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Show SUNDAY MORNING EXAMINER, SEPTEMBER said: "Well, is tha Bret place, I'm aid enough to know bolter." When he was asked hie eplnloa about the eggs ho winked elyly and said: "1 know. Bister Crow, they cant bo pours, causa If they were Brother Crow would havo let the whole neighborhood know. And thoy can't bo Bister Hen's, cause if they were she would havo told all about It Bo as they are In Bister Babbits THE ABSENT MINDED RABBIT. herself. form, aad as Blaiar Babbit is too modest to claim them and never (alls anything out iulfm wibarz. Mistress Babbit.1 loud. I think wo will havo to call them RJTHEK, said Elder Rabbit in a mildly hers." y Just then tbs voices of children wet sever tons, as one bright and tbs party scattered to watch morning la spring they heard, searching around. Boon they founda paused on their way to meet- them the nest of eggs, and, putting than In ing. ' Prithee, how long is it And since the quiet wives uf sedate basket, scampered merrily home. never elders have commenced laying eggs, to down to this day Bister Babbit has laying those eggs, much sis say nothing of red, yellow, blue, pink aad owned up to were appearances against her. green eggsf Ister Babbit, who was as usual drassed In her quiet gown of brown, only relieved by a little white, was surprised at the El- PUSSY'S FAVORITE FLOWER. ders accusation, and replied with much Violets are noted for being the favored dignity, "Thlnkeat thou that because tbs flower, among women of fashion, it Is eggs era la our pest It follows for- something unusual for a cat tn emphasise sooth that they are mine? I prut sat, El- his preference for their dainty fragrant der, that 1 laid them not. As well might 1 beauty la such a way as to cause comsay that the mole 1 found snuggling with ment But Blossom has done this. the young rabbtts os my return from the Anything in the flower Uno appeals to tumlp held the day I left them In yuur Blaeoom, and he can scent a bunch of charge was your eon! Purely he wee not pink roaee as surely as a pointer does a there when I left, hut here comes Bister drove of partridges under hla nose. But Hen, and from bar looks metbinka alia roees and other flowers though most has something to say. Do you question pink to this bit of snow white cat-attractive Elder." her, "I bid thre good morrow. Bister Hen, said the rabbit "My good wife and myself are surely pussled to aooount for the contents of our fora. Wo know thou lay-ewhite eggs as a rule, but hast thou, without in ten lions, been laying oolored th Black Forest it ha could. The rich burgomasters aoo him and wish that they Loo might ba as happy as Wurael, tin dig gar of roots, but nona will leave their great bouses and their gold ta go forth mts the Black Forest for fear that the Blue Knight will return and again assart his sway in the .lark giadea. it Uf ftAVtNT agger "Ah!" sighed the ban, "I would that I could own than an my own; but the last I saw of my nest of eggs they ware all white, and of these there is only one that Is not colored." Now, that lived la the tall pine tree at the edge of tbo wood a very respectable pair of crows. After the crows and tha rabbits' had exchanged greetings and conversed about tha remarkable eggs, Mr. Crow said: Well, whosever they are. they aren't mine. The idea! ' Buck glaring eoiora. and all solid, tool No, No. Why, I should think thoy must havo baea laid hy a patchwork quilt which I aaw once in a back yard. Why, I wouldn't even accuse a ssa fowl of such a thing!" And aha turned her shining bin up in the air. In contempt. Just then thara was a rust Is of some dead leaves a little further back in the briers and they saw the head of old Uncle Terrapin come out slowly, followed hy his body. When he had crawled to them they told him they were very glad to see him, for every one had a high opinion of hia wisdom, ha being very Borne said a hundred years, but no one knew, and when he was asked be always THE-AAB- AC3 SMART AS ME CAN C WT TMINK VtttN ft? gRvs UP.KTLl. A NAME-.MIMSDL- MAKE-- . T YU Bun-da- at NAMED dom, only call forth a dignified apnea, tion. Violets have a charm for hi that leads to abandonment Blossom'i traH s In despair. No bunch of vlolra eomes within his rouge of cnt M to Its owner. The cu , M hoon as they come Into hi hone, whan unobserved, soon afterward, if u to be placed in a vane, he i'PW hHj them and in a few momenta stems aloe, emphasise the fact that violets fomartr hthed forth their delicious fragrasca a that particular spot. 80 Brest has beoome this cats lora br the modest flower tliat now 1m pravh h vary place that has recently held a ban of violets: Vases that have received the bloasaa are often found lying on the floor la fe morning, oign acute that In the atlll haw of the night the cat has utilised Ida lisn a a search foe his favorite flower. Blaeoom cams from the South two Man ago. Ho was too young when he left ku homo to have had a taste of violets into hla being, though the punk flowers went then growing about his in riotous profusion. cri LttiGM GABY CAM T N- - DIDN'T HAVE' A MWB f AT ALL . I bshf-lan- How would yon draw a cirrle around a parson with a piece of chalk, out of which ho could not Jump? Ana wen By drawing tha circle ea hk clothes, around tha waist. Once upon a time (hare was a ysung tall him Ms fortune, go this gypsy hade what hla fortune should esnslsl. Then delight at the good fortune In atoro for ran who, desiring lo know what the him kneel before the Magic Mirror and In- she drew bark the curlalri. and when Ilia himself. Can you discover what the future a nuns held for him, besought gypsy to sults Us aid ts show tha yousg man of young man beheld the mirror he cried with held in store fur him? . ael aaw before him the Blue Knight, Freiherr von Blausrhlld, The knight stared at the gatherer of roots, and there rains a BT JOHN WALK KB HARItlNJTDN. him stood g gnomo of the kind which lives caeda In finding them. Ton taka them look of euutempt and sullsnness Into hla all. Wurael wont lute iho Black Forest to In the drptha of the Hinrk Forest far Wur face. father heartsease. At least that was I he makes the dark mould and the gloum sad "I dont look for them," nnawered "Clod," cried he, "so you are the parson el. merry all the while. I find them while I go root dig- who principal reason, for ha also had to nuke lias hern robbing tha Black Forest of a living, and In the forest were roots te br Looking for truffles, eh?" said tha ging." all Its flowers of heartsease! 1 havs found 11 me km no difference." said the gnome. had for the hardest kind of digging. Ha dwarf. "You taka lire much tuo easily, my took them tn Munlrh and sold thenrio the friend, to And much of It, They who seek '1 hear Iho Freiherr von Hhuiariiikl, whom j you at last, slid you shall never go again hitlers makers, but ihat which wasjth.-n- i mnat dig mors deeply than they do non osll tha Blue Knight, coining through beyond the bound of this place. sweeter he gathered by the aray; tMliersj when they go after roots for bitters. What the forest, and 1 guess that there will lie The Blue Knight drew his sword, which who dug and delved in tha dark shades are those yellow flowers? They will soon no mom heartsease for you, my friend. bore the legend Hummer, for all the great for truffles never saw tbs small yel- wilt, my friend." Ton are a friendly kind of a man, though, swords In tlia days of old hod soma name low flowrr which was half hidden In the "I shall gather mors," replied Wuntel. and to make your last days happy Ill give upon them, and called aloud. "Oh. ho! Kuminer," said he, woods. If they did, are there not real Vio"And when the winter comae?" asked you thla haadplere, which will maha yon lay low lets, and not thn yellow kind which men the gnome. believe for the last momenta of your life the despoiler of the forest Bo ho bo se. la hear closer a little to lees All tlmt the roof of the forest It," answered Wurael. with pnrohaaed for many "Winter never comes to thaler a bunch la winter time in the Wurael. "In my mind H la me," replied smile, "only once In his Ilfs may a man always sum- to you. and then die, big stores where the florists Us them up mer and the forest la dark end he Is a long time dead." tlis movement gnome cod and With a quick with purple tlnfoU and blue tsaselled ribI see the boughs far abovo me Whkiked away the nroaU cop of Wurael and Wurael rose lightly to hla feet and seised and green, bons? Besides, heartsease la a flower like tare when the trees are hare. I a club which lay hy hts aids, settled the beep clapped on his liead a broad brimmed hat. which fades quickly and has ta be gath- the memory of the heartsease that 1 gath-sre- d whlih was nearly two feet across and,111 hat about his forehead the ered fresh every day. tightly, and a he 414 so the bludgeon bein the summer for the time whan the flapped all a limit kls ears, Bitting under a great tree Wurael was now flies and tha wind howls" In a moment the gnome was gone. Wiir-s- came s two edged sword. on day sating hla noonday meal of rye shined Hie given bat shout on his head, That's ail very well," rspllsd the roared the Blue yourself! bread and rheme, and drinking from a no hut there has been entirely ton put what rjr bread sod rhrrsa lie had left Knight, for he did not sea how lha club S ins, aprlng, using hla bands for a cup. lie much had hla sin-of the gathering of tbs yellow ! In hia wallet and lighted changed. "Let us sen the miserable piie. just heard a metis In the underbrush and a Ida In thla forest. he heard a rntrkllng of twigs, nod Ipessant oppose the arms of Everybody else hand caught Mm by the sleeve. e Before comes looking here for them never whnjthnn underbrush was quickly purled. Wur- - la hotter than all the world."aknightwho The sword Kiunmer flashed In and out and Iho blade of TVursel met Its stroksa. Once the weapon of the Blue Knight nearly pierced the doublet of the gatherer of roots, but the flowers of 1 heartsease which he wore changed tn a 4 breast piste and the sword and broke. Then Wuriei, whosesnapped blows were awkward hut whose strength was as the strength of ten, a ' lacked the Blue Knight with such spirit that his armored foe fled ss fast as he could. And as ha ran Wur-- 1 saw that the armor covered only the knightly breast, while the back was un protected, so he belabored the Freiherr Klausehlld over the shoulders until tie rrlsd for mercy. Out fir beyond the forest Wurael pursued him and never stopped until ba rams to the crowded city, where the Rlus Knight hag a fortress which it is hard to assail, Wurael still goes to the Black Forest finding ilte heartsease, which he does not. seek, mid often he Journeys to the rlty all In his hst of green. He stands In his market place and sells the bitter mots, and always gives wtih them blossoms of hearts-ns- . for the flower he will not vend. The King s.ilutrs him on market days and sould Journey with him Into the heart of TIIF. ADVENTURES 0I; WURZEL THE BLUE KNIGHT. AND lh t el Th-f-n- sue-jth- J yXe oSSo&fev Pzrt&exzr' 'Em Morning gtar.1 - eavd tkeBLAjCK. 0 ; ! AN INOFFENSIVE FLEET. Oh, the largest fleet In the world K-AT- Is not It'ieman or Japanese, Fieri and Stripes unfurled. the French, nor the British that's Es Nr has It the Nor la It - hur'td fiolljnce in Norlhrrn seas: Then which ! the largest fleet in the world? It belongs to the Fortuguene. It Is for fmm modern. I fear. Ar.J Its are propelled hy sail; They possess no guns, nor machinery to steer, They need no pilot or engineer: T'.is vis-el- s. Indeed, are frail. And for. very for, from modem. I fea-T- et they weather the fiercest gale. They are slrsnee little craft, and shy Tet rstrcmcly plctureeuue: TVs y are scarcely likely to terriry ery harmless, tn fort. I ran testify; 1 recall own new nt my desk What strangs little craft they appeared how shy. , And st times, indeed, grotesque. jTbree ships sail ihe Spanish Main, I You nuy meet them near or a fur, llfot your sign.iU they quietly disd.i.a. iX r a. II they off,:- to raplaiu, Nor anwer wn'i they are; j How tin. Ill gaged on the Mpauitli M,i,n ! At ii'e Poring U. M - RKOVtX, sh-p- - lu iho tin- of tlir aimer lawk and the authors name will he found iifus pirates. l;iii you guess win. they were? - 1 -- imried or hidden 11 men-of-w.- ir out the lady, cutting on tbs lint and gutting out every spars C. Fold every tab D backward at Its upper line, where It Jotne In the opposite direction at aad the ruffle, its lower line. Pasts all the tabs D on the reverse this of the ruffles where they nat- CUT urally full. With a penknife cut the tab 0 tone from the hot on OnIta three dotted both views of sides find bend outward. i the lady cut tha black portion of the 11a handle hews where It Join the s u liMer and the timbrel's top and paste on life reverse sdr of the guv handle. On 'he Trout unv paste the section Imtk cI Mw cilou F. E on til um-M- tabZfstUo E ting the tabs 7, project where they handle, past the Pasts naturally foil, and turn up the um-- 1 they naturally falL umbrella tnMly. tpe t)ll Nell tip. Fold ilds half an umbrella at jn H. and P Bend the hat right angle, to the hand .SfUTgnd brim forward where It Joins the face, and VFi g paste the section U wn on It, letting the ittnd it fM:, B tabs project wbr AMlj-an-d they naturally foil getlivrT Paste the streamers bend the crown upward. Fasts llie! roll the back of llie hat brim dl'D Biran( to the of the lady togetlivt (edlv. posting tt baca and front from the line where the head Join the hat of the tsbO. Paste the knot 01 t pf to the lire uf the waist, and paste the skirt era to li.r let- -r X. it olighiU line.. means ibe being-to. of bending R, the tohs by together careful not to glue the rulflcs fast. Psati turn up tb frrt st hollow as., the nmhrell.i hnn.lln loscthcr and, sfirr skirt, giortid the . 1!1 asitft the j ill ureiSou H nyhi angU to Ihe J "j vh-w- s . r." |