The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1920, Page 13

eh Fes 2 bb dbbbidee 114 PEt ft PEiSheny UONPESS? of S58e SS i it FE | comfortably and began to tell stories ‘VID and Peexy were tense with excitement. Guy Bates Post, the wanderful actor-person about whom everybody was talk- ing, was going to give them an in terview. They were guests on his own) Private car, and when he came! back from his luncheon with Daddy, he was going to talk to them because they were Daddy's! children, and Mr. Post and Daddy | had played together when they were boys. At last he came tn, and almost | @t once he began to tell them @bout the things he used to do and sea | Daddy and Motherdear were busy talking to Mrs. Post, and David sidied up to Mr. Post and whispered: “I suppose you never saw @ massacre or anything in| the early days, did yout Mr | said: “No, my young man,| TT tell you what I did sea, TU never forget it as long as Uve; Ieawatynching! Yea, right | in Seattle Saw it when I about 6 years old. “For weeks I had heard th Grown folks talk about the ‘mur Ger! I didn’t just know what a Murder might be, but I gathered from their manner and tones in Speaking of it that it must be | Something rather awful | “I felt cheated that tho this one eceurred in the street not & block and a half our house (it must ait E I ahould miss something else satisfaction when I of that gathering | was seething and tee struggling down on Yesler way. “I left my perch om the gate when I saw the crowd, and run- ning aa fast as my short loge would carry me, I reached the center of activities without any trouble, “I was eo Iittle that I could dodge between people and so get | a place in the front row, “Men were fixing a plank, one end in the crotch of one maple tree, the other end in the crotch of another, “What for, I didn’t knowt “Other men brought strong ropes—-one-two three—and = these were strung acroas that plank. I watehed the faces of the men about me, expressions which made demons of them all, changed men 1 knew to strangers “Lheard the low mutter and grow! of the mob, I heard men may, ‘Serves ‘om right, too, mur dering & man in cold blood; they ought to be lynched.’ “ ‘How did they get the China men? another asked ‘Broke tn the jail and took ‘em,’ answered the first. ‘Abeeehb—there they come Jad!" exctatmed Mr, Post. “These faces, bow they stuck tm my mem- “Trem, David, 1 stood oti) ae 0 stone and watched It all. They hung thoae Chinese murderers right there tm the strect, because the law was too alow. “Dut walt, waft; that t met the trance of gasing. by the familiar | rolce of oxy Mt “1 went home, an¢—ey Mother paddled me every step of the way up the Blk, “And that cured me ef going to chinga And I've never seen an- other. » ee ADVENTURES | F THE TWIN Barton |. They spied a small gray figure talking to himself and scold- ing for dear life. ‘TWINS were puzzied to know where all of the noiges were coming from. They could hear the chattering and quarreling, | : 3 & > 2 * & - s 4 nothing of Mr. Frog nor nor any of the others. was again! Mr. Frog someone! “You're jumb” he sccused. denied tt as before, | I'm not at allt! “Give him fitefite RU Heb But something occurred! Nick happened to behind the door, and there was Mr. Frog peacefully asleep. He had no more idea of quarreling than I have this minute, and I'm feeling pretty friendly, tn- deed. But there was his voice still making fun of some ona Mys terious, wasn't it? Then Rubadub, the fatryman, beckoned quietly for the children to follow him, #0 all three tiptoed softly to a tall bush outside. Peep- ing up thru the leaves they spied a small gray figure talking to him. self and scolding for dear life, with six volees, Mr. Frog’s, Mra. Hen’s. and all the others. Rubadub reached up and grabbed —whom do you suppose? Casper Catbird, no other. “You're smart because you're Mr Mocking Bird's cousin and can mock any one you wish,” Imughed Ruba- @ub, “What shall I do with your “Give him two baths,” said the Magical Mushroom. And they did. A.) , Prickly Porky Makes Himself at Home p= RABBITS party promised to be a great success. Sammy| by shouting that Bowser the Hound | wae coming when he wasn’t coming at all But old Mr. Toad, who bad| overheard Sammy Jay's plan, had told Peter Rabbit all about it, and) Peter bad told all the other tittle| meadow folks and forest people, so that when Sammy gave the false everybody just laughed. forest and meadpw people, and how Prickly Porky sitting with his back 6 opening in the hollow one had thought this the rer, for, of course, they all Reddy Fox and Shadow! 1 could not get out past the spears hidden tn the ly Porky. Prickly Porky settled himself very about his hore way up in the north woods. Every few minutes he would the thousand little @pears in| ‘ ‘coat, and, tho no offe could neo } Fox and Shadow the Weasel [naide the hollow lox, every one could just bow little shivers were % up and down the backbones two little scamps held prison there. y Porky told how in the cold, winter the snow” plied up and up in his far northern home, emearly all the forest folk who had to make a long into the south, or else went hollows in the trees rocks and slept the thru, just as Johnny told how the Indi- ro the forest on from sinking into snow, and hunted for Lightfoot the Deer, and how they ways treated him with the greatest respect. He told so many, many in- teresting things about the great! north woods that all the little meadow people and forest folk gath praia Prickly Porky settled him- self very comfortably and be- gan telling stories about his home way gp in the north woods, ered close around to listen. Every few minutes while he was talking he would shake his thousand little spears, and then every one would smile, Inside the hollow log, Reddy Fox was getting stiff and sore, becaune, you know, he didn't have room enough to even turn over, Worse still, he wae so hungry that he could ery. You see, be had crept in there very early in the morning, without any preakfast, because he had planned that when Sammy Jay should break up Peter Rabbit's Ler’s wax A ime FASTER: | WANT TO WELL, IF You WANT MED MAE A Ue FoR You, Youve GOT YD CET 4 COUPLr Varos> oF sre | . THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 1 1® THAT SOP You PuwT “Test Me - wR Yau nevesly Cumseo HERE COMES ED. SPIFFINS, TH PooR Guy SURE HAS |] ABOUT tty HAD HARD Luck! or Ve se. A Or - YES,| REMeMPER WER 13 THAT 50, DWORCED 7 + «<* mor _ NEIGHBOR HOOD NUSTVE BEEN he wanted. Now, he oould smell them and hear the othets talking about the feast they were ging to have, and he knew that not so much ag a tiny, tiny crumb would be left for him when Prickly Porky should choose to let him out. Shadow the Weasel felt just @s un comfortable as Reddy Fox, and Shadow is Very short tempered. Every time Reddy moved and squeezed Shadow, Shadow would snap at him. Now, of course, they could hear everything that was said outside, and the things that were said wore not pleasant to listen to. Bobby Coon and Billy Mink and Johnny Chuck and Little Joe Otter and Jimmy Skunk ‘old about all the mean things and all the sharp tricks that Reddy Fox and Shadow had done, It made the two little prison- ors #0 angry that they ground their teeth, but every time they made the least ttle movement, Prickly Porky would shake his thousand little spears and settle himself, still more firmly against the opening in the hollow log, He certainly waa enjoy ing himself. 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