The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1920, Page 11

FF oP Nn om 64 ! * _By Mabel Cleland _» Page 166 A PIONEER FIRE BRIGADE «Or oh! ohm said Porgy. “Did they kill the baby Indians, Mo? I'm glad I didn’t live with those people, aren't you, Davie?” ] “You betcha, I'm not!" Dayid anawered. ‘OUld've been a Pioncer. Seems ‘ee if they had everytning: Indians | Bnd horses to ride, bears to shoot ed guns and cances and nobody raid about them in the water, FARA no school to bother with and" _ “Hold on, young man—not so “fast,” interrupted the Port Town: gent man. “Not so fast. “Bnd indeed we did go to school, We didn't have shiny desks ink wells in front and seats dust fitted us, either; nor any heat and ventilating system @rinking feuntains and stat- and beautiful pictures on the @h, no! my lad! hone of these things, but we to go to school just the same. “Our first school was a little, Wee bit of building with a little for heat, no chimney to the stove pang Just the stove pipe stick _ ing out of the root. '. “There were seven of us chil- in that school—all the white there were in Port Town. ‘wend at that time. Our teacher) young lady from Victoria, e@ sat on straight-backed of wood and our short dangled down uncomforta- went to the water bucket the door for a drink of water “I always did wish | Indeed | Pioneers | and all used the same dipper, We carried our lunches to school in Un pails, too, “One windy day when the air was cold and we had @ hot fire in the stove we were mighty glad of these dinner pails, We had all been out for the noon recess, had & wild game of prisoner's base, and came trooping tn panting and putting and tried to settle down to study, “The wind blew hard and the fire roared up the stove pipe. The teacher had all she could do to handle her big boys’ arithmetic class and keep the little ones em- ployed at the same time. And as I was sort of in between size I had a chance to look around, [ watched the pipe get hotter and hotter, red hot at the frst joint, red hot at the second, past the third! My, it went fast! Red hot all the way; then the ceiling be- gan to smoke. “ ‘Frank! The teacher spied me. “*Yossum,’ T answered, "Why aren't you studying? “"T was looking at the stove,’ I stammered. ‘I guess it's burn- ing up.’ “She looked up, and sure enough, the ceiling was smoking hot. “Run out and see how ft looks outside” she cried, and out we trooped, not like fire drill, we just went. And the draught from the opening waa all that waa needed. ‘The roof burst into famea. (To Be Continued) ekkKeAe ADVENTURES | OF cle eberte Berta, THE NOON BELL Dh, shucks!” said Flop in scrapping, Muff. what do you think? Instead Sf going “cooning” for corn. as he when playing truant, Fiela-Mouse stood wasting time quarreling with Mole. And while Muff was ft out with Flop, hundreds it, Juicy earthworms were sliding f under his very nose, the de things that he had planned hunting for, just as soon as) had slipped away from Mr. rf Seratch’s lessons in the Grove school. they stood, the two foolish calling each other names quarreling, and what was worse, each other a wallop whenever chance presented. Mr. Sun along and along. and the first | they knew a bell rang in the nf gasped Muff, lstening his ear to the ground “It's nd school's out, and I haven't f any hunting done at all. Now disgust. “I wisht we hadn't what shall I Go? It’s all your fautt™ worms don't go home for mocked Flop. “But I gotta go home for lunch! Tf I didn’t. Daddy would—would— well I fut gotta go.” Suddenty Flop grew sober, too. | He was in the same fix. Morning gone and no corn! His nose wiggied hongrily aw he thought of ft. Like | Muff, be bad to go home, becaust if he didn’t show up his Dad would: | would—well, his Daddy would, too. “Oh, shucks? he said in disgust “I wisht we hadn't been scrapping, Muff. Worms are all right, and I'm sorry I made fun of your tall, your tail you haven't got I mean. “And I'm sorry I made remarks about folks stealing corn,” Muff. “Say, Flop, your eye's «welled sha’ ‘The lunch,” round. What'll we do?” But folks were coming and they "had to run (Copyright, 1980, N. BE. A.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS The Meeting of Two Old Friends Une’ Billy Possum, looking up thru the alder branches, ‘& Ion® tail of feather he knew right away that it the tail of Sammy Jay, altho wher seemed to have the voice i Sammy Jay. Unc’ Billy knew just Uh ' “What are yo'all doing way of up here?” tall ft wax, Yes, ir; he knew tall, and it certainly did look to Unc’ Billy. He was so tick when he first saw it that for a te he couldn't say a word, Then ‘asd: “Doan yo'all think that yo’-all Rave joked enough?” Phat question stopped a cry of “Thief! right in the middle, and two eyes looked down sight into Ine’ Billy’ Une’ Billy was grin as he hadn't grinned since he his tarmily from way down Ol Virginny. “Why, Unc’ Billy een What yo’ all doing way up cried the owner of the long Bil and sharp eyes. “This is mah home now; Ah done up here,” replied Unc’ Billy. "Pears to me that the question In) . am yo'all doin’ way off up sharp cyes. Then both little rascals Hood's, Pills help—fine cathartic, | here? hear yo’ voice the other night, and ing fo’ yo’. Then Ah thought Ah was Mistaken, but now Ah reckon that Ah was right, after all. My, but Ah am right smart glad to see yo’ “Thank you, Une’ Billy,” replied the owner of the long tail and the sharp eyes, “Ah reckon yo’ can't be any more giad to seo me than Ab am to see yo’. Fact is, Ah wan get ting right smart lonesome. Ah done been lying iow daytimes, because, yo’ know, Ah'm 4 stranger up here, and Ab was afraid that strangers might Not be welcome in the Green Fores! and on the Green Meadows.” “"Peare like if all Ah hear am true, that yo’ haven't done much lying low nights. Ah reckon yo’ done make up fo’ those lonesome feelings. Yes, sah, Ah reckon #0. MAh goodness, man, yo’ done set everybody to run- ning arourid like they was crazy! exclaimed Une’ Billy. The owner of the long tail and sharp eyes threw back his head and laughed, and his laugh Was like the most beautiful music. It made Unc’ Billy feel good just listening to it, “Sammy Jay done moved away to the Ol’ Pasture on the edge of the Mountain, things were se unpleasant here, because everybody said he sereained ali night,” continued Unc’ Billy Possum, “He sat up al one night just to make eure that he didn't scream in his sleep, and he | didn’t make a sound the whole night |}long, The next mo'ning everybody | said that he had been screaming | just the same, and po’ Sammy Jay just moved away, Yo" ought to be ashamed to play such jokes.” Unc’ Billy grinned as he ald it. “Thiet! Thief!" came in Sammy of the owner of the long tail and id “Oh, Jiminee! cried Flop, dancing | “And your nose is a sight!| Jay's voice right out of the mouth | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Now DANNY, ) WAN'T You TO STAY IN “The Hovse UNTIL DADDY comes Home - YouRB ALL CLEANED UP AND | WANT You TO STAY ‘TuaAT WAY: Roan, ANNIE ft KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES | OTTO AUTO WELL DAG GAN THIS WART: EYE- <=FISH-KNEE BOLT: (T WONT Go ow ANY WAY BUT CROYS THREADED: AND THERE Aut ROOM EHOUGH UNDER HERE FOR A PLEATD CHANGE ITS HIND! You Pa KrTTy KELLY, See's Te WeETEST Giat TLL Sav Youre A HOT MECHANIC: LETA SIMPLE QOLT LIKE THAT STEP OW YouR BRAM CORNS » CMON ‘ OUT AND LEMME TAKE A Xl @:1m 1 Gt Ah thought Ah sho'ly done hanging | Ah most wore mah po' feet out look- | I" MoT SEWING, MY 1 KarrTT Wy Don’t you LET HIM Pass - wey Be $o MEAN ? How WOULD You LIke wuaT ARE You kur rinG? IF SOMEONE WOULDN'T A DETOUR [17 | GEE, NOW JUMBO G6r 4 00g Y BUN wri 7 CMERE JUMBo, il ¢ . P, 7 SWe AT A TINE LIKE THIS? 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