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ar. OK By Ma Seallle & : bel Cleland _x Page S84 A BEAR STORY Suppose you Story Book Chil: dren knew that the pioneers of the State had a meeting not long ago? Men and women with white, white hair were there; men and Women with bent shoulders and | lined faces, who seemed old until you looked into their eyes, and there you saw the pioneer spirit looking thru and laughing at you for thinking of them as old. Grandmother was there, and Uke all the rest she «net olt friends and don't-you-remember: ed, and wished the day could be a Whole week long. After luncheon she met a friend from Highland county, and asked her about a bear story which she wanted to get straight so she could tell it to David and Peery. | You see, the daughter of Grand mother’s friend had killed a bear, when she was only a little girl. Tbut Grandmother wasn't quite sure how she did it. “Why, Libby's here,” the friend sald. “I'll find her and she will tell you all about it herself. She'll be glad to have David and Peggy get the straight of it—it's been told told wrong so many times.” And this is Libby's story— “The summer I was 13 or 14 we had lots of fruit. It was a good year and the apples were fine. “The only trouble was that a Dear kept coming into the orchard and stealing them. “He seemed to be a big fellow, for his tracks showed it. And you coukl see something of his size by ‘the deep scratches on the trees he would climb. |pretty tired of it, and the a men said they would go out and | shoot him, “Well, they went out, all right, but they didn’t shoot the bear “Two of them would lie out in the grass in the orchard and. wait; then when the bear came, of course, he was too amart to go into the place where he got the scent of the human beings. | “Well, I listened to all they aaid and I noticed that one night they would hear the bear coming, and the next night they woul “‘Un-huh! I said to myself, ‘Mr Bear comes only every other night he came, sure of that I made my speech. shoot a bear 1 the men Inughed, and Father oot the bear, you've wanted rifte’s mine! I laughed back... 1 was perfectly sure my plan would’ work. “TL mot Fath his rifia (lw od shot, and f rf brother, Bl- | 1 sald, Wf you see him you nudes me and sheet, and if I | eee him, I will nudge you ama shoot— (Teo Be Continued) RERRRE ADVEN OF one te TURES TWINS Barton. RENT DAY ‘Hello,” called Tingaling, ‘ ready?” te Chirk Chipmunk’s house ‘Nancy and Nick and Tinga- the fairy landlord, to collect rent, it being the thirty-second the month. Chirk lived old house which d much like a pile of rocks, in Land-of-Dear-Knows-Where, but spent much of the time on the When the visitors arrived, sat, grinning new ones not being ready yet. “Hello,” called Tingaling, “it's Fent day, Chirk. Got the money ua instead of reaching tnto his Pocket, Chirk only grinned more than ever. “Did you get my letter, Mr. Tinga. Bing.” he asked, “about the roof Needing fixing, and the stairs, and the doors, and ceilings, and the—" “Yes, yes,” Tingaling interrupted. “But I can’t get them fixed until) you give me the rent, can I?” Baby Possum Changes His Mind EDDY FOX sat at the foot of they black,birch tree in a hollow of which Baby Possum was hiding. ) Reddy scratched his head and tried to think what could have made Baby Possum suddenly lose his appetite. Reddy had tried to tempt Baby Pos- to go with him for some nice fresh ps, and Baby Possum actually bad ed down the tree. Then, like a h, he had suddenly changed his mind and had gonb back. What Red @y Fox did not know was that Bab: m bad seen a funny little fel- Jow with long ears stick his head out from behind a big pine tree and shake it, and then had decided that fo it was best npt to come down. 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Got the “You said that last time,” Chirk reminded him. “I know I did.” Tingaling, “but since t rent day) the carpenters, and fers, and) plasterers have doubled their own | wages and I didn't have enough to) | pay them. Come, now, I have a lot | | of collectin, do, and I can't stand | j here talk | So Tingaling and the twins (« the Magical Mushroom also) walked | |in, while Chirk slid nimbly thru the | | skylight. What Chirk had sald fn the letter was quite true an Tingaling couldn't help noticing. The doors were hang. ing on their hinges as crooked as ears on an elephant, the paper was flopping from the damp walls, like sails on a rickety ship, and the ceil. ing was in @ most shocking condi- tion. (Copyright, 1920, N. BE. A.) “Buch @ little fellow aa Baby Pos- |sum hasn't got much sense, He must | be getting lonesome by this time, so Il! just try another plan,” thought | Reddy Fox, so in his gentlest, soft: | est voice, he e@alled: “Baby Possum! Baby Possum! There was no answer, so after a) | tet minutes Reddy Fox tried |"Baby Possum! Baby Possum } “Ah’ve changed mah mind,” said Baby Possum, have a message for you,” he called, Baby Possum heard and poked his sharp little face out of the safe, snug | little hollow in which he was hiding. | Right down underneath him was the | me fine gentleman in red who had invited him to go for some eggs. As soon a» Reddy Fox saw Baby Pos |sum, he began to talk in his softest, pleasantest voice. “Baby Possum,” said he, “your mother sent me to find you and bring | you home, She is over in the big hollow tree, erying her eyes out for her lost baby, and all your brothers TNY SrATYLE prAT Tom, | wisn You WOULD RepRIManD DANNY = he's GETTING Tho Bic FOR, Me TO Wane - He's DREN A VERY DisopenieNT Boy Alt f An Off Day. Wim hike THAT! Tax to Wim! HELLO, SweéTHEART - On, | HEARD A Gooo ONG TODAY- WHAT IS A MYpocRITE ? KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES— WONDER WHAT THAT Guy's ASIN FoR OVER THERE? I HAVENT SEEN Him CATCH ANY THING IN @N HOUR! sum, Now, all the time he did care, and he was beginning to wish himself safely back in the dear old hollow tree, Reddy Fox pretended that he did not hear and kept right on talk- ing. “And your father, dear old Unc’ Billy Possum, is so worried that he ig almost crazy,” continued Reddy Fox. “He has tramped thru the Green Forest looking for you until he is almost too tired to move.” “Ah don’t care! said Baby Pos sum. All the time he did care, and right down in his throat there was a lump that grew and grew and grew as he listened to Reddy Fax, EP r i ILEPSY STOPPED fsr-: 50 Yeaso ~ feet aad Srerd it at any drecstore Cali Veteran Sutered 16 ‘at wd Veteran's Home, Calif, April Mth, 1917. Sey agua ag, korg nego 400 and 500 Bis in @ year. and sisters are crying, too.” “Ab don't care," said Baby Pos- lemeeDR. BH KLINE C8., pic Bies.A 3 oom how Don You BTRMKE HIM AGAIN. “TOM,Yov COLD WAVE SCOLDED WA, You DION have ‘To BEAT Him UP LikG THAT~ The VERN JUST DIO A LOT OF HOLLeRING |$ ALL ~ IT Seems To Me You Are WAVING A Lor OF UNHECES GARY TROUBLE WITH THAT Youws STER AwvPoceite Is & MARRIED MAN WHO COMES HOME WITH & SMILE ON HIS Face - He - HE -HE-HE His First “Vacation” in Nine Years. JES THINK THISTLE WINATRE NGONNA po On YOUR VACATION 2 » BOATING, BE “THE FIRST VACATION )\_ BATHING, CAMPING, OR a TVe HAD IN MINE NEARS | “Tans ATRIP Z “If you'll come down right away T'll take you home on my back apd give you the finest ride you've ever had,” went on Reddy Fox In his pleasantest voice, “You can play I'm your horse, and we'll ride hore in no tume.” “Will you take me right straight home?" asked Baby Possum. “Just as straight as I know how,” replied Reddy Fox, “And:-run as fast fa the wind?” asked Baby Possum, his eyes begin- ning to «parkle, “Just as fast ag the wind,” eaid Reddy, hiding a grin behind a hand. Baby Possum thought it over. It certainly would be fun to ride home on mich @ fine horse as this gen- tleman in red, “Ah'll come,” said Baby Possum, beginning to climb down the tree. Just then he looked over to the foot of the big pine, where once before he had seen the funny little fellow with long ears, There he was again, shaking his head harder than ever. Baby Possum stopped and looked down, Reddy Fox was smiling up at him, and Baby Possum saw all of Reddy's long, white teeth. “Ah've changed mah mind,” said Baby Possum, scrambling back to his | eafe, snug little hollow. Next story: Reddy Fox Tries to Scare Baby Possum EVERETT.—Knights of Columbus | raise $151,332 in drive for war me- morial building. BELLINGHAM.-Sa m uel Suter, C bia hotel, dead, ne some of Boldt's Lunch Pastry and Hard Roll: Seattle’s Leading Dentist I am now devoting my entire time to my dental practice. I make all examinations and diagnose each case as well as do all extract: . ing between the hourr of 9 a. m. and 6 p. m My offices have beer established for morr than a quarter of a century, and under my personal management 190i, I do not compete transient, advertising Ger ; My prices are the lowest, con- sistent with first-class work. EDWIN J. BROWN, D. 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