u tI w A USEFUL TONGUE By Thornton W Burgess Some folks can always find excuse To put their nimble tongues to use Old Old Mother Nature A tongue Is an exceedinglY handy thing thine to have havo Probably you have hava discovered that You 1011 use It ItIn itin itin In talking and Md you use It tt In III eating and which is 10 tho more moro Important Of tho two uses It Is I sometimes L a bit difficult to tell there are tongues and tongues There are arc tong les we want ant to run away from and tongues we e like Uke to have bave near us You will remember that Old Mr r Toad has haa a very handy tongue a tongue is u It were Jimmy Skunk had had had- seen him use this many times and always It had seemed to Jimmy one ona of the most wonderful tongues In all the Great World But ho he found that down on the seashore tIters then her were ere tongues quite as wonderful as the tongue of ot Old Mr fr Toad To be lure cure you wouldn't have known known them to be b tongues had you OU seen theta them and no one tord you what they were But Cut when he ha saw the work vork they thay did ho hll had to admit they were rere were wonderful tongues Ever since Jimmy had first come to the seashore lie he had bee been greatly interested In the shells Before coming comin to the sea sea sea- seashore sea shore the only shell shells he ho l had d seen leen were ere the shells of land snails and ando of fresh water mussels sometimes called clams But at the tha seashore he found big big- sheila little shells hells site size shells smooth shells rough shells twisted shells ecat- ecat loped cal loped shells hells round shells shell long shells all II sort sorts of shells All Alt the shells that were at t all twitted ted like a snail shell shall he called snail shells It H was one of ot these little shells h that Tit be discovered belonged to the Oyster Drill It was ha hard work for tor Jimmy to realize that I t hat the queer little fellow that lives In that little shell could possibly drill drilla a hole through an oyster shell hell But Dut a the Gull ha hail had shown him one ono at t work ork on an oyster and he had with his hili hi own eyes seen the tha hole What did he do it with Ith T cried Timmy His I 1115 ls tongue replied wins Gray n J f- f I 1 dont don't believe b lIc e It retorted l Jimmy JImm I dont don't believe It 11 retorted Jimmy That Tha doesn't make the least bit of difference In th the tha l world orld replied He Ha did it with his tongue Just as that big fellow 0 oer ethere er e there bores through shells with his tongue Tho Tho big fellow that meant was what Jimmy would have called a a giant snail It wasn't L a giant snail but what Yo hat Is called a Giant Whelk hating hating- a a coiled colled or twisted shell and being being- the lug larg larg- larg largest est eat of the shellfish of this kind Do you ou mean to tell me th th that that great big bis snail over there said Jimmy can bore bora through an oyster shell sheli nodded Thais just what I mean to say wild paid he heHe lie He has a 0 ribbon like tongue the surface of which Is I cover covered d with witha a great number of or very ery tiny teeth and he bores through oyster shells shell and clam shells shell It If you live roun around 2 here herll long long- enough you'll find thata that a lot of these Innocent looking innocent things on the beach are living on other things Just as os I Is the CAse CAseIn casein caseIn In the Green Meadows und nd the tho Green Orcen Forest Oysters and clams may look to be safe when they have their shells sheila closed hut they thoy are not not- The Tho Whelk Jimmy and Gray Gray- wing Gray wing were looking at Is what Is caned called the Channeled Ik f If I Jimmy had looked a further he might havo have found the tho shell of I be-I the Knobbed Whelk so called bo- bo because I cause of ot little knobs on the shell hen h ll a Almost under hi his nose wet wet-e some lome eg egg cocoons of oC the Channeled Whelk but Jimmy didn't know It They Thay looked like lite a row of o yellow yellowish ish lab discs fastened upon a cord Each little disc diso contained about two dozen doxen eggs Copyright 1926 im by I T W But Bur BurIell Bur eess gess The The The next story The Tho Collar Made rade of Sand