Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1937, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937. B—7 Sonnysayings THE MOUNTAIN BOYS. _ —By PAUL WERBB. g % WAHL = BUCT AH GOTTA GO MAH BUSTLE !/ NOW WILLIE - — “ 50 THAT'S WHAT'S AILIN' HIM. AH MIGHTA KNOWED T/ ht 2927 ey Feseres Inc Re, BOSS. ellufunts in the eye—an' her full ob pink cotton candy! THE CHEERFUL CHERUB - I love it in the count But one rtyhing worries me — - The bees work all day Sunday Which really “A MAN OUTSIDE WANTS TO KNOW IF WE'VE LOST A MALE INMATE N «.. HE SAYS SOME ONE RAN OFF WITH HIS WIFE.” ,bilo‘glg?t bfi | SAW IT! “POLICE BOATS s I SAW IT! SISHTED THE & A\ “% OH. DONT Ask WERE QUICKLY f ME ANY MORE! OUTDISTANCED Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Courage sometimes simply goes. How and where nobody Knows —Old Mother Nature. JSTER BEAR is big. He is very big, indeed. He has great teeth and great claws, and very likely he would say that he is afraid of nothing i and no one. But this isn't quite true. 2o o L] 2 He is afraid of man, and with excel- 7 2 < g |lent reason. And, if the truth be BEI _7“~ BSTER’S CAREER known, there are one or two of the Green Forest people with whom Buster STRALE THINKS HE CAN TURN Tue V" GOING BACK TO WE KMOW WHAT HE'S PL, ¥ ! ) e : dnia ANNIN, BUT ) You're Ho! Mo/ CAN doesn’t care to quarrel. NUGGET LINE OVER T0 THE wu‘uEu’ALa SEE WM RIGHT Now/ ! I WE AINT LEARNED YET HOW HE'S || RIGHT, ) YoU? WE ALL It was Buster Bear who had dis- | FOLKS - | HEARD THE SCOUNDREL SAY (T- - : PLANNIN - THATS L CAN AJ'J' \E, AND. covered the den of Mother Bear, with | AND HE'G FLUSH WITH THEIR DIRTY MONEY| S { THE MPORTANT 3 WE WiLL/ the cubs staring at him from the | entrance. Now, and I am sorry to say it, the sight of those cubs aroused in Buster Bear a feeling that I am sure you will think quite dreadful It was a feeling of hunger—hunger for a dinner of those cubs. They would be sweet and tender. The fact that they were Bear cubs made no difference to Buster. He felt pre- cisely as he would have felt about “SURE I'LL HELP YOU FIND THE GREEN—IF YOU'LL SHOW ME THE |the fawns of Ligntfoot the Deer—| FAIRWAY.” that they would be excellent eating He wanted those cubs. He wanted them very much indeed -n . of at The cubs suddenly felt a strange The | That Comes Once in a Lifetim By Webster | | eur that grew to terror. The great stranger, the sight of whom had so thrilled them a few minutes ago, now | seemed like a terrible monster. They | didn’t know why they felt this way, WHAT ? THAT VES . i g : AL JusT ? GREAT NEWS,AL! AND THAT'S NOT ALLY S S el sl [ SNOTHERIONE \'\./—‘HE\(L-E?\'HAV:.AI:A\TQQ- MR. MUGG Ju's-r"c'ku_en HE AN S e o e CHARGING OF THOSE CASES Tl o ; : AND SAID HE IS COME BACK. TO WORK tteat master) it 1 mieesiteent | || 25 ONE HON- WNEEIE T S e i | GOING TO _PAY TH' ON MONDAY AND cited Buster, but in his excitement DRED DO =s\ CURE IS worse, § WONDERFUL "L » Y “ToTor v WS he didn't forget the training of long APIECE -rou'A THAN TH' HARDLY KNOW WHAT e 2 A NN experience. He didnt blindly rush | TREAT (1S 4 i AGAIN! into that den. He wrinkled his nose For T P i as he got the strong Bear smell, the | Al strong scent of Mother Bear. That OMPSIe den was filled with it. So Buster| didn't rush in. He craftily looked all « about. He even sat up on b the better to look about €195 The A P AT Rights Remned 7-240 passed his way. He listened for tell- | tale sounds that might warn of M. Bear's approach. The way seemed clear. Buster slowly dropped down on all fours. His | eyes glowed. His mouth watered. He | looked fierce and dangerous. He took a step forward. He took another. He stopped abruptly, turned his head to| listen & moment, then started to sneak | away. Such a change as had come | over him! He no longer looked bold | and terrible, fierce and savage. It was a pity the cubs were not there to see. He looked anxious. He looked afraid. He looked as if he wished - ¢ / he were anywhere but where he was BAGHEERA WOULD LIE ouT AR ¥/ 74| |That is just what he did wish. Yes, 24 \ ‘A |sir. that s just what he did wish. DY BRehctliaND Cac toas He was in a hurry, was Buster Bear AtoNCLITIEC DROTAck alio There was no doubt about that. He aTEIE ST I ie IRV IoULD CLNG was in a hurry, and he was trying LIKE THE SLOTH,BLT AFTERWARDS to get away unseen and unheard. But HE WOULD FLING HIMSELF he was too late. There was a cough- THROUGH THE BRANCHES Almo Yaiih | ing snarl and growl, mingled, from 3 2 AS BOLOLY AS THE GRAY APE, J $ back of him, and there was Mother £ o~z IM;‘I: vu_z-g;::) $ & 4 |Bear. Her small eyes fairly blazed i with rage. Her lips were drawn back so that all her teeth showed, and she wore the ugliest look you can imagime.| REG’LAR FELLERS. > COF [ YR 'S L E D There was no sign of fear about her -By GENE BYRNES E - O U T She wasn't afraid, She crashed| [ R e s : : Pl I'LL.RUN UP AND GET DONT WORRY, POPPA ! WELL 1S THIS THE FOIST TIME YO through the brush after Buster Bear. | THE ‘AFTE 4 5, \ ) ’ 1 i : . You P GhARIE: oo Buster Bear didn’t wait for | 1y ‘HoMe? Mom wiLL BE - i { FEET SUNBOINED, POPPA T the contrary, Buster ran e| B | 2 US/ == never once thought of stopping to| — fight. The last thing in the world he | VESTAL el ! wanted was a fight with Mother Bear, | B especially when she was in such a| S R TR B T e R A R towering rage as now AMOURS ' S So buster took to his heels, and | he does that and really tries to | VOURE A TERRIBLE PERSON | 1 DONT BLAME MAX K WANTING TO KILL |\ MLST BE Low IN & WANT TO BRAWL ON THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY. — - azing how fast he can SABLES el T vel n't seem possible that such & great clumsy fellow can move — — - so fast. Coughing, snarling, growling VESPER SO and they are noble- Mother Bear followed him for a litile way. Then with many ugly threats B e ————— she paused to watch Buster go crash- ELATES G DA Rdesorhee; ing out of sight. “He won't come around here again = in & hurry, I guess,” she muttered, and ay Cid Gulli > SO SO Maybe Old Kid Gulliver Got on those cubs disobeyed and gone out- e T e / R = TRE side? Was that the reason Buster N Reigredicee s (GO oM, BEAT T - e e Bear had been just about to enter i AFRAID To ASK PAPA! || wE LOVE EACH = | BoTHER ME - ASK HER 5 , #| | MioET? DoNT FaL To that den? She sniffed about outside, (| HES VERY EASY! OTHER AND WED [ ) ! 5 = S bt e but there was no smell of cubs. Then /| 1T's MY GRANDPAPA To GET = she entered, and found them shivering v WHO HAS A TERRIBLE o with fright in the darkest corner. And > : : 5T > were they glad to see Mother Bear? | B ' /¢ TRIBES | S I Sl o A ialined) I'll say they were. And Mother Bear g & TIBER was just as glad to see them, alive = " and unharmed, but she didn't show it Leiter-Out and a rider must SIERRA ' l I on T ouit | Goes. Thi : Remove one letter from each word and rearrange to spell the word called for in the last column. Print the letter in center column opposite the word you have removed it from. If you have “Lettered-Out” correctly your word means bland Answer to Yesterday'’s LETTER-OUT. when bis does this Now, the queer thing about this is REARS that those cubs Buster Bear had so ~NT t ¥ hoped to get for his dinner were his pud Letter- d rov AGENDAS ‘ N ' e proverhs own. Yes, sir, they were his cubs, as ADAGES well as Mother Bear's. Buster was i et O T T— their father, but didn't know it GAMBLE , G | LedarOE e [ isene Neither did they BLAME «Copyrisht, 1937.) he does this, TRAINS Twizzler Answer. The numbers are 2, 3 and 8. Their (Copyright, 183%) product equals three times their sum. NASTIER | | | b g demn P i