The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1920, Page 11

ar. 1 a5 “i JStory! ; * By 1 Cleland Srallle te Page 167 THE FIRE BRIGADE DOES ITS WORK WwW IT want you to, know that it was a serious situa- on. The little schoolhouse stood Way Off to Itself—too far away _ from our homes to get any help | from our parents “And what was more, our fath @Fs Were all either clearing or honting or at some other work Which took them away from home. “The Indian village was down ‘on the beach farther still from us @nd if the school burned tn that Wind it not only would destroy our hard-gotten schoolhouse but OB) tt might start a fre which would | SB @eatroy our homes as well. “The = teacher's face turned white as chalk. ‘Get your dinner Pails and the water bucket? she ‘ried, ‘and Work fast? “Up on the roof went a boy, Mike a squirrel up a hickory nut tree. “"Pass ‘em up? he yolled, and | “Wwe were, inside of two minutes, & well organized fire brigade fighting a fro with little tin pails J and little hands and feet. The _ feet few, I can tell you, and the hands were busy. “I guess the roof wasn't very Gry; the flames would burst out, ‘and—splash! the boy on the roof | Would squash it. “Before he wag fairly turned around it would break out @ foot or 80 away, “You see, all the time the fire in the stove was roaring away and the flames were keeping up that mischief, #0 that the under side of the thing was getting worm, “I don’t know whether it was the teacher or one of the boys who thought of it first, but I know | that it took us some time to re- alize ft, and it looked as if we'd lose our schoolhouse, “But after an hour's hard work jand a lot of running back and forth we got the fire out, and the teacher told us we might go home “I rode that same olf white horse I told you about back and forth from school, and I tell you what, I was glad of tt that day, for Pioneer legs get tired as well jas any othet kind.* “And you saved the school- house and everything.” David sighed. “Don't you think, honest Injun, Mr, Frank, that ‘those were the days of real sport’ like | in the funny/paper?”* “Well, David, I'm not saying Td change with you, now that I have had it aff but when you grow up you'll find that you'll have a bunch of stories of your own. It's remembering the inter- esting things that counts.” waeeene ADVENTURES OF THE Olive Roberts began to whimper, Floppy Field-Mouse came ing in from school. Mr. Mun- leMouse was washing up at ge and his wife was just “lifting” soup. | Floppy was dreadfully hungry, be Si as you yw, he hadn't had a to sn over to the corn . for all he had lipped away | Inder the schogimaster’s very nove je and Mt Mole had been fight like sillits, and the time had os The noon bell had driven n home. Floppy began to whimper, the only he could think of for cover ng his swollen eye with his hand or dear™ Mrs, Mouse set down of soup quickly and took him her knee. “What's the matter Mother's lovins-dovin: r. Mouse dried his face and paws rolier towel and didn’t say a Flop, looking out of, the tall his good eye, noticed this un . What he was after was covering his swollen eye with always count on his mother. But something had mineed fire some where with his daddy. “Hmf, hmf, hmf™ he asniveled, “That old Mr. SertbbleScratch ts —#0 mean! about earthworms? And mosquito bites? And everything.” “Don't worry, dartin’,” Mrs. Mouse. “The old leesons don't matter, What did the schoolmaster say? | Now perhaps Floppy didn't do it just on purpose (I ‘can't say for sure), but just at that minute he let the corner of the hanky slip down from his eye—the onb Mgsfy Mole | had punched—and Mi Mouse waw it “Munch,” she shrieked, | That awful schootmaster has— | You march over there right away and tepd to him.” But Munchie just aat down calmly | and began to eat his soup. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS The Mischief Makers TERE was a dreadful time on the “2 Green Meadows and in the _ Green Forest. Oh, dear, dear, dear! really was dreadful! First Sammy had been accusel of screaming night and keeping honest little and forest people awake they wanted to sleep. And all Then Out Would Pop Une’ ” Billy's Sharp Little Face the time Sammy hadn’t made a ‘Then fitickytoes the Treetoad been accused of being no! all the time he wag sitting wit bis mouth closed as tight as tight ould be. Sammy Jay had moved away to the Old Pasture, but no on Delleved that, for they still heard his Police in the night, and #aid that he ‘was hiding during the day, Sticky toon had worried himself almost sick because no one would” be! hitn “when he said that he hadn't made a » gound. All this was bad enough, but now things were so much worse that it was getting #o that no one would bave anything to do with any one | Those who had been the very of friends would pass without speaking. You #6@, everybody on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest knows everybody else by their voice. So when Jimmy Skunk, happening along near the Smiling Pool, heard Mrs. Redwing’s voice, he didn't waste any time trying to see Mrs. Redwing. Instead, “he went straight over and told Johnny Chuck the unkind things that he had over. heard Mrs, Redwing saying about Johnny, In the same way Bobby Coon heard the volce of Blacky the Crow in Farmer Brown's cornfield, and when Bobby listene? he heard some things not at all nice about himself. And #0 it was all over the Green Mead- ows and thru the Green Forest, It seemed as if almost everybody was heard talking about some one else, and never saying nice things. The, only one who still managed to keep on good terms with everybody was Unc’ Billy Possum. No one ever heard him saying unkind things about the “ethers, and #0, because now there were so few others to talk to, everybody was glad to see Une’ Billy coming, and he soon was the best liked of all the littie meadow and forest people, He went about trying to smooth out the troubles, and to see him you never, never would have guessed that he had any- thing to do with making them. My, y, no indeed! But every night when the moon was up Unc’ Billy would have a caller, who would come and sit out side the doorway of Une’ Billy's house and scream “Thief! thief! thief!” Then dut would {pop Une’ Billy's sharp Uttle face, then his fat little body would follow, and he and his friend with the long tail and the sharp eyes, for of course you have guessed that that is who it was, would put their heads together and laugh and chuckle as if they were How can I do probiems) noothed | “come | right here and look at your son’) fil 14 jf AD WEDLOCKED "VE Gor A STRIKE, ANNIE THE SEATTLE STAR WELL, ELMER, WHAT Do You 3av.? Tom, ou'rRé A carol a || KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES UNK MR OBLOTS REAL ESTATE AGENT WANTS To SEE You! Ta. tt > 4 T HOPE || JusT TH PLACE For ‘You! HE'S DEAUTIFUL HOUSE, FOUND |IWONDERFUL GROUNDS, , & Hone | GREAT LOCATION! FoR us! 1 musT By ALLMAN U GV, wave Pur IM ALITTLE Too MUCH Yeasr,1 guess! |) ‘ISN'T HE A OANDY ? 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