The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 3, 1920, Page 13

{VY | RATURDAT, JULY 2, 1099, ‘ar & * By abel on: x Page 93 SULY 4, 1841 Along the shore of Elliott bay the quiet waves lapped and lap- ped. Soft winds sighed thru giant trees which came down to the water's edge. Around Sniith's Cove were Indian huts and te pees. Deer came daintity down the Sraceful heads, listened. Bears rustied the abundant berry vines, which grew thick in the woods, and ate berries un disturbed. Alki point lay a long, gleaming, | silent stretch of sand, scarcely touched by even Indian feet. It was July, 1841, and if the whispering waves could talk they would have had a story to tell that summer morning. For Across the sound at Nisqually there lay at anchor a little squad. Ton of American war vessels. Captain Wilkes, U. S. A, with his one hundred men, sixty mis- Sionaries and settiers and four hundred curious getting ready for the first Fourth of July celebration in the Puget Sound country. Every sailor wore a spotiess white uniform and from the ship they took two brass howitzers to furnish the fireworks For 79 years ago they had the game Fourth of July feeling you have today, only much more real So they marched to a piace that the officers had chosen for the picnic; the band played and everybody was excited just as you are on the Fourth: and they mang “America” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” erre 8 5 88 STS FETA s Mr. Tingaling about Mink’s bad luck, the twins, Masty had got so he had dived into the fish and got caught, when there was & scraping sound way off along the bank,.and who should come into view Phil Frog saw him coming, one loud croak and dived water, meaning no doubt to plans for the summer. if i i i FE where be might be by the July? came Marty, andthe thing him, which proved to be the fish-net Phil Frog had told them ut Hy ‘When Marty got near enough, he saw the “To Let” sign on his front door. “By the Great Horn Spoon’ exclaimed he, “what's all this? Who mays my house is for rent, and where's my family? Mr. Tingaling, I suppose you've put them out be enuse I owe you three months rent, afd then put up this sign. Did you?” ai i, Fe FRASER O2F8B Fe Esa ratan steep slopes and, lifting their Indians were | eerkee ADVENTURES | Cee Hebets Bete t Horn Spoon!” y Mink home again who | Sbattle + + ad (Yes, and when a cannon ex ploded, one marine got too near and had his arm shot terribly, and they had to carry him back to the ship on a stretcher and it | most spoiled the day for every | body) They had a big feast planned Did you ever go to a barbecue? | Well, at this feast celebration they had a barbecue, They took a whole ox and hung him on a sapling over the fire. | They dug @ trench and bullt | their fire in that, while they shot off their cannons and played games the meat was cooking Ummm, but it amelied good! And the better it smelied the mors the Indians wanted som@ They kept gathering and gather ing until, as I sald, there were | 400 of them theré, | Now it's a funny thing, but jsatlors always love horse racing. And these Americans thought they could ride even tho they had never tried it before. t all in their they So up they grand cloth started. | Bang! went the cannon, and ponies, which had been unused to and off ' made cared And that day the named American Lake. Can't you i le felt? Juat 40 Americans, about one Htreet car full, way out here tm the wild and lonely woods, dreaming Duilt along thie Puget i ready to fight te true ‘And here ging the “Sear. | spangied Bam 1 Amertea, im 1920, really Uving in the city they bad dreamed. > ” exclaimed Marty, “What's Phil Frog had just fin-} Of course Tingaling said’ he didn’t, and that, in fact, he and his friends | had just arrived and that Philip Frog was responsible for it, but Marty didn't believe him. “The very idea!” he scolded. “Don't you know that I make my living by fishing and that the ice only melted & few weeks ago, so I could set out my nets?” It was Tingaling’s turn to be sur prised. “But your coat,” he ex claimed. “Everyone says you're rich because you wear such an expensive exclaimed Marty in con tempt. “Much good that does me when it won't come off! I can’t sell it unless I sell myself along with it and I'd rather be poor.” Well, Tingaling was sorry for | Marty, so he told the twins to help him to hunt up his family, while he went to tie a bell onto Phil Frog for |nebbing into other people's business And taking down the “To Let” sign | off Marty's front door, the fairy land }lord told his tenant to send him a | check for his rent whenever he was | good and ready.” { (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) by Possunt's ABY POSSUM didn’t know what to make of it’ Here he waa out in the middle of the Laughing Brook. ig on the queerest craft you tan gine. “Vhen Baby Possum had shopped onto it, ke had thought it | just wasn't floating, swam? Well, that is ——————————— Good digestion is not appreciated until you lose it. Then you cannot afford to, experiment on remedies. Strong medicines are hard on weak To be able to eat what you want and to digest it ie a priceless bless- ing. 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At first Baby Possum was too frightened to notice anything. By and by, when he found that his queer atone. But who ever heard of | craft really kept 00 top of the water, | & stone that floated, or that, when it he began to timidly Ipok around. | How dreadfully far away the shore |looked! “If Ah ever get back there! “I said that you are sitting\ on me,” said the Stranger. | safely once more, Ah cert'nly never, | never will try to cross a brook again,” said Baby Possum to him self. “How do you like your ride?” asked | & volee which seemed to come from | somewhere close at hand, | Baby Possum looked everywhere | up in the air, but he could see no one excepting jolly, round, red Mr. Sun, who was looking down thru the trees and laughing. " “Don't look #0 high for your| friends,” said the same voice, with a| funny little chuckle. Baby Possum looked hard at both banks, but no one was in sight ex- box, or your own druggist can cept Peter Rabbit, and the voice cer- tainly wag not Peter's, - | Colo week from July 34 till 1ith.} Gee,! MoK'r ovcHT ‘To Go OVT IN THS DOINGS OF THE DUFFS— SEATTLE STAR GREAT i knew | WEDLOCKED— | | WAVE Come ovT IM Twese PANTS IF Tar BIRD DON'T Cer Back WERE WITH THOSE. PAMTS PRETTY SOON THERE WOod"T BE ANYBODY HERE. “ro Gwe7em To! cums! SHouon- ' The Way It Felt to Peter. COME ON Look 1% MY HIP POCKET ~ 4 THINK AT WENT RIGHT “THROUGH He Expects Bi sav = SAY t GINCE FIREWORKS AWT ALLOWED, WHAT TH HECK WE'RE GONNA CELEBRATE JULY U™ COMING OFF IN HERE WACK ¢ WITH ALL THAT BACK- FIRING 2 “I say, how do you like your ride?” asked the voice once more. | This time Baby Possum looked down on the water, There, sticking out of the water just in front of his | queer little craft was a funny litte black head®with two little eyes that twinkled good naturedly “Did—did yo'ali speak to me, sah?” asked Baby Possum. “I most certainly did,” replied the | stranger in the water, opening his! mouth very wide in order to laugh | heartily, Baby Possum noticed that) not a tooth was to be seen, and that the stranger's lips were hard “Where—where is the rest of yo" all™ inquired Baby Possum, as he realized that he hadn't seen any bogly or legs or arms, just a head sticking out of the water. 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Baby Possum was so startled that he nearly fell into the water, “What—what did yo’ gasped, Nis little eyes nearly popping out of his head. “I said that you are sitting on me,” said the stranger. “You are on my back this very minute, and if you'll look down in the water on each side you can see my arms and legs move as Lewim.” “Ah thought Ah was sitting on a atone!” gasped Baby Possum. “it yo please, sah, Who might yo'alls be?” The stranger laughed harder than | “I'm Snapper the Turtle,” said “And now I'm going to give you ever. he the greatest ride you have ever had FREE DOCTOR Ex-Government Physician All accute and chronic diseases treated by latest methods. We of- fer this service to any patron of our stores, Also a {tee & nose and throat clinic say? he} wasted annually thru lack of trans and then Ill put you safe on shore.” Ex- portation facilities. | f And Snapper the Turtle did. Reddy Fox Almost | Kaiser Unable to |Must,Be Sad News Give Y.M.C.A. Funds to Edwards et al! 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