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Show ADVENTURES OF TEE TWINS Bl JTY OLIVE ROBEHT8 BARTOW I) t i-1 14 l "I want you to see the balloon nursery. It's here In 00 woods." ! Buskins pulled on the rein of the green paper elephant he had been riding rid-ing and came to s stop. Nancy and Nick, corning up be-I be-I hind him, 6topped- too and slid off Heddy Bourne and Blue Jumper, r.ho fat Jolly rubber balloons, arriving arriv-ing Just then took charge of Nancy's pink pig and Nick's blue poodle. "Now," said Buskins, straightening straighten-ing his head-kerchi'f and pulling up his high boots which had become unsettled un-settled In riding. 'I want you to see the balloon nursery, it's here in the&o The Twins were all curiosity by -j this time, for the -Dand of Iost Bal- loons was about the queerest place thoy had ever been in. and wonders won-ders Tere not to i ease, to judge from the noLse that was romlng Xroni the woods where Buskins was leading them, a forest of grea. rubbertrees like the pictures in t.h geography But these rubber-trees were different differ-ent because they bore such queer fruit balloons, if you pleaso, of all colors and sizes, yes. and shapes, (too. for where in the old days rubber i balloons were all of a shape and 'round as moons, nowadays It's nothing noth-ing at all for a balloon ".o look exactly jlike a largo watermelon or a squash, lor a string of sausages, and one I know of, my dears had ears like a rabL.lt. Every of balloon was ! growing here. But the noise' All babies were cry-' cry-' ing. i "It makes them grow," said Bus-j Bus-j kins "All the balloon people grow here." he went on, waving a. hand. ! "And the babies are the squawkers. "They make such a noise folks can't 'stand 'em in the city. Sometimes i hey 'cry so hard they fall off the trees, then they can't grow any more and they 'are sent to mortal children to play with But I underhand that mortal parents aren't fond ot their noise either:" (To Be ontlnued) Copyright. 1921, NEA Service) |