The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1920, Page 17

4 | f \| star, = Page 229 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL A 1. up and down Second ave. change! What an unbelievable all up and down First ave. | change” nd Third and Fourth and Fifth,| Peexy looked up quickly, be > Pike and down Pine, the stores | C808 she knew right away what guy With Christmas things—|Orendmother meant “Oh! and and glitter, and lovely) Yt! you tell us about tt tonight, tha, and sparkling frocks for| Grandmother? ‘Bout how f and high-heeled alippers| Ooked then right on this very for Cinderela, spot—and everything” People jostled and pushed each| Grandmother smiled down at Other tn their harry and children | 2% “Right on this very Apot, @ragged at the hands which tried | Perey-chid, was our schootyard, to draw tham on past the wonder. and then woods; woods every ful windows of toys, mashing | YD¢re about us! thelr noses fat against the great} “But we had our Christmas Blass panes which separated them | ‘2rilla, and Santa Claus found us from baby dolls, and wicker car. | Jost 4# @urely as he finds Iittle . | folks today. “Yoa, and we knew just as sure ty what we wanted, too, tho there was much leas In the windowa* David said, “Grandmother, one thing I always wanted to know about was the ‘Elephant Store.’ Most every time I see street pio tures of early days in Seattle I see that sign. What was the Ele phant Store? Did they sell elo phants?” “No, that was one of the first places the city had which was bad @ertal trains which traveled endlessly found and round past the toy sta- tions, Gran@mother didn’t burry Pee: &y and David, because she had) come down town just specially to| Jet them see it all, and then, you know, Grandmother is the sort of person who remembers just how ‘&@ fellow feels, and even while the Kiddies were exclaiming over things they saw and she was cry- ing, “Yes, dear,” and “Isn't it!" and that sort of things to their} enough to be ‘raided’ and be o her thoughts were run-| @use I wasn't a very big girt I ming beck and forth thru the) didn’t know, either, what was bad Christmases when she was little; About It; but there was the San and Seattle was lUttle, and she! Francisco Store, with furniture said right out loud, almost with-| and lots of things.” ‘Out intending w, “What a (Te Be Continued Reteee “Oh! Oh!” cried the little boy, hoppitg around on his “It’s a trap, and I'm caught!” "4 ~~ at thetr dam. Bud told me that the | family built it. Isn't it curious the | Way it's made of logs and twigs and | mud! It's strong, too, to hold all that water back.” They looked at the dam for awhfle, at least all they could see of it from the top of the water, and were just about to turn away and go back, | Uhings came together on one of Nick's feet like the strong jaws of a “Ob! Oh? erted the little boy, hop i= around on hie free foot and | trying to get loose. “It's a trap, and) } Ob, oh, goodness! It) began to hop around, too, Wee, Ween, I've Gor A SuRPRISa FOR You Tomecur! cf aS DOINGS OF THE DUFFS THE SEATTLE STAR } Love surprises! || A surr! wuar is iT? ri OW, IT Looks Fine, tom! Loox me over! Ny WILL ROGERS (HIMSELF )— HOw’ ANOTHET? NEw OTAR HAD BEEN LOCATED By A Lavy THe MARYATD ASTIZONOM\ Cat DOATED <“T He POSGrTION \ Ee THe STARS e- ‘ K 3 A FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS : Soe ein at (TLL Soon BF CuRISTMAS Any SWRA WE Won't warty Meadow Mouse, Oh, my,.no! It was! the voice of Reddy Fox. Yeu, air; it was the voice of Reddy Fox. He had tanded with one of his black J. W. Lees Head of Waterway District Need $955,000 for Alaska Railway Job) On his way to Washington, where ‘Danny Remembers, Bhd goes” cried old Gran- ny Fox. “Don't let him sit again” * “I bear him” shouted Reddy Fox, plunged down into the snow just Granny Fox had done a minute But he didn't catch any- and when he had blown the out of his nose and wiped it of his eyes, he saw Granny Fox into the snow with no better long as we keep him running we hear him, and some one of these we'll catch him, He'll get too d to be so spry pretty soon, and mn he is—* Granny didnt’ fin- but licked her chops and smack- her lips, Reddy Fox grinned, then 4 his chops and smacked his ‘Then once more they took diving into the snow, - And down underneath, in the Mttle he had built, Danny Meadow was running for his life. He getting tired, just as old Granny x had said he would. He was al- out of breath. He was sore, and one leg started, for in one of T y: first day after the snow came, for (= jumps old Granny Fox had so dy caught him that her claws had | his pants and scratched him, “Oh, dear! Oh, dear! If I only time to think!” panted Danny | dow Mouse, and then he squealed still greater fright am Reddy Fox ished down into his tunnel right his very heels, “I've got to get here! I've got to get sorme- where they can’t get at me!” pbbed. And right at that instant | ie remembered the old fence post. old fence post lay on the ound and was hollow. Fastened to qwere long wires with sharp, eruel bs, Danny had made a tunnel that hollow tn the old fence post had a secret store of seeds, Why n't he thought of it before? It was too paws right on one of those sharp | wire barbs, and it did burt dread fully. “[ never ai4 know a young fox who could get into so much trouble) as you can!” snapped Granny For as Reddy hobbled along on three leer | behind her across the snow-covered | Green Meadows, “It serves you right for forgetting? “Yes'm,” said Reddy, meekty. Pat And, safe in the hotiow of the old t a fence post, Danny Meadow Mouse | | was dressing the scratch on his leg] ) scream for dear life when she Viek fh. ! Oh, Nick's killed!” she ered. “What's all this?” asked a gruff and turning the Bud's} made by the claws of old Granny Fou. Next story: Old Granny Fox Tries = New Pian. Like Cake? Want to See It Made? Yum! Reddy Fox Forgets | the tunnel that led to the old fence 5 peed faster than ever, for heart was in his mouth from| Like cake? ft Hee wendertal ting. | "| You're invited t woth Seat Now, old Granny Fox knew aj! €'tis bake ‘om at the ¥. W. C. A. 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