The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1920, Page 13

ee ee ee 4 RYMAN, BEGGAR-MAN, THIEF Cty OOK upon me! De you ‘fear? the young Indian unted again. ‘I could kill you. man would care! And giving Ol4 Salmon a sort of kick with iis moccasined feet, he passed on | an if he wouldn't even take the| trouble to kill a man who had! fallen s0 low. “In September of that year) when the goods came to our st» tion we each had some article of | clothing which we especially liked. “I don't remember what I got, | but I remember Jack had a very fine haty and my! but he was Proud of it | “Jack was like most little boys, |" tho—he rarely knew where he had Jeft his hat, no matter how much he thought of it. “Well, he had hardly had this & Week when he began ask “Mother, have you seen my ‘Rat? I put it on the hatrack. I'm % I did. Yes'm, I'm sure I “"Nurse, did you take my new off the hatrack? Or maybe I it In my drawer; anyway, 1 T didn’t leave it out.’ “Then he scolded me about it. | Jeee E bet you put that hat some | where! You're always moving my "And everybody hunted high and lew for it, but no hat{ shout it, like everybody else. | d “One day,’ he said, ‘One day | Jack leave new hat on chair. Dinner time, see; supper time, no wee.” | “But Jack was positive that hat been put away. It must have been a week or aee | | Muffy Mole and Floppy Field | Mouse stood still and listened after ‘they had slid down the hole in the floor, but their hearts! ‘ hammering so they could E hear a thing. But they did! Make out Mr. Scribble Scratch’s| Yolce saying to look‘down the hole, ‘and they almost fainted with fright; f But instantly Markie Muskrat de. that the runaways couldn't fone that way ds there was a/ 3 web completely over it. So Tittle Sar’ Ann Spider had kept her word after all! They began to| more easily then. on,” whispered Flop. “Let's out of this™ And he pushed ahead of him in the darkness | “Of course, Muff had t> go first, for soon came to the end of the lace, and it was necessary to @o more digging to get to safety. Wilop couldn't dig worth a cent, but Muff was the best ever. He worked hard and fast but not fast enough! _ for the anxious truant behind him. 10 days later that an Indian boy who was playing with us said, ‘I know, Jack lose hat, no can find. Look here, look there, no can find, 1 know where.’ “Where? we asked. “‘Old Salmon,’ the boy grinned. ‘Old Salmon see good hat, Old Sal mon think, “I like good hat; fine good hat.’ Make Salmon fine once more”* “How do you know he has it? wo aaked. ‘We see him every day, and he wears that old soft hat with the wide brim, Have you Dee! in hie house? Where does he no go almon house, Satmon x jack hat om Salmon head. I x about tt, an till adout this, he comes for food this eves bout tt. “fo when he came thet evening we much disappointed to see the olf coh hat as usual, but mother knew wore. sald mother, “But where te ‘e bat “Tell him to take hat eff! wht pered the cook. * “Take it off!" ordered mother, “Suddenty he obeyed, and we were surprised to see under that hat @ bet- Again the cook whispered, ‘That one, too." “Take off that one! mother said. “With a snarl of rage he whipped off the second hat, and there on his * mother’s voice 1 taking the hat with the tips of her fingers, ehe threw it In the fire. “Now go! she sald, ‘and see that You steal no more from the friends who feed you" eat “Oh, hurry up™ cried Flop, giving him a push. “Hurry up yourself™ aid Muff crossly. “I'm doing the very best I can. Why don't you dig your own hole.” “It would but I can't,” answered Flop more politely. Bo along they trudged thru the darkness, Muff shoving the dirt out of the road and Flop keeping an eye behind them for danger. Everything was going finely. and in another minute Flop would have broken thru the ‘top crust into the sunlight and off into his beloved corn patch, when Muff suddenly stopped. There was a sound of nib- bling and a gulp. “My, that was a good one,” he remarked, smacking his lips. “What's the matter and what was & good one?” peeved Flop. “Earthworm,” answered Muff “Oh, go on, I can’t get out here,” urged the mouse-boy. (Copyright, 1980, N. B A.) vA BY TKORNTON W. BURGESS Peter Rabbit Meets FTER Stickytoes the Treetoad had poured out his troubles to Peter Rabbit, Peter went back to the O14 Brier Patch more puzzled than . If Sammy Jay was asleep up the faraway Old Pasture on tho @dge of the mountain, how could he Be at the same time down in the ; Forest screaming? Yet every said that he was there, and Pe. Mer bad heard a voice which sounded “Ah reckon Ah will go along} with yo’ all.” exactly like Sammy Jay's and cried fief! Thief! Thief!” just as Sammy does. And if Stickytoes the J toad sat ali night with his mouth “@hut tight, how could the voice of 3 ytoes be heard in an altogether | ifferent tree than the one Stickytoes | ‘was spending the night in? Yet Stickytoes said that it was uso. Wasn't it enough to drive any one erazy? ‘The more Feter studied over !t the More puzzled he grew, The next Might he started out for the Green Forest with a new plan In his head. He would hide down among the al- Gers by the Laughing Brook. He would see for himself who was Unc’ Billy Possum Stickytoes the Treetoad. He just had to know, So across the Green Meadows and! up the Lone Little Path hurried! Peter Rabbit, 80 as to reach the| Laughing Brook before jolly, round, red Mr. Sun had wholly turned out | his light before going to bed behind the Purple Hille. He was hurrying! so that he almost ran into Unc’ Billy Possum, “Yo' seem to be in a powerful hurry, Brer Rabbit,” said Unc’ Billy. “I am,” replied Peter, “I must get down to the Laughing Brook before dark.” “Pears to Me it must be mighty impo'tant to make yo’ hurry this away.” “It is,” replied Peter Rabbit. to keep me from going crazy.” Unc’ Billy looked at Peter very hard for a few minutes, just as if he thought that Peter was crazy ak ready, Then he put a hand behind one ear, just as if he was hard of hearing. “Ah beg yo’ pahdon, Brer Rabbit, but Ah doan seem to have it quite right in mah haid what yo'all am going down to the Laughing “It's Brook for,” said Unc’ Billy,, in the politest way. 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