The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1920, Page 13

q THURSDAY, OCTORER 14, 1920. ar continued, “that it seemed | Dest not to let me walk to school eo I rode this same old white horse “And jogging along to schon! 1 Thought a good deal about th hornets, and tried to work out gcheme to finish them “I thought about pouring hot Dut, of co and I we en my ee, that was too risky hot water thought grass and A apill the dosides 1 about setting Durning out the whole business, but too much ting the as I told you, I'd been taught about the danger of ts afire to rink th net at | I planned } “So day after day and every time anybody got stung I got a little madder at the whole hornet family. “A hornet is a mean thing to be mad at, too; it's do hard to fight. You can't pu you can't ste can’t stick pins in him, you can't pinch him or throw rocks at him h him in the head, on his toe, you you can't even stick out your tongug at him—he only probably would jump in and sting 00 / Around and around marched the pupfis of Meadow Grove school, with | Nancy leading, Nick playing the time ‘on his mouth-organ, and Mr. Sertbble | Scratch tapping Gesk. It was very fine marching, In} spite of the difference in the legs ‘of the pupils. Greenie Grasshopper just took one leap to an aisle, leaping | over the heads of those in front and | then waiting until he could faji in| line again; Buddy Blue Bottle's weren't bigger'n the eye of @ needle, | and Cutle Cottontail had to watch | with all his might so he wouldn't hop | on top of some of the little ones and Mash them | Markie Muskrat, tho, was in a| Peck of trouble, with his moath full of chewing-cum and no place to put it but a hollow in his. cheek. To make it worse, ry timfe he started to sing the song about the mosquito and the fish, his mouth gftarted to ‘water. He'd have thrown the chew: | ing-gum away, only how could he| With everybody watching—five extra | Story Foo water in every nest I could find, | it ie! kecene Around and around marched the pupils of Meadow Grove Soalttl (eg * + > mel Page 181 THE HORNETS NEST 46] WAS so Bittle,” the stranger “No, air; you've got to think up a brand new stunt ff you get even with a hornet. Well, one day I was jogging along peacefully go ing home from school, hardly thinking about anything, a# a boy will, not planning or scheming, just sort of josxing e. when bing! a hornet got me right on my bare foot. ‘Mad? I was fust about the maddest boy you ever saw, “Not far ahead of me I saw the and screaming ‘TN fix you for that? I whack and rode him straight Into nest gave my horse a the nest. “Fut then, again, those pesky things showed what mean dispo sitions they had. “I thought that big horse could trample them to death in an tn stant “And so he could, but they were so mean they wouldn't stay there to be stepped on, and before I knew it we were In the thick of it, a cloud of angry hornets sting ing both horse and rider till we were all but frantic. “We got home, all rieht: I didn’t fall off, and we both got over it it tan't a good way to kill ones, you know, as the schoo! board was visiting that day? But after a while the little musk- rat bey forgot about his troubles the words of the marching song, more especially the jast verse, which went like this: “Mr. Fish a-ewimmin’ tn the brook fo very near, Heard the skeeter’s son, and then swam clore go he could bear, ‘Thought it was so fine he up and swallowed it, my dear, As we go maching on” Markie's mind dwelt most particw | and) happened | He began to} think he had Mr. Fish in his mouth,! larly om two words—"fish” “swallowed"—and what then was very natural, instead ot just chewing-gum, and, be fore he knew it, he gave a big gulp. Down went the gum, only it stack in his throat and Markie choked alarm. ingly. (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A) BY THORNTON » Why Or M gaa oe RABBIT pad asked O1'| Mistah Buzzard to please tefl him why he had a red or Mistah Buzzard had cle his throdt as if he was going to begin a/ Jong story, then he had coughed once "or twice, and finally he told Peter that he would think about it and to come the next day So the next day Peter was on hand, and with him were Johnny Chuck and Jimmy Skunk, and striped Chipmunk, and Panny Meadow Mouse, and Billy Mink, and Happy Jack Squirrel, and @ lot more of the little meadow and forest people, tor Peter Rabbit had the word along that Ol Mis fah Buzzard was going to tell a story, and no one was going to miss | at. “Once upon a time,” began Ol Mistah Buzzard, “a long time ago, a very long time ago, Ol’ Grandpap| Buzzard was sitting by hisself on a! fall dead pine tree way down Souf. Grandpap Buzzard was feeling mighty peart. Yeu, sah; he sho'ly was feeling mighty peart. Yo’ see, he had beaten Ol’ King’ Eagle fying. He had flown out of sight straight up fn the sky and had gone so high that the sun had burned ali the feathers offen his head, had Grand- | pap Buzzard. So, in spite of his sore head, Grandpap Buzzard was feeling | Mighty with hisself. He chuckled as he thought how plumb foolish Ol King Eagle had looked. “He was still chuckling when he’ Moticed a great fuse over in the of the woods, He could hear or | King Eagle a-screaming, and he knew by the sound that Of King was feeling powerful put out xe gomething. Bo Grandpap , Buzzard gust «pread his wings and sated over to see what it all nt. When he got there he found that Ol King! Eagle was feeling mean, just as Mean as pizen, and he was wletting ome of it out on poor I'l Mistah Bparrer Hawk, because Mistuh Spar- wer Hawk bed lenebed ot Ol King - W. BURGESS Eagle when he lost the race to Grandpap Buzzard "Now, Grandpap Bugard had Jong claws and a hooked bill, just like Ah has mah own self, but they never were meant fo’ Eagle's didn’t stop to think about that! like that bother him none. why? Hawk being knocked aroun’ by Ol’ King Eagle, “So Grandpap Buzzard didn’t wait! tree Grand: , irandpap to fo’ to pass the time of day, but Jen’! to bronk away and fly off Mah goodness | jumped right in, sakes alive! Ah ‘aspects that was one of the worst mixups that ever was seen! They hammered each other with thelr wings, and they scratched each other with their claws, and they “Then OV Mother Nature gave him a new name.” pulled the feathers outen each other with their Ms, “Li'l Mistah Sparrer Hawk, he jes’ crawled plumb out of sight in a hol- ler tree, wheve he was wafe. Now, orthe result of the explosion of an|thomsands of homes. ‘Grandpap Buzzard never did betievel oti etoye. No one was injured. the time on his| The reason was that his mind got on) PAGE 13 THE SEATTLE STAR (Drawings by Grove) WILL ROGERS (HIMSELF )— IN “WOT’S NEWS TODAY?” | _ Kwan's JJ. ters 4 Go00"’ SJ BRYAN O10 “THAT FOR ™ | ae HEY i. “ > / 1OBA HAROIDG S mat O-LYy OiePreRmwce “ Cad \ —! Gort = MAKIN [WOU HAVE TO GOTO HAROINGS \ (POTECH “TO HBAR Hil — AUD YOU HAD “TO SHUT YOUR Own wreowT DOCK “TO ‘“ KEEP FROM 4) rimeATe iD DOINGS OF THE DUFFS {| Neo, mes. DoFF? Tuts 1S MRS, WALKER Helen Has a Telephone Call. By ALLMAN heavens! Svch A CONVERSATION IP You Must Have HAD A WONDERFUL “Time ~ DID You DRIVE Alt OF THE WAY ? JUST A MINUTE Puease~ No You CAN’T Wave AN ORANGE RIGHT Ao ~ You RUN OUTSIDE You Wave? wwer Dip You Get BaK? Jusr A MINUTE PLEASE - DAWNY WILL You PLEASE Leave TWAT WicTRoLA ALowe ! On, THE THOMPSONS WENT WI You? Yes, mey'RE GREAT COMPANY ~ 15 THAT ! $0? Goon For Her! | You Don*y Tere me! JUST A MOMENT PLEASE: NES, Taxe (T ANO Go OUT SDE WITH (T AMD BREAK IT UP 1 You want To BuT Go RIGHT AWAY | OW, HeLLo, mes, WALKER! JUST Wow ARE You? SOUNDS. Good To HEAR Your. Voce. Acam! FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS SAV! DoVou BAS know WUE UME Ir I? QUICK Now, OFF To By BLOSSER | ei ZZ AW, DLEATE CON, SUNBO, UIAK [PT OVER SPEAK FoR fr. CANIS WE STAY UD "TUL WLP Das'T KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES TS YOO THINK MR JONES WOULD WEAR Oh! That's Different ALLRIGHT THATS BETTER, ALLRIGHT, REMEMBER WE ALOYSIUS PIMGINIS COR IGNORANCE IS APPALLING: BAWLIN ME OUT Socks! THE IDEA OF TAN SOCKS AT AN * MUST DRESS 9 eran HAVENT ‘You READ THAT WEARING TAN Socks Evening arrain? | | TL SMNGE WS Goon , |] Lon! WOU SINT. | Paris HAS DECREED THE a ITH EVENING CERTAINLY NOT! EM. TASTES GMAT ALI! STOCKING LESS FooT FoR CLOTHES!" — | Weil, Voee t ALWAYS GeT “Two SEATS FOR MYBELF WHEN 160 A SHOW: BUTLAST, WIGHT MY “Wo SEATS WERE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF “THE AISLE! istah Buzzard Has a Red Head} fighting Ol King| But Grandpap Buzzard, he! No, | sah; he wasn't letting a little thing | Because!) . my Because his dander had rix nd pr payer when he saw po’ li'l Mistah Sparrer| King Bugle he waa keeping one eye| ( All the tiny a-pounding OF Grapo Maker Loses Two Days’ Profit Pleading guilty manufacture of three gulions of grapo set F. ok the first chance | tramada back a couple of days’ court Wednes- GET on li'l Mistah Sparrer Hawk, and as soon a he was safe in the holler! w profits in the federal He was fined “Ol King Bagle, he screamed, day, ‘Coward! Coward’ just like that, because Grandpap wouldn't «tay and fight. But Grandpap Buzzard didn’t} have any quarrel with Ol King Eagle now that li'l Mistah Sparrer Hawk was safe, so he just let O King! Eagle enjoy bisselft hollering. } “When Grandpap Buzzard got back | to his ol dead tree, he found his po’! head, which had been very tender where Mr. Sun burned the feathers off when he beat Ol’ King F » in} the race up into the sky, had been so scratched and clawed in the fight that it was bleeding so that it was all red, ‘Long comes Ol Mother Nature jes’ then and she say: ‘Mis- tah Buzzard, Ah am going to give yo" | @ red head, and yo’ chillen shall | have red heads jes’ to shame Ol King Eagle and his chillen fo’ bully | | | | | < CRIMSON RAMBLER MELCMAR SYRUP with Pancakes DELICIOUS! a ‘youll be’ SUIPTISC ER & LANO — many have been helped through the careful application of O. G. C.—and you too can be relieved of your Goitre if you give O. G. C.'a fair trial. | don't suffer the discomforts and embarrassments of a Goitre any longer — and by all means don’t pay hundreds of dollars for a dangerous surgical operation for the removal of your Goitre, when O, G, C. can be obtained for such a small expenditure, One of our patients, after using O. G. C., wrote us as follows: Dear Sirs: 1 was troubled for several years with Gottre, was unable to breathe freely and could not sleep when lying on my back. 1 heard of this cure and decided to try tt. After following directions, my Goitre was reduced nearly one-half inch in fificen days, I used two and a cy 4 botiles of the Cure and can truthfully say my Goitre is GONE, J cannot speak too well of this wonderful eure, MRS.W. S. McINTYRE Address given upon request. 1 hereby make statement of the fact that O. G.C. Gottre Seedy saved the cost of an expensive operation and procured sired resulls in the case of my w id results in the case of my wife. we MeINTYRE | ing po’ li'l Mistah Sparrer Hawk.’ And that is how Ah comes to have a red head,” concluded Ol Mistah Buzzard, proudly You don't have to wait to know that Resinol Ointment is going to overcome your skin trouble. It gives such quick relief from the itching and burning and 80 generally succeeds in clearing away was damaged $590 the eruption that, with Resinol Soap, Next story: Why OF Mistah Bus- zard’s Cousin Has a Black Head €. F. KENNEDY'S HOME at 203 Fifth ave. N CONT by fire at 11 p. m, Wednesday 48 it is the standard skin treatment in Write ‘for full particularsleaflet, ete. Dept CC 0, G, GHEMICAL CO,, Seattic, Washington Reskno! products told by all druggist, =|