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

ar Or + & By abel Or: * Page 149 THE FUNNY ONE PPROETS pte nants came to gether with a joyous clap. “Oh, Mra. Nancy! she cried, “T Wiis simply love the funny ones! Davie likes the ones ‘bout shoot. Inge and screechjings, and horrible ‘Other kinds, and I like those, too, Dut best I like the funny ones, then not any one does have to be shooted. or leaved alone, or have to throw all her pretty im the sea like poor little bride.” “Hardly ever any pioneers were keitied, Peggy” David defended, “1 Just like to hear about them "onuse they are #0 kind of—excit ing™ “My father was killed,” mid Mrs. Nancy, softly, “in a later Battle with the Indians, But that isn't this story,” she, continued, ling brightly at Peery. “This one is about one night ‘when we went to bed in our new house and father was there, and ‘We were all very safe and happ?. “Our beds were not like yours. ‘They were built against the wall and were made out of roand poles, about so big ishe measured a smal! circle with her thumb and forefinger). “There were no bat we had feather beds like giant pil- lows. “And because the heuse was Rew, not all the chinks were plas tered yet, and we could peep in and out and see thru the chinks in the wall as we lay tn bed. “And—also, anything little enough to get thru could not only peep in, but creep in. “Well, one night we were all asleep, when a little head came up to the chink by the bed, two | shining black eyes peered in, saw | the soft still bed, and came in. | “I was waked by the fooling of ja little bedy, moving-—moving | across my feet. “*What's that? I whispered to my little sister, “"Den't know,’ she whispered back. ‘Feels like an animal of nome sort.’ “"00000f we shivered under the covera, “Over our feet it ran, up to our | knees, and by that time no little heads were on our pillows, Oh, no! They wore under their pil. | lows, And no the steps which feit | heavier as they reached our stom }achs and chests continued wan dering until we heard father's voice. “ Children,’ he ead, tn a quick, quiet voice. ‘For heaven's sake, Ye stlil! Don't speak! Don't move? “We lay there afraid to breathe, walting for father to shoot. What could it be that would bring that Queer note Into father’s voice, and why did he keep eo still? Why was ho #0 slow? How long could ‘we live, smothered under the pil lowa? “Presently the antral walked to the edge of the bed near my fect and we heard the thud ae it dropped to the floor and the sound of Ite eoft patter as it crossed the room. “Then what @o you think? We ‘Were startled half out of our wits te hear father's big laugh. “ Raved, children be called out ‘That was a big skunk!” “The next morning they shot him in the woods back of the house” wee of bis wary tenant, so away they started again, filing out of the dining room in search of Mr. Bumbie- Bee's honey-pots as he passed thru,| bedroom. And the bumping and Mrs. Bumble kept up in the neatest 1 you ever saw. Was 60 dim that the children esid the fairy were covered with honey quite up to their chins before Mey found their Green Shoes and @lipped them on again. Even #0, Whey didn’t forget the errand they _ ad come upon, and Nick had the Pocketbook all ready to put Mr. Fent into when he paid “Now, Bumble,” calied the fairy- man, “got your rent aii ready for es? It's the thirty.second day of the “I'm getting it.” called Mr. Bee stumbling started all over again, for the further they went the darker the place got, and they couldn't see an Inch in front ef their noses, The worst of it was that whatever they touched now stuck to them tight, for honey ts like excellent glue, and they were quite covered. Mr. Bee, standing tn the far corner of his bedroom, laughed until his fides shook (but it sounded exactly like buzzing). I'll tell you what he had done, He had unwrapped his babies from their fussy covers and laid the woolly blankets on the floor. And the fairy | common) ses “To! GET HER STARTED! 1 COMNIG OVT. J] cvcuT TW Ot hee NON WEDLOCKED LOOK, PETER Tuar boy MAS ANOTHER ONE GE ELECTED MAYOR, So] | EMELNER Im GONNA TAKE TH’ and the twins, unsuspectingly, step- | ped right into ther. (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter Rabbit Spreads the News {te When Peter Rabbit Is in a Hurry He Goes Very Fast Indeed & WAS great news! Peter Rabbit | Forest with his dreadful gun, fright this sore foot. He looked up at the | ext people #o that they did not dare tittle stars and winked back at them, put their heads outside of their own 4 he wished and wished that jolly, tel the news, and it did seem as if found, red Mr. Sun would hurry up| Mr. Sun never, never would get up. tt that it seemed to him that) Morning, he pulled his nightcap off, Sr, Sun was lazy and dreadfully | kicked off his rosy blankets, and be wasn't at all. It was just| blue sky. He hadn't more than etart- ‘9 impatience that made it|¢4 before Peter Rahbit was on his ‘Why ‘waa Peter Rabbit so tmpa- | lly when Peter Rabbit is in a hurry ? Why, you see, Boomer the he goe# very faat, indeed, lipperty wky late that evening and had| But this morning Peter had to run 4 to gooslp with Peter Rabbit, | 4 iy in bed like Johnny Chuck and ppy Jack Squirrel, was sitting on ‘a fore foot and wondering if it safe for him to go over to the Boomer had told Peter some that made Peter forget that he @ great deal to make Peter forget his stomach! The ly Fox, and as he listened Peter hardly sit still, a? Why, Jtoomer the Night | wk had just come from the far-| |, and there he had seen old ny Fox and Reddy Fox sneak- ‘that no one would see them. were going very, very slowly, * could hardly sit still in spite of ening ali the ittle meadow and for. and wondered if they knew, too, And |40ors. Now, Peter was impatient to and get out of bed. Peter was so im-} But he did. Just as he does every ing up that morning, tho | 8" his dally climb up in the blue, iy Sy. 20. way to Johnny Chuck's house, Usu- hthawk ‘had dropped out of lipperty-lpperty-lip, just like that 6, instead of being nicely tucked of the Old Brier Patch nurw Clover Patch for something to hungry, and I tell you’ what, it was about old Granny Fox and hat was the news? Haven't you y Old Pasture on the edge of the along in the blackest shadows, Reddy was #0 wore and lame, OTTO AUTO | Prog, on three legs, and it seerned to him he had been shot by Farmer |as he ran down the Lone Little Path, h's Boy, that it was all he could|lipperty-lip-lip, lpperty-lip-lip, just o walk at all, When Peter Rab /like that, that he never would reach heard that he knew that Granny | Johnny Chuck's house, and Reddy Fox had moved| Johnny Chuck waa just starting from the Green Meadows | out to l-ok for hin breakfast, but he Green Forest, and that when|forgot all about it when Peter told Brown's Boy found that|him the news. he would no longer hunt on the} “Hurrah! shouted Joinny Chuck, Meadows and in the Green| and tried to turn a somersault, Then | DON'T UNDERSTAND How | WE Have He CAUGHT ALL OF THOSE | TH’ Same | some IDEA WmaT wou'r STagT BuT | Maven'r FISH AND We DIDN'T CATE; aw “MUTS: fr-G"WAN® CATS= CATS= WAAWAA THATS [LISTEN TO NY OPENING SPEECH —| THIS PURE,G MY FRIENDS, I STAND GEPORE You “TO-NIGHT IN BEHALF OF CUR WELL FINE HE iS NOT WITHOUT 4 WS POLITICAL Yes SiR “THiS 19 THE BEST BARGAIN 1M A USED CAR THAN YtDULD GET AVIMERE © “THE MAN WHO OWMEDIT NEVER RAN TTOVER 10 PILES Ab HOUR + AND LOOKA HERE “THIS EXTRA SETOF HOLS Goes WITH HE USED IT IN HIS BUSINESS © he and Peter hurried over to tell Jim- my Skunk, and the three hastened to tell Striped Chipmunk and Danny Meadow Mouse, and then hurried down to the Smiling Pool to tell Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter and Jerry Muskrat and Grandfather Aw fast aa they could, t spread the news over the Green Meadows and thru the Green Forest, and, just like Johnny Chuck, ev- erybody who heard it shouted, “Hur- rah!” Next story: Happy Days on the Green Meadows. 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