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Show MARY GKAHAM BONNER, BREAKFAST IN THE W00D3. "I nm going to find out nt tho Houso of Secrets how I cuii become n leader," said the boy adventurer to thu girl adventurer. "I am too," said the girl, "for I want to be n lender In my own way." They had Just awakened and soon Mrs. Wood Elf appeared. "I havo no wash rags," sho said, "but I'vo running wnter In tho brook and you must mnko hosto for breakfast break-fast Is ready. "Wo shall have It In the open spneo which Is my dining-room." So tho boy nnd tho girl washed In the lovely clear water of tho brook and felt very Uno afterward. "I feel ready for anything,' tnld the boy. "Now for breakfast and adventures adven-tures I" f "So do I," snld tho girl., "Tho rest and the change has dono mo lots of good." "Gracious," said the boy, "don't speak as though you were an Invalid." Tho girl laughed. "I did sound that way, but I didn't mean to. I feel strong nnd ready for adventures, too that Is what I meant." Thoy walked through tho woods until un-til they enmo to tho open spaco whero thcro wns no underbrush nnd only tall plno trees with their branches high In tho nlr. 0 There, wns Mrs. Wood Elf poking tho fire and singing to herself, "Such fish, such flsh, I caught Intho 'brook, . Do como here and have n look I Out better fetlll, come, havo a scat, "Then we'll all begin to cat." "Wo'ro ready." said the -girl. "And we'ro good and hungry too." "Well," said Mrs. Wood Elf, "your tlmo for starting was before this, but still there Is no great, great hurry, as Mrs. Gct-thc-Most-Out-or-Llto will explain." ex-plain." Mrs. Wood Elf had no sooner said that tlicro was no need to hurry nnd that Mrs. Gct-tho-Most-Out-of-Ltfo would explain than there suddenly appeared ap-peared behind n tree. Just as though sho had been hiding there nil the time, a Jolly looking llttlo young-old woman. Sho tripped lightly over to Mrs. "8ho Pointed." Wood Elf and gave her n lou,d suuek upon the check. "My dear, my dear good friend, it wns most kind of you to Invito mo to your party. Did you see mo? Did you now, my dear? Of courso you dldl" "Were you waiting for something to turn up?" asked Mrs. Wood Elf. "Of courso not," snld Mrs. Get-the-Most-Oub-of-Llfe, "and you know I wasn't I Do you suppose thoy will llko mo?" Sho pointed to tho boy and girl, nnd sho didn't lower her voice In the least wuen sue said this. They could hear her perfectly. And they could hear Mrs. Wood Elf's answer. "To be sure they'll llko you. They nro Into In starting out this morning." "I heard you tell them my mime," snld Mrs. Got-the-Most-Out-of-Llfe, "and I was sadly afraid they mightn't llko it. It sounds llko rnlhor a preachy nqrae. I may chango 11 somo day. I am not sure. "But If they thought It Just sounded llko a regular name, which meant nil sorts of good things, then I may not cjinngo It." w,Stlll sho talked to Mrs. Wood Elf pointing to the boy and tho girl from tlmo to time. The boy and the girl couldn't decide -whether tho breakfast guest wus old or young. Sho didn't look either old or young. And she didn't look toll ot smnll, or especially fat or especially "I was nfrnld. as I've said before you would not like mo because of my name." ssld Mrs. Got-tho-Mo.st-Out-of. IJfo to the boy nd tho girl ns she shook oach by n hand In a very cordial cor-dial way. "But juonso do, for I love boys ant girls. I'd mis t,0 much In llfu If I didn't. And of ceum, 1 Wnnl lo get the most out of Hf0 possible she biuiku bJlitJj. |