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Show Daddrj s bffiCjj Et'Denitig'sSg' i Fairu Tale JT -MAny-CRftHAM-BOrtNER THE GOOD NEWS 'I know something quite magnificent," magnifi-cent," said Master White Chicken to Miss White Chicken. "Well," she answered, "If you know something that Is so magnificent, why don't you tell It to me, Instead of acting act-ing In such a boastful way, and not saying anything? "That's no way to do. Tell me, cluck, cackle, tell me. "Tell me what you know that Is bo magnificent." "I will," said Master White Chicken. "Do you remember a while ago when some men came here to talk to tbe farmer and with them brought some queer looking black Instruments?" "I remember," said Miss White Chicken. "What of it? They didn't do anything to us they didn't even give us any food." "Food, food," said Master White Chicken, turning up his little beak as best he could, . with a very haughty expression. "Can't you think of anything else but food, cheep, cheep, cack-cluck, crow, you are too dreadful." "Well, If I'm wrong, explain to me," said Miss White chicken. "Those men had cameras and with cameras they take pictures," said Master Mas-ter White Chicken. "But those men took special pictures pic-tures the- kind they call moving pictures; pic-tures; children speak of them a3 the movies. "They took photographs of us and now they're showing them aJl over the country. "They're throwing these pictures on screens and people sit in rows and "Tell Me What You Know." rows of seats and gaze up on a stage at something like a big white sheet upon which are the pictures of 'lis as we move about. ' "Those pictures actually move and they're of us I Now. Isn't that something some-thing to know?" , "It Is." said Miss White Chicken, In a hushed, proud voice. "They show a model, perfect farm which Is the one upon which we live and they show how chickens should be treated us we're treated and how handsome we are I "There are different scenes about us. We' walk up through the yard from all the hen coops and we are seen eating and strolling around." "Oh," said Miss White Chicken, "that Is wonderful I . "I've always longed to be In the movies. I've heard the children talking talk-ing about them. "I've often thought I had a bit of talent that way. They say that so many great ladies are In the raovic-s and that they get so rich and so fa mous," "Now. now. Miss White Chicken, a step at a time," said Master White Chicken, "you're not a lady, but a Miss Chicken, but you have acted for the movies aqd so you're famous. We all are! "And we're rich as we live on a model, perfect farm. "But more than that, our voices sound in the pictures, too, for It's a talking picture, so we're in the talkies, tool" "Doubly magnificent,'" said Miss White Chicken. - So there was great rejoicing when all the hens, roosters and chickens heard the good news! ; . RIDDLES What Is all over the house? Roof Why Is bread like the sun? .Because when 'it rise's it's light - What Is a good vacation song? "The Battle Cry of Freeddm." What relation Is the doormat to the scraper? A step-father (farther). - When butter Is 20 cents a pound what will a ton of coal come to? Ashes. Which Is bigger, Mr. Bigger or Mr. Bigger's baby? The baby is a little Bigger. . Why does Santa Clans always go down the chimney? Because It suits (soots) him. What is an Island? A place where the bottom of- the sen sticks up through the water. What Is It that the man that makes It doesn't use, the man that buys It doesn't want, and the man that uses 1 doesn't know? A coffin. |