The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 21, 1920, Page 11

ar ealile ory frook. * » * SH By abel.C leland— Page 108 STOLEN CHERRIES ‘The next afternoon grandmother | but the door was locked and I had @ guest who was laughing | had no key, with them over the balky mula “What next? Round and round Peggy said, “I think it's nice | the building I ran, trying to get when grown-up ladies laugh and |in. At last I found a basement fet funny like children.” | window I could open and in I ‘The guest smiled. “Yea, Pemry, | climbed before I had time to think and it tsn't ont wrup ladies |that.I was swiping from the Tie tine nf pats iyi “ag church, and had broken in like a - fe good times like chil-| common robber. aren; & is grown-up men, too. “I suppose most folks remem- “At the time of the big fire I ber the fire as only a terrible Was living close by the Methodist ‘ins, bat I was so busy getting ane % : the coffee ready, dealing out the lurch (no, not the one you know, | wine of that, and drinks of water the old one way down town). to the men that I felt as if I had I was close enough to the fire given an unusual kind of party. to be within easy reach of the| “It didn’t take them long to firemen (every man was @ fire-/find out about it, either; I didn’t ™an that night) and I thought! have to send out engraved invk ‘Now pretty soon when they get tations, They came to using all that water for the) “And when they came. they fire there won't be any more to| were all like little boys to me; @rink, and the men will get tired they laughed and joked and and need coffee to drink. What teased but wasted little time in a | Here Tom, Ve GoT AM 10m, we'll Ne Tus MikeRoner Anouno Your Lee AUD I’ht- ‘Taka You YP TO Tha CLU6 House AND GAY You've GOT A Suara cere! WHIEKEY \oer Quick t we \oeal 3A Goop our. Peter Keeps the Cop in the Dark. YOuR LIGHTS ' $ i AIN‘T LIT = LIGHT ‘EM UP SO! CAN f SEE Your UCENSE NUMBER LIGHT YOuR UGHTS - | CAN'T SEE To WRITE AND | CAN'T SEE YOuR NUMBER PiaiSé, Rasisaste brea eS your child is having the best and shall I do? “I didn’t wonder long. “First I ran into the bathroom, Serubbed the tub as clean as I could, and filled it with water. “Then I filled all my pitchers and kettles. “But I hadn't any pot Dig enough to make coffee for a hun- dred men, and I thought fully * that many would need it before morning. “I had three big washtubs, but these were on the back porch filled with cherries, which I ex- pected to can the next day.. “Suddenly I remembered the dig coffee pot in the basement of the church. “That's it," I thought joyfully, getting back to the fire fighting.” “And @id you put up the cherries the next day or were you too tired laugh at | “Phe Pt, wae the morning paper then ae ft le mow, and they did a re markable thing. When thetr bullding burned they moved thelr presses to mpty barn, set up their plant in mopty house, and got out their ring paper on time, And that's happened to my the paper boys came down t [partly burned up and * And they wore selling their paper time. So they rushed on those tubs jot cherries Ik swarm of bees. | “They saved the trouble of can- ning them. “Put théy were kind enough to leave me the tuba” Ratene ADVENTURES OF OTHE TWINS ive Roberts Barton ‘Will Woodpecker jumped when he heard the crackling underneath him, Mra. Woodpecker, you remember, Thad left him sitting on the exes While she went out shopping. Tingaling and Nick ‘and Nancy Jumped, too, at the pop, pop, pop- Ping sounds, and, of course, all con- Versation about rent and money Geased at once. | Im a moment or two came other Sounds. This time it was “Peep, jand I don’t know what to feed them. | Dear, dear, I do wish their ma would hurry back.” “Their maf and the twins. ma? | Then Wil had to confess that he jhad fibbed and that Mra. Wood:| pecker was out shopping—probably | buying fineryewhen she should be |at home with her children. Also that she had taken the rent money along But Just then Mrs. Woodpecker re- |turned. She pushed past everybody | and flew right over the nest. “You darlings!” she cried, hugging the babies in turn. She was so happy | she f everybody right rin" | exclaimed Tingaling “Aren't you thelr and was happler than Will. Her basket? Ob, yea you want to know of coursa Nighties for the kiddies and some little fat grubs to | feed them. And, besides, there was enough money ‘left to pay tie rent, all except three centa which Ting: | aling said Will could make up* in carpenter work. (Copyrigit, 1920, N. BR A) Why Flitter the Bat Can Fly © eaged Merry Little Breezes of Old used to hunt for them under sticks | Mi jother West Wind did not let | Grandfather Frog forget that he had | Promised them a story. One after- and stones. Sometimes he had hard work to find enough for a meal be cause, you known, so many other LOOK UNK! 1 FETCHED Moon, when they had grown tired of |Green Forest people were hunting, romping on the Green Meadows, they @anced over the Smijing Pool and| for them, too, “Now, old Mr. Bat's eyes were very @ettied around the big"green lily pad | small; very, very small, indeed, They | on which Grandfather Frog was doz- ing. All together they shouted “We know you're old: | We know you're wise; And what you say ‘We dearly prize Bo tell « ta Of olden days And then, mayhap, ‘We'll go our ways” “Chugarum! What shall it be about?” demanded Grandfather Frog. “Tell us why Flitter the Bat can fly, when none of the other animals ean,” cried one of the Merry Little map | Grandfather Frog cleared his throat several times and then he be- | gan. This is the story he told: | “Once upon a time, when the world was young, old Mr. Bat, the many | Qimes greaterandfather of Fitter, | you all know, lived in a cave on the edge of the Green Forest. Old Mr. Bat was little, quite as little | Fitter 's now. He didn’t have wings then, No, sir; old Mr. | Bat had no wings. “Now, old Mr. Bat's teeth were! gmail and not made for cracking hard seeds and things of that sort, #0 he lived mostly on insects. . He MOTHER! “California Syrup of Figs” Child’s Best Laxative “Accept “California” Syrup of Figs fonly—look for the name California om the package, then you are sure | most harmless physic for the litte _ gtomach, liver and bowel Children “Move its fruity taste. Full directions en each bottle, You must say “Call: were so tiny that the bright sun hurt them, So old Mr. Bat uned to stay in his cave all day and hunt for his meals only after jolly Mr. Sun had done down behind the Purple Hills. When he did come out most of the crawling bugs had gone to bed, and it was hard work finding them, so joften Mr. Bat went hungry. “One night old Mr. Bat noticed that at twilight a great many bugs fly about. He sat on a big stone at the mouth of his cave and watched. It Old Mr. Bat Found That He Could Fly. seemed to him that the alr’ was full of bugs. By and by a big, fat fellow came so near that old Mr. Bat forgot where he was and jumped for him— Jumped right off the top of the big stone! Of course, he got a hard tum: ble, but he didn’t mind ft a bit, for he had caught the bug. After that old Mr. Bat used to spend most of the time he was awake hunting for bugs, “One night he made a very long Jump from a very high stone and got such @ fall that all the breath was knocked out of his funny little body. When he had got his breath back he discovered that some one was looking down and smiling at him. It was Old Mother Nature, “‘Pretty hard work to get a din- ner that way, Isn't it, Mr. Bat?’ asked Old Mother Nature “Mr. Bat allowed that it was, “'How would you like to asked Old Mother Neture. “Mr, Bat allowed that that would be very fine indeed, but was quite out of the question because, as you know, he hadn't any wings, “Old Mother Nature said no more, but something seemed to be tickling her greatly as she left Mr, Bat. The next evening when old Mr, Bat awoke he really didn't know whether he was himself or not. His legs were fly? \TS 4 BET BUT Y'GOTTA BRING UP SOMETHIN’ TO PROVE yOu, FETCHED BOTTOM: TR ee ‘THANK You WHEN T SAY May, AN BOY. 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Arms, ammu nition and capable instructors will be provided free of ¢harge and no ob ion for future service or other mae is incurred. | He couldn't run. | |crawi very well, | “At last, after much work, he man- aged to get to the top of a big rock | He was very hungry, and when a big fat bug came along he forgot all about his troubles and tried to jump. But instead of jumping as he always had, he just tumbled off the big rock. As he fell he spread out his legs What do you think happened? Why old Mr, Bat found that he could fly. “And ever since that long ago time the Bats have lived in dark caves and have been able to fly," concluded Grandfether Frog. Columbia Colo—The new American beer—at Boldt's.—Advertisement. Warner’s Safe Remedies A Constant Boon to Invalids Since 1877 Warner’s Safe Diabetes Remedy. Warner’s Safe Rheumatic Remedy. Warner’s Safe Asthma Remedy. 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