Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1937, Page 51

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1937. C—11 ‘LIFE’S LIKE THAT. —By NEHER. Sonnysayings THE MOUNTAIN BOYS. ; _ —By PAUL WEBS, Cons. 10 g Farmms Sy, b, ot rghe et . . ON THE. ROOF AN MRS®PIP'S DIARY. 7 5 ; THAT LEAK. Afio;éx ¢ N/, THE SUMMER. RAINS But nobody eber say, “Who's my early worm today?” THE CHEERFUL CHERUB + e————————— Grass and t;ui all sway tn rhythm; Rl\ytkm’xcnllyva'\ngs 5tn.r:. make music in their courses — Can't we live in harmony ? [eur. oacor- HAY YES MY BUSINESS DOES i ; MONE: IMPORTANT T i 5 - ! YES - 3 Rream AFTER LOSIN' /| DOWN TO MY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN WOUND NT 1S [ THOSE \HO TS Cae Ger®, SO MUCH, J |LAST COUPLE UP_FOR ME AROUND HERE - fvou MUST (| OF MILLIONS - 'M_FAR FROM BROKE- BE BROKE- pi;gng_CALLY A 'LL NEVER BE BROKE AGAIN- Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. LMOST always this is true. When you are anticipating danger or trouble you are in a measure pre- pared for it and, although it may be very great, it never seems as great as when it comes suddenly and wholly unexpectedly. Mrs. Lightfoot the Deer lay in a certain secluded thicket. in the Green Forest. It was not that part of the Green Forest on Farmer Brown's W TRYQ £ o land. No, it was considerably beyond| BEN WEBSTER’S CAREER, Farmer Brown's land. Why she had gone so far from that familiar and safe part of the Green Forest she couldn't have told you if you had| |BRIGWT AND EARLY TWE NEXT MORNING BEN 5 AROUI HOU JORS, asked her. Perhaps it was because, uc%:o W6 NEW JOB —HE POUND THE ? :g B A w&:;w&wwlatw ‘BOUT BLEVEN-WELL, ::b‘tllu .60 without really thinking about the LITTLE STATION TIOMTLY LOCKED/ LONG JASON JONES' ¥ - matter, she felt that too many knew = :‘;‘m“- A:NJ\NE on W‘:::_ (SMUUIRO Sou that for a long time she had lived in GOGH, | T'6 BIGHT Farmer Brown's Green Forest, were O'CLOCK BUT NOU'D familiar with the thickets there which NEVER. KNOW 1T BY were her favorite retreat. Perhaps it THE ACTIVITY AROUND was that, wandering farther back, she happened upon some thickets that were just to her liking and lingered there without having intended to Now she had to stay for a little while at least. You see, in the very B 1957 The A P AN Rights Reseroew next thicket to the one in which she And how anxious she was for their safety! That was why she was not b with them. She felt that they were LG . safer without her than with her so long as she was close by. Now, if —By POP MOMAND an enemy unexpectedly appeared she 7 oould- show herself and - lead that e A L 1 | cnemy away before the fawns were VELOCIPEDE M THE LIVING s The fawns were only a day old 9 y 3 WELL - WE WON'T & U ROORMTHIG OO AT SIc S (0S F7L and their mother was as proud of | | HAVE Ana MORE HI BEGS TO SIS0 r’;:“’g;i?o Fealti O EAReE SonE A v CoME OUT HERE W THE KITENEN them and as anxious for them as if TROUBLE WITH 1S IT, REPORT, SIR, cor s | cooe wr | ANv DIRECT PR =3 3 she never had had babies before LAME- BRAINED HOTEHKISS? THAT A LEG = ME WITH T | INSINUATIONS HERE?CAH‘N:‘D‘-‘P N‘n-( She couldn't help being anxious. No TOTORS AROUND HAS BEEN SAWED) . c2/ cream BUT THERE AGENCY AND GET mother can help being anxious for HERE, .= NOwW OFF TH'LIVING / PTCHER TWO FLAT ME A TUTOR the safety of her children. Those | |THAT €43 TW BIG ] ROOM TaBLE WHEN T TRIED \TIRES ON TH/ B TO WATCH babies, with their fawn-colored coats | |DOMB A YOWEL ¢ \\AND IS _MiISSING! To sE; | IMOUSINE' THOSE oS! beautifully spotted with white, were Tis cone ! 9 CONCHS ! cleverly hidden in the heart of that o thicket. If any one should find them | it would be almost wholly a matter of chance. Buster Bear or Yowler the Bobcat might, just might, happen along and look into that thicket. Even { theri they would have to enter and \/ . > m explore that thicket to find those 2 precious darlings. obediently lying 2 perfectly still there. If Reddy Fox | 2 or even Old Man Coyote should come along, she could, she knew, drive N either away. So Mrs. Lightfoot, while THE NEBBS discovered. It would surprise her very | f§ SOT LAID OFF_THE ONLY [ ARDLEY _DONT SAY NOTHIN' | OVE ME A BOX OF CANDY. ) gmA SHE'S BEEN BACK N THE Y94 ; f HING 1 MiSS 1S THE BUT 1 THINK HE PUT i KITCHEN VISMNG - KEEPING THE greatly if she was. It did. It sur- 7 ? prised her no less than it frightened MONEY, AND BY THE WAY ‘ Ml e her when two Dogs entered that thicket where she was. They were two Fox Hounds. and good ones, trained to hunt Foxes only and pay no attention to the scent of others. They had no busi- ness to be hunting now. It wasn't the lawful hunting season. As a matter of fact, they were not supposed to go hunting. Their master had s taken them out for a walk, that they /i) 2 might get some needed exercise. He i / was now lying, right where she could = P 4 watch over them, were two babies, % % ? “EVEN WITH THIS CORSET ON I WEIGH AS MUCH AS I DID BEFORE!" | her bables. How she loved them! X £ e had chosen this part of the Green [ ) ik Forest because it was near his home %, % i i & Wk hs, o and because he was sure that there : 3 — { g : were no Foxes living there. He didn't want his Dogs to chase anybody this Q1337-4y-TRBUNE warm weather. He didn’t think that L S there was a chance that they would fion Was v L E T T E R - O U T find anybody, or the scent of any- body, to hunt. q it o ey The two Dogs had come up wind THIS CIVILIZED WORLD)] YEH, IN AFRICA L——) to the thicket where Mrs. Lightfoot 1S ALL NEW To our. |HE DIDN'T HAVE BY CHARLES H. JOSEPH. was lying. That is why she had not CALLED A WATER he * { THE MODERN smelled them as they approached. FAUCET - YOU TURN - LERKING 80GEI! [ o0\ enieNeES Nor had she heard them until one OUT COMES £ HE DONT‘ KNoW o LIKE WE of them sniffed just as they entered WATER ! SEE? WHAT IT'S ALL HAVEHERE! "Safi%‘[&"’“’ brow, the thicket. In panic Mrs. Lightfoot i leaped to her feet and dashed away, and instantly the Dogs were after DEBASED Letter-Out _and it is the way a her. Had they simply found h ke is g 'y simply oun er o e scent they probably would have paid CATHODE no attention to it. But when she ABATE Letter-Out for diminish, jumped up from almost under their very noses and dashed away in full sight they forgot all their training. I | Letter-Out for laboratory eon- The excitement of & full view of RIVALS MOUNTERS tainers. Mrs. Lightfoot was too much for them. Giving tongue excitedly, they }‘m‘é'fio.“‘, uand 1t is generally were after her, forgetting everything but the chase. In valn their master called and . whistled. If they heard they did Remove one letter from each word and Tearrange to spell the word | not heed. It is doubtful if they heard. galled for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite | They were too excited. Baying the $he word you have removed it from. If you have “Lettered-Out” correctly | hunting cry, they raced after Mrs. you get a dividend. Lightfoot as she bounded over the e e poant terror | [ ows YOU LOOK-PERFECTLY. | | WHAT TIME IS THE PARTY, YOU CAN HAVE THE BARREL Answer to Yesterday’s = of what might happen to herself, but L00K » b S EETTER-OUT. o A STUNNING FOR THE PARTY, MOM ? TWO OR_HA® 1 | Jus"As soon AS T FIND of what might happen to those precious _h i bables unless these Dogs could be led PAST TWO? OUT WHAT TIME THE PARTY IS/ SCARPE | ( | MR mjgnaiye m | | [0 awey et e babes would nt ' H E G AR - = QARRBAGET R (Copyright, 1937.) A 3 = LO“,‘ER I I Letter-Out and he donned. —_— o > . 2 l‘ WORE Swallowed Evidence. 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