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Show ffc f t FOR LITTLE FOLKS I) Maple Tree Flats Maple Tree Flats doesn t look like much of a place With your earth eyes and my earth even, v c shpuld i onlj see a tall, graceful tree with many branches and thick green leaves j li standing near to the edge ot a wood v remarks passed or his appearance. I So when Mr. Tinguling arrlvt-d to1 coll ect his rents, bringing Nancy audi Nick along to carry the money, about, a baker's do?cn puirs of eve.., were i peeping at them ro more than that, about a baker s dozen of lady fingers. When Mr. Tlrigallnz niTivrd t.. collet t his rents, a baker s docn pairs of eves were pcopuig at him, And all the holes and lump places wondn'r be a thing to us but holes and lumps, and all the bits of shaggy bark hanging loose would Just be bits of bark. It takes falrv eyes, and very special glfis such as the twins had. to see the hinges and locks nnd doorbells, and the lace-curtuins at the windows, for all the holes and silts and lumps and hnngy-thlngs mean something mor-than mor-than they appear to be at first. It far; lhc old sugar tnapin Is the finest, biggest big-gest apartment houee in the l and-of-I 'i a r-Know s-Where, and when one passes he h is no Idea how many pair of eyes are starinir at him, and thN I which are always t"o cakes instead of one b the time you get the bag home. j And when everybody saW the landlord land-lord coming with his big book and his Sharp lead pencil gtUClf la-hind his ear, and Nick carrying a large emptv pocketbook, there was a hurrying and scurrying, 1 tell .vou and such squeak-Inga squeak-Inga and piping, and chatterings. It sounded like a .la', band. But there was orve pair of eyes that Jldn t peep, and ore voice that illdn t chatter, tor Mr. wi in his night-cap and night-shut w;is sound a9lecp in his! bedroom He hadn't heard a thing. |