The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1920, Page 11

ri find ther. e fy Mabel Cleland Page 183 A LONG-AGO PICNIC 46] T WAS after T was getting to bad just auch a good time as 4 de what we callad a young |Party Of youngaters today might have, and by and by it was time Nady. in the early days Twas 14} 10°C, “Nome We were all good Or 15 yeare olf, We got UP &/saiiora, and no one thought of Bionic over at Freeport (it is West) foar as we settled into our places Seattle now, but we called it Free. | 4d set out for home, port in those days. But our calmness could not last “Well, we got our little, crowd | long; the wind blew harder and together and started off; not on| harder; what had been little the street car ag you would, of | Whitecaps Became great foarm- course; there weren't any; nor on | Crested waves, } os & ferry-boat, either; the only way | “Ansty waves that tore at ua was in a cance, and let me tel! | tke sea monsters, and our little you children it is much more of a | Boat was utterly powerlens against trip in @ canoe than it seems as | them. you take it now. “Drenched with spray, shiver. “Phe weather was fine and we |'ng with terror, and cold with ot over there early enough, but, | Snxlety, we strained cur eyes like all picnics, after we were | looking for help, there there didn’t ps oak, “But all about us waa only the Hie Go art go on to toe Mlakely | FO8F of the wind ahd the answer- Mili," ana into the cance we piled, | MS sullen roar of the sea. and started off again. }. “I do not know, of courre, how “Blakely 1 high those waves ran, but it * mitt yg Ry eg “a oak et | seemed to me thelr foam create Dat time: it wan over on Bain. | Wee 50 feet high, and you can Taland, and we thought ic | Just imagine how we felt being Mould be fine to take the trip | seed bout in such a sca, all by ourselves. “At last some men in a life-boat “We scarcely noticed an we put | Pit Us ‘out from shore that a wind was| “But 1 never was so mad in my fising and that instead of the | lite; they came #0 slowly to our @mooth water of an hour earlier | rescue that we thought surely we saucy little whitecaps were be | Should be drowned before they to show themselves; 1|Teached ux think probably we shouldn't have| “They took us only as far as hesitated if we had seen it-—we | Freeport (Went Seattle) and from had decided to go to the big mill,/ there we hired another boat for and we were going. It was a/$10 to take us across to our _ §reat day for a good time, and we | homes and our anxious parents,” RaeKAL ADVENTURES bai Py eg LA, rion A Ouol and Judge Crow listened attentively to every speech. 00d boy Markle is today. | " ‘200 thig month Chucky ate him, too, so that wag all ‘on being good | Of he.” mt Then he bobbed his head with a Jerk, which Was intended for a bow, and took his seat. Mr. Owl and Judge Crow breathed More easily when he'd gone, Chipple Chipmunk came next, This | Was his speech: | nat (0 | “Nute are aweet and good to ent; Acorns, too, are fine, ‘Mr. Ow! and Judge Crow But of all the goodies in the world, Uetened ely to every speech, but when ‘was Cobby Coon’s turn to come up and speak, quite close to the| “That's @ good boy! beamed Mr. visitors, they didn’t look awfully Owl “Who's next?" happy, and Judge Crow nudged Dr. - “Markie Muskrat!” called Scribble Mink to move over, which he did Scratch, and Markie immediately /Dhete was 4 great scraping of chairs, tried to get up. But he couldn't _ and after everything was quiet, Cob-| move an inch. Something was hold By began, first licking his lips and | ing him in his seat as tight a9 wax, Whitkérs, This was his speech: i (Copyright, 1920, N. KE. A) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Happy Jack Squirrel Drops a Nut 'APPY JACK SQUIRREL sat| should have a single one Now, ‘way out on the Up of one of the | Chatterer in short-tempered and a highest branches of a big hickory | great scold. Some one or something tree. Happy Jack was up very early | bad upset him this morning, and he t morning. In fact, jolly, reund,| Was scolding as fast as his tongue i Mr. Sun Was still in bed behind could go as he came running right Purple Hilla when Happy Jack | toward the tree in which Happy Jack briskly out of bed. He wae sitting Happy Jack sat per- d himself thoroly and was all| fectly stil] and watched. He didn’t for business by the time Mr.| ™ove so much as the tip of hia big n began hjs climb up the biue, blue | «ray tall. Would Chatterer go past Ky. }and not see that big tree full of You sea, Happy Jack had found a | DUA? big hickory tree just loaded with| Would, for he was so busy scolding nuts, all ripe and ready to gather.| that he wasn’t paying much atten He was quite sure that no one ¢lye | on to other things. found that special tree, and he| Happy Jack smiled ag Chatterer to get all the nuts before any | found out about them, Se) ready, and off he raced to the tree just as soon as it was light ! They're al) for met en the ground im covered with | mow hese nuts will keep me from hunger, you know, Happy Jack was humming this Uittie song as he rested for a few minutes way up in the top of the tree, and wondered if his storehouse | ‘would hold ali these big, fat nuts. Just then he heard a great scolding & little way over in the Green Forest, Happy Jack stopped humming and Mstened. He knew that voice. It ‘Was bis cousin's voice—the voice of | Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Happy | “ !” eri \ BEI trench ** “there ho, eat My starel” cried Chatterer. come over this way,” muttered Hap. | came running under the tree without py Jack, He does not love his| once looking up. ke was so tickled cousin Chatterer anyway, and then| that he started to hug himself, and there was the big tree full of hick- | didn't once remember that he was ory nuts, such beautitul, fat hickory | holding a big, fat out in his hands, futs, He didn’t want Chatterer to Of course, he dropped it, and where do you think it went? Well, wir, it feli straight down, down from the| eelfish. There were more nuts than| top of that tall tree and it landed | he could possibly eat in one winter, | right smack on the head of Chatter “and yet he wasn't willing that his|er the Red Squirrel. Gousin, Chatterer the Ked Squirrel, “My stars!” cried Chatterer, stop- Tam afraid that Happy Jack wan It looked very much ae if he © | most immediately, ria DOINGS OF THE DUFFS OW Rookie! 1° ENGAGEO i} ] To P€ Married! [an KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ID BETTER Drop IN AN PAY EDDIE SELZER THAT NE SPOT THE SEATTLE (Drawings by Grove) HARDING S MAKIN’ A LOTTA SPEECHES WROM WIG wrtowT THe RING ON MY FINGER! |} Wisy You ALL 7 “Tus HAPPINESS IW Ff 1™ woasd! jONpeR We iTS PAID FoR! y— He ASKED ME TONIGHT FOR } WELL THIS IS VERY 2, [ He RRST Te AND pur, SUDDEN, OLIVIA? My, a = T te PORCH f \ Olivia Breaks the Big News. He ones Live A bl Nouue Ano ugre ApereciaTes You | OM vELed, He's 5 A peerect pear! te Alek Is a Smooth Customer. No, TH’ BOS3 AINT \N, HE'S AWAY ON A I BORROWED TRIP WITH LAST MonTH! } There's buckwheat every time.” | {| OTTO AUTO | ‘ | } <. ping hig scolding and running to gether, and rubbing his head where the nut had hit him. Then he looked up to see where it had come from, | and, of course, he looked right straight at Happy Jack “You did tha€ purposely!” screamed Chattorer, his short temper flaring | DP. “{ didn’t!” snapped Happy Jack. “You did!” | “1 didn't!” | Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Such a sight! Two little squirrels, one in a gray | suit and one in @ red sult, contra dicting each other and calling names. It was such a sd aight, for you know, they were cousins, Next story: The Quarrel, | INT” THAT IS FATAL TO CORNS Chemist's Discovery Cansea Them | to Dry Up and Fall Off If you want to be rid of corns and calluses, simply paint them with the preparation known as Cactus Corn mmpound. This “paint,” the dis covery of a chemtat, ends the pain al and in a@ short time the corn or eallug dries up and falls off. 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