Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 43

WOMEN’S FEATURES. Bedtime Stories Unc’ Billy Forgets His Tail. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. The seeming trifie you forget May prove a real duiuer et. —Unc' Billy Possum. 'HE Merry Little Bree‘es of Old Mother West Wind, dancing along the old stone’ wall on the edge of the Old Orchard, discovered Unc’ Billy Possum there, They rumpled his hair, which was rumpled, anyway. They played with his whiskers. They blew in his ears and tickled him, and they demanded to know what he was doing there in broad daylight. “Nothing,” replied Unc’ Billy. “Ah Just happened along this way and stopped to rest. Ah reckon Ah better be moving along.” ‘The Merry Little Breezes gave Unc’ Billy’s hair a final rumpling and danced away. Then Unc' Billy climbed down from the stone wall and poked his head out from among the bushes growing beside the old wall. He looked across to Farmer Brown's hen yard, which was surrounded by a high wire Nature’s fence. Unc' Billy didn't mind the fence at all. That would be easy climbing for him. For some tirie he sat there with just his shary face out from tHe bushes, He hesitated. 1t was broad daylight, and Unc' Billy doesn't like to be in the open in broad daylight. Had it been dark he wouldn't have hesitated a second. As it was he had hard work to make up his mind to climb that fence. see; he knew that while he was climbing it he might be seen even from as far away as Farmer Brown's house. Three or four times Unc’ Billy started to cross from those bushes to the hen yard fence, but each time he ran back before reaching the fence. Unc’ Billy was nervous. Yes, sir, Unc’ Billy was nervous. Every time he started he had the feeling that he was being watched. He wasn't being watched, but he had that feeling, and it made him uneasy. People doing Children You Pacific Loon (Gavia Pacifica). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. LL loons are determined they will not be tamed or con- quered. They have been hunted unmercifully and have had to search for havens where man cannot reach them. As far as can be learned, they have made little progress in their mode of life, for they seem to be very much like those whose fossil remains have been studied, and which flourished in what is known as the tertiary period. » Loons reach a very considerable size by the time they are grown, and they are very clever, despite the fact that 80 often we hear the remark, “as crazy as a loon,” which often indicates to some one knowing the facts that it is & compliment in a one-sided way. For the loon is & clever bird, and can and has, year after year, outwitted his human brother. Many times the voice of the loon has been mistaken for that of a wolf. It is a strange, unearthly cry, and once heard is never forgotten. To be able to shoot a member of this family is an achievement in thought and action. A loon is one of the most efficient dodgers known, and they sing into the water without any appreciable effort, causing few or not even any ripples, then swim- ming for some distance before coming to the surface. It is rather difficult for this large bird ‘o take to the air, and it must do #0 from the water. Once it is up, after much flapping of its short wings and with the aid of the wind, it goes through the air with great speed, and it may plunge from a great height into the water, making a terrific eplas’, then shoot along the surface | like a scooter. It is awkward on land. If hurried, it flounders forward, doing its best, even using both wings. Except at breeding time, the loons prefer to live alone or in pairs. There is a single genus, which includes five species. They go to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere to raise their families. In the Winter, they come southward to the more genial climates. _ The nests are nothing,to brag about. They are crude structures, made of moss and grass, with a little mud scattered over them. They are, on rare occasions, built atop a muskrat home. Two eggs are laid, and of such brown and olive shades as to mingle parfectly with the nest material. Fish is the food desired, and so they naturally choose spots where food may -9-5'.'. Nkl Smach 1. et afn pred Nobody never thought ob nothin’ like this Baby. I'll tie yer string here at the top ob the balusters an’ then you slide down an' when ya reaches the bottom eberthing will be ober! PEPPY, TANGY DURKEE'S FOR MEATS, CHICKEN , SEAFOOD AND SANDWICHES // DURKEE’S faumous dressing and be found in abundance. The larger rivers of the interior and places where the waters are free from ice are their Winter resorts. ‘They even use their wings for speed under water to overtake the fish, that can never outswim them. In Summer, the loon is clad I glossy greenish black with white spots and lower parts of white. In Winter the colors are a grayish brown without spots. On the shoul- ders and back, each feather has two square white spots near the end. You may identify the loon by these trans- verse rows. If you should be out in the night, where loons are known to be spend- ing their Winter, and hear a cry that is uncanny, defiant, mirthful, mourn- ful or full of demoniacal sounds, don’t think you have stumbled on a hidden lunitic retreat. Listen for an answer some distance away. The loons are broadcasting—listen in or stand by. The voice of the outdoors is speaking. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, ' 1936. He Billy. The latter's fright account of his nervousness. The very sound of Flip's voice, even though at a distance, had sent little chills of fright all over him. When presently he realized that he had run without cause, he grinned. He just had to AT LEAST UNC' BILLY GOT AS FAR AS THAT WIRE FENCE. grin at his own foolishness. Once more he climbed down from the old stone wall and made his way to the edge of the bushes. Satisfied that Flip was nowhere around, he again started across toward the hen yard. He was halfway there when Sammy Jay began to scream as only Sammy can. Unc' Billy knows Sammy's screams, and he knows that when he screams in a certain way, it is because he has suddenly discovered some one he hadn't expected to see. So once more Unc' Billy turned and scurried back. This time, however, he merely crawled in among the bushes. He would wait there to see who Sammy was screaming at. He didn't have long to wait. As a matter of fact, he had hardly reached those bushes when & big Rooster came around the corner of the hen house. Now Unc' Billy had crept in under the bushes so that he was quite out of sight. but he had forgotten his tail. The.end of his tail he had left out- Here is an opportunity to re- place your old fashioned cook stove with a modern Electric Range. 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