The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1920, Page 16

Page 152 A GHOST STORY callers came tn and in- terrupted Mra, Nancy in her telling, but she promised to the children more stories some time, i if i z @ never told them how thru with all her work Jong it was before help pili she was eo troubled over ire. Polly, who was ex- fond of little Peggy, ith her to a quiet “Never mind, Tecalled a good f T i g g | & 5 4 £ { i i a Fs J F 95 “7 | g g j 3 if F 4 Hi rf i? '¢) BE 23 &? i £ i $ E é rn ER i | it 4) il i over the place peacefully about the and the tinkle of 1 i i “About the time of my story my pet Jersey cow came in one morn- ing with a wobbly little calf; little but long-lerged. “She was a dear Nttle cow—the favorite of everybody on the farm. “Bo one morning when the calf was about a month old, there was much excitement, because we heard its repeated ‘Mamaa! Ma- aa? with no answering call from the mother. “One after another we went out and looked for her, All thru the weels we went, looked in the pas- ture, on the hill, everywhere we had ever known her to go. “Father told the Indians te look ‘lout for her, too, and ft didn't | seem possible that we could all mise her if she were atill alive. It looked as if she had been carried + | of completely. - “On the eventng of the second day some Indians who had been jout in a boat came to father, shaking their heads and looking very solemn. “"Beek no Jonger,’ they said. ‘Not in the forest wil you find your timas moommoos (little cow), +{nor in the pasture, nor far away on the hills, for we have this day heard the sound of her bell from the bottom of the sea, weak and far away and ead it rang, but again and again we heard it-—- @ometimes louder, sometimes soft: er, but always as we fished we heard the bell of the timas moos- mooa, and we know that she ls Nancy looked at Nick, and Nick looked at Nancy, and their good friend, the magical mushroom, looked | at both of them. “Go on! whispered the mushroom, encouragingly. “Why don’t you ask her “Please,” said Nick then, timidiy, “may we help Mr. Scribble Scratch? | ~}1 eam look up the truants, because I’ve got my green shoes to take me around.” “And I,” put in Nancy, eagerty, -|“ean dust, and shine the windows, and help with the singing.” “And 1,” spoke up the magical mushroof quickly, “can teach them any language at ail, from Hottentot to Chinese.” “Tut,” put in a new volce just | then, “all we want is chipmunk chat- ter and ground-hog grunting. And . | nothing harder than X Y¥ Za.” they'd have the children playing , of dot Everybody turned and beheld Mr. Scribble Boratch, the fairy school- master. (Copyright, 1920, N. BE. A.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Unc’ Billy Possam’s Vain Search : iC BILLY POSSUM waa exctt- 4 ed, Any one would have known ‘At Just to look at him, He hurried up the Lone Little Path thru the Green Forest without even saying good-bye “to ofa Mrs. Possum or all the little Fy with whora he had been Great frolic, They just ty ‘So All the Rest of the Day ' Une’ Billy Possum Walked a and Walked ‘stared after Unc’ Billy, and didn't ‘know what to make of it, for euch a ‘taing as Une’ Billy forgetting to say sghaps had never happened before. fos, indeed; Unc’ Billy certainly was excited. Old Mrs. Possum sat in the door. ‘way of thelr home in the great hol low tree and watched Unc’ Billy out of sight. Her sharp little eyes seemed ‘to grow sharper as she watched. “Ah sent that noaccount possum to for something fo’ dinner, but to me he's plumb forgot it al- 4” she muttered, “Just look at with his head in the air like he it dinner fo’ We-alis.would drap down to him out O the sky! If aiming to find a bird's nest with im dt this time o’ year, he sho'ly t am plumb foolish tn his hald. No, sah! That onery possum has clean | fo'gotten what Ah just done tole him, and if we-alla am going to have any dinner, Ah cert'nly have got’ to| flax ‘round right smart spry mah-| weit!” Old Mrs. Possum chased the ie little possums into the house and) warned them not to so much as put their heads outside the door while she was gone. Then she took her market basket and started out to hunt for their dinner, still muttering ay she went, } (ME SEATTLE STARK DOINGS OF THE DUFFS id UY WEDLOCKED One of the Penalties of Owning a'Car NEARLY TWO VY, OY) YW f / TAT ISN'T CEEP THERE fLL CARRY You \F YOU HOPE “To BE ELECTED MAYOR You MOST MEET HIM AT HIS OWN GAME! MR. MSGINIS, THES (3 A BITTER ELECTION! YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENT HAS STARTED 4 NUD SLINGING CaMPAIGN! A PORCUPWE ~~~" SEE. AF YOU CAN TELL ME WHATS I POLITICS 18 POLITICS| | suppose TH TIME HAS CORE Old Mrs, Possum was quite right. Une’ Billy had forgotten all about | worried about his health,” muttered tree in the afternoon and went back;I guess, can't see how to sting that dinner. thing else on his mind. While he|look, 6 watched Unc’ had been playing with his children, | pear. he had thought that he heard a! Just as jofly, round, red Mr. Sun voice way off in the distance, and it dropped out of sight behind the sounged very, very much like the Purple Hills, Une’ Billy gave it up Voice of an old friend from way down and turned toward home, His neck South, in “ol’ Virginny.” He had lis- ached from looking up into the tree tened and listened, but didn’t hear | tops, and his feet were eore from You see, he had some-|Jimmy Skunk, as, with a puzzled at night with a lantern and an ax,” Billy disap-| he says, “Not a bee stung me, Been, “DANDERINE” it again, and yet he waa sure he had | walking. And~just then Unc’ Bitty] Stops Hair Coming Out; heard it that once, The very thought for the first time thought of that that that old friend of his might be|dinner that old Mrs. Kpssum had somewhere in the Green Forest ex-|sent him to get. Unc’ Billy sat down cited Une’ Billy so that it fairly and mopped his brow in dismay, made him homesick. He just had to| “Ah ‘spects Ah'm in fo’ it thie «0 look for him. |time, sho’ enough!” he sald.- So all the rest of that day Une’ a Billy walked and walked thru the! Next story: Unc Billy Possum Green Forest, peering up to the tree. Comes Home, . tops and looking into the bushes un- : til his neck ached. But nowhere did he catch a glimpse of his old friend. The longer he looked the more excited he grew, | “What's the matter with you?" asked Jimmy Skunk, meeting Unc’ Billy on the Crooked Lite Path near the top of the hill, “Nuftin, nuffin, sah! 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