Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1930, Page 40

BEDTIME STORIES The Telltale Tail. Jogre, are no trifles, you will find, nless to truth you're wholly blind. ~Old Mother Nature. ‘Whitefoot the Wood Mouse knew how persistently Peter Rabbit, Chat- terer the Red Squirrel and Sammy Jay were looking for his home. It was like & game. He was hiding and they were trying to find him. He enjoyed it. He enjoyed matching his wits against their wits. It tickled him to peep out of the H oy HE WAS HIDING AND THEY WERE TRYING TO FIND HIM. little round doorway of his home and see these other little people close at hand, with no suspicion at all that he ‘was anywhere near. I doubt if any one ever lived who was not careless at some time or other. The most careful people will sometimes for- get and be careless. It always has been so and it always will be so. Careless- ness has cost the lives of very many little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows, just as it has cost the lives of many human folks. It was BY THORNTON W. BURGESS carelessness that finally gave away ‘Whitefoot's secret. N Sammy Jay sometimes is a very noisy fellow. Sometimes he is a very quiet fellow. He has a way of being around when you do not know he is around. It happened that late one afternoon Sammy alighted in a tree on the edge of the Green Forest, right near where Whitefoot the Wood Mouse had his home. Sammy had made no sound. He had kept that tongue of his still. Now he sat, just using those sharp eyes of his. He wasn't looking for any one or anything in particular. He was just looking for anything that might be of interest. A little below him, in a bush on the edge of the Green Forest, was a big, gray globe. Sammy knew it for just what it was. He didn't give it any particular attention. He could think of nothing about a wasps’ nest that would be interesting to him. So he looked at it without thinking about it at all. Suddenly Sammy leaned forward and those bright eyes of his became fixed on that nest. There was something hang- ing down from the lower part of it and he was sure that that something had moved, although at the time there was no wind. Sammy himself didn’'t move. He waited and waited. Presently that il,” said Sammy to himself. “May I never raise my topknot again if that isn't a taill Now, what is a taill doing there? And whose tail is it?” Now, of course, you know whose tail it was. It was Whitefoot's tail. White- foot has & long, slim tail. For once he had become careless. In moving about inside that nest his tail had slipped out the little round doorway. There it was hanging down. Whitefoot didn’t think anything about it. 3 that it was hanging down outside. After Jay what Sammy wanted to know., It had told him that there was some one in that big wasps' nest that was sup- posed to be deserted. (Copyright, 1930.) l Daily Cross-Word Puzzle I . Farewell! . Proportiona!> contribution. . Examination: coll. 4. Wading bird. . Subservient to, . Annul. . Aid. . Frosted. . Medical thread. . Glossy coatings. . Put on new bottom surface, . Condition. Stronghold. . Chem. symb. for terbium, . Silkworm. . Drew back. . Thing: legal. . Biblical witch. . Soft and fleecy. Kind of horse. . A jinn. . Pry: coll. . Jeopardy. . Maxim. . A title of courtesy. . Short dagger. . Bark. . A plural ending. . Girl's name. . Belgian town. 5. Toward the rear of the shjp. . German city. . Forsakes. *. The South of Prance, . The southwest wind. . Wavy, in heraldry. . Suburban cottage. old . Man's name, . Three-spot, Down. . By way of. . French priest. . Legal claims. . Means. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. | | gesigned a set for easy reception for | E nis court bel 5| | ver fish. As . Restful. . Male relative. . Verses. . Boy's nickname. . Beloved object. . irdle. . Large goat-antelope. H . Horse. . Enormous bird of prey. . Pestival days. . Luggage: coll. . French cap. . Musical work. . Author of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” . Heroine of popular books for girls. Colorers. . Women's garment. . Destruction. 3 rtered. . An African. . Makes faces. . Organ of the body. . The bark of certain trees. . Schoolmaster. Sing. . More protracted. 3 w-wlr: comb. form. . Caroled. . To surmount, as a difficulty. . Pellet, . Only. . Wire measure, 3. Man’s name. . A State: abbr. More Blind Want Radio. ‘While 15,000 free radio licenses grant- ed by the British Parliament have been taken out by blind owners of receiving sets, it has just been learned that there still is need for 15,000 more for the sightless. Engineers at the British Broadcasting Corporation in charge of broadcasting in the British Isles have blind people and charitably inclined people are giving them to blind poor. As the result of the Christmas day ap- peal by Winston Churchill $30,000 was raised to supply recelving sets to the | sightless, Shower of Live Fish Falls. A shower of live fish has been report- ed from Glencoe, Rhodesia. A wealthy resident awoke on a recent morning to find that fiany visitors had descended on his during the night, a ten- covered with small sil- e nearest body of water ]| three miles away, the only solution advanced was that a whirlwind arose in the night and converted the swimmers into aviators, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930. B S P BuO Fisuss The Tide Has Turned. e KENKLING By S.LHUNTLEY Haste Makes Waste. LEMME SEE. LAST oCTOBER X WAS WORTH A MILLION DOLLARS on) PAPER I WAS oNE oF TME PASSENGERS who MY PRWATE ,OFFICE - IN SUCH 4 atmnunea ? FILCH \S+THE\R. NAME - MOU CAN TELL “THEM'RE FROM “THE CITY, ALL R\GHT- HE HAD O™ SPATS - AND - Ao i O SHE WhS DRESSED SORTA_F&Y, SHE 1S AnD GOES "ROUND WITH ) HER. NOSEJINLTHE AR ~ PRAVIN THE HE WAS- ME. TWO WEEKS | [T WOULDN'T - PANIC JOWED =HLATER T wWAS THE HEEL ofF AN OLD BesTe T WAS THE GuEST BREAD OF HONOR ) A /' WELL, WHRT Do You 18 MERN BY BEWNG LOCKED W YOUR PRWATE OFFICE CWTH MY, FiANcee’ ? FRoMm THE SPARROWSe DEDUCTIN PNESTMENTS ERoMm THe PROFTS T FIND ™ME ANSWER IS A YARD ™e TM NOT INFERRING! SHE WAS SITTING ON NOWR LAP — I SAW T WITH My WELL, FORYIUST TAKWN' ONE T LATILE PEEK. SHE { Dipn'T M\SS MucH-~ DRR\.\N'._ ARE # .You COING To BELIEVE YOUR EYES OR YOUR SWEETHEART ¢ 1 MUST TELL You ALl ABout 1T LOOK WHAT GOT! A NICKEL . AN’ ITS ALL NEAH , AN THEY'RE "AsERIDIN' HIM TO T wco * CORRAL OVER TO No,No,No! 1M GOING To U/ TeLL You ABouT TS FAMoUS oL FoRT, THE FORT oA WHICA TRE FIRST SHOT WAS FIRED IN A GREAT ~TH’ BOYS 'BOUT SETH YPRITTLE ._HE'S DONE WAT_!;A'[r@ Nm+NG i, It $TELL v ABOUT THE FIRST . HES SAYIN' < *WHY DONTCHA GET A NICKELS WORTHA JELLY BEANS AN’ GIVE JIMMIE DUGAN AN’ JEST TO THINK, 1 BUSTED DQWNI YEST\DOY LA PAID HIM THE FIVE {DOLLARS WHAT 1 BEEN AOWING MM FER &