Show nr i I I BOYS s W5 PAPER GIRLS- 10 ' Si) & i AND The m Ao JIJL SSb Jl i Discontented Gnat HE m H H I l red-blue blaring danced gnat tho water the of side stream part- above By the under )y b an sat croakcroak frog a — overhanging leaf croaking his away ivory in throat going and out In and with out every breath he drew tefoc4 f(r- — — —y S -x — — I - ' ' ' - B 'Avir’ i t 9 V zf B I i Z0M- I t — 'L1 JJ v"1' colors into the green of the brookside so and the brilliant gnat danc ing above saw him not al all ''I’m going to sea Mr Grasshopper!” swooping and darting sang the gnat about in a frenzy of light and life "I'm tired of the stupid shore and the 'stupid hoi e folk They nay traveling is 'dangerous but it’s not more dangerous than staying at home to my way o“ thinking What with the birds and th? turtles along the edge of the stream one's life is never safe so 1’11 just sail B I iff f blended His I X J 72 Ml O I J ? 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The correct A A rench Motor twenty-two BOUT steam-driven Omnibus years ago a vehicle served as a motor omnibus in Paris a boiler and a small engine stationed on tho front of the platform were used to drive the rear wheels by chains and the wheels were bound with ordinary metal tires This type of 'bus carried but nine passengers— six on the inside and Hired on the ton seats colored” wistfully a October 1 Salvini Rochefort 26 Old amous 2 6 1913 Jacobi Mitchell Rebus I By By Ey Do of 3 tl 1 I Answers People Sprague Choate Polly Evans the tokens have seen the wind which blows so kectw the pumpkins fat and lean know ’tis Halloween I I I I 1 lifeless Al 2m W wm — enough to be printed r have said my lost word to dissuade you” "You'll regret it” sadly said the grasshopper tucking his violin under the other wing and pickingat the my sainted but stubbort grandfather” warned the bee in a hO UTS 1-tfM r h ID AL WSTI fZ' L r I JsSa iWvJ I A ! 05 w c H LG I -— ZTvtRiri f s a you rsk O mission gn — — x 4 I c I H M M V I t perienco of grand-This my father warn giddy gnat you grandfather of mine grew tired of the air and the effort of flying and he cided that he would walk just the jungle animals he saw about him walked So‘ he flew down in h lonely part of the wood and tried out his legs and found that he could walk without any too mjieh effort At the end of the day he walked so well that he grew weary of just admiring his own efforts and he ventured out into that part of the forest where the jungle animals lived irst What do you tWnk? thing almost a 1 S EACH of the above panels there is pictured the name of a venerable person who by virtue of some special ac service or talent has become famous Carefully add and subtract the pictured words and letters according given signs and you will have no difficulty in solving these puzzles in picture arithmetic A list of the names from which the six above were selected follows: White Mosby Green Austin Braga Shiras Grosvenor Gibbons Olney Gray Crookes Depew Rothschild Stevenson McCurdy Lee Eliot Abbott Wilson Agassiz Wolseley Lubbock Adams Marble La arge "Vou I I i s which are on land and are guard against them” are wet blanket” buzzed the ‘‘I gnat angrily am quite certain that shall not only be safe on the water but tLit the whole future holds for me many glorious adventures As for clever am enough tp succeed in evading them whore air my sisters and my brothers and my cousins and my aunts- Vv'jio have tried have failed miserably There isn't any water animal or insect as clever as myself” "That’s one of your troubles— you're too conceited!”fiddled the criokct perched nearby merrily "Entirely too conceited you are Me— know my place! like to too would hop on a floating leaf sail or lily down the stream on pad and so the world but know see that to was created hop on land not tu swim in the water and am fly in not one to the face of Nature unless have pretty good reason let Don’t you think me tell yon right am Mr Bumble?” The cricket faced about agibdy to speak to great velvet fee who who had hud been booming lazily about over their heads during the ms- ' 7 iiTalzTl those ' lj 'fti i Al hi 'J WRITING rLUIp 7 i 6 stream the ’ 4 |