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

ar * * Page ) Grattle + td LY. ss 1 Cleland _» 153 THK HUNT 6A ND when Indians thought your cow was dead, did your father betieve them?" Peary asked, her face aglow with excitement. “Oh, Powey, use your brains!” David exclaimed, “Don’t you know | & grown man doesn't believe in ghosts? Just the same, this is a! Teal interesting story, Won't you please go On, Mrs. Polly Mrs. Polly amiled and drew Por &y closer. “No, David,” she mid. “Mather @idn't believe them, but after they had gone he came dnto the house and told us what they had said They are so superstitious that it’s hard to get anything out of them. They insisted that the © gound of the cowbell came from the bottom of the sca. I guces if they heard it there we'd better get out and search again.’ “So the next morning we all started out again, but with no bet ter luck. “We would hunt awhile and then ‘stop and leten—bdut not a sound of that bell did we get. “And tho we spent the better part of the day in the search, call ing, and calling, and tho the plaintive cries of the lonely calf continued thru the long hours of the ssrvuge the night as well, no litte cow did we find. “The third night more Indians came to tell us about the bell, “ease your calling! they degmed us, ‘Cease calling the timag moowmoos, for her apirit knows no rest. Why? Because you call and call, “Par, far in the bottom of the sea is ber spirit, and your calling | makes the spirit restless, It ts for that we can not fish without hear ing her bell, From the sun-rising to the hour of the dark the sound is In OUF eara, sometimes louder, sometimes softer, It rings and rings and we fear to fish there any more because of the restless spirit of the little cow which ts lost." “When T had listened to them awhile T had an idea. “ ‘Pather,’ I said, ‘If Brownies bell 1 still ringing around here then Brownle isn't dead! Let's go out with @ beat tomorrow and see where that sound comes from and follow it up.* . “Father thought a minute. Then he nodded his head. “ That’ good idea, Polly,’ he’ replied. “We'll do that the very first thing tomorrow morning GONG Home Boss? SAY fit Dawe You ovr. WEDLOCKED WHAT’S TH’ MATTER wit TWAT LITTLE FELLOW ? fe Nowe FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS IVs A Nice LOOKING CAR, TOM. Jom P RIGHT IML, Boss- Itt Wave You ovt Home im A very Peter Felt the wn; WHAT MAKES You cRy, my LITTLE MAN ? a C SOMETIMES | HAVE A LITTLE TRovBLe STARTING tr- -'WHOP- There Sue Goes! { Same Way Once. Td’ SCHook CAUGHT FIRE BOO- HOO - HOO SAN, Tom, DOES THE MoTeR MWAYS Mace TAT Muck ADVENTURES oF = INS * SAN, Quie MocKAN’ Me~ DVA WEAR? cur mane Seren) Se EOOLIN' DONTUMA? KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES LAM HERE FoR A SECRET CONFERENCE POWERFUL GOOD LOOKIN LADY IN DE PARLOR TO |( pertmbonwall MOTH NM MEGINIS. IN SEE MISTO N*GINIS! Things Look Bad for Pa. By POP MOMAND | =Y SHE ) ( DAWGUNIT]| THAT Wi 13. THAT | OF ALL TH NE THE HEAD OF THE } SO! WELL|WANTED A SECRET ||} ‘YOUVE ||WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE PARTY, HERE HR. MSGIMISICON FERENCE WITH ‘you'| | COOKED TO SEE ME AGOUT SWINGIN’ TH” WILL HOLO|YOU JUST BET I GAVE GooSé: |] WHOLE FENALE VOTE OVER TO NO SECRET | HER A PIECE OF IY ME FoR MAYOR! NOW My ‘The Fairy Queen introduced every: body, altho Tingaling and Scribbie nd then turned his | Gate upon the company. And the company certainly returned it, for the schoolmaster was a most peculiar Seratch were old friends, “I've been wondering if we haven't found some helpers for you, Soribble Seratch.” amiled the Queen, nodding | Person. He was as tall and thin as @ birch rod, only much pleasanter looking, having a mouth that inaist @d on turning up at the cor; ) al tho he tried his best to keep ft turned down, to make him look more digni- fied, And his ears, poor things, look- ed as tho they'd had a disagreement _with his head and were stretching a« far away as they tould conve ly get, perhaps because in such a posi- tion they could hear the tiniest sound. His nose, too, seemed to be trying to get away as far aq possible, and in the effort had grown to quite @ length, And he wore enormous spectacles and a long-tailed coat, and Jet his hair grow in a forelock which helped him to think when he pulled it. Yes, Mr. Scribble Scratch was quite a person, and he didn't wish you to forget it. toward the children. “Khese people have had some experience in Fairy: | land and come higly recommended.” | “Hm! coughed Scribble Scratch, | pulling the corners of his mouth down, The good news had turned ther up at once, and he was afraid | of looking too pleased, “Hm! said he again, and this time looked over the tops of his glassea. | “That depends on their education en-| tirely. What's the capital of Amer ica?” “Capital A, if you. please,” an- fwered Nancy, timidly, “A million dollars,” put tn Nick, who'd heard his father talk business “Both right,” nodded Scribble Scratch, marking {n a book. “You're! hired.” BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Unc’ Billy Possum Comes Home NC BILLY POSSUM crept along, fo'? demanded olf Mra, Possum, in the darkest shadows he could | sharply find as he ne#red the great hollow) tree which is his home, “Ah ‘aspects Ab’s in fo’ it! Ah ‘aspects Ah sho'ly | is in fo’ it this time,” he kept mut: | tering. You see, old Mrs. Porsum had sent Une’ Billy to find something for din-| Mer, but Une’ Billy had been # ex | ted bechuse he thought that he heard the voice of an old friend from way down in Ol Virginny that he had forgotten aii about that din Rer and had spent the whole day hunting thru the Green Forest for the friend whose voice he had| thought he heard. Now it was dark) | and Une’ Billy was disappointed, for he hadn't found his friend; he was, oh, #0 tired; he was footaore and hungry. Worst of all, Une’ Billy @readed to go home, for he knew just what old Mrs. Possum would gay, and you know her tongue is very sharp So Unc’ Billy crept along in the! | Une’ Billy fidgeted uneasily. “Ah done brought yo’ two eggs from Farmer Brown's henhouse,” he re piled, meekly. | “Two egi Two exes! How do yo. think Ah am going to feed eight hungry mouths on two eggs?” | snapped old Mra, Possum, ' Unc’ Billy hung his head. He hadn't 4 word to #ay. He just black shadows until he got where|™ he could look up and see his own doorway, Then he sat down and Watched a while, All was stil. There wasn't @ sound in thé great hollow tree. “Perhaps mah ol’ woman a: calling, and Ah can slip in “oO to bed before she gets back,” said Unc’ Billy hopefully to himself as he started to climb the great hollow out But at the first scratch of his toe | Nails on the bark, the face of old Mrs. | Postum appeared in the doorway “Good evening, mah dear,” said Une’ Billy in the mildest kind of a voice. | O14 Mrs. Possum said nothing, but} Une’ Billy felt as if her sharp black egen were looking right thru him Une’ Billy grinned a sickly kind of grin as he said: “Good evening, mah dear,” said Une’ Billy in the mildest kind of a voice. couldn't tell her whole day tramping thru the Green| Forest, just looking for an old friend whose voice he had thought he heard when he ought to have been helping her find a dinner for the eight little possums, No, sir; Unc’) Billy hadn't a word to aay. My, my my! How 014 Mrs. Possum did scold fg she came down the great hollow tree to get the two exgs Une’ Billy had brought. Unc’ Billy knew that he deserved every bit of it, He haa «pent the aaa hopes yo'-alls am feeling good ." Where's that dinner Ad svat 70'| felt very miserable and he was too CONFERENCE wit You! he just sat at the foot of the great) hollow tree and gafd nothing while old Mra. Possum bit a hole in the end of one egg and began to suck it, All the time she was looking at Une’ Bill th tho#e sharp eyes of hers, W finished the eae she push er over to him. “Yo' eat y. “Yo" look as thing to eat today (which true) Then yo’ hustle up to bed; it’s all) ready for you’.” Une’ Pilly did as he was bid, and an he tucked himself into his snug, warm bed, he murmured, sleepily: Or Mrs. Pormum has « sharp, sharp tongue, But her bark t# worne than her bite: For ©! Mra, Possum has @ oft, soft heart ‘Tho she hides it ‘way out of sight. 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