The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1920, Page 13

Page 151 NANCE M 667), DEAR! oh, dear! claimed Pegsy, “Didn't he dringed anybody to help you? ox: | And} AKES GOOD and I did do it, and It was good bread, too." » the story-tellor laughed at you were but only a little bit big-| fer than Davie? . “No,” answered Mrs. “Mother said, ‘You are sure you have looked everywhere? And no one can do the work and take care of me while I am sick?’ “I can see it all now, as if it Were before me—mether's dear Ured face; her gentle hands un Nancy consciously caressing the baby be. | side her, and father’s tall figu as he towered above us, his brows drawn together in perplexity “Suddenly he jerked his toward me, where I sat wearily on the feot of the bed. ‘Why can't she do it? he asked. “Oh, she's onty a little girl, It Would be too much for her! mother cried. “But I crept up close beside her and told her not to worry,,I could do it, all right. And I did. “Mind you, now, 1 cooked and cleaned and did all the work for) that big family, and took care ot | mother and the baby, besides! “The bread was the ho and it didn't seem to me I could ever learn to turn out the bi«/ white flaky loaves, with their golden brown crusts like mother's “But I took the things to the side of mother's bed, where she could see, and she told me how, wee ADVEN OF THE So with a proud feeling, the othe Fairy Queen's Palace. Tingaling and the twins were near-|!n their Green Shoes, and the Mag: | | ing the end of their adventures in » The-Landof Dear-Knows-Where, for Bhat season at least. Most of the Fents were in and the pocket-book was bulging with money for the Fairy Queen. Of course, you'll won Ger why she nee: money, but she Bad to do so many things for her People in her Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Kingdoms that it was ry for her to have quite a There were blankets for the! Qnimals to wear during the winter Months in Dreamland, and all sorts @f things for the comfort of the ‘tniries, besides dye for the flowers ‘and birds in Serub-Up Land, and Oceans of things for Popsy-Turvy Land, where the animals took such queer notions ‘n everything 'n had to*be cured. So it was with a proud feeling, In-| @eed, that the fat little 7 land. | Jord started back to Fairy ‘Queen's Palace, with N obi and Nick! | head “One day T had to kill a chicken | and I just couldn't! But we had | to have it #0 1 took “the ax ttle sister, there wasn't anything else and call ing my we started j out “I sald, T can't kill a chicken! | Tean’t! I'l catch one and hold its | legs, and you can chop off its ad? ‘All right,’ she said, doubt ‘T hate to, awful, but we've got to have him, haven't we? * Mrs, Nancy laughed again. know the rhyme about the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker? Well, I made a grand lit tle baker, and was all right for a candlestick maker, but I'm quite sure neither my sister or I was meant to be a butcher. “I held onto that poor chicken with my head turned away from it while little sister chopped and the chicken squawked, ‘He won't die-ti! she squealed. ‘on, I'm hurting him, and he won't dielid! Oh, he won't even | die when his head ts choppe& off? “T had let go the poor thing’s lees and he was flopping about as they do after their heads are off nt he was dead, all right, and 1 | cleaned and cooked him. “But I don't ever want to be a butcher.” wee TURES TWINS fully “You fairy landlord started back to ical Mushroom, too! They had forgotten all their trou the last one being a joke Mr ‘o-bug had played on them, in taste some beautiful Man had sprink and which doubled them ail up |thelr tummies. the biggest pain because he had the} biggest tummy ‘Then there was Mr, Grasshopper, | who was so hard to catch because he had a pair of seven-league boots and who absolutely refused to pay rent for his house on the eweet-tater Said he neither lived on a vine, nor a railroad track said, and aiso that he'd dumswiggled if he ever picked his | teeth with a carpet tack, either; one good reason being that he tadn't a carpet tack, and the second that he Wadn’t any teeth. (Copyright, vi * 1 b 1920, N. BE. A) BY THORNTON W. BU RGESS Unc’ Billy Possum Grows Excited NC’ BILLY POSSUM sat at the; foot of the great hollow tree in Which his home is. Unc i &® good breakfast, « breakfast |, things in the we fine, Then Un @t an end, for F Mo longer hur gun thru the G Green Meadows. Fox and F y, way off ture on the in, and so Un ight little P: without danger. So he sat great hollow ‘wouldn't b Glip up to Farr id Gran. 4 moved t that his| d pidy abou "geolding the ¢limbing up Metened, Unc’ f gan to sing in a queer, cracked voi nm plain ol dame, with her tongue Mah ot women an "Deed she arn Quick ‘ *Deec But she span Bhe has Koo "Dood she am! ‘Deed she am! “Yo! all better stop yo’ lazing and hustle about fo’ something fo’ din mer,” said old Mrs im, st ing her sharp little out of the Aoorway “Yas'm, yas'm; Ah was just aiming to do that very thing,” replied Unc Billy, meekly, a8 he scrambled to hi et, Just then out tumbled @bildren, making such apped bi ah goodne he exclaimed, fa his eight et that ds oder One! * | were | boxed t | Sout pulled Unc’ Billy's tall, b on his back. In two min. Billy was down on the g and tumbling in the 1 of @ frolic with his idet of {t Unc’ Billy t. His eyes were his funny little He Stood With His Right Hand Behind His Ear List- ening and Listening pricked up he commanded. think “Hush “How Ab can hear anythi making such @ rac ears of one and ahc 1 then, whén all w d with his right afning and Ah cert'nly of an ol’ friend from way Ah cert’nly did!” he muttered and without another word he off into the Green Forest, more ex cited than he had been since his fam ily came up from Ol Virginny yo'alls with He an other he r, 1 tenir Next story: Vain Search, Une’ Billy Possum’s! gas leaking from mains, the poisoning roots and making it impossible from the ground & pain in} |Woman’s Black Eye THE WEDLOCKED "OH, THERE'S ANNIE OUT THERE Aw Suoes ! LET. Me SEE THE ONES Nou WANE ON. Pob~ 7 WISL You'd GET ME A NEW DAI. OF SHOES = WILL YA, Pop ? KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ALOYSIUS INIS, [YEH 1 THINK) FAKE LDONT THINK ‘our CAMPAIGN’ FoR Mayor ‘S BEING MANAGED RIGHT! THIS PAPER DOESNT EVEN MENTION, TH NECI< CEARICE!! YEH: Hels A YEAR AND FOUR MONTHS OLD+ HiS NAME 1S "WoRACE’ You HAD A LITTLE Two scram. | ears Ih GONNA | YDONT GET 4 NEW MAN GET IT IN | TO MANAGE OUR CAMPAIGN YOU'RE GONNA] |ETHELGERT/START TO FINISH! HES GET LEFT AT TH’ POST! a SEATTLE STAR DIDN'T You HEAR. THAT SIGNAL? SAN, Nov CAN'T. STOP ; TWAT CAR Here! Ae You Pon’r 1) c' Know THIS CAR —- WHY DIDN'T You TELL ME THAT You WERE SITHN’ FINE, PeTerR come On IN l Umea o THERES AOTUING WRONG WT ESE SHOES ~~ TOW TUL JUST Ave Experience? Oh, Boy! I THINK JIVE GOT JUST TH’ MAN! NOTHIN YOURE |DISCOURAGES Him, HE KNowS: RIGHT [TH GANE OF POLITICS FRott HAS HE? SAY! THS GUY MANAGED ALL Yen, THE W.d. BRYAN BUT CanraigneY T FROM UNK, IF TH GUY ‘You NEED! ALL. Hee GOTTA DO Now, 16 YELL HIS HEAD OFF FoRA WANUTE, AND HE CAN WAVE ANYTHING TRAT'T. COULDNT No, AND t DONT SBE WHY HE'D WANNA LEARN HOW "TO “TALK Doesn’t Remit Fine LONDON, Sept. 9 A woman} pleaded to the Lambeth magistrate in| mitigation of punishment for ha ing | been drunk that she had got a black | TOTTENHAM, England. When a man marri “You are not entitled to any re duction for your black eye,” the mag |istrate said, in alte!” | hind pro thought Ah heard the! from his own christening down | ¢ started 8 Py Shade trees may be destroyed by North Am¢ gracious for the tree to obtain nourishment] party will also study evolutions in fining her. children by Oldest Odd Fellow | Celebrates at 100 Divorcee Asks 31 upon the ccle| Years’ Back Alimony LONDON, Septiy 9. is 100th birthday Norman drank to his John} epic AGO, own health] one yeat cup. He! obtained {ms to be the oldest Oddfetlow in| wiison and, having been a member for | §7 are Sept urah 9.—Over Wilson, from ago § a Seek to Trace Man’s Origin 12,000 Years ew YORK An effort e th of mankind on 2,000 years will ach of The Spooh or Fork? 0, Sept. 9 no aners,”* ce be made by; entists hea the Univer downtown s when a patron mode he p ek holm. orders plant and animal lite | Marrying Widow, |' You Wed Family, Judge’s Decision a pre Wilson paid her a total of $7. Suit Yourself! | pie “ both a fork and ohh The great basilica of St. Peter at Rome has only two small organs that aro wheeled about. \Ranee R: Halos about the sun and moon are Fears Rival; Man chased by crope or Watet in datiee Looking for Wife | :ov2. kom or ta, REAL PA IN L E ss DENTISTS les Kohn of Storm Lake, Towa, | red his wife was playing into the | and orme! . After her prc dg Rare: seh iy Nog In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which ts the light ¢ roof of the moi ibsence from home he came here to) gud’ strongest plate Known, covers very little of t look for her, Kohn described his wife you can bite corn off the cob; guaran 1s follows: “Short, neat and tidy, 16 years. aged 35, with curls down her back | EXAMINATION FREE and weighing about Load DeMAee* Whalebone set of teeth RRR: Crowns . $8 Bridgework . $2 Amalgam Filling PAINLESS EXTRACTION iaave impression taken im the ation and advice free. Bridge Work. We Stand the 12 for Working People OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS ser UnivEnarrs ST. iat aan Frascr-Patersen Ce ase or sss saberatilana. 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