The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1919, Page 13

*, You musy HAVE CUT THE | WHY Don"r You HAM IN THIS SANDWICH ORDER TWO IF ° WITH A RAZOR BiADEs | You'Rt So HUNGRY ! ‘ v AUTTLE SUGAR WouLD * 4 IF ITS SUGAR Ihe . Nes, Bur There's DONT HoLeR PeFoRe have one - if IT's ) NEVER. Hun You DUST OR SOMETHAIG | YOURE STUNG - THT AMT COAL \'LL TAKE TWO ON THAT Pie! To BUY THE PLACE? } | How MANY LUMPS 00 You war Wry TTT ~U« CH n Find No Traps BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) TERRY MUSKRAT was purzled. | Ho tried to turn his back on them Tre was very much puziled | ene 60 away, but he eoulea’e He Frban he Glscovered that the strans-| Yor” Very cautiously. crept. up on fr had left pieces of carrot and apple | that jog until he could reach o: At some of Jerry's favorite eating paw and knock a plece of car Places, he guessed at once that alrot off, Nothing happened. Jerry frap had been set in each one of| jumped down and ate that plece of Shose places. So, for a whole day he | carrot with relish, Then he climbed kept away from them. Then | pack and did the same thing to Suriosity had been too much for him.| other piece of carrot. Finally Mo just had to go over to seo If/ had eaten the last piece of carrot those delicious tidbits were still) ang nothing had happened. mo. | Then Jerry visited in turn the The first place he visited was an | other places where the stranger had Old log partly under water, On the ieft good things to eat. At cach part above water were several pieces | piace temptation preved too much Of carrot, Jerry swam along both for him, and he ventured to take sides of that log and made sure that those good things. He ate until his jstomach waa full, and then he car; {ried what waa left over to his house | At none of those places could he find | the least sign of @ trap | The stranger came the next day }and left more good things, and that | Th Now, WELL night Jerry had another feast | following da > ie stranger did not Go DOWNSTAIRS ne, but the day after he did. Ax AND OPEN OUR XMAS PRESENTS AND & CHEAP 1 DION'T “OO WELL’ AT ALL|] wELL- 1 Book FRom THIS YEAR 1 GAVE MORE |] ONLY GOT A LIZ2IE- GooD THAN 1 Got - NECKTIE HEAVENS !! \ Do IT every |= FROM ONG T/L | GAVE HER / as Kaila he armyae WHOM 1 Gove A SEAL: SKIN COAT HERE'S ONE PROM AUNT JULIE - HM'm- A MEASLY LIU’ HANDKERCHIEF - AN’ 1 SENT HER A SILVER SALAD SPOON fore, he left @ things to eat |and, as before, Jerry got them to the | last scrap, | But all the time Jerry was puzzled. | He couldn't understand why that | stranger was bringing him all those | good thingy to eat. At the same |Ume, Jerry was growing carelons, He |no longer used his eyes and no#e fo carefully when he approached the places where those good things were left. In fact, sometimes he It seomed to Jerry that he simply | was in such a hurry to get them Must have those pieces of carrot, that he didn’t look at all, but just |scrambied up where the good things there was no trap under water. Then| were. You see, not once had he he crawled up on the bank beside | found a single thing wrong. He was that log and looked carefully for) beginning to doubt that the stranger wens of atrap, He could find none.|was a trapper at all, In fact, he ‘There certainty was no trap where | was beginning to look on the strang those pleces of carrot lay in plain|er as a very good friend, indeed, Bight on that log | o It seemed to Jerry that he simply) Next story: Jerry's Fears Are Must have those pleces of carrot.' Ended. ADVENTURES OF OTHE TWINS ive Roberts Barton WHOA! Now You LITTLE SCAMD, 1 6¢r You Scarecrow was getting terriblyjin the shelter of the woods, for Mired. He had watched the young | Scarecrow carried a gun, at least it ugreen blades of corm push up from yellow ground as tho an army warriors was about to break thru, ¥the tips of their bayonets coming first. Then later he watched the tall stalke waving their leaves this (way and that in the wind, like young graceful maidens courtesying In a dance. Then last of all came the fattesing ears with their hidden treasures of gold He had to look up now when he) Wanted to see the sky, for the/ brown silk tops of the corn had long, mince passed him in heigh 4d he} hhad the feeling of being in a dense| forest. The crows were no longtr looked enough like one not to take a chance. And when the wind blew his coat tails would flop ominously which sent the crows scurrying fur ther into leafy recesses, All that time the young grains Former Smith had’ planted had a chance to swell and fprout and get a good start for the summer, for it was a very brave crow that would dare venture out! in the field. But after while, when nothing curred, they lost their fear and ap-| proached quite boidiy. Particularly | when the ears had formed and the) grains were theirs for the seeking. | Indeed they quite forgot all about! @fraid of him. They had kept out) Scarecrow’s gun and they would fly | KEEPING UP WITH THE JONSES The Doc Was Riaht. ONE OF THE NICES XMAS PRESENTS I GOT WAS THIS Sue CF APPLE Jack FRotmt CLIFF StuTH! HERES HOW FOLKS! OH DOCTOR I THINK A MULE MUST HANE KICKED Hitt! He had watched the young green biades of corn push up from the yellow ground. 2 even sit on the silent sentinel and Between partners— perch on his gun, too. “Ha, ba,” they eried, “you can't %t was late in the morning when (fool us, now.” It was very mort: | oo oe. tying. Aiking the floors again, Dick? And this was the condition of af Dick glowered. After he biew hie faire when Nancy and Nick pushed and then sneesed, | they the cornfield thinking wi +f 'don't see | might run across thelr | ‘ter othe y vi ne. This confound ther and | * Beet aratty ventiiator ntogve | Chairman Hays to person a | Co aR en! | me in January ble is you Hever think abou | Wil Hf. Hays, chairman of the re ick and then you ean | Publican national committee, will Tee ne etter ent had the oe; | tour all Pacific coast states within ings of a cold,” Bill went on. “T | the next three months to outline the id my head bey issues that will be presented to the people at the next presidential cam sk. | paign. He im expected in Seattle or 7 | next month. All republican organ) cana. coi, Lig ’ | mations will unite in tendering him a bly were no worse off than I was, bur | banquet. ou Bure do look a wreck this A. M. ie REE AREY Oa “Who put you wise 2 | : m Dice asked, | POET WILL RE-MARRY “Our doct replied. "Yor ave they increase a person's resistance: | TQ ESCAPE LAW SCRAP na you fight of a cold natural They won't make you feel dull oF) CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—Robert Bow moves. Ans there is Be com |man Peck, wealthy poet, announces that r-|t * ft * RA |that he fs willing to marry Mrs Florence Reid Peck all over again if os |she will drop her suit for separate tor twenty-Ave cents. | maintenance. Peck says their first tbe you get Weeks’ though, | marriage was fllegal. They have they af absolutely the beat. ieee ahaien , rt GET RID OF THE REDS ed weal js enous! wold.” aria : —By AHERN NOPE -ON SECOND THOUGHT TD BETTER PLAY GARE pal! 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