The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1920, Page 13

A Natritions Yet Quick’Lanch at Home or Office fAveld imitations and Sabstitates ar —he simply ate it up (the story, not the bear, you know), requests for stories, So she wait ed to mee what they would do David began: long story, Grandmother. you aren't tired from telling it him. “I'm only afraid I've left out part of it, and I wanted to tel! it Just as she i it to me couldn't maybe think of a little More she toki you, coukl you, Grandmother? If you're sure you aren't tired.” Midas sewn” - Gecaduatiore eyes fairly twinkled as she looked to think of it, 1 believe she did tell me of another experience.” dren. “What, a wolf? answered. “Libby was only about story happened. up in Highland county near what is now Fort Casey. “It was’ a pretty wild country 40 years ago, with the same had around here, and besides that the woods were infested with hogs, which had been running wild till they were thin, Jong legged beasts—not at all like the fat, slow pigs you have seen at cattle shows, “What happened?” he asked weakly. Down rushed the twins and Chirk Chipmunk to Chirk'’s cellar, where Tingaling, the fairyman landlord. had fallen when the stairs gave way. - There he lay on the coal pile, too dazed to speak a word, and his bells bent flat. Why he wasn't killed no one will ever know; It may have heen because he was a fairy, and again it may have been because it was soft coal. But dirt! You should have seen him; a chimney sweep was a lily-white daisy beside him, he was so black; and when they finalty got him onto his feet, noone could have told where his bruises left off and where the coal du: began. “Waat happened™ he asked weak ly. “Did the ground fly up and hit me?” e “No,” and hit the ground. mind, it wasn’t hurt any.” Page 87 Peggy wasn't nearly satisfied when she had heard the end of|from the door-yard by the bear story. And as for David Grandmother knew how careful }. mothertear was about not letting the children worry her with their “That waa a nice, I hope “O, no,” Grandmother assured Then Peggy tried: “I ‘spose you into the eager, little faces, “come | way across the bridge and the pig “U-m-mm,” breathed the chil. “No, not a wolf.” Grandmother |the heavy baby up in her little five or six years old when this | Her home was | cougars and bears and wolves we getkane ADVENTURES - Ofte Hebets Betas Seallle | “The barn-yard was separnted a little And across this stream so that it child to stream. was a small bridge, wasn't safe for a mall go to the barn alon 4 “But because she was a brave ttle person, Libby often had the care of her baby brother “This day, that she told me about, the baby wanted to go to his father and so, together, they lerossed the yard and camp to the Stream, Libby waan't looking for |trouble, and had no thought of lany care but to see that little brother got ‘safely across the bridge, when she spied, racing at them across the barnyard, one of those fierce, wild pige—long, bleak snout, little wicked eyes, jstiff, black bristies standing up along his back, great, sharp, yel }low teeth ready to bite and tear anything that came in its way. | “The children were already halt jwas headed straight for it. “Libby says she can remember | yet how she felt. She screamed at |the top of her voice and catching arms, she started to run back across the bridge. “She had a little advantage, jbut before she had gone many [steps she tripped and fell | “Would the hideous animal get | them? “Libby's scream had saved them; their mother reached them | just in time to snatch a child un jder each arm and run to the | house. | “And Uncle Sam, from the |barn-yard, shot the pig and ended him.” (*) = “Did the ground fly Chirk didn't Intend to be mean | ate Just had to have his little joke Weil, they all got Tingaling to bed |(up the back way) and made him com |fortable. He wasn't hurt much, fee! jing something Uke you do when you |skin your knee skating, only he felt | that way all over, and his breath was | pretty well gone. After while, in a little less than half an hour (1 should say about 45 | minutes) Tingaling began to feet bet ter. Nancy wasa pretty good nurse and felt his pulse and looked at his tongue, which improved him a lot “TD just Me still a minute,” he jsaid, “and then I'll have to be go ing.” He didn't mention the rent, | mind yout | All this time the sky outside kept | growing darker and darker, and ali at once it got most dark. Then there was a clap of thunder, and before you could say Jack Robinson's broth | said Chirk, “you flew down| or. or even his ma, down came the But never | rain! | (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) ABY POSSUM sat all hunched up om @ branch of the black birch tree crying because he was lonesome, and afraid. He was afraid just because he was lonesome, and he was afraid, too, that Shadow the Weasel might find him, and Reddy Fox had said that Shadow the Wea sel would gobble him up. The tears ran down the end of Baby’ Possum's sharp little nose and fell one by one in little shiny drops down to the ground. Suddenly Baby Possum remembered something. He Thoroughness ¥, our methods in every transaction, and our cus- tomers are accorded every cour- tesy consistent with sound bus! ness judgment. 4% Pald om Savings Accounts Accounts Bubfect to Check Are Cor. diaily Invited Peoples Savings Bank GRCOND AVE. AND PIKE or. | a » Ceding | for All Ages Baby Possum Has an Idea stopped crying and began to think Every time he had started to climb down the black birch tree when the fine gentleman in red had been sit ting below, Raby Possum had seen a funny little fellow with long ears stick his head out from behind a big it seemed as if he would shake it off Baby Possum didn’t know who the fine gentleman in red was, and he didn’t know who the funny little fel low with long ears was, but some. how he felt that the funny little fel | low with long eare Was @ friend. So/ his hands and his feet and his tail each time when the latter bhd shaken his head, Baby Possum had climbed back to the safe, snug little hollow in the black birch tree. As he thought of all this Baby Pousum looked in the direction in which the fine gentleman in red had gone. He was nowhere to be seen Then Baby Possum looked over to the foot of the big pine tree, but the funny little fellow with long ears was not in sight “Ab wonder,” said Baby Possum!the thick young hemlock twee, pine tree and shake his head until/ Very Carefully Baby Possum| Crept Out Along the Branch.| NESTERDAY, WERE You sickP WEDLOCKED— TL Go Home | WHAT Do You || WELL YoU CAN GWE AND HELP | WANT ME To p0}/ ME YouR SALARY AKNIE TODeY | FiRST, awwie ? || FIRST/AN’ THEN | GOT TW HALE | SPADE TH’ GARDEN | HOLIDAY TAY 4YAFpP \ : Ne NF j { | ® Thats the rarest Hs antigue in this years lad’ and | paid Sc a fortune THE SEATTLE STAR you Spt cheated OTTO AUTO— ’ SAN JASPER. DD YOU PUT GREASE On THE BRAKE BANDS OF “TAT ROADSTER WHEN YOU PULLED Nass GREASE CUPS 2 I TOLD You OWLY TOFILL THE CUPS! Now HOW DYE SUPPOSE HEVLL BE ABLE “To STOP THAT CAR WITH THE: BRAKES GREASED ! i You weren't sick 1 DONT See WHY Hog tnt ee = SUN, DOP TAGALONS CAME FROM UBAVEN, DIDATY Ue? TNS QUEER- HE COMES OUT, TURNS OVER Two SPADES: FUL ANO THEN HE DISAPPEARS —By ALLMAN | Yea, IT WAS RAINIA? ANO | DION’T WANNA Ger my New CAR Au wer! IT WAS Rani VesTeepay! | OUGHT To GET A GooD MESS — THEY'RE Ti’ FINEST Nya, Ne —By BLOSSER- WELL, € DONT’ BLANE- TM ANGELS’ Foo, SLUNGING HIM OUT, £= TMoucHT werd) MAKE (T STOP UP SMOOTHER, OR SuMPIN’ AGOSH, TROPER- WON'T NOU EVER LEARN AXNTHING? WHAT DYE EXPECT To-BE AT “TWAT RATE, WHEN You Grow uP? A > BALL: PLAYER ! ae Se to himself; “ah wonder If that tunny | was walting there for Baby Possum | and waited. | fellow who shook his head at me is| to come down | still behind that tree. He seemed to want me to stay up here and—and perhaps Ab'd better Just then he noticed that a branch Jof the tree in which he was sitting touched a branch of another tree. and that @ branch of this other tree | touched a branch of the big pine behind which the funny little fellow Reddy Fox |meant to have Baby Possum for his | p, Now, You ‘eter Rabbit. dinner. Reddy from where he lay could not see the branch of | Reddy had cloned | his eyes for just a minute, and when to the next tree. he opened them Baby Possum had Leen sitting all hunched up on j with long eara had bee hiding. hy Sdaaaiet had 4b idea. Me would a re h of the black bireh tree, had int he t 4 from | “'#appeared ne the tip ekte ieee. aud then| “He's gone back into his safe, | Pacific Coast into the big pine tree. aps he could surprise the funny jow with long ears and find he shook his head so much by Possum wiped iway his tears pcan to sparkle. |anug little hollow, but pretty soon | he'll grow tired of that and will come| B. C., down,” thought Reddy Fox So he stretched hirggeit out more | competition comfortably, and wait®d Friday, | Very garefully y Possum crept out along the branch leading over | | | into the next tree. He held on with |And sometimes h¢ held his breath | In the same careful way he climbed from the other tree into the big pine. | Then he drew a long breath and looked down, Sure enough, there at the foot of the tree, lying fat on his stomach, was the little fellow with] jlong ears. Somehow Possum didn’t feel lonesom All this time th in red, who, as ot was Reddy Fox, Baby was hiding behind He that black birch tree that led over| Shipping Rates on Lumber | A reduction of $10 per 1,000 feet on Who | tariff rates for lumber and 50 cents offered Next Story: Something Drops on Slashed 4 bale on cotton is announced by the | steamship operating concerns of the Representatives met in Vancouver, and made the The reductions, it 1s said, are due to by repres and waited | tives of foreign shipping concerns. cuts. nta Pike crosses Third Embroidery imported from Swita- erland during March amounted to $2,100,000, $1,860,000 in in March, as against {February and $800,000 19 | Camp Lewis Wireless U.S. ARMY GOODS SALE The following ¢ Jat 904 Third ave. ton: U. 8. 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