Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1930, Page 27

T I Wotta Life! Wotta Life!—By Gaar Williams r SAY,POR DID THEY MAWE YOU LEARN LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS WHEN YOU WENT T cHooL 7 BEDTIME STORIE Ghost Is Hungry. No ghost has ever need of meat; You' neer will see one that can eat. TBlacky the Crow. ‘There was a ghost in the Old Or- chard—a black ghost. Any one of the little people there would have told you that Blacky was dead, that he had been killed and eaten three days be- fore by Hooty the Owl. Yet, sitting on one of the topmost branches of an apple tree there in the Old Orchard was the living image of Blacky the Crow. Of course, it couldn’t be Blacky, £o it must be his ghost. At least, that is what Peter Rabbit thought as he peeped out from the old stone wall, and Happy Jack Squirrel thought as ®ARE YOU RPgAL?" QISKIZD PETER he peered around ‘the trunk of another tree, and Tommy' Tit the Chickadee thought as he looked out of a bird house, and Yank-Yank the Nuthatoh and Drummer the Woodpecker thought as they clung to the trunks of two other trees. “Caw, caw, caw!” said the big black fellow in the top of the apple tree. | “Caw, caw, caw!” Then he looked this ‘way and looked- that way and looked the other way, just as they had all seen Blacky the Crow do so many times. After this he flew down and began to pick up some pieces of bread that Mother Brown had thrown out a little while before. Each time he picked up & bit of bread and swallowed it he Across, 1. Sleeping places. 5. Mineral used as food. 9. Wit. . Song. 15. Petition. 16. Soft variety of copal. Avwry. 19. Irritated. 20. Entity. 21. Rends. 22. Large Russian river. 23. Compound ethers 25. Native of a Western State. 26. French city on the Loire River. 28. Always: poetic. 29. Autumn flower 30. Dancing_girls of Southern India. 36. Roman_highway. 37. Small Turkish coins, 38. A son of Jacob. 39. Pyrotechnic display. 41. Large bird of the crow family. 42. Center of a wheel. 43. Measuring machines. 44. Peril. 48. Less fresh. 50. Cognizant. 51. Eaglestone. 52. Old Prench coin. 55. Ductile; insoluble substance. 56. Ha't steps in_music. 58. Military storehouse. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. 4 HEOTRD [ A0 Sl = v | [EENER EE=els] €| : S| Ealeosed) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1930, " C=3 BY THORNTON W. BURGESS paused to look around to be sure that all was well. The way that bread dis- appeared was proof enough that the black ghost was hungry. ‘Watching him eat, Peter Rabbit be- {gan to have doubts. Yes, sir; Peter be- | gan to have doubts. He poked his head out a little farther. Presently he climbed out and hopped along over the old stone wall to where Blacky the was eating. “Are you real?” asked Peter politely. The black ghost nearly choked on a piece of bread. “What?" he asked. “Are you real?” repeated Peter in his most _polite manner. A funny expression appeared on the face of the black ghost. “Are you real yourself?” he inquired. “'Of course I am real!” retorted Peter. “What a silly question!” “No more silly than yours,” replied the black ghost, reaching for another plece of bread. “But_you're_not Blacky the Crow, while T am Peter the Rabbit,” said Peter. “If I'm not Blacky the Crow, who am I?” came the prompt retort. “That’s what I should like to know,” replied Peter. “You see, Blacky the Crow was eating. “Caw, caw, caw!” cried the black ghost. “I want to know! This is news, indeed! Well, well, well, so I'm dead, and eaten. Pray tell me when I died and who ate me. What is the matter with you, Peter Rabbit?” Peter blinked. He blinked and blinked. A funny look came over his face. “I—I do believe you are Blacky,” said he. “Where have you been for the last three days?” “A long way from here,” replied friends have been away down to Big River for a few days.” “Then whose feathers did Chatterer the Red Squirrel find under the tree ;l:;!l’& your old nest is?” demanded er. “Oh,” replied Blacky, “those were the feathers of a foolish young Crow who didn’t have sense enough not to g0 too close to Hooty the Owl. There were two of the foolish young Crows who thought they knew it all. Hooty caught one and Mrs. Hooty caught the other. So you thought they caught me, did you? Well, well, well! I thought you had a better opinion of my smart- ness than that.” And so it was that the black ghost proved to be no ghost at all, but was really Blacky the Crow himself. (Copyright, 1930.) 59. Perceived. 60. Skin affection. 61. Put a bottom on, as shoes. 62. Goes astray. 1. Ordered. 2. Ireland. 3. Nonconformist. 4. Perched. 5. Wild drinking bouts. 6. Communion table. 7. Ogles. 8. Small children. 9. Large New England college. | 10. Joining. 11. Tenths of a cent. 12. Twenty-fourth Greek letter. 13. Fortification. 18. Fish-eating mammal. 24. Cubic meter. 25. New Zealand parrots. 26. Pertaining to an uncut gem. 27. Kind of Italian wine. 28. Young hawk. 30. Short-billed pigeon. 31. Clumsy vessel. 32. Puff up. 33. Deep respect, 34. For all time. 37. Discharge in s . 40. Pivoted. st |41, Lease again. 43. Morning services. | 44. Ladies. | 45. Vle.cne;lble caterpillar of New Zea- 46. By birth. 47. Climbing shrub, Direct. 49. Instrument for peed. 51. Actual being. i | 57. Paddle. — Saves 70 Dogs on Birthday. Sevenly dogs in Londdm sre still alive as the result of theiaction of | George Gollin, a retired merchant. He celebrated his seventieth birthday an- niversary by mm. the agpual licenses for 70 Zu owners were. $00 poor-to°-Tenew them. 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