The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1920, Page 11

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“ chance I have of catching any boat at Sea- Deck this afternoon? fumed the Pamenger. ‘Creeping along here at this rate, if there was any} other way under heaven of get- ting there I'd leave this sloop and Beat you int |ahead, but Pulled steadity, the water lay like © sta of gina; slowly, slowly, stroke by stroke, they moved there, seemed no chance at all that the mail boat would overtake the Indiana in thelr canoe, “But the fickle weather took a “*All right,” anewpred the cap. | hand again. After about an hour tain, ‘I ate a cance coming, arfi if you don’t care to trust your luck | to ua, we will hail them and you ean take a chance with the Si- mile away and were going to Sea-| Deck and the sidop was opposite | Devil's Hole, about 10 miles from Passenger shouted to the in Chinook, ‘Nak, klosh | mika charco; nika ticky hyack ), Klatawa kopa Seabeck, nika pot- Match chickerman kopa nicka ‘spose mika hyakr” “Oh, what funny, funny words! ‘What did he mean? Peggy cried. Aunt Ellen smiled at her own Memory of the Indian's language. “He said,” she answered, “ ‘Bay, la breeze biew softly in the face of the sailors, grew stronger, veered around, puffed out the sails, and off the sloop sailed again. “The captain told the sailors to ‘give her the main sheet’ (that's the very biggest sail) and she it ahead, faster, faster, faster! ‘copie stood up and let the strong wind whip in their faces, and laughed at the joy of the rapid motion. “The passenger who had left the felt the wind, too. “Hurry! hurry! he cried te the Indians. .‘If you'll get me to Sea- Deck ahead of that sloop I'll give you more money? “The wind blew strong, the Ta- diane worked hard; on and on they raced, the heavy sloop driven by diana, “about a mile from the wharf | the sloop sailed by, and when the little canoe landed at the dock the other passengers were on the shore waiting and laughing, and - | the mail had been delivered. Rae “And the poor man who had been in such a hurry stood on the shore and watched the Colfax steam off around Point Misery.¢ aan DVENTURES WINS oENE BEES at 33 & i : i Hy Ey ae _ THE SEATTLE STAR A! Twn TS 18 A ReGuAR OER You WAVE, TOM = | NOTICED Di acaTS papee WHeRe Goma Peome Wary Away on A VACATION! AND WAD Au THEIR STocK BYOLEM rede ye TS The Hunt for Reddy Fox “groupie, trouble, trouble, I feel ft tn the rouble,’ trouble, trouble, fr's round me ‘4 everywhere! GRANNY FOX muttered this over and over and over as she P mept walking around uneasily and the air. “I don't see any trouble and I “don’t feel any trouble in the alr. It's) fm the sore places where I cy | jt,” said Reddy Fox, who was| 4 out on the doorstep of ir home. “That's because you haven't got/ Qmy sense. When you do get some | @nd jearn to look where you are co fng you won't get shot from behind old tree trunks and you will be able to feel trouble when it is near with- out waiting for ft to show itself. Now I feel trouble. You go down fnto the house and stay there! Granny Fox stopped to test the air with her nose, just as she had been testing 't for the last 19 minutes. “1 don’t want to go in,” whi Reddy Fox. “It's nice and warm out here, and I feel a lot better than when I am curled up way down there in the dark.” Old Granny Fox turned and her blazed af she looked at Reddy Fox. She didn't say a word. She @idn't have to. Reddy just crawled {nto his house muttering to himself. Granny stuck her head in at the “Don't you come ont untfl I come back,” she ordered. Then she added: “Farmer Brown's Boy is coming with in” pinteddy Fox shivered when he heard that. He didn’t believe Granny Fox. » thought she was saying that just | | scare him and make him stay in-| |. But he shivered just the same. | G see, he knew now what it meant | to he shot, for he was still too stiff ‘and sore to run, all because be had gone too near Farmer Brown's Boy y. and his gun. But Old Granny Fox bad not been fooling when she told Reddy Fox that Farmer Brown's Boy waa com ing with a gun. It was true. He Was coming down the Lone Little Path and ahead of him was trotting Bowser the Hound. How did Old Granny Fox know it? She just felt it She didn’t hear them, she dffin’t see them, and she didn’t smell them; she just feit that they were coming. So as soon aa she saw that Reddy “It won't do to let them find our home,” said Granny to herself, as she disappeared in the Green Forest. First she hurried to a little point on the hill where she could look down the Lone Little Path. Just as/| Fox had obeyed her she was off like | | little red flash, | Bowser the Hound, but where they couldwt see her because of a turn tn the Lone Litle Path. She trotted down the Lone Little Path @ very ttle way and then turned into the woods and hurried back up the hill, where she sat down and waited, In a few minutes she heard Bowser's great voice. Ho had smelled her track in the Lone Little Path and was following it. O14 Granny Fox ‘| grinned. You see, she’ wae planning to lead them far, far away from the home where Reddy Fox was hiding, for it would not do to have them He Was Coming Down the Little Lone Path. she expected, she saw Farmer Brown's Boy, and ahead of him, the Hound. Oid Granny Fox waited to see no more, She ran ag fast as she could in @ big circle, which broiight her out on the Lone Little Path-below Farmer Brown's Loy and sniffing at every bush and all along| « the Lone Little Path, was Bowser | » find it. And Farmer Brown's Boy also grinned as he heard the voice of Bowser the Hound. “1'l hant that fox until I get him,” he said. You see, he didn't know anything about Old Granny Fox; he thought Bowser wae follow. . D. ¢ it 20, 1920, fe then, files, raspe, ateel pi avy Yard, Sound, h. Apply for propo to the Supply Officer, Navy Y¥ Puget Sound, Wash., or to the Feau of Bupplion and Acgounts, BAM: El, Mo “AN, Jay maste: er of the Navies iF CH, WHAT A PRETTY SPOT + LETS SPEND OuR VACATION HERE, PETER Dr. Baylis to Give Sunday Night Talk Dr. Chea, T. Baylis, of Brooklyn, N. Y¥. will deliver one of his most famous lectures, “Making @ Better America,” Sunday night at 8 o’clock atthe Plymouth Congregational church, Sixth and University. Dr. Baylie meeting is under the joint auspices of the One Hundred Per Cent club, the Rotary club, the Ki- wanis club and the Seattle Advertis- ing club, ——_—__—_——_ There are '20,000,000 houme tn the United States, caarieapeeere-eriieeea eomemenpennmcimuneniditl “Let's eat breakfast at Boldt'’s"— Adv. FREE DOCTOR Ex-Government Physician AN! accute and chronic diseases Intest methods, We of- ervice to any patron of Also @ fre Glasses here and b: THE OLD RELIABLE RIGHT DRUG ‘CO. 1111 Firet Ave. Near Spring St. —or— 160, Modingees, St. Near SU LG YES- wE SToPPED AT TA’ Farm-House T ABOVE TH’ STONE bsg HURCH FOR LUNCH — “Stoning Prophets” the Judge’s Theme Judge 1. F. Chester, at the regu- lar meeting of the King County Democratie club Saturday noon at Meves’ cafeteria, spoke on “stoning the Prophets.” After the program the King county democratic central committee and precinct committee: men met to discuss ways and means of conducting the coming campaign. bia Colo” —Auguatine & Kyer—Adv. C. of C. Men to See * ° Highline Project Members of the state development committee of the Chamber of Com- merce will journey by automohile | Monday to study the Highline canal project In the Kittitas valley and also to establish closer relations be- tween business Interests of Seattic and that section. E.-K, Blaine, presi- dent of the Washington Irrigation in- stitute, heads the party. YOU CAN DANCE Ne “ite” or “ands* MISS BRIGHT Pine a “7 ra. Anyway, f gear 0 be! DION T YOU |. SLEEP IN CHURCH DURING TH’ SERMON Hartley Expects to Make Many Speeches Col. Roland H. Hartley, candidate for the republican nomination for governor, will begin his campaign in Eastern Washington with a speech at Ellensburg Wednesday night. Col. Hartley's program is a heavy one. Some nights he plans to make as many as three speeches, ALWAYS DO — AN’ JOEL BIRO ALWAYS WAKES) ME UP jadber uptu: ul e free triat to prove tte puperloriGe a A. 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