all | was possible for him to with that pert [ 24 the time making trouble for other peo- |cap he wears, BUO FISHER ple.” “I'm afraid it is” sald he. “Chat- “That may be so, that may be 50,” | terer the Red Squirrel told me about it, replied Peter, “but just the same he |and I went over to the tree where did other people a great many good | Blacky's old nest is. Hooty the Owl and turns. Many times he gave me warn- | Mrs. Hooty were sitting in that tree, Eas u” ing of an enemy. I guess I have owed |and scattered all around below were Y. my life to Blacky more than once.” |black feathers. They were Crow feath-| the Head 2 “You wouldn't have if you had stayed |ers. There was no doubt about that. I % at home in the dear Old Briarpatch |am afraid that my cousin, Blacky the| That Wears where you belonged.” replied little Mrs. | Crow, is no more. He and I didn't get Cr ¥ Peter rather sharply. along together very well, but I guess| & Lrownm. that was my fault as much as his. I shall miss him. I shall, indeed. The Green Forest will not seem quite the ,” said Tommy Tit the | same place without my cousin, Blacky . “It doesn't seem possible | the Crow. And to think that he should that any one as smart as Blacky the |have been caught by Hooty the Owl! grolw could be caught by Hooty the |Dear me, dear me! It is rather a dis- e grace, don’t you think, to be caught by “I've heard say that he used to steal ' Hooty the Owl in broad daylight?” BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO TUNED N \RTE WE GNE You : SOME : ‘ CLOSE-UPS ) O OF THE THE COUNTESS DE BRIE - Meet Our | PRINCIPALS WINDY'S FJANCEE ‘New Friend N 4 the Judge! | SCRAMSBURG'S | | OF COURSE You ALL KNOW WINDY RULEY BIG THE BIRD WHO LEFT SCRAMSBURG DOINCS ForR THE BIG C\TY AND MADE GOOD = — — — MRADE GOOD SOME OF THE BuM CHECKS HE LEFT BEHIND — THE JUDCE, | AN OLD FRIEND OF THE KENKLING o ( E CAME TO TOWN WITH R [=SRg=Y BANKROLL TO HELP 74 FINANCE WINDY N His | MA RWLEY EFFORTS ,To MAKE WHO LIKES THE SCRAMSBURG THE JUDGE ®BUT SPORTING CENTER CASTs A SUsPiICIoUS OF THE WORLD EYE TowWRRDS THE COUNTESS PA RLEY — wHo ukeES e CouNTESS BUT THINKS THE NERAREST “THE JUDGE" EVER GOT To A COURT BENCH WAS WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT UP ON CHRARGES MeNuught Syndicate, lnc., N. ¥. y LOSA, 1 CAN'T RECALL EVER SEEING TAIS “TRAP BEFORE YOU PooR $AP— THIS 15 A gNOW DRIFT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE F'IFTH, = FAIRWAY ThAT BEING THE CASE, 15 A CASUAL -TRAP AND T CAN MOVE MY BALL /ou-r i lflufig By HOWARD FREEMAN . An argument that's this is sound. : A particle thats quite minute. g . One of the numbers 3 »..xfifiym&be%:nfiwu‘w Ahmu'l‘th;lmn.hummyoum. gnawing . T orentine was he. 15. This guns and thunder often do. | 11. This is upon, in contact, near. Even Nature A to things . Lo! the poor Indian find we here.| Hazards . Be stocked in plenty, or abound. . To waste one's time, to fool Doc. around.” . These parrots are New Zealand birds. . Allied—applied to things and 'words. . Long periods of time are these. . Do this at dinner, lunch and teas. . This game with spool and sticks is played. . One kind of this makes wife of maid. - This club's not used to drive from . 3 . This is a very handsome tree. . The Lord made this a day of rest. . A humorist of widespread fame, - To plece out—now I know you've | 36. This is & jolly children's game. guessed. . Abbreviated “man of law.” . And this makes most of what's | before. | . This little word means by or| through. . An Eastern priest—a caliph, too. | . These hurry lest the train they| Bv miss 5 e GENE BYRNES . Your wedding cake was surely this. . A word a good constructor hates. -l'gh v . A deadly weapon here we find. I LIt (g8 U v fapen; it course. . A god who's baleful to mankind. Unexpected o ko i ctul to mankind. | 50. Each fiving man does this perforce. . A deity to earth descends. Dela 64. A pronoun that is often seen. y. ke e onees. . These are projecting timber ends. . A place above the rank and file. o aam Il QUIEKy: gucts. . The people of the Emerald Isle. 3 s n portico. . To nip an a sharp sensa- . Who does this a response must ;{8". pRanOSoame i show. . This little word means ostentation. . Mean-spirited and cowardly. . This is part of every stair. . To spatter water forwardly. . Scotch dialect for grief or care. . Repeat the words one has to 5ay 65, A salt in drugs and chemistry. preliminary to a play. . To wander, or in error be. Down. | 68. This is the place where fish are - This part of speech ne'er comes caught. amiss | 70. In French this word is that we're . Some call a table boarder this. taught. . One’s clothing, whether gay or|71. This means regarding or concern- plain. ing. . The dot a bride brings to her swain. Oh, what a lot of words we're . Before a noun this word is found. learning. ANSWERS TO CROSSWORD PUZZLES IN SUNDAY MAGAZINE lamae) [TIE[P]1 [D] MEINIAICIE] RIETEN| 5 Across. 1. I doubt if you have ever heard of this East lnd.llnl singing bird. el = X ~ o N Jore N 4 LATE AGAIN THIS 1-Jus’ MORNING ! STOPPED TWO™ bt goris LA Bat by EXCUSE. TO-DAY ? \ LI BOYS FROM | N \ ‘.‘".NN! Y 77, ! bP, ‘EM AN’ ONE WAS g YA A PRETTY GOOD A ) & FIGHTER! AND DID : IT*TAKE YOU ALL THIS . This word means half where'er it's found. . The trachea has this opening round. . A footprint, or small quantity. . In Prench this would an island be. . To make the drooping spirit rise. . A land where fighting’s no surprise. . 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