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are Statlle a A Very Realistic Dream. OP bd Gee, Wao AN Antoun. DREAM! q's Page 168 THE OLDEST PIONKER TELLS A STORY res tho Oldest Pioneer talk- ing. ‘He wasn't telling a story to the at all—he was talking to her, and Aunt Ellen sat ‘dy listening. And on the floor not far away & purzie, and this is what Overheard him say. They forgot the purzle and else, for it wasn't the f Btory people usually teil folke—it didn’t sound like a unded like something ml be reading out of a/ Pioneer ts growing is much older than her, jou know), and Grandmother said some. to him about New York, he Duke of York?" he said, yes, he was a bad Indian, bt t; always seemed to me to Be @ tricky fellow; had lots of too, but I never trusted ‘ T was Indian Agent on Island a queer thing hap- ‘The Indians rarely had ) Money, but one day the of York’ came up to me gaid, ‘Nika hyas chickamin’ Money is big). ‘no caf use, Mamook tenas’ (white chief ful treatment B Field Mouse looted tn borrt -_ t. at ber husband, calmly eating his soup. “@ould he, when bis own son crying with an Injured eye! ly, when Flop had almost them that Mr. Scribble-Scratch, ) fairy schoolmaster, was the of it. Of course, he didn’t say 0, exactly, but—well, he think so anyway. How p know that Nick, the attend: | at the Meadow Grove Ja wary had seen bie father and je @ report that morning about Muffy Mole playing truant. Mouse, I should like to what you mean by allowing Swtul treatment of your own im.” screamed Mrs. Mouse. “Do Intend to let that dreadful fairy- 0 without a word? no, I guess not,” answered Quietly reaching for « soe mook tenaa weght,’ he sald, tn hiv guttural voloe, ‘No can use hyas chickamin; Indian use tenas (amall) chiekamin, “This time he handed me three of the coins, and he looked sul- len and queer, “Then I questioned him a It. tle, but I'd Uke to ee any one get anything he didn’t want to tell out of an Indian, “I didn't see him for a week or two, but somebody from up: Sound came in with the story of a drifting canoe and a white man's body washed up on the shore sev: eral miles from the place, “It looked queer to me; I tried in every way I could to-get some trace of who the drofned man might be, but I mever learned. “After a time the ‘Duke of York’ came again, and he came again, and always he had money to change and always it was $20 gold Meces. “We had no local newspapers then, no detective force, no blood hounds and no legal net to catch criminals, and the “Duke of York’ lived on and I couldn't prove a thing. “But—I am ae sure as can de that this ts what happened: “The lone men who came up here from California came in the spirit of adventure. They had no home ties, they traveled without luggage “And carried all they owned on their persons, And— they used $20 gold pieces as the easiest thing to carry. The Indian took them out, ecting as a guide, robbed them and murdered them and ‘| <heigho! I guess ‘tie the usual lot juree.” of an advent: to know what you meah by allowing this of your own son,” screamed Mrs. Mouse. get your spelling? I met Mike Mole and he sys sfuff got © hupdred on his spelling paper today.“ "Oh, he didn’t at QUI” dented Flop stoutly.” “He didn’t get a hundred any more than I did.” “I must have ‘made a mistake then,” went es Munchie, “It was his number paper I guess.” “He didn't either!” deni-d Flop. “He didn’t know how to do the earth-worm problem any more than I did. All he could do was to eat He ate worms until I thought he'd bust (Flop said Busth The storm! |brought ‘em up and Muff didn't} |have to hunt at all. They seemed! {9 be hunting for him instead, And he wouldn't move an inch and 1) |couldn’t get out of the hole and—"| He stopped suddenly, realizing that | he had let the cat out of the bag. | “Why, Flop Field Moune!” cried! | his mother in surprise ‘and dropping | | him off her lap. “Munch, go get a f. “Flop, how come you can't! bireh-rod at once.” . (Copyright, 1970, N. K. A.) wee SLOLICS Sef nu Le BY THORNTON: W. BURGESS Bobby Coon Makes a Discovery COON had overslept. Usu- ) ally Bobby is astir shortly after Found, red Mr. Sun has gone to behind the Purple Hills. But is very irregular in his habits. very fond of traveling about in night, is Bobby Coon, and when sleeps the greater part of t once in while he takes vel about by daylight, does that, why, of to sleep part of the Bobby Coon fs very lucky, in- for he can see tn the dark, and has no such trouble in steing broad daylight. as ddey Hooty | 1. ; night of which I am telling Bobby Coon had overslept be- he had not gone t middie of the day. He bout and getting | all of the night before, and had marted for hore until folly, red Mr. Sun was smiling down right overhead. By this time Coon had sticks in his eyes. Was so sleeply that it seemed to that he never, never could get . He was stumbling along thru Green Forest when he came to a log, What do you think he did? Why, he crawled in there and in two minutes was fast asleep, just Be comfortable as if he had been in bis own holiow tree. ‘There Bobby slept all the rest of the day and until jong after Mr. Sun had pulled on his rosy night Per- he would have slept there all night if he hadn't been waked up, It ‘was the cry of “Th Thief! Thiet” that waked him. It reemed to come from right over his head. “Sammy Jay ought to be ashamed | of himself, waking honest people like i’ muttered Bobby Coon as he med and stretched, At first he In't think where he was, Then Femembered. He was just getting dy to crawl out of the hollow log m he heard something which of made hiin stop and try to sit up 80) suddenly that he bumped hts head. What he heard was the voice of Un | Billy Possum, and he knew by the sound that Unc’ Billy was sitting on the very log in which he himself was | hiding, “This ie the greatest joke that ever | was! sald Unc’ Billy. “Pretty soon! nobody on the Green Meadows or in| | the Green Forest will speak to any-| | body else excepting me. Yo" cert'nly have got all yo’ ol’ tricks with yo.” “Yes,” replied a voice which Bobby | Coon had never heard before, but which he knew right away must be long to some one who had come from way down South, where Une’ Billy | | | | » “Don't yo’ worry. Noboddy | is gwine to fénd yo’ out.” Possum and Ol Mistah Buzzard haa [ale come from. “Yes,” said the voice, | “Ah done got all mah ol’ tricks, and some more, But it’s easy, Une’ Billy; it's easy to fool yo’ new friends, be | cause Ah reckon they never have been footed this-a-way before, Doan yo’ think it is most time to stop? Ah don't want to show myself in day Meht, Besides, if Ah'm found out, nobody ain't gwine to have anything jother peop | awake as he listened, Une’ Billy, but all he Gould see was oucte~porr LS \ Sad ARBBE UE WoyLd DIE ~oh-hh KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES APARTMENT! (hs JUST} | AS SWELL AS THE OTTO AUTO OMYEM> THATS ALL SETTLED- T@or bas” our or rvs AFFORD IT CLARICE! BUT DUST LOOK 4T THE ROOMS, YOU HAVENT SEEN THEM! THEYRE WONDERFUL! : Vi to do with me.” “Don't yo" worry. to find out. We'll keep it up tivo longer. Y rt'n al good at imitating ‘# voices, Ah wonder that OF Mistah Buzzard hasn't got his eye on yo’ before now,” said Unc’ Billy Possum. Nobody's gwine had become wide He tried hard to get a peep at the stranger with hers, Hobby wait nd his friend had hollow log, and he was chuckling to himself. “Tl just have a Iittle talk with Ol EPILEPSY i, STOPPED Sri: EPLEPTIC REMEDY. 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