The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1920, Page 17

78 0285 BPA AUGUST 6, r920. metar US No, * By Mabel Cleland _» Seattle ” WeLLo There, Me, pure! D UNDERSTAND You ARE CONTEMOLATING A LITTLE VACATION “TRip! wweu, Are ¥ on, * co 122 4 SEABECK STORY ‘When we hear that word to ‘We think of the lodge with its @ining hall; of conferences Hectures and missionaries; of and excursions up Hoods and vacationing that is @p with things to be learned. | fe Aunt Ellen's favorite place she sometimes takes and David with her. And hours from 2 to 5 they love Aunt Ellen slip away with to the little lagoon and sit Soft grass and tell them the Hoods canal country ghe was young. Snuggied down beside Ellen and drew a long, con- breath. you love it here, David?” David called back, “I the sailboats almost the dest At big one that’s just start | the place across the bay? | if there's wind enough | Der go fast? What would | @o, Aunt Ellen, if they got @ut there and there wasn't wind to get them back?” modern boats have a Hit-| line engine for times ped "she replied, “but in the before gasoline, and when Steam engines were very men had lots of trouble sails, and winds, and times the wind would stop just ‘when the boat needed to go. ind Clayson tells a story} early days when the saw- | was the only thing here. sawmills and the huts and) a and cabins of the men} Re ran it and the loggers who = reek | fair wind, and the sails filled and . were partly white men and partly Indian, “A tow white families were there, and their children probably loved this spot as much as you do. And when they watched sailboats it Was @ serious business, for the sloops took the place then of everything we now have to travel in. ‘ “Those old sloops had such fun- RY names—the ones which came up here were the ‘Rushwhacker,’ the ‘Kidder’ and the ‘Biddy.’ “It took them quite a long time to make trips, too, and to try to carry mail and get it there on time was no easy task. “One morning in late August, 52 years ago, the sloop ‘Biddy’ left Port Gamble bound for Sea- beck. There was a full tide and a Wis «S$ BEAUTIFUL HERE LETS STOP AROUND HERE FoR AWHILE, PETER the boat skimmed out over the water like a gull. “For seven or eight miles al was well. The passenger who had Ddoarded the boat in order that he might catch the steamer Colfax, which was leaving Seabeck that afternoon, was feeling pretty gay. “But you know how uncertain weather is. “That gentle wind suditenty stopped, the waves amoothed out, the sloop lay still as a sleeping child. “Tt wae what the saflore called dead calm, but the weather alon he passenger was stor fety, and tho the men with 16-foot oars, they make only about twe miles an hoi and to a man in @ burry that wasn't very fast travel (To Be Continued) rae Ou, GEES WAIL TYRELL Dod ~ On, ff went Mr. Mud Turtle, bumpity bump, the baskets on of him wobbling dreadfully. : Miss Muskrat picked up her to go home after the Wood. Society's picnic, she set again in a hurry. fercy on us" she cried. “My pet's as heavy as lead. It's very be, considering that I emptied it ves : mot an hour ago.” she have been surprised, had she known who’ was it—Tingaling, the fairy who had fallen out of bed| “Righty from Oliver Oriole’s| Just have a look Inside and she. “Perhaps someone a joke on me, putting in| empty plates for me to carry ‘Tingaling heard that, he! the inside of the lid for! and Miss Muskrat couldn't ry it up with a hair-pin. “I'm going to get! it takes till gamed BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | Farmer Brown’s Boy Is Determined (FI BROWN'S BOY had, up his mind. When he} teeth with a click and drew| together into a thin, straight | who knew him knew that Brown's Boy had made up Tingaling shivered. for he knew! that she would. But something saved him. for a cheery voice called out just then. “I see I am just in time to help, ladies. Can't I take your baskets” It was Mr. Mut Turtle on his way home from the creek. | ‘There was a chorus of grateful | sereams from the pienickers, and| they piled their baskets up on his broad, strong back until he looked | like @ station truck. Miss Muskrat didn’t bother any more about the lid on her basket. So it went with the others! Off went Mr, Mud Turtle then, bumpity, bump at every step, the baskets on top of him wobbling dreadfully. But Tingaling stuck on until they passed Maple-Tree Flats, when he managed to let Mins Musk rat's basket roll to the ground. Quick as seat, the fairyman Pushed off the lid and streaked into Munchie's house, before anyone real ized what had happened | (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) ® he 14,64 HOT DAY, @INT IT? Waheay ffl | br ] wat qney have my chickens stolen any more. | No, siree! That fox has got a home somewhere on the Green Meadows or in the Green Forest, and I'm going to find it. Then watch out, Mr. Fox!’ Farmer Brown's Boy whistled for Come sir Dowsl ! AWAY FOR A CouPLE ‘That is just what he had | Bowser the Hound and started for He was cleaning his gun, | the Green Forest, Unc’ Billy Possum he worked be was thinking poked his sharp, little, face out chicken and all the other |from under the henhouse and Reddy Fox had taken.| watched them go. Usually Une’ going to get that fox if it/ Billy is grinning, but now there “ali summer!’ exclaimed Far- wasn't any grin~not the least sign p Brown's Boy. “I ought to have|of one, Instead, Unc’ Billy Possum| the other day when I had a looked worried } him. Next time—well, we'll! “There goes that boy with a gun/| pM. Fox, what will happen next/and nobody knows what'll happ when it goes off. If he can’t f some one heard Warmer ‘a Boy, heard everything he| §, tho Farmer Brown's Boy didn’t | ft, It was Unc’ Billy Possum, | ‘was hiding in the very pile of ‘on which Farmer Brown's Boy iting. Une’ Billy pricked up He didn't !lke the tone of in which Farmer Brown's Poy He thought of Reddy Fox, So stiff and sore and lame that) 4 hardly walk, all from the which Farmer Brown's Boy fight had missed. - isn't gwine to be any next +. No, sah, there isn't gwine to any next time. Ah sho'ly doan 4 Reddy Yor, but Ah can't nohow fhim be shot again. Ah cert’nly “ti” muttered Unc’ Billy Possum Mf. TWAS THINKING .M@. DuPF “HAT Berore You Go AWAY ON TUS VACATION TRIP You OVGWT "TO TAKE OVT ONE! The qu levess st cer THE SEATTLE STAR DON'T Go ANY ' FURTHER MR LAME! OF MY POUCIES ~1 HANDLE [ Me TooAy ~ Come iM BOTH LIFE AND AccIDENT WOULD ‘You TAKE & COUPLE OF BOARDERS FoR A WEE, MISTER OU, Pode 4 MAN DOWN TH STREET 1S* KICKIN’ HIS UTTLE Some TIMG wHen / —By ALLMAN HE SA10, HE HOPED NOTHING WovLD HAPPEN “To me! | syppose He MEANT A RAILROAD Wreck OR BEING Grownep OF ip <p Hethea oo crip gh te by On You JUST wee perore You GO | ont A VACATION. WELL,! hope You wave A Nice TIME ON YouR TRAP AND THAT NOTHING WAPP EAS To You so tone! ~~ “THANKS, LD- MAN~ Good pve! Yes, Fresh From the Ground! YOuLL HAVE T SEE TH’ oO WOMAN | RECKON GHE‘D Are YOu NES HE HAD- WE WILL LET GoD DUNISM HIM. DoGe WE ousHT Te BE PUNISHED, HADN'T HE, NO I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE! = AD GOLLY, ANNIE - ISN'T IT 4 al ai | Y A TREAT To BE OUT . Yo IN TH’ COUNTRY EATIN JY, FRESH THINGS RIGHT WE CAN Loore RIGHT OuT OF TH’ window AND SEE TH’ THINGS ARTE THIS WHEN TA NAUGHTY, WHY DONT You L&T WIM PUNISH NES UB WILL PUNISH A MEAN MAN UKE THs. MANBE ACT NOW BUT SOME DAY WE wil YSEE IN ON My IMA TESTER IN A MUSTARD VACATION NOW PLASTER FACTORY! EVERY TINE WE MAKE.UP 4 BUNCH OF NEW PLASTERS, I WEAR ONE TO SEE IF IT HAS ENOUGH PEP IN IT! “THERE “THATS IT Now STAND ERECT* YOUD LIKE 10 HAVE @ FINE CARRIAGE WHEN You GROW UP WON TERA? , Jones’ Judgment Was Very Poor SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.—Don't ltel your wife she “looks like an old hen stretching her neck for some thing whe can’t get.” That is, don't tell her that if you want to keep her. FUchard Jones told his wife Rosa, the above and now she's ask: | ing for a divorcee, |\Says Single Men Need More Coin BOSTON, Aug. 6.—James O'Brien bachelor, former conductor and head | of the Chelsea Carmen's Union, de clared to an arbitration board here that single men need more money than married ones. “They have to look better to attract wives,” says course, Farmer Prown’s Boy hear him. He didn’t hear him | “ap i _ “I'm going to get that f0z\he. “Yor the same reason the mar if it takes all summer,” ex-|ried man doesn't have to look well.” claimed Farmer Brown's Boy. | OBrien tnin fare sncuge phe didn't see him when Unc’! J Possum crept out of the back | bet the woodplle and scurried the henhouse. He was too in- bis plan to catch Reddy For just going to hunt over the Meadows and thru the Green until I get that fox!” said Brown's Boy, and as he said Reddy Fox, just an likely ag not he'll point it at somebody else just for fun. Ah hope he doan meet up with mah ol’ woman or any of mah lil’ pickaninnies, Ah'm plumb afraid of @ boy with @ gun, Ah am, ‘Pears like he don't have any sense. Ah looked very fierce, as if he meant it, “Im not going to reckon Ah better be moving along right smart and tell mah family to stay right close in the ol’ hollow tree,” muttered Une’ Billy Possum, sifpping out from his hiding place, Then Une’ Billy began to run as fast a» he could toward the Green Forest. Next story: The Hunt for Reddy Fox, MOTHER! “California Syrup of Figs” Child’s Best Laxative Accept “California” Syrup! of Pigs only--look for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels, Children love its fruity taste, Full directions on each bottle. You must say “Call- fornia.” | TRY STAR WANT ADS Each Got Half of Property—a Hose TACOMA, Aug. 6.—-To Mra, Mar garet Anderson, defendant, the court here decreed one-half of a garden hose and her maide and to her husband the ot and a decree of divorce. 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